Getting creative in the lab with a bunch of gorgeous classic 1960s Brüel & Kjær lab gear I have restored and modified over the years for creative use in the recording studio at Hideaway Studio...

I discovered and fell in love with the 1960s Brüel & Kjær lab gear around 10 years ago and ended up accumulating over 70 of these gorgeous beasts and, during my exploration of them, it seems a few of my friends and clients have since caught the obsession too!

All Recordings Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2014 - 2022.

Brüel & Kjær - Le laboratoire Créatif...

Track 2 of my new ep ‘6tr4x’ 

Buy here: https://jonny3snares.bandcamp.com/album/6trax

2. Un - B0x

https://libraryofmodernsound.bandcamp.com/album/-

FREQUENT FLIER

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-7

C O L O R S Q U A D 0 1 7

The Compilation!

Gingey Tunkmen

Superlative Whispers

youre life your tsois early version (2013)

Daughters and sons (2011)

11 Sleeping Under The Stars m3 (2013)

a bounce of some live tracks i made this year, played at Holma Sonika 2025 

live set 2025

spiry stuff

"You don't have any respect for anything with knockers or a fanny."

"I believe the medical term is quim, inspector."

dr00m

A single loop fed into a pair of late 1960s Brüel & Kjær type 2112 all tube band pass filters following restoration and modification for creative studio use at Hideaway Studio each manually tuned in 1/3rd octave steps to produce a shifting harmonic effect...  the content of the loop is never changed - the perceived note changes are only due to their harmonic content being shaped by the highly selective nature of the filters.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio.

Two 1968 Brüel & Kjaer type 2112: Natural Resonance

Testing out a gorgeous 1964 all tube/valve Brüel & Kjær type 1013 Beat Frequency Oscillator just after being returned to life for the first time in decades at Hideaway Studio.  The Type 1013 is a close relative to the infamous "Wobbulator" at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop put to good effect by Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire et al during the 1960s.

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2018.

1964 Brüel & Kjaer type 1013 Tube BFO "Wobbulator" Test

A pair of gorgeous 1968 Brüel & Kjær type 2107 all tube swept band pass filters originally built for laboratory use in action following restoration and modification for creative studio use by Dani Wilson at Hideaway Studio. Originally designed for frequency analysis, these majestic hand cranked beasts can achieve selective audio filtering up to 50dB/octave in tube regenerative circuits covering the full audio spectrum split over 6 frequency bands with mechanical auto-selection between them.

This test recording was made simply by firing a narrow pulse wave of approx 400Hz to one 2107 and approx 800Hz to the other recording from them as a stereo pair whilst hand cranking the tuning controls with the filters set to over 45dB/oct.  Both units were recorded directly dry with no added effects - just pure vintage tube goodness in action!

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio.

1968 Brüel & Kjaer type 2107: Pulse Sweepers

Made by firing a slow evolving patch from a Yamaha TX802 into a Brüel & Kjær type 1621 band pass filter set to 3% selectivity mode and several hand cranked filter sweeps recorded and overdubbed.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio.

Brüel & Kjaer type 1621: Spectral Rising

Made by feeding a single sustained chord played from a Studio Electronics Omega 8 into a classic Brüel & Kjaer type 2113 L/C band-pass resonator bank, sampled through 21 different filter settings, and then randomly sequenced live into a 1969 Dolby A301 for some multi-band compressed magic!...

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio

Brüel & Kjaer type 2113: Random Resonations...

100% synthesized water effects made by feeding some randomised FM bell like sounds from an Orla DSE24 and pink noise from a Bruel & Kjaer type 1405 fed hot via a tube mixer into a gorgeous 1965 Bruel & Kjaer type 1612 Band Pass Filter Set.   Around 60 samples were captured with the filter set to each of the 3rd Octave frequency settings and then loaded across the keyboard and auditioned live in various combinations....

The classic Bruel & Kjaer Band Pass Filter Sets such as the type 1615, 1612, 2112 and 2113 are made up of banks of very high quality passive L/C resonators and are extremely selective with very high Q factors and have a sound all of their own!  There are few studio filters that could come close to achieving the same effect.
 
Sound Design & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2020.

1965 Brüel & Kjaer type 1612: Waterwerks (SFX With Lab Gear)

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

Two 1968 Brüel & Kjaer type 2112: Natural Resonance

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