#Leica IIIa shots, Spring 2017

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I recently purchased a custom guitar from Lewis Waters of New Complexity. The instrument is still on its way from Australia to Texas, but he sent me some photos. The guitar is a custom version of the Harmonic Master, “a guitar with an extended bridge that adds an independently tuned harmonic overlay to your music.”



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Wow, that looks cool. Love the behind the bridge pickup.

Is that 9 strings? What’s the configuration?

Yeah, that’s 9 strings. The lower register consists of six strings in three courses. Then the three higher strings are like a normal guitar. The maker told me that the strings are spaced so that one can remove the doubled courses, and it’ll play just like a 6-string.

The output jacks are configured so that one can isolate the harmonic section, the normal section, or combine the two.

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That’s actually insane but I want one now. How much do they go for? Looks like a piece of art just as much as it is an instrument!

It wasn’t cheap. I think the standard version goes for about $2400 USD.

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From a residency (for a gig on Saturday) in Montreal with @tremblap.

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Don’t often seen people’s “virtual setups”, but my screen/setup for the above project.

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Study time

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Do those fudgee cookies put out cv… Cookie voltage?

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Lol, you’d have to ask @tremblap, but gauging by his hyperness after eating them… it’s definitely a 0-10v (rather than -0.5/+0.5 thing)!

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Peter B. is taking over my house

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Amazing. Do you usually use them all together? I have a Rollz5 and a Cocolase, and just got a Plumbutter 2 this week. Still so much to explore and I’ve barely connected them to each other, let alone really explored connecting them to my modular.

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No, I often just make pairs and do studies that way. All at once would be too much for my brain to process and I like my music more minimal anyway!

PB2+rollz5+coco sounds like a great ensemble! Whats the difference between the cocolase and cocoquantus?

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true. Even one of them is a lot to wrap your head around. :slight_smile:

The Cocolase is an older circuit. It’s slightly more lo-fi, had longer delay/sample time, and has 8 sidrassi oscillators at the centre.

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teletype/telex controlled 4 voice.
sequenced by white whale / orca / ansible, 4 TXo provide 16 coordinated control voltages.

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My setup for a show tonight. This was during my rehearsal earlier this afternoon.

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looks awesome! how is the frap tools mixer setup? also – i’ve seen that 3.5mm to banana box in photos but can’t find out where it comes from. are those available to buy anywhere?

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