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The Nuclear Codes: Retro Synth

A homemade synthesizer that sits inside an ominous suitcase.

bert-jerredBert Jerred
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This project was created on 09/14/2020 and last updated 5 years ago.

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Maybe not so "ominous." The suitcase is the carcass of a record player I found in the garbage. But this thing, I guess because it uses old Daka-ware knobs from HAM radios and has that stripped-down '60s test equipment look, feels like an ominous device - like a comic book version of something military and scary and suitcasey.

In any event, here is one of my more recent noisemaking matrices. I plan to upload and describe all of the technical details very soon. Follow for updates! Thank you.

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Bert Jerred wrote 09/15/2020 at 00:06 • point

haha thank you! :)

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Dan Maloney wrote 09/14/2020 at 20:27 • point

I dunno, pretty ominous - kinda getting a Fallout feeling from it. Nice job!

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