#372

Thanks!
I made a search on messenger to find the guy that sold it to me and he said that it was made from these people:

Seems like they’ve closed their shop.
This case is 146hp wide, so you were quite close.

Edit: The website seems to be up and running again, but the case I’ve got (the one that is called Suitcase 292 raw) is out of stock.

#373

Today I took a trip up to Whidbey Island in the Washington Puget Sound to visit my sisters weaving studio. She has a space in my father’s old glass blowing studio. I was bringing a custom booth that I made for her upcoming show at West Coast Craft in San Francisco. We erected the booth, did some layout planning and then we went our separate ways; I set up this patch while she worked at her loom. The sun finally started to peak out at the end of the day.
Very thankful for a day like today.
I threw together this little video, too.
Bird were chirping throughout the wetland that this open converted chicken farm resides on the edge of.

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#374

This is lovely. looks like a wonderful day. Can we hear Teletype scripts being typed? I like it!

#375

So pretty ~~
Can I ask what’s that mixer thingy on the far left?

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#376

That’s an old Yamaha MG102

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#377

taking suggestions! looking for a cold mac, might grab a kinks. a slim lfo and something like shades also interesting.

#378

Looking over some of these pics of systems and it is really wild how few utilities people have. Personally, I love my attenuverters and offsets…I have two duals attenuverters/offsets plus a Samara in my case for all kinds of subtle control shifts, plus that element in my Maths. Can’t get enough! :slight_smile:

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#379

I’ve got 6 rows of stuff and it’s pretty much half utilities :man_shrugging:… VCAs, envelopes, attenuators, mixers, cv processing, bits and pieces.

#380

From my first few modules, I found that attenuators are more important than VCAs, but they don’t quite have the reputation somehow.

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#381

Thank you!
And yes, there were a couple simple lines I threw in for an asynchronous trigger and a voltage offset through an attenuater for manual control over mangroves fm.
@nonwaved - Mateo was correct with the old Yamaha MG102.

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#382

This isn’t a realization I made until adding a random module. Once that hit my rack, attenuation/version and, really, utilities on the whole clicked for me.

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#383

beautiful!! i want to live in that video.

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#384

This is why Mutable Blinds is so useful, because it does attentuate/offset/mix bipolar, under voltage control. It hits most of the things you’re looking for in your post above.

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#385

wow, it really does. thanks for the heads-up!

#386

oh yeah I love the plumbing

i’ve always got to make sure my Shades and ABC are in accessible places.

#387

I’ve found that just plain attenuators aren’t as useful to me, as a VCA can be an attenuator if it has a level knob. Designs like the Intellijel Quad VCA or ALM Tangle Quartet are simple and versatile. Also Mutable Shades and Intellijel Triatt are really handy.

Maths is pretty nice as a beginner module as it gives people an appreciation for attenuation. I wish I had gotten one when I started a few years ago.

#388

In 7+ years of owning a modular I have never yet owned a “VCA” … but I have no fewer than 3 Intellijel Quadratt 1U tiles in my current 104hp single row rig.

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#389

My ideal utility would be a quad or hex VCA with:

  • level sliders
  • CV attenuators with unipolar/bipolar switches
  • 3-way toggles for normal/mute/invert
  • each channel is normalled to +10V
  • unconnected outputs are mixed with the next channel

But AFAIK, nobody does that.

If Blinds had a bipolar/unipolar option for the level knob, or a unipolar level knob with an invert switch, it’d be close enough. But I don’t want to have to fish around for zero; that’s why I treat my 3xMIA as a set-and-forget mixer/attenuator and got a Shades for live control.

Anyway. I mostly favor LPGs, or flavorful VCAs like ModDemix. Zlob Dual VCA does lovely saturation when you wrap it in a feedback loop, plus it’s tiny.

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#390

@smoth that looks and sounds beautiful :slight_smile: best way to play

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#391

@stripes Thank you! I really appreciate it :tulip:!