Boss Dr. Pad 3 Circuit Bending
Here is a picture I took while bending a Boss Dr. Pad III, highlighting some cool spots.
Here’s the result:
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Hammond Organ Emulation
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.
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Ozric Lead
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 at it best.
For the creation of this lead sound I’ve used a VA, XioSynth from Novation
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Circuit Bent Boss DS-2
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 inside the box. Now you can see both “Input” and “Remote” jack sockets. If you want to put a knob inside the box, you can remove the “Remote” socket to free space. As you can see, there are two black cables soldered to a “Remote” socket plug and one of them goes to the main switch. Remove the “Remote” socket and solder the long black cable to the main switch. Now you can fit the pot into the free hole.
PCB side
Pull out the main switch while pushing the two little side “levers”. Let your SPST switch cables passing through the same path as main switch cables. Now you’re ready to solder. Using the “PCB Side” image as reference, do the following steps:
Solder one switch wire to the point marked as A and join the remaining cable to one of two lateral pot cables (see point B on the picture). Solder the center pot cable to the point marked as D and the last cable to the C point.
Solder a jumper wire between the two blue points as shown in reference picture. Now you can close your pedal and enjoy.
Further Developments
There are other interesting point around D marker. The upper blue point seems to be the signal output and can be joint with the area to the left of C point for feedback loops. Try it using a switched pot in order to activate the feedback and setting the amount. The bottom blue point seems to be into the filter section and this area can provide other interesting timbres. I suggest you to keep out from the yellow area, especially from the right side and the top power socket.
Jen SX-1000 Sub-Oscillator
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.
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Jordan Rudess Liquid T Lead
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.
Derek Sherinian Monster Lead
In this lesson we will speak about how to recreate famous Derek Sherinian Monster Lead on your synthesizer. Even if the lesson is based on Korg Triton/Karma series, the concepts explained can be applied on every modern synthesizer.
Jens Johansson Lead
Welcome to Lead Sculpting. In this issue we will talk about Jens Johansson lead tone. We will analyse his sound, highlighting its core characteristing and trying to use them on our synthesizers.
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