Live Rig
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Just a simple DIY case on a stand i made out of plywood. I put the strip of wood between the rows so I can screw the rails straight into that and not thru the sides.
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q: whatās the box in the middle?
also: love that tape recorder to death ā have mine sitting prominent in my studio rn. are you just using it to record sets?
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oto biscuit
(i think)
i love the gs64 and 402 combo
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Itās an OTO Biscuit; a bitcrusher. I used the tape recorder/biscuit to make noises between songs (each song was a separate max patch), as people seem to get confused when there are pauses in an electronic music set. I also used it for a ātape fast forwardingā solo during one song.
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Far out.
Those canāt possibly still be madeā¦can they?
I used more or less the same recorders in the 70s for my language lessons, and other miscellaneous narration type things.
I bought it new in 2013 for $40. They still have the garbage motor noise, clunky controls and horrible sound quality you remember. Iāve used it in a variety of settings, including in songs for its weird qualities : https://soundcloud.com/toaster-1/bd_rkn
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Funny, this deck, and the DIY analogue manipulation stuff I see floating around connected to synthesis reminds me of a weird device I built in college, built around one of thsoe decks which Iād dissassembled. I built a hand-cranked cassette drive, with the tape passing over the playback head, wired in to an amp, and a bunch of other stuff I canāt remember clearly. The visible aspect of the device was as much a part of it as its sound, using brass sheets, tubing, plexiglass sheet, etc. It got used in a few performances, alongside loops spliced together from recordings on some ancient modular in a lab I had access to.
I also took the circuit board out of one of those decks and soldered random leads to various places and connected it all in to the in/out chassis of a home-made guitar effect pedalā¦and ran whatever audio I pleased through it. Truly random results, with a couple pots hooked in. Probably lucky I didnāt electrocute myself in the process. An oscilliscope saw occasional use tooā¦somehow.
College.
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that reminds me of this:
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Hah! Thatās more or less exactly what I built, although mine was 10,000 times less elegant!
Amazing.
I should buy oneā¦just 'cause.
Thanks for that.
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Couple things I had ordered came in:
The Dicers were originally for use with my snare (will figure out some 3D printing thing to keep them in place against the hoop), but now that Iām getting a turntable, Iāll likely use one with that too!
A Steve Hubback charger, which sounds fucking amazing.
And a big poofy bass drum beater.
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you gotta hip me on percussion things to get when i come visit!!!
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honestly your dexterity, strength, and motor coordination learned over years juggling should translate well to drumming
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Will do!
Really looking forward to it too! (though if we play together at the gig Iām thinking of doing banjo + electronics + lightbulbs, and if we do a separate video at home, then drums + electronics stuff)
Iām constantly surprised by this, even though I know it will happen! Just had a turntable lesson this weekend and it felt really good. Obviously a lot of things to adapt to (following the record around, and getting a feel for where it is at all times, and the crossfader ārhythmā), but I was able to get some reasonable sounding scratching going pretty quickly.
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Part of a music device Iām recently spending time getting reacquainted with 
Spent some time on the weekend tidying it up and giving it some new strings.
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