I saw that NASA released a load of audio clips from various historic space missions – from Sputnik to the final flight of Atlantis, via the moon! Space sounds have long been used musical contexts – SpaceOddity, Telstar, Pulsar, Lemon Jelly’s “Space Walk” to name but a few. I felt I had to make these… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Music
Speaker & room calibration
I was lucky enough to pick up a Behringer Ultracurve Pro DSP8024 for a mere £50 on eBay recently. It turned out to have a buggy OS version (1.2), and Behringer very kindly sent me a replacement EPROM with a new 1.3 OS on it, which works just fine. I now have it installed between… Read more »
Mixers
I’ve had a little Behringer UB802 mixer for some time and found it very frustrating to use as a front-end to my computer system. There’s nothing particular wrong with it (clean audio, good functions, simple, reliable), it’s just not very well suited to the job, mainly because its routing is not flexible enough to be… Read more »
Synths, synths, synths
Right now I’m inundated with synthesizers. It’s a hobby of mine to buy up old synths, refurbish them as best I can, then sell them on. Just recently I got very lucky on a Gumtree ad and picked up 4 in various states of disrepair: a Korg DS-8, Korg DW-8000, Roland JV-80 and a Roland… Read more »