1. filtering prior to distortion 2. filtering post distortion 3. parallel processing, or frequency splitting, distorting just one freq range then, imo most important: 4. adding a cabinet/speaker to shave off the chainsaw top, plugin or do the reamp/amp/room/mic 5. tape saturation, real or plugin, to...

one should wipe the xpander presets immediately upon arrival.

they are rather horrific, from the era when it tried to be a "dx7" and an "ob8" and the same time.

it will give you entirely skewed picture of what its really capable of.

these are my phasers, small stone rev2 77 small stone rev3 79 phase 100 script phase 90 script phase 45 script moog mf 103 im more into classic seventies deep space/jet sound of phasers. small stones have that classic ota sound, on the optocoupler end of things, one of the richest and lushest i've f...

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i love eurorack, but i think it defeats the original premise. not a quick couch affair anymore. it'll get bigger, messier with patch cables all over the place etc.


i'd stay with contained neat one box solution. either iPad. or if you are young and have good eyes, octatrack 1 used..

dirt: stomp under foot big muffs, mxr distortion plus, hudson broadcast

filter: mutronics mutator, euro w lp and hp filtering and strakal germ fuzz

modulation: small stone phaser, mxr126 flanger

spatial: bbd and tape delays, lexicon pcm70, qudraverb, ams rmx16

hydrasynth and xpander? can't imagine two synths with more different texture and tone. one sounds unapologetically digital, mid scooped with fizzy and sometimes harsh top end. another a buzzy but warm curtis affair from mid eighties, with wonderful warm low mids, saturation the works.. emulating arh...

PPG Wave 2, a wonderous synth i dreamed of ever since hearing it first on few seminal albums in 1981. never though i'd see one or manage to buy one. yet of all places it surfaced local to me in 2012. only 30 years later. when i was testing it, "something got stuck in my eye" - for me an emotional mo...

old CA3080 also sounds great, but it will change the sound. not sure about the Rochester reissue. never heard them. LOL where is the difference between an old ca3080 and a new rochester one. the 30 year old fairy dust? don't belive that snake oild guys heh, i appreciate the sarcasm, but i presume y...

setup at the moment, just rearranged everything due to getting new monitors (which are absolutely fantastic sounding) the modular is diy built by me and my dad! https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/userpix2/42586_img_8490_1.jpg https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/userpix2/42586_img_8493_1.jpg https://ww...

On the one hand it's famous how astoundingly overpriced audio gear can get if someone holds a bottleneck position, so it makes sense to me that the "high end" components actually don't really cost that much a difference and those premiums are in large part fancy materials, labor, marketing and heav...

i would like to resurrect this thread, with a related question: i've noticed a surge of "high endish" low noise linear power supplies show up in world of high end converters and monitor controllers, and other audiophile and mastering equipment.. for example Mytek Brooklyn DAC, used by many for maste...

newer ones: Blue UDO Super 6 Waldorf Q Phoenix https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--HphU6uzt--/f_auto,t_large/v1544864869/kyq5hxrqpmrlzhomcufp.jpg classic designs: Easel, anything Buchla 200/200r/200e just looks so inviting. ultimate toy .. https://mikehiegemann.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/buch...

subjectively (is there any other way really..): Argon 8 - nice smooth sound, very musical. think its tone would complement the more metallic and agrro waldorfs. some questionable design decisions - way too low output Virus TI - darker, rounder wavetable sound. but if looking for wavetable pads that ...

It would be helpful to find someone who would develop a new CPU for the extended desktop JP8 together with me. We would also have to decide if this version should work with the IR3109 in the filters, or if new filters should be built with other OTA, e.g. 13700 or 3080. Then we won't talk about a Ju...

three different routes: 1 feeding the source thru EURORACK, lots of various analog and digital processing and complex cv control. delays, spring reverb, audio rate modulation, noise, ring mods etc. especially love feedback loops which are easy to route and control. its made for whacky and leftfield ...

i'd like to add that, what sort of acoustics treatment you have will radically influence what microphone will work best. for example, in a naked room full of high/mid flutter from parallel walls, and not enough absorption and no difussion, a cardioid SDC or pair of them in x-y might pickup too much....

well, from practical viewpoint, i think you want something that can easily and natively read all those famous 90s cdrom titles... and that means Akai. its of course possible to transfer to other systems but unless its an old sampler that can read akai (like S760 or EOS line for example) it can get c...

Midiverb II is a great choice, tho i prefer the sound of original Quadraverb and its set of algos for that 90s ambient reverb. with that said, if you want quick to setup, and something where you can easily tweak things into sweet spot, i think the world of pedals is much more interesting. i mean, i ...

I love the stabs on my E-Mu Proteus 2000, it have a lot of chord samples that sounds very 90s rave/house I´m looking for other ROMplers in that sound vibe, better with this kind of chords/stabs samples but could be others that suit the style if i may offer a different idea for this. i love 90s romp...

my loose definition of vintage is prior to 1990. or something like that.. analog or hybrid: Crumar Multiman E-Mu Emulator II+ E-Mu Emax SE rack Eminent Solina Oberheim OB-X 8v Oberheim OB-Xa Oberheim Matrix 6R PPG Wave 2 PPG Wave 2.3 + Waveterm B Roland Jupiter 8A Roland Jupiter 6 Europa Sequential ...

Summit can do much much more. 002 is comparably limited in many ways.. but a few mod sources, no filter fm, no wave scanning etc. that said, 002 sounds absolutely heavenly. imo its a different league from Summit, that there is no comparison. the oscillators, the filters,,, absolutely grandiose. one ...

always liked the 90s VA sound for what it is. in its imperfection of analog emulation it introduced its own sonic niche. lot of great music was made with that. think there is still place for them today in various electronic productions. they're just interesting digital subtractive synths with lot of...

analogs, hybrids, digitals, samplers.. due to the nature of their audio path or synthesis used, there are many interesting polysynths. think my all time favorites are: ppg wave 2 roland jupiter 8 alesis andromeda oberheim ob-xa yamaha sy77 tho i may answer differently tomorrow ;). of the newer gener...

thx for the input clusterchord so besides Wabetable osc there should be Curtis filter, VCA... even then there is lo-fi DACs in these machines you're welcome :) Wave 2.2 and 2.3 use SSM2044 filter fed into CEM3360 vca. Wave 2 uses CEM3320 fed into CEM3330 vca. (instead of software env like others, i...