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[Khnshs]

My passion for analog tapes machine, in a picture, with some good friends

[pleurodesis]

How’s the HC-TT treating you?

[koerby]

Hi, it’s 168HP

Cheers
Marcus

[Khnshs]

In a real nice way
I have white hair and it reminds me the days when we used to work with those big ampeg tapes, spinning back and forth looking for that particular slice, same feelings, same sound

[ludvista29]

Shrinking it down a bit so I can become an Er-301 wizard

[smbols]

I’ve run out of patch cables.

[Starthief]

@smbols

I’ve run out of patch cables.

Time to buy more modules! I mean, cables. Yeah, cables.

[Oneven]

A full arsenal of OTO. The Biscuit was on my list when it came out, but never picked one up when they were still being made. Fast forward ten years and I finally found one for fair price (700€). It’s a lofi dream machine. It sounds incredible.

[grey]

I hadn’t seen the Biscuit before. Shame they stopped making it. The interface seems a bit tricksy to learn, but it sounds good!

[Oneven]

After about an hour the interface became quite intuitive. It’s a piece of gear. The sound is up there with Bim/bam/boum.

I believe they had to stop making them due to components becoming unavailable. There is a soft tube plugin version that is meant to sound very close: https://www.softube.com/products/oto#/

Downside with the plugin is you don’t get the 1.2 effects and the Der Oto synth(alt firmware that turns it into a great 8 bit mono synth)

[Puscha]

The interface seems a bit confusing at first but turns out to be very easy and intuitive.

I’m also in the OTO Biscuit club. I love it! Such a good secret sauce effect. I think it excels with drum machines, but has many applications.

Love my BAM too and have considered getting the BIM, though don’t think I really need it. I have plenty of delays already. The BOUM seems interesting as an alternative to an Analog Heat, which I’ve considered. Maybe one day.

How do the three sound together? Do you use them in tandem?

BAM and Biscuit are lovely together:

Jacob Richards

[bunkbeds]

a pic of me taken during the second rehearsal that one of my bands had at the local planetarium last night. they host a 6-week series of performances by local bands; this is the second year in a row that one of my bands has been invited to play! so much fun

bonus pics:

[Quesja]

But you do get the Brain with the plugin, which has some of its own magic to offer. Especially the step filter mode. Never used an actual biscuit, but the plugin is one of my favorites.

[Oneven]

@Puscha

How do the three sound together? Do you use them in tandem?

The way I use them depends on the way I’m mixing. When I’m using them to mix out the box I have Bim and Bam on their own sends and Boum at the end of the signal chain to add a bit of warmth and compression.

Mixing in the box and processing individual tracks I have Boum at the start to add a tiny bit of dirt. That goes into Bim and then finally into Bam.

Boum is the least instantly gratifying off them all. With Bim and Bam you turn them on and the magic starts. Boum is more a precision tool like other high end outboard processors. The key to getting Boum tamed is using the mix knob.

[Oneven]

The step filter is also on the hardware. Only difference with the plugin is that you have a nice visual display added. I hope they add the new 1.2 effects to the plugin because those are really nice. You get a tremolo, filter envelope, and saturation. Good stuff.

[jasper]

those performance pics are magic

[Oneven]

Here’s a first test drive of Digitone running into Biscuit. You can hear the wonderful tremolo kick in at around 00:28 sec.

[1234]

From last night at The 100 Club in London.

[fahmi_m]

My ambient live setup :

[Jensu]

I see the microfreak opo up more and more. It seems to be back from the cold. How does it work for this kind of music?