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groove box recordings

 

This is mostly my new homemade groove box and 2 effect pedals , these short pieces are cut out of longer sessions .It was hot July and August so these are recorded usually early in the morning ,or late in the evenings .In this collection there are 9 short pieces .

Compilation

This is a compilation i made 2 years ago sometime in October 2023 .There are 36 short excerpts from various electronic and electroacoustic artists that sum up to around 9 minutes . Here is the full playlist :

1.irr. app. (ext.) Ozeanische Gefühle - 1 2.Taku Sugimoto 3. doremilogy 2.12 [taku sugimoto 2007] 4.Obst, Michael - Kristallwelt - 1983-86 - Part I, II, III + Intermède 5.Harold Budd - Jane 7 6.Gordon Mumma Pontpoint(1966-1980) 7.Robin Hayward, Rhodri Davies & Taku Unami 8.Z'ev - KPFK 9. Mandolini Ricardo 10.Natasha Barret -1 11. Vaggione, Horacio - Thema - 1985 - sax baixo e tape - 1 12.Ivo Malec - Actuor (1983) 13.irr. app. (ext.) - Their Little Bones - 2 14. Kiyoshi Mizutani, Hideaki Shimada & Kiyoharu Kuwayama 15. Tom Djll 16. Eva Perouk-Auto Da Fé-La Semaine D'Une Somnambuliste Unlikely Records URT96 `85 17.Lionel Marchetti, Yôko Higashi - Pétrole (2009) 18.Robin Hayward, Rhodri Davies & Taku Unami 2 19.FURT The Field Recordings 2 FURT Live in Amsterdam 1994 - 1 20.Mendes, Gilberto - Nascemorre - 1963 - coro misto, 2 máquinas de escrever e tape - 2 21.The Pulses Of Time (Electro-Acoustic Music On Tape) - Denis Smalley - 2 22. Bayle, François - Espaces Inhabitables - 1967 - 1 23.Eva Perouk-Auto Da Fé-La Semaine D'Une Somnambuliste Unlikely Records URT96 `85 3 24.Robin Hayward, Rhodri Davies & Taku Unami 4 25.Une Le Würg Production - Don't Fight Against The Time -See It Destroy Tape Eigen `87 - 1 26. Tod Docksteder - 2 27.Xenakis, Iannis - Orient-Occident - 1960 - 1 28.Roy, Stéphane - Paysages Intérieurs - 1988 - 1 29.Cognitive Disorder 3 - Detrition - irr app - 1 30.Stockhouzen - Kontakte 31.Ferrari, Luc - Und so weiter - 1966 - 1 32.Schaeffer, Pierre - Etude aux Allures - 1958 33.Denis Smalley 34.looper SQUAREHORSE 35.Mario Davidovski 36.Patrice Sciotino

 

Vermona Synthesizer

are you missing a screw??!!

 

Sometimes it happens so .. When i started working on the box i noticed the screws on the original panel as they were non standard ,so in order to save them i put them back on the front panel once i got the panel out .Somehow in a month or so , while working on the electronics that panel got lost somewhere in the basement ,and when it was time to start populating the panel i made i just couldn't find the screws Now there are 4 ugly holes that i need to mask somehow ,it ruins the picture a bit but i can live with it . 

The enclosure as factory made provides 2 rectangular holes just exact fit in the back to add 6 banana jacks ,i made those four individual sampler outputs plus a mix output that is the selection made with the white push buttons from the bottom of the panel , and finally ground .The DIN socket connects to external PSU.

 

 What i learned from my previous groovebox proves to be right , i installed a switch from the main clock to the 208 Music Easel Random Section ...cause when it stops clocking the Uncorrelated Random remains at that random last step . 

Other feature i find useful is having one of the excite inputs of the Neural Pulsers at the bottom of the panel where it's easy to tap with your fingers cause one can trigger a neuron in such way (sometimes...) ,along with the potentiometers at the bottom of the panel for easy access it's performance friendly ,while most of the patching is done in the middle of the panel ..

The little box in the background is a fifth voice ,another Hagiwo Sampler with additional XR2206 LFO ,and Synthrotek Dirt Filter .

some more break beat bloop

 

I recorded some 40 minutes already when this pattern turned up ,so i had to stay for a few more minutes ,as this is all played live and many random things happen .

I wake up very early these days so i called this one - dawn .

slightly edited 

unedited 

I didn't mean to record this loop ,and still i did . It was not easy this past month to record since i am yet to install AC here ,and it really was tempting as this is a brand new build .

I call this one Dream/Son cause it's not the first time i dream od synthesizers .That night i dreamt i was editing a recording and it's this one . Few times i dreamt of a mystery keyboard similar to Yamaha SH101  . 

Mechen V06 (Review)

 I bought a handheld recorder . At the time i meant to buy the Xvive Portable but later i discovered thru reviews that it has a 3.5mm stereo line in ,and further more some reviews about Zoom H1n describe recording via line in as troublesome that needs lot of attenuation . So i couldn't afford a more pricey recorder and just noticed this recorder at Ali Express - Mechen V06 . Now at Ali Express there are maybe 100 types of handheld recorders ,many advertise crazy resolution but no brand at all ,so i dug a little deeper about this one once i noticed there is actually a real company with line of products . Thanks to a review over at You Tube ,and it is a single one review on this machine i gambled so i bought it .

First i did was using a wrong output from my mixer so my recordings were lacking the effects . Next i had the Noise Reduction at 1 ,there is a scale from 1 to 7 i think ..when it comes to Noise Reduction ,but there is also Noise Reduction off - Thank God ! 

..and it records well . The specs somewhere describe some odd kbs resolution of the recordings , i used the highest bitrate and Sound Forge says it is 16bit 96kHz ,unlike 24bit it advertises.. I never cared about that difference , i grew up with cassettes and making music on Amiga ,so 16 bits and 96kHz is more then enough for me ! 

Thru out these 5-6 recordings i did these past few days i used a Studiomaster mixer to record on to the Mechen  ,the faders are at 2-3 and feeding well this little thing while the gain settings on the Mechen are at 2 ,so you would need some attenuation to record sound from mixer .The recordings are not too loud which is expected and it needs some leveling afterwards ,with these settings the waveform is peak to peak on Sound Forge, but one thing i noticed is that Resampling the recording to 48kHz helps a lot to sort of clean up the waveform . The rest is little bit Soft Limiting and you have a descent WAV recording twice cheaper .

This portable recorder really looks nice with metal housing and a big screen .It is not advertised as studio tool ,and having only one 3.5mm socket that switches internally from being line in and line out can be annoying to some maybe ,but for me it's very easy to just copy the recordings onto my computer .It has 144Gb memory and it will auto shut down when not in use .Really happy with the quality of recordings , it's a winner! It holds well after using it extensively for over a month and making over 50 recordings .

This is recorded with Mechen V06

West Coast Mini

 

Another project that's been sitting on the workbench for years , another single panel synth ,this time in green and yellow knobs and jacks .This project is almost done but i grew tired of synthesizers i guess after 15 years of soldering ,one must grow tired a bit . The enclosure for this is very shallow i meant to make a new enclosure for the same panel and have a PSU integrated in the box . This is Volk comparing to Volca , it has 1 x 258 Buchla ,1 x Low Pass Gate ,1 x High Ripple VCF (Electronotes) ,1 x DUSG Serge ,1 x Serge SSG ,1 x NLC Spasm ,1 x Buchla 208 Uncorrelated Random ,1 x Serge Tripple Waveshaper ,2 x LFO's EFM ,Xmix EFM ,Serge Noise ,and thats alot ! The panel is specious and the thing is ,this is almost complete ... Most of the PCB's are soldered ,,2 or 3 left to complete and wire up . 

Џумбуш Кутија

Another GrooveBox is finished. This time with 4× Hagiwo Sampler Drums, CGS Gate Sequencer, Yusynth Pulse Delay, and Buchla 208 Random. Instead of a regular kick and bongo, there are samplers — that’s the main difference from the previous machine. Together they now hold 240 sounds, each 600 milliseconds long at 48kHz.

The enclosure was something I found lying in the mud at the junkyard. It looks like an old fiscal cash register, or maybe some other device. Sometimes you can find boxes from medical equipment there too. Cleaning off the factory-baked paint wasn’t easy, and this machine changed its face several times before I finally completed it.

As always, some things could have been done better.

Eventide Phaser

 

Here is some Schematic for Eventide Phaser i found somewhere ,have not tried to build this however ,a friend built the clock circuit on a breadboard and said it's not working .Anyway to mock up a high freq clock circuit is not so hard ,it would be amazing if the rest of the schematic is correct and working .

Groove Box

 

before the wiring

Hagiwo Sampler Drum

Sampler Drums PCB

This is a second version of a PCB for this module , the first version i made was closer to the original Hagiwo module ,while here using a summing circuit both Pitch and Bank Select have active mixing of Manual  Control and CV ,to keep things simple i left Select Sample as passive mixed input , now using only 3 x Analog inputs of the ESP32C3 protected with 1N60P . 
 

Groove Box (ЏУМБУШКУТИЈА)

 

Here is the enclosure for the new Groove Box on it's way . It was hard work to peel of the baked paint . I will not disclose now it's features ,as i wait for a few remaining PCB's from China . I hope this build goes smooth and i keep this machine longer then it will take to record it properly .