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[Simeon]

Also, at a recent summer festival:

Simeon Smith

[dermo]

Awesome pictures! The monochrome really adds an industrial vibe

[duckpow]

My setup for the next live shows is finally completed

[bjarlstedt]

I finally got to the point to make a little space for my setup. Before this I had the stuff in a bookshelf with a couch standing in front of it. No more sore back and neck

[laceupyrboots]

For those of you who said “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” – I did, lol. This is the cleanest my table will be before becoming littered with wires later this week.

Also, for anyone considering an RR430: don’t get it. The VSC is incredibly worthy, but it can’t handle loops at all, and it doesn’t have an auto-stop (which I learned the hard way when it snapped an /18 tape I was gifted after it finished side B).

[LSA]

That looks like a II but the Microverb I is my favorite reverb ever. To my ear it has a darker, more musical character than the II… dunno if the algorithms are different or the converters. Plus a really wicked ‘reverse’ setting which is neither really a reverse delay or reverb, it just samples an incoming sound and flips it in real time after a pause.

The II is also great though, but if you like it I’d keep an eye out for a I.

If I could only have one hardware effect unit it’d be that, so good choice!

[bjarlstedt]

Correct! That’s the one. I’ve been on a quiet hunt for a Microverb I for some time but now you got me to pick up the search for one a notch.

And yes, that is the only hardware effect unit I’ve kept since the eurorack bug bit me. The nice thing about this little gem is that it distort the sounds so nicely so I’ve got it as a end of the line unit, going straight from the eurorack signal into it.

[electret]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmbvzkmAyPr/?taken-by=electret_

Mini modular setup for a mini live set on Wednesday

[Cementimental]

Isn'tses Blog

[electret]

Played modular live in London yesterday. Enjoyed the classic “why is that sound wrong?” fixed by adding more patch cables mid show

[b_w]

portrait shot of my acrylic case i just finished, just before i installed power and my mods

[Simeon]

Simeon Smith

Last night me left today me a note in the studio so as not to disrupt the killer sounds that were coming out of the eurorack system last night. My kids are usually allowed to mess around with my synth gear, but this sound needs space and respect!!

[mzero]

This happened two weekends ago… still assembling recorded evidence, video to follow…

Visuals by Zachary Rodell; photos by Matt Biddulph & Roy Shade.

[Simeon]

Killer visuals! And a lovely hat, obvs!

[glia]

That is simply wonderful.
Can’t wait to see the filmed performance!

[xenus_dad]

Was this at Resonant Frequencies?

[cmcavoy]

@Simeon

And a lovely hat, obvs!

As the kids say, dope chapeau.[*]

[*] I’m not sure kids say that, it would be cool if they did though.

[mzero]

Yup - Resonant Frequences #8, @ Soundwave Studios, Oakland

[xenus_dad]

I need to make it out to that next time. Looking forward to recordings, if you’re willing to share!

[peanut]

Do you have an ISBN for the book?