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As you can see, the studio is pretty packed. The only gear that does not belong to me is the Oberheim OB-1 and the Boss GT-5 which are borrowed from a friend. You can hover over the photo to see what the gear is. I make rules for myself when it comes to gear position. 1) I try to have all keys and controls within reach. 2) modulars are positioned where hanging cables will not get in the way of using other equipment. 3) equipment is not blocked by other equipment (this is the most challenging rule) 4) Everything is plugged into power strips and regulated through a SU700 UPS; though anything CAN be turned on, I try to keep the power load down by only turning on the equipment that I will use for the task at hand. I have a homemade DIN sync multiple connecting the MC-202, TR-808, TR-606, Mini Doc, XOXOX, and an MSQ-700 (usually for the Jupiter DCB, but can be switched to MIDI)
Camera:
Canon 5D Mark III @ ISO 200, f/2,8, 1/125, WB Flash
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2,8L Macro IS USM
Lighting:
Key light high left of the synth - Canon 580EX II in a white umbrella with a CTO-gel @ 1/32, 24mm
FIll light high over the synth - Canon 580EX II with a double CTB-gel @ 1/8, 24mm
Background light behind the synth - Canon 580EX II with a red gel @ 1/16, 35mm
Triggered by OCFGear OCF33 cable
Strobist setup shot here.
Yazoo's first two hits, Only You and Don't Go, were recorded using basically just one synth, the Sequential Circuits Pro One. A testament to Vince Clarke's synth programming mastery. Who needs tons of kit and computers!
From OL:
"Tuesday´s work viewed from vocal-room... most stuff moved and roughly arranged but not a single wire yet The subs in the back and the diffusors need to be properly put in and then covered..."
Tags are copied from the photo of OL's studio from six years ago. I'll work on correcting them later.
This is probably the oldest modular that I own, though I don't know of the date or origin of my other synth, the Monolith 2. The Aries is made of solid circuitry that works exceptionally well. The quality of these modules are very nice. Features like hard sync on the LFO's and S/H clock, a peak mode for the VCF, 8 in configurable DC mixer, etc, etc. My only complaint about the Aries is that the envelopes require a gate and trig signal to respond correctly (much like Arp - no surprise because Aries was made by one of Arp's engineers) - I usually just multiple a gate into both and that seems to work well enough, or as seen in this picture, I use the Sequential Circuits 700 programmer for the envelopes and not the ones in the Aries.
Testing my new Nikon nikkor af-s 50mm f/1.4 G.
Taken in our music studio in Elst, the netherlands.
Dutch transistor organ from the 60's. Vox continental sound
Testing my new Nikon nikkor af-s 50mm f/1.4 G.
Taken in our music studio in Elst, the netherlands.
My lovely Sequential circuits Prophet 5.
Pretty drool-enducing. I'm not going to attempt to identify all the gear, but speak up if you recognize something.
Camera:
Canon 5D Mark III @ WB Flash
Lenses:
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2,8L II USM and Canon EF 100mm f/2,8L Macro IS USM
Lighting:
Key light high left of the synth - Canon 580EX II in a white umbrella with a CTO-gel
FIll light high over the synth - Canon 580EX II with a double CTB-gel
Background light behind the synth - Canon 580EX II with a red gel
Triggered by OCFGear OCF33 cable
Strobist setup for these shots:
Camera:
Canon 5D Mark III @ ISO 100, f/2,8, 1/125, WB Flash
Lens:
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2,8L II USM @ 47mm
Lighting:
Key light high left of the synth - Canon 580EX II in a white umbrella with a CTO-gel @ 1/32, 24mm
FIll light high over the synth - Canon 580EX II with a double CTB-gel @ 1/8, 24mm
Background light behind the synth - Canon 580EX II with a red gel @ 1/16, 35mm
Triggered by OCFGear OCF33 cable
Strobist setup shot here.
Camera:
Canon 5D Mark III @ ISO 100, f/2,8, 1/125, WB Flash
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2,8L II USM @ 70mm
Lighting:
Key light high left of the synth - Canon 580EX II in a white umbrella with a CTO-gel @ 1/32, 24mm
FIll light high over the synth - Canon 580EX II with a double CTB-gel @ 1/8, 24mm
Background light behind the synth - Canon 580EX II with a red gel @ 1/16, 35mm
Triggered by OCFGear OCF33 cable
Strobist setup shot here.
Me ( Scott From Canada ) in my studio with new Roland Gaia SH-01 synth. (Summer 2011)
Oberheim OB-8
Roland Gaia sh-01
Sequential Circuits Six Trak
Yamaha CS-20m
Electro-harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress
Yamaha SPX90 Mark II
t.c. electronic M-One
Microkorg
Korg M3m (with Radias)
Use Audio Plugiator
Creamware Pro12
Creamware Minimax
Tom Oberheim SEM-Pro
Electro-Harmonix Stereo Polyphase
M-Audio Keystation Pro 88
Korg Monotron
Yamaha MG32/14fx
Moog Slim Phatty
Roland Super JV-1080
M-audio Midisport 8x8
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Alesis DM Pro
Roland D-50 (leaning against wall)
Alesis Ion (not quite in the shot)
Yamaha DX7IID (also not quite in the shot)
Fender Strat American Deluxe (2007... ish)
Boss GT-8 (under CS-20m)
Boss DD-20 digital Distortion Pedal
Fender Jazz Bass (Geddy Lee Edition)
I really love Modcan synthesizers. Most of the modules that I have are either to go with the sequencer or for signal processing. The two units below this are the Korg MS-02 and MS-03.
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What's best is that the action of the potentiometers is terrifically smooth, so much more than the old pots.
They also feel sturdier, too
Knobs are mechanically identical to original P-600 knobs (and Pro-One, and Six-Trak, etc).
But actually nice and new!
Tom Oberheim, Oberheim Electronics
Dave Smith, Sequential Circuits, Dave Smith Instruments
Don Buchla, Buchla & Associates
Roger Linn, Linn Electronics, Roger Linn Design
On the left is the stock pot as it arrived from Smallbear. On the right is my slight bending of the terminals to fit the holes on the PCB.
All nicely soldered it. You can actually rotate them at this stage and they don't move much, but the real mechanical stability will come from the bushing nuts compressing the pots against the upper panel.
Probably the most tedious part is jumpering between the old PCB holes where the original pots were soldered in.
I think the original pots were soldered to ground. I'm not 100% sure adding these jumpers is necessary, but I did it anyway.
Desoldering is rarely fun, especially on this project, when there's a lot of metal to heat up on the old pot terminals.