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I know we make a lot of sometimes hellishly noisy kit, but if you make "white power electronics" or similar laughably tragic right wing bullshit then please feel free to just fuck off and grow up. We really don't need or want your money.
If you like Radiophonic Workshop-esque Forbidden Planet sci-fi soundtrack noise then you'll love this. Unlike a lot of similar stuff it actually sounds genuine, instead of someone trying really hard to make it sound genuine. If that makes sense?
Have a listen, pay some money. Its all win.
Have a listen, pay some money. Its all win.
Hey #synthfam, I appreciate the reception of The Electrosonic Warehouse so far. If you enjoy #scifi and Seventies electronic music or #ambient you might want to check this. Download comes with a 12 page booklet detailing the story of the Spaceship Agartha. grimtown.bandcamp.com/album/series...
Series 1: The Spaceship Agartha, by The Electrosonic Warehouse
11 track album
grimtown.bandcamp.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
If you like Radiophonic Workshop-esque Forbidden Planet sci-fi soundtrack noise then you'll love this. Unlike a lot of similar stuff it actually sounds genuine, instead of someone trying really hard to make it sound genuine. If that makes sense?
Have a listen, pay some money. Its all win.
Have a listen, pay some money. Its all win.
Both a circuitbenders Hate Echo and a modded ALTO Alphaverb II. This can only mean @brandoninvergo.bsky.social's live set is excellent and/or unlistenable! Either is good. 😉
We've got one of those Tascam CD players somewhere, donated by @theburningtrestle.bsky.social. Might have to crack it open...
We've got one of those Tascam CD players somewhere, donated by @theburningtrestle.bsky.social. Might have to crack it open...
Speaking of leaving my gear set up, here's what's living on my desk at the moment, more or less my main rig for the past 6 months. I can do weird stuff with it, definitely more than the sum of its parts. I'll use it live and also used it on my next-next album (TBA).
January 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Both a circuitbenders Hate Echo and a modded ALTO Alphaverb II. This can only mean @brandoninvergo.bsky.social's live set is excellent and/or unlistenable! Either is good. 😉
We've got one of those Tascam CD players somewhere, donated by @theburningtrestle.bsky.social. Might have to crack it open...
We've got one of those Tascam CD players somewhere, donated by @theburningtrestle.bsky.social. Might have to crack it open...
Whats the worst absolute mess of a bodge job you've ever seen?
This is an Analogue Solutions TBX303, and thats a 'factory' mod. Clearly they decided to change the OS from an EPROM to a PIC microcontroller, and just wired in a PIC in a socket on the end of some ribbon cable secured with a glue gun!
This is an Analogue Solutions TBX303, and thats a 'factory' mod. Clearly they decided to change the OS from an EPROM to a PIC microcontroller, and just wired in a PIC in a socket on the end of some ribbon cable secured with a glue gun!
January 9, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Whats the worst absolute mess of a bodge job you've ever seen?
This is an Analogue Solutions TBX303, and thats a 'factory' mod. Clearly they decided to change the OS from an EPROM to a PIC microcontroller, and just wired in a PIC in a socket on the end of some ribbon cable secured with a glue gun!
This is an Analogue Solutions TBX303, and thats a 'factory' mod. Clearly they decided to change the OS from an EPROM to a PIC microcontroller, and just wired in a PIC in a socket on the end of some ribbon cable secured with a glue gun!
Yamaha R100 Reverb with RAM contents loop switch, system and DSP reclocking knob that also changes the clock speed of the converters for bitcrushing effects, and a 4x4 RAM glitching switch matrix.
The R100 appears to be pretty much the reverb and delay sections of the REX50, only with less editing.
The R100 appears to be pretty much the reverb and delay sections of the REX50, only with less editing.
January 8, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Yamaha R100 Reverb with RAM contents loop switch, system and DSP reclocking knob that also changes the clock speed of the converters for bitcrushing effects, and a 4x4 RAM glitching switch matrix.
The R100 appears to be pretty much the reverb and delay sections of the REX50, only with less editing.
The R100 appears to be pretty much the reverb and delay sections of the REX50, only with less editing.
"What do you mean we need someone who can draw and speak English to write the manual? Give me a pencil, how hard can it be?"
January 8, 2026 at 12:41 PM
"What do you mean we need someone who can draw and speak English to write the manual? Give me a pencil, how hard can it be?"
FedEx helpfully confirming a delivery window once again with a text message to inform us that our package will be delivered between 8:34am and 7:34pm. So that's just 11 hours... Thanks for narrowing it down.
January 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
FedEx helpfully confirming a delivery window once again with a text message to inform us that our package will be delivered between 8:34am and 7:34pm. So that's just 11 hours... Thanks for narrowing it down.
Some rather nice bitcrushing effects, and the LED update rate dropping to visible speeds as you adjust the system clock on a Yamaha R100 effects unit.
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Some rather nice bitcrushing effects, and the LED update rate dropping to visible speeds as you adjust the system clock on a Yamaha R100 effects unit.
Might become one of those really interesting people that spends their time replying to Facebook posts with "well, here's what chatGPT says...."
Welcome to the world of tomorrow! 🤔
Welcome to the world of tomorrow! 🤔
January 7, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Might become one of those really interesting people that spends their time replying to Facebook posts with "well, here's what chatGPT says...."
Welcome to the world of tomorrow! 🤔
Welcome to the world of tomorrow! 🤔
Once again having to re-jig all our shipping prices because US customs have randomly decided they'll only accept paper documents sent as letter mail under 5mm thick, so a PCB now has to be sent as large letter adding over £1 to the shipping cost... and for some reason that affects the entire world.
January 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Once again having to re-jig all our shipping prices because US customs have randomly decided they'll only accept paper documents sent as letter mail under 5mm thick, so a PCB now has to be sent as large letter adding over £1 to the shipping cost... and for some reason that affects the entire world.
Walked into a store room and trod on a can of spray paint which rolled out from under me flipping me onto my back and winding me. As I went down I wildly grabbed onto the nearest thing, which happened to be an old CRT monitor that promptly fell off its shelf and landed on my chest cracking two ribs.
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
😅
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Walked into a store room and trod on a can of spray paint which rolled out from under me flipping me onto my back and winding me. As I went down I wildly grabbed onto the nearest thing, which happened to be an old CRT monitor that promptly fell off its shelf and landed on my chest cracking two ribs.
Sony made excellent FX units in the late 80's/early 90's, but today they're often faulty. This is usually because in order to use 1 sided PCB's they used a power rail design more often seen on high current lab equipment. Those copper strips with connections through the PCB are the +5v and +12v rails
January 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Sony made excellent FX units in the late 80's/early 90's, but today they're often faulty. This is usually because in order to use 1 sided PCB's they used a power rail design more often seen on high current lab equipment. Those copper strips with connections through the PCB are the +5v and +12v rails
So far this year i've managed to only buy one synth. If I can keep the gear lust down to this minimal purchase rate i'll end the year with just 73 new bits of kit!
Its going to be tough, but lets hope i'm up to the challenge. 😉
Its going to be tough, but lets hope i'm up to the challenge. 😉
January 5, 2026 at 12:20 PM
So far this year i've managed to only buy one synth. If I can keep the gear lust down to this minimal purchase rate i'll end the year with just 73 new bits of kit!
Its going to be tough, but lets hope i'm up to the challenge. 😉
Its going to be tough, but lets hope i'm up to the challenge. 😉
From the 70s onwards every single electronics DIY magazine, and from the late 90s every website, has been obsessed with plant moisture sensors. It seems to have been the standard beginners DIY project for decades. Now we look at a "what to do with your surplus raspberry pi" site and what do we find?
January 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
From the 70s onwards every single electronics DIY magazine, and from the late 90s every website, has been obsessed with plant moisture sensors. It seems to have been the standard beginners DIY project for decades. Now we look at a "what to do with your surplus raspberry pi" site and what do we find?
See you on the other side...
December 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
See you on the other side...
Around this time of year i like to spend a couple of hours hurling abuse at the JLC PCB website in the hope that repeatedly shouting "just feckin' work you bastard thing!" will make it stop randomly logging me out and deleting things from my cart long enough to actually order some PCB's.
December 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Around this time of year i like to spend a couple of hours hurling abuse at the JLC PCB website in the hope that repeatedly shouting "just feckin' work you bastard thing!" will make it stop randomly logging me out and deleting things from my cart long enough to actually order some PCB's.
If you want your Behringer Modulizer or Virtualizer to look like it was designed for the set of a late 1960's sci-fi film, just replace the cheap crappy encoder knob that always starts to grind on the panel cutout, with something equally cheap, but an order of magnitude more stylish!
December 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you want your Behringer Modulizer or Virtualizer to look like it was designed for the set of a late 1960's sci-fi film, just replace the cheap crappy encoder knob that always starts to grind on the panel cutout, with something equally cheap, but an order of magnitude more stylish!
All hail Swans, with the most festive of all t-shirts this Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
All hail Swans, with the most festive of all t-shirts this Christmas.
A custom lamp we built for someone for Christmas a few years back.
December 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A custom lamp we built for someone for Christmas a few years back.
Merry Christmas, especially to the two people living at the same address who both independently bought a modified zoom 1201 from us a couple of weeks back. Presumably they're both getting one for Christmas from each other this year. Now that's the kind of household we should all aspire to live in!
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Merry Christmas, especially to the two people living at the same address who both independently bought a modified zoom 1201 from us a couple of weeks back. Presumably they're both getting one for Christmas from each other this year. Now that's the kind of household we should all aspire to live in!
Anyone ever seen inside a Dunlop DCR-2SR Cry Baby wah rackmount? I'd love to see whats apparently costing £777!
Apparently you can have 6 separate control pedals. "As a result it provides you with tonnes of free movement without being confined to one section of the stage"... Thats one big stage!
Apparently you can have 6 separate control pedals. "As a result it provides you with tonnes of free movement without being confined to one section of the stage"... Thats one big stage!
Dunlop DCR 2SR Rack Crybaby
Rack module Cry Baby Custom Shop series, Crybaby in 19" rack format, 6-Way switch for frequency selection, 6-Band EQ for fine tuning, Control the effect via control pedal, No signal loss due to long ...
www.thomann.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Anyone ever seen inside a Dunlop DCR-2SR Cry Baby wah rackmount? I'd love to see whats apparently costing £777!
Apparently you can have 6 separate control pedals. "As a result it provides you with tonnes of free movement without being confined to one section of the stage"... Thats one big stage!
Apparently you can have 6 separate control pedals. "As a result it provides you with tonnes of free movement without being confined to one section of the stage"... Thats one big stage!
Further adventures in Aliexpress listings...
December 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Further adventures in Aliexpress listings...
PCB poetry #165:
December 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
PCB poetry #165:
Realistic Concertmate 500 / rebadged Casio SK1 there for just £79.95. Weirdly that's probably a lot less than you'd pay for a good condition one today.
#Christmas 1987: Keyboards and Amplifiers & Accessories from Tandy
(+Yamaha PSS-570 Portable Keyboard With Built-In Drum Kit; Yamaha PSS-470 With Digital Synthesizer; Yamaha PSS-270 Stereo Keyboard; Yamaha PSS-170 Portable Keyboard; Concertmate-700 With Drum Sticks, and more)
(+Yamaha PSS-570 Portable Keyboard With Built-In Drum Kit; Yamaha PSS-470 With Digital Synthesizer; Yamaha PSS-270 Stereo Keyboard; Yamaha PSS-170 Portable Keyboard; Concertmate-700 With Drum Sticks, and more)
December 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Realistic Concertmate 500 / rebadged Casio SK1 there for just £79.95. Weirdly that's probably a lot less than you'd pay for a good condition one today.
Imagine sincerely using the term 'onboarding' and not wanting to immediately spend 4 hours slamming your head in a fridge door.
What must have occurred in your formative years to make you grow up to be that person?
What must have occurred in your formative years to make you grow up to be that person?
December 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Imagine sincerely using the term 'onboarding' and not wanting to immediately spend 4 hours slamming your head in a fridge door.
What must have occurred in your formative years to make you grow up to be that person?
What must have occurred in your formative years to make you grow up to be that person?
Just writing the manual for our 'pheq face' pedal...
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Just writing the manual for our 'pheq face' pedal...