TAMA TS 204 $250
Zoog’s TAMA TS-204 Analog Drum Module used extensively on Hardcore Pong plus Angelspit’s The Product. Also comes with Merch Pack + Signed Hardcore Pong Poster + Hardcore Pong Tshirt + Digital Download.
The TS204 is a two channel percussion brain with one analog synthesizer channel and one analog clap channel. The TS204 gives you an 808-style clap and a drum synth channel capable of huge bass drum sounds or Snare-style filtered snare sounds.
Brand: Doepfer
Model: A-118 and A-148
Link: http://www.doepfer.de/a118.htm and http://www.doepfer.de/a148.htm
BLURB:
A-118 Random Noise.
You can have this making the basic sound source for 2 different drums sounds PLUS supplying the random voltage for a Sample&Hold.
One of the Noise O/Ps can be “tuned” – you can shape the hi/low colour – which is really helpful.
A-148 Duel Sample & Hold.
This has so many cool applications. If you think with an open mind you can really use it to make some inventive sounds.
Obviously they both work together to make a S&H – Sample and Hold…the thing that makes the resonant gurgle sound.
We often add a small random element to all our sounds – it makes them come alive.
Brand: Doepfer
Model: Dark Energy
Link: http://www.doepfer.de/Dark_Energy_e.htm
BLURB: This is an “all-in-one-semi-modular” synth similar to a Korg MS-10. It’s internally patched and allows you to do some basic patching. IT IS AWESOME!
This is a single oscillator PURE ANALOGUE synth with 1 EG, 2 LFOs, 1 VCF and heaps of knobs and switches. It also has a very impressive MIDI (and USB!) spec, plus an audio input.
There’s also CV inputs on the front for VCO pitch, Pulse Width, VCF, VCA, Gate.
OK, we’re now got most parts needed to build these things. The main controller face will be 9 units high and have seventy patch points on it, over a dozen knobs, 1 joystick, several sliders, switchers, multiples, randomiser, wave fuckers, a coffee grinder…and other STUFF.
The remote controller will have several sliders, one JoyStick, randomiser, random slide modulator thing…and MORE STUFF!
The objective is to build controllers that interface with synths in a way that is different to conventional keyboard controllers.
More updates coming…
Agent13 IS AWESOME!
He’s helped me design and build this little puppy. It’s a controller and live Analogue switcher for the Doepfer Modular Synth.
Yes, it works. Yes, it ROCKS! It will be the main instrument for the USA tour.
Bass+Synth+Chaos = MUD…??!!
A question from our Forum:
I’ve got an insane drum loop and bass synth line happening. Distortion and all the bells and whistles but it’s really complex and loud and I can’t hear anything else in the mix and the bass and subs sound like mud…help!!
Thanks for this, here’s a few suggestions:
If you can, take out everything in the loop under 120Hz…an i mean use a brutal hi pass. make sure the only think under 120 is your kick and bass. When you master it, it will THUMP.
If you want the bass synth to be supremely HELLISH, only use a single oscillator. A single oscillator will cut through more than a huge stacked bass sound – it’s fat and wonderfully defined.
Also cut -12dB out of the loops around 600 (depended on taste). this frees up space for guitars and voxes. You could also cut -12 around 2.8kHz…this makes space for the hats and “air”
Hope this helps!
ROCK!
ZooG
An Interest In Music
Original Post: http://krankhaus.net/forum/index.php?topic=10078.0
Ganguro666 from Angelspit’s Forum asked me about STUFF…here’s my response.
I have a great interest in music and lately I find myself with a great desire to create it, explore it, and then fuck it up. The only problem is that I don’t really think I have much talent in the way of music, I don’t know any instruments or anything like that but I do love to sing (even if I’m probably not very good) and write poems/lyrics.
Even if I don’t posses an ounce of musical talent, do you have any suggestions of some ways that I can be involved in making music?
I have a friend who also claims to have “no musical talent”…but his left foot is PURE GENIUS.
He has this amazing ability to come up with this very simple and effective rhythms by just tapping his left foot.
…I kid you not! This is his knack:
1) listen to a beat or a musical idea
2) tap your left foot (only works with his left foot…his right foot has no talent)
3) assign notes to the rhythm from his foot. Use octaves or the minor pentatonic scale (the black notes) it will work miracles.
Record your lyrics, decide on a tempo, slot them into a verse/chorus structure then apply the LEFT FOOT MAJIK.
Ever thought of learning the guitar? – it’s awesome therapy. Strum along using the rhythm from your left foot.
Another option: you might be an awesome lyricist/vocalist – ever thought of teaming up with a music writer?
I know several music makers who are looking for lyricists!! check our forum:
www.krankhaus.net/forum
Most important: GOOD GEAR DOES NOT NESSISARILY MAKE GOOD MUSIC
Good music comes from good ideas…and it can be made with cheap shitty gear. Many people fall into the trap of thinking “if i just got one more synth I can make this happen”. This is just procrastinating.
making music is FUN – inventiveness is the key.
I hope this helps!
ROCK!
ZooG.
ANGELSPIT’s gift to DIY Horror Flicks and Noise artists : BitCrush Drone
BIT CRUSHED DRONE OF DOOOOM!
INFO:
Lots of random shit…or “PopSong to Convertor in 60seconds”. Random stuff going through Frostwave’s Sonic Alienator and Doepfer’s A-189-1
Please use this creatively! Please credit Angelspit, and PLEASE let us know when you upload your completed work – we’d love to link to it!
FORMAT : 24bit, 44kHz, 320 MP3, 5.3Mg
Brand: Roland
Model: Jupiter-8
Link: http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/jup8.shtml
BLURB:
I bought this from a guy in Sydney around 2000. He also had an OB-Xa…but he refused to sell it. He used these two delicious machines in a cover band…yup, A COVER BAND. This FOOL put gaffer tape on this beautiful machine. He left it on there for several years. The gaffer tape is now baked on. One day i will find him. He will die a HORRIBLE DEATH.
Brand: Doepfer
Model: A-136 Distortion/Wave Multiplier
Link: http://www.doepfer.de/A136.htm
BLURB:
Similar to the A-137 Wave Shaper…but totally different. Personally I actually think the A-137 is a better distortion unit, but the A-136 is the master of Wave Shaping.
PROS:
The CV inputs can be used to get some very interesting “Morphing” happening. The sound can be radically changed with a twist of a knob.