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Made with 100 or so random sampled slices of waveform madness from a Wavetek 193 modulated laboratory signal generator...

I've had a lot of signal generators over the years - old and new - I mean a lot - and this one new to the fold has to be the single most versatile all-analog box of tricks for the lab I've some across to date!

The signal generator is a Wavetek model 193 – it consists of an auxiliary modulating oscillator that can generate 0-100 KHz of pulse (with variable width), sawtooth (with variable symmetry), sine, tri and square.

The main oscillator can produce sine, triangle and square with variable symmetry.

The aux osc can either AM or FM modulate the main oscillator and can be programmed to perform sweeps with the shape of the waveform selected – so you can even have a sinewave as a sweep LFO - or a ramp with variable symmetry - or a pulse with variable widths...

Having variable symmetry on both the carrier and the modulator is just brilliant for creative studio use.

You can also key the audio or remotely sync the oscillator.

And to add to all of that, to my amazement, there is a button that enables and disables carrier suppression along with a null control so its capable of xmod, genuine ring mod and quadrant-multiplying.

Both oscillators can also be voltage controlled (although I’m probably going to have to design a custom CV box for it as the transform curve is not Moog or Korg).

To cover so much sonic ground in one piece of old analog lab gear is really awesome!

Here's a little flavour of the kind of things this thing can do.

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2022.

1983 Wavetek Model 193: Mad Lab 193... (SFX With Lab Gear)

Track #2 of "FerroTape", released Jan 22nd 2025.

This upload is a low-bitrate preview. For proper full-quality tracks head to Bandcamp: https://mmwave.bandcamp.com/album/ferrotape

Flutter

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-8
   "The music from the club, spilled into the alley, thick and low, like the heartbeat of the city. We had danced for hours. Now outside, the sweat shimmered and reflected like halos in the streetlights.

    We walked, As the music echoed behind us.  

We walked by night
 
   Our footsteps sketching a new rhythm on the pavement. The world felt wide and waiting, the kind of night that became our soundtrack.

   We walk by night"

Spoken word by: Green.Washer
https://soundcloud.com/greenwasher

Wanting to explore some different production styles and build elements to blend. With the goal of producing something special for the Color Squad Records compilation. 

Created in multiple Logic project sessions. Sound design and Beat building session - bpm 124. Mix and arrangement session. Final assembly in Mastering session. Midi soft synths (Vital, UA Polymax, Surge XT, Logics Retro Synth). Live percussion elements. Break beats: Dedalus - CT6 & Hilton Felton - Be Bop Boogie. Granular Re-synthesis of melody/lead using "bandlab" Audio stretch app on phone. Sonosaurus PaulXStretch app for textures.

The main lead/melody loop was created many years ago, for a part of a remix of "Kill or be killed" for my indie rock band, at the time. "Further" 
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1765210-Further-4
A track we never released or published.  One of the lyrics in this song was "When we walk by night" (More to do with taking a dark path, rather than going to an after party) 

When the melody/lead was rediscovered while randomly going through files & folders looking/listening for some inspiration. The loop manifested a memory of going to clubs and the night life around 1990 in Sydney. Friends, the sounds, the drinks, the music and the walk/journey home. Ears ringing. Reliving the night. Feeling glorious. Being out in the night with friends. 

Writing a passage with this in mind. Green.Washer was generous with his time, to read through and record the "we walk by night" passage a few times via his phone. With limited info regarding its context or the music. He sent a few versions and they were edited into arrangement session. Thanks Green.Washer!
Tom Sine https://soundcloud.com/tom-sine has a contribution, with some very subtle/barely audible beats. And supporting guidance during the arrangement. When I got lost in the process...
A big thanks also to Spoutnik https://soundcloud.com/spoutnikz And the Squad!


I hope you enjoy

We Walk by Night

We Walk by Night

CSRComp018

15 OutsiderD8Ms[sketch]-7st

Going through old stuff.  This is a DJ set I recorded to get a job as a DJ at the third floor bar at Fuji Mountain in Philadelphia (Chestnut and 21st).  I spent a summer lugging this shit into the city to play chillout jams to nobody every sunday.

Tom Croke - Fuji Mountain demo (2006 DJ Set)

Tot Morgen (Quiet Nights)

messing around with colundi dunno perhaps not wise

ColundiOffset

aanotghurhu lioup

https://exethyl.bandcamp.com/album/exethyl

Exethyl

Teelexyt (out now @ tokinogake)

Dd Fnk Hw Th

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

1983 Wavetek Model 193: Mad Lab 193... (SFX With Lab Gear)

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