A live improv following a successful afternoon in the workshop -finally- managing to reduce the background noise of my much loved TherapSID Mk1 to a sensible level and then having a go retrofitting a nano SwinSID module in place of a very poorly SID 8580. This turned out to be rather tricky as simply plugging it into the SID socket resulted in it being far too tall to allow the back cover to be refitted so what ensued was a surprisingly fiddly job cutting away and desoldering the IC socket (which straddles another narrower socket on the other side of the pcb) and soldering the module directly to the SID daughterboard in the TherapSID. A plethora of decoupling caps dotted around the pcb helped to quieten the beast down considerably after discovering most of the noise was actually coming from the multiplexed front panel LEDs!

...and I have to say I am very impressed with the nano SwinSID - it is a remarkably usable replacement considering just how hard it is now to find a good working original SID chip!!

The test recording was made with Rhodes Chroma (lead), Mk1 TherapSID (arpeggio) & Roland D-50 (ethereal organ).

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2024

1982 Rhodes Chroma & 2014 TherapSID: Sunset At Rhodes..

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

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