/065 - Electra

This has been on my bench literally forever. I built this Electra distortion pedal from scratch and when it works it sounds GREAT. Unfortunately over time it worked less and less. I take responsibility for the poor soldering, but the Radio Shack perf board is also so so bad. Redid the layout in DIYLC (which is a great program for visual people designing simple layouts) with the intention of cutting a new board on the cnc machine. The machine decided to not connect for awhile, and then when it did I almost immediately broke the endmill because I set the depth of cut too deep. A 1mm endmill doesn’t take much stress. So it goes.

/028 - Cousins

The Electra recorder is full of character. I’m not sure it can do anything else, though it’s very possible that the old tapes that came with it are a contributing factor. It also has very low headroom so I needed to bring the input way down to avoid crazy feedback. Sounds rather nice with a little crunch, I think.

Played a generative sequence with dunes (internal audio and midi out to Digitone) and recorded simultaneously on the h4n pro and Electra. No post processing other than adjusting the levels to get them in the same range.

A little spider came to visit while I was editing,