One thing lead to another and I ended up with ten (yes, count them TEN) Yorkville C130/70 speakers.Read More Category The Compound Studio
One thing lead to another and I ended up with ten (yes, count them TEN) Yorkville C130/70 speakers.Read More 
I found another old digital delay. This one from the 80’s (if the colour of the knobs are any indication).
This device has two delay circuits which are wired independently to their respective connections on the back of the unit (more on that in a second).
One delay circuit (B) is just a standard delay. The delay times are from 4 to 1024 milliseconds. Time controls are in 4 time blocks with a time sweep knob. Pretty standard for a unit of this age. There is also a effect mix control and a delay repeat control. The other delay circuit (A) has a shorter delay time – 0.5 to 256 milliseconds – with the same style time controls. It also includes modulation and speed controls for flange/chorus type effects.
The jacks on the back of this delay are everything you need and more...
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This is a strange 2 unit rack mount multi-effect from the 1980's with a 5 button petal board. It has "Heavy Metal" Distortion, Flanger/Chorus, Digital Delay, and a Parametric Equalization.Read More 
The other day I was thinking about this old stomper I had years ago. The Roland Phase II. I sold it because it made a bit of noise but man, what a sound. Deep sweeping phases.
One thing I remembered about it was the power up phase. On particular settings, when you kicked it in gear, it made a super deep “FFFFsssswwwewwewer” sound. Pretty cool.
It was built like a tank. It was from the 70’s (if I recall) but looked like the 40’s.
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I didn't really seek out this little half-rack unit. It found me. Read More 
It needed a little work but for $30 it was a good price.Read More 
A little DIY elbow grease and I built an electronic drum pad using a 35mm Piezoelectric element, some fibreglass window screen and a cheap snare drum.Read More 
I just got this and haven’t had much time to play with it – but so far I’m digging it.
4 inputs, 4 outputs. The in/out level controls are dedicated knobs on the front panel. You can define 4 different effects with each channel or combine them. You can also stack up to four effects (4 reverbs in series anyone?). I’ve also seen it has a 4 band vocoder but I haven’t played with it yet. At first glance the programming is a little funky but another hour playing with it and I’m sure I’ll figure it out.
All this in a nice two unit case.
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What a wacky box this was. It was intended to track the audio from a guitar, guess the note, and play the same note from its internal tone generator. Yeah, right. Most of the time it just tracked up and down the scale looking for the note. This unit did have some cool filters but not cool enough to bother keeping it around the studio. Interesting thing about stuff like this. You buy it for $35-40 dollars at a second-hand store, sit on it for years, sell it for hundreds on Ebay. Had I known back then, I would have bought a boxload of them. But, you know what they say about hindsight? You only see the seat of your underpants (or something like that).
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Cute toy for a few days of fun. After the romance was over it collected dust for a few months. I think I gave mine away. I honestly don’t remember what happened to it.
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