Hee! I still work on those little guys from time to time. They were built like tanks, sharing many parts with their more famous big brother, the B3. Nice find for forty bucks!
Slightly O/T ....
A friend of mine ( who is , shall we say , a little on the large size ) bought at a general auction, 12 boxes of dungerees XXXXL size, 50 pairs per box.
This was way back in 1988.
He told me 2 weeks ago that he still had 3 boxes left !!!
He paid £10 for the lot ...... that is cheap as chips.
Got hold of what looks like a brand new copy of Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary celebration concert on VHS for $1 Can. The video is not high def. but the audio is great. What is exciting is that the recording is genuinely live, unlike many modern concerts that are lip sync'd, thus non of those thingies stuck in the performers ears plus non of those revolving searchlights.
I'm glad I hung onto my super VHS player, it's only recently I discovered I can connect it to my digital TV
I'm glad I hung onto my super VHS player, it's only recently I discovered I can connect it to my digital TV
I can remember seeing the Moody Blues in the mid 60's, at a small venue in South London, they had just released 'Go Now'. They were very good.
Ray may be gone but many of his projects are still available from Synthcube.
analogue synth modules
I still have the ultimate, and ultimate expander boards that I got directly from MFOS. I have populated the boards, but never finished making and wiring the front panel.
I am still after 170 years working on the SoundLab and have also the Mark 2. Also had a friend make the PCB for the 32-step sequencer.
Really said we lost Ray as his designs are rather cool. They shows that he had a genuine and personal interest in this, not only inventing stuff to make money.
Really said we lost Ray as his designs are rather cool. They shows that he had a genuine and personal interest in this, not only inventing stuff to make money.
Meat loaf and chocolate cake worked. I got him here and together we wrestled 250 pounds of Hammond out of the Honda and into the living room, in a snow storm. We set it next to a heater vent to warm up from spending the night in 15 degree F weather, and I took a few pictures.
After a two hour thaw, I plugged it in and started it up, expecting hum or nothing......surprise, all functions seem to work except the bass pedals, and all the keys work and sound the correct notes. One of the drawbars has some intermittent spots, but this thing needs a good cleaning anyway.
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Look at the Arturia Keystep. It is a little keyboard with mini keys made for use with a laptop or tablet, but it has an awesome polyphonic sequencer and a MIDI to CV converter built in. MIDI can be 5 pin or USB and it will translate between the two. I plugged the USB into the computer so I can feed it from a DAW. Then I wired the 5 pin MIDI to a Hexinverter 4 channel MIDI to CV Eurorack module for 4 more sets of CV / gate (5 total). This lets you do all sorts of tricks, and allows the polyphonic sequencer to run several VCO's and VCF's.
The Keystep can be found in the USA for about $99 USD, which is probably less than it costs to build a CV sequencer since the knobs and post cost $$$. Arturia is a French company, so it's shouldn't cost a bundle in Sweden.
Sweet! Keep an eye on that 5U4G, maybe give it a couple good thwacks to make sure it isn't shorting. For some reason they never put any fuses in these old Hammonds, so a shorted rectifier tube can take out the power transformer. (Actually if you're gonna keep it, adding primary & HV secondary fuses would be a good idea.)
Oh, and: If you pull out that single brown drawbar in the center there, your pedals might start working. ;o)
I got one of these for my recently acquired ET-2 air bearing tone arm. This unit will provide sufficient capacity for a second air arm in the future.
I currently use a WISA pump made for the purpose, but it is rather noisy, tired and old. It's output pressure is inconsistent and seems to depend rather heavily on line voltage, and that has an effect on sound quality.
The idea is that as quiet as this thing is, it's not going to have to run frequently to provide air to that arm.
I currently use a WISA pump made for the purpose, but it is rather noisy, tired and old. It's output pressure is inconsistent and seems to depend rather heavily on line voltage, and that has an effect on sound quality.
The idea is that as quiet as this thing is, it's not going to have to run frequently to provide air to that arm.
