Happy Birthday Bob Moog

set oscillators to staggered squares/pulses....

moogerfoogers ❤happy bday and thanks for the all the sounds i love

awwww yeah get it going on ❤ for the MOOG

1. Bob was a gracious and friendly guy. I got to meet him as well as Dave Smith very briefly at a NAMM show in Annaheim in my 20s. I wish I ahd synths with me to get them signed.
2. you studdied with Howe? I own that book! Its somewhere in storage with the books I don't keep on shelves all the time. No joke.

ys, I udnerstood it, although in part 1 I ahd to refer back to my handbook of acoustics for help at times, but mainly it was quite clear.... by the time I read it the stuff in the end on computers was quite dated and I don't think I finished the book.... but the stuff on psychoacoustics applied to electronic sound generation was a big influence on me as a synthesist. I used to buy up every book I could find at sued book stores n these subjects.... used books tores, remember those?

EDIT: for reference, I worked as a recording engineer for many years in the last decade and I'm very sciencey about it. I also build stuff for fun. From pedals and simple preamps to whole tube amplifiers. I'm not an EE, but I can read a schematic and quickly get what's going on and I can solve and apply all of the college algebra needed to voice an analog circuit for music. So Dr Howe's book was in my wheelhouse and I remember really enjoying it.

I also build stuff for fun. From pedals and simple preamps to whole tube amplifiers. I'm not an EE, but I can read a schematic and quickly get what's going on and I can solve and apply all of the college algebra needed to voice an analog circuit for music.

Are there any demos of your builds online?

yes

yes

Where would one find these demos?

oh fine, i was being funny...

https://soundcloud.com/james-marchione-1/jim-watt-mk1-demo-solo-and-band

here's my amp, its a highly modified hiwatt platform built on a traynor PA chassis with those giant 50 watt 60s hammond transformers.... it utilizes a choke in the pwoer section unlike a hiwatt which uses an RC network for that stage of fitlering, the pwoer supply is my own thing entirely really. phase inverter is hiwatt/macintosh AC coupled but with a master volume AFTER it that started as phase cancelling type but beause it makes the pweor amp brittle at low volumes and high gain settings I also used a dual gang pot so introduce extra resistance against the feedback loop as the pot is turned down making the dirt looser at lwoer levels and also there's some shunying of frequencies to ground via RC networks when you turn it down and this helps with the consistency of response.... it has my own loosely voxy treble and bass controls with my own voicing that's dead flat at zero so only the amp's other voicing component values shape your toneand the mid is in a whole other stage as a notch filter at about300hz center... and a presence cribbed from old PAs that is pre-power amp so the feedback loop cna be used in the master. So this presence is in my tonestack recovery, midrange and pre-poweramp buffer stages nd utilizees a potentiometer, a cap to ground on one side and then a wire to one leg of the bypass cap of the first half of the recovery/buffer triode so it removes the bypassing with resistance creating a darker tone while shunting very high treble to ground at low settings but creating a high shelf with a high avalue treble bypass cap on the cathode at high settings which soudns better than the fender/marshall rpesence to me and elaves the feedback loop untouched so it can be varried when the master is in use o maintain the right amount of corrective negative feedback in the pwoer amp for any preamp input level....

bored yet?

bored yet?

No, actually. I searched for more and found your original post! Fascinating stuff. I'm surprised I even understand most of it. What else have you made?

Oh yeah, I started a new band with my odlest friend. That idea kidna prompted me to design an amp because he asked me not to use ac30s and I wasn't happy with my EL34 heads for this so... there ya go

Why wouldn't he let you use an AC30?

he doesn't like them that much and missed my marshall plexi and univox tone from 15 years agos.... I think he wanted me to use his modded selmer tnb mk3 but it sounds better when HE plays it and I didn't really like my tnb mk2 after the honeymoon wore off and had it listed on on the JMI years group (lotta selmer and watkins ehads there too).... so I made this amp to suit my needs/wants and as a homage to the tones of the great pre-zep/sabbath trios like the who, cream etc... it was fun

so I made this amp to suit my needs/wants and as a homage to the tones of the great pre-zep/sabbath trios like the who, cream etc... it was fun

Well, you nailed it! People would probably love this as a compact preamp.

My other question remains unanswered, however. What else have you made?

boosters, distortions, drives, fuzzes, a really sketchy compressor that has a certain vibe though.... ummm.... oscillators, a CMOS inverter based filter in a pedal for guitar to get wasp/bassstatin filtering on anything... some mic preamps with a friend (he made the PCBs) that I wound up letting him buy mine because they were too american for me being based on this old green altec mixer I used to have back in the day that he bought off me too because I fell out of love with its overcolored sound.... I know I've built more stuff but I'm at a loss for some reason.... I've made modded/bespoke champs for people outta parts but I'm not a champ man so I never made one for myself.... I've modded tons of 57s and okatava 319s, alesis 3630s, symmetrix preamps etc... I'm probably going to mod my soundcraft eventually...

EDIT: I've restored tons of blackface and silverface fenders, a 5c3, vintage ampegs, marshalls (and modded them if they're anemic), supros, little no name 50s combos.... gbson tweeds and two tones sometimes modded for the weak models... and I restored and now lovingly maintain my 62 ac30... I lovingly maintain my stable of vintage synths as much as I can without help, parts are getting scarce... I've rescued hundreds of ailing effects units and stomps...

I really enjoy inventing stuff that's just for my very specific uses, one trick ponies that have 1 or 2 controls and solve one specific issue perfectly.

boosters, distortions, drives, fuzzes, a really sketchy compressor that has a certain vibe though.... ummm.... oscillators, a CMOS inverter based filter in a pedal for guitar to get wasp/bassstatin filtering on anything... some mic preamps with a friend (he made the PCBs) that I wound up letting him buy mine because they were too american for me being based on this old green altec mixer I used to have back in the day that he bought off me too because I fell out of love with its overcolored sound.... I know I've built more stuff but I'm at a loss for some reason.... I've made modded/bespoke champs for people outta parts but I'm not a champ man so I never made one for myself.... I've modded tons of 57s and okatava 319s, alesis 3630s, symmetrix preamps etc... I'm probably going to mod my soundcraft eventually...

EDIT: I've restored tons of blackface and silverface fenders, a 5c3, vintage ampegs, marshalls (and modded them if they're anemic), supros, little no name 50s combos.... gbson tweeds and two tones sometimes modded for the weak models... and I restored and now lovingly maintain my 62 ac30... I lovingly maintain my stable of vintage synths as much as I can without help, parts are getting scarce... I've rescued hundreds of ailing effects units and stomps...

I really enjoy inventing stuff that's just for my very specific uses, one trick ponies that have 1 or 2 controls and solve one specific issue perfectly.

I applaud your body of work, sir.

I'm an amateur, I know some dudes who have built way more stuff