Weird Sound Generator Part 2

So I've been plodding along at glacier speed. I wrote a couple more song bits, and have been lounging around. Here's a picture to show I'm not entirely at rest.

As you can see, the soldering is wildly inconsistent. We'll see when it gets to the testing phase how bad the joints are (hopefully I am consistent enough to get a signal). Should be finished this week. Amen.

Weird Sound Generator

First project I'm working with is the Weird Sound Generator - which seems perfectly suited to adding a layer of noise, albeit tuneful noise, to the sort of dire, dirge-like stuff that I want to do. Basically, I won't be making too many adjustments to the WSG - there's an experimentation section to the board that I want to use eventually, but I'm going to have to play with it for a while before I see what it can do before I decide what needs to change.

Skull Servant Arises From the Depths

So, I've had a background as an audio engineer (or the guy who twiddles knobs in the middle of a room full of people who listen to music) and pretty much forgotten that life. Something was stirring in me, as I've never really left the realm of audio too far behind. I always was recording, or reading about gear, especially effects or synthesizers. I liked a lot of early punk and industrial, although found the pretensions in the industrial music a bit hard to take, so it never really struck me as something I could relate to.

Anyways, fast forward another decade and for some strange impulse, I've decided to start trying to make music with electronics I build. I'm starting slowly, although I've acquired a bunch of gear and downloaded a few books to help make sense of the difference between electrolytic capacitors and ceramic.

So this blog will document my builds, some of my music created and whatever else works for this space.

Skull Servant is an homage to Man Is The Bastard, who obviously play no small part in my re-interest in this stuff nearly two decades from when I last soldered components as a student.