Category Archives: tips

a fancy new ring modulator

By felix | Published: February 26, 2010
The twisted sounds I’m squeezing out of the drum machine in this video are courtesy of my fancy new ring modulator. (The pick was for scale but I just realised the plugs make it pretty obvious) What a ring modulator does – as I understand it – is take two audio signals and combine them [...]
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something to do on wednesday evening

By felix | Published: December 7, 2009
Those of you in Auckland are encouraged to get along to this, beginning this Wednesday the 9th, upstairs at Handmade (the old Brazil) on K’ Road. Experimental music, experimental instruments both acoustic and electronic, kind of an offshoot of the long-running Vitamin-S but perhaps with more of a rhythmic and melodic focus. Come to play [...]
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more about plate reverbs

By felix | Published: June 27, 2009
UPDATED: A few people have asked how this mixer operates and sounds so here’s a wee video: As you can see there’s a scratchy pot or two to clean and I still need to make some knobs, but so far so good. Since I posted here about my fancy new plate reverb I’ve made a [...]
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how to make a plate reverb

By felix | Published: May 20, 2009
enlarge Today it stopped raining for long enough for me to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while – build a stereo plate reverb unit. It took a couple of hours, was made mostly from stuff I found at the tip, cost about $10 and it sounds awesome. If you want to [...]
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robot monkey orchestra

By felix | Published: April 30, 2009
This Friday Auckland sees a rare appearance of the Robot Monkey Orchestra, which is the latest vehicle of head headless chicken Chris Matthews at Cassette Number Nine in Vulcan Lane, 9pm, $10. Also playing: Charlie Ash, Bang! Bang! Eche!, DJ A.D.A.M.
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