Made with "Paulstretch" and snippets of Blurred Lines (gag).

SCARY HALLOWEEN Ambient And Frightening

I'm building a synthesizer, focusing on making it playable live. This is my first attempt to get anything at all recorded, not much planning or anything, just throwing a patch together and letting it run.

Modules used: TR-808 snare, hat, and an oscillator that can glide between triangle wave to square with a smooth sine in between. These pass through a wave multiplier, diode-ladder low pass, and a PT2399 based delay.

Along with that is a TR-808 kick, modded for adjustable frequency and longer delay. The kick is clean -- no effects at all.

Then it's just messing with the filter knobs!

Um First Try

Just learning how to tweak the 808 kick through a 2-pole resonant high-pass filter I designed and built. That boom!!!

Possible Gas Leak

I built an ELFO (extremely low frequency oscillator) that I clocked at doing one oscillation per, like, three minutes and 40 seconds. This one isn't going that slow, but it's pretty slow.

Too Low For My Crappy Sub

You're hearing a chaotic patch between at least four VCOs, some 808 drum circuits, some resonant filters, and a VCF of my own design, which gives the kick that clean room-stuffing boom.

I spend this track messing with the percussion triggering and some of the filters.

Everything is home-built from the very cheapest of materials, including old pallets, paper shopping bags, and soup cans.

Some Fuzzy

Len, Tom and Gareth. My dad's band. The reverse music in the track is bleed-through from the magnetic tape, but it's amazing, very psychedelic. Vocals and (probably) drums by my dad Tom.

Bacon Fat

A live patched jam using my radically DIY modular synth, built inside tin cans.

The first moments of this track are the noise of my synthesizer turning on. Everything's improvised  from there on, and there are TOTALLY some rough patches. About 30 minutes in, there's some incredibly emotional moments that can bring me to tears.

Hey Burt Hey Burt Hey Burt Compressed

A track created for the Hardware Jams Facebook group. A friend and I wrote the song in college in the early '90s. It's usually performed with a guitar. I sang the vocals first, using my phone's audio recorder feature. I then live-jammed my DIY modular synth to try to get the instrumentals to match the vocals.

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