Nov 18, 2009

Here is a picture I took while bending a Boss Dr. Pad III, highlighting some cool spots. Here’s the...

Mar 31, 2009

Prepare yourself for remake the sound of the most popular electromechanical instrument in the world. In this article we will explain you how to emulate the famous Hammond organ on your synthesizer. The Hammond Organ is the most famous electromechanic instrument we know. It is an electric organ designed to give a low cost alternative to church pipe organs. How...

Mar 2, 2009

by Carlo Castellano In this tutorial I will explain how to recreate a lead sound I realized inspired by Ozric Tentacles sounds. Technically speaking, this lead is very simple to achive (is a sync-based lead) and do not require particular skills to program it. This lead can be extremely metallic and “spacey” but it requires realtime controls to play...

Oct 28, 2007

This bent gives you the opportunity to change your old Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion from an old pedal to Pure Evil. You’ll need: * Jumper wires * 100K Linear pot * SPST Switches (On/Off) WARNING: This bent will permanently change your pedal sound. There is no bypass here. First of all, open your Boss DS-2 and pull out the PCB paying attention to the wires...

Jul 31, 2007

This is a simple tutorial for add a Sub-Oscillator to a Jen SX-1000, a little monophonic synth of late ’70s. by Carlo Castellano. MODIFICATION AND SOLDERING For this modification we need a single integrated circuit, a 4013, and a soldering iron, solder and wires. As for every integrated circuit we count pins counterclockwise positioning the little...

Sep 25, 2005

This time we are going to talk about Jordan Rudess’ Liquid T Lead and we will try to reproduce it. As you know this tone was made on a Kurzweil K2*00 keyboard using its VAST synthesis engine. VAST uses a semi-modular approach to synthesis combining algorithms with variable DSP blocks. Hi all and welcome to this new issue of Lead Sculpting. This time we are...