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After 15 months of pretty relentless soldering, I’ve “finished” my techno system. I know, I know, I’ve said that before, but it’s actually in a state now where I’m totally happy with it. I have everything I need to do what I want to do with it. It’s a lot bigger than I thought it … Read moreMission Accomplished!

I realised (soon after building my third 6MIX), that I needed more than 3 stereo channels, so decided to look for a 4 channel stereo mixer. Befaco recently released the STMix as DIY, and it seemed to fit the bill, so I grabbed the bits. Was a very quick build, done in about half an … Read moreBefaco STMix

Looking for a more efficient (in terms of size-functionality ratio) source of envelopes and modulation than Maths for my performance case, I decided to build Stages. I managed to totally screw up my first attempt when I ripped out some traces after poorly soldering the MCU. The second attempt went much better. This is a … Read moreStages

As my system has grown, of course so have my mixing requirements, so I’ve built yet another 6MIX! Very quick and easy build, I literally built it before my coffee this morning in an hour. I now have the 3 6MIXes running as 6 3 channel sub-mixers running into the 6 channels on my Hexmix. … Read moreAntumbra 6MIX #3

Rings is another module that I never really considered, but I was offered a PCB in a trade and thought I’d give it a go. It’s a resonator which works similarly to the one in Elements/ATOM, but a bit different and with some cool features. The guy I traded with didn’t have a panel, but … Read morenanoRings

No, I’m not just saying random words, it’s much cooler than that. Nutella is a Eurorack breakout for the Sparkfun Tsunami Super Wav Trigger development board. It’s made by Tesseract Modular from Spain. The Tsunami is a wav player and the Nutella breaks out 16 trigger ins on jacks and buttons and 4 pairs of … Read moreTesseract Nutella Tsunami

A while back, I found some old network cables in cupboard and came up with an awesome invention. A couple of days later, I discovered that not only had I not invented it, but someone else (Shay Shezifi of the fantastic Plum Audio) had actually implemented it, and done a much better job than I … Read moreRack Plumber

Another day, another filter. This time, it’s the transistor ladder filter. Obviously a classic design and a flavour I very much like, and I had pretty much everything I needed in my spares box. I went looking for a stripboard layout, but stumbled across this PCB design from Kassutronics. He had some PCBs, so I … Read more“Moog” Ladder Filter

I’ve had my eye on the Flight of Harmony Plague Bearer for a while. It’s sort of a filter, sort of a distortion, basically a fuck shit up module. I got the PCB from flight via the MW forum and my friend Nick had had some black panels made (the main reason I’ve not done … Read morePlague Bearer