Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

[billywood]

Hello. I'm new. Anybody want to talk about old synths and coffee? xx

[Mike D]

I love my Aeropress. Sainsbury's own make After Dinner coffee is deadly, it's stronger than good speed.

Welcome to the forums billywood.

Synth wise I am a complete novice. I know nothing but please don't refrain from running production threads and what not.

[billywood]

Do you know about the 'inverted' Aeropress method? It makes you feel even more like a lab technician when you're brewing.

Any other hardware synth users on here yet? Just say the word if anyone wants to nerd out.

[Mike D]

Inverted? Do tell...

[billywood]

Apparently you lose a bit of the flavour the normal way, because your coffee starts dripping through the filter straight away, so what you do is...

* Don't screw the filter on yet
* Put the plunger down to about 1/3rd of the way
* Flip it upside down
* Put the coffee and hot water in and stir. It should be water-tight doing it against the plunger like this, but you might want to do it over the sink the first time.
* Screw on the filter
* Hold your mug over the top and flip it over (pretending to be Tom Cruise in 'Cocktail' is optional)
* Press!

Not convinced that it makes much difference but it adds to the thrill.

[[DBR] PunkAesthetix]

I love coffee and synths. My coffee knowledge far outweighs my synth knowledge though.

I don't own any synths as of yet. Well apart from a Kids cheap toy one. I'm due to bend it but haven't the time at the moment.

[Mike D]

Sounds like a right potential mess. I'm very happy with the conventional way of doing it.

Shit tastes great.

[billywood]

I wish I knew about circuit bending. I wish my hands were steady enough to solder too.

[Mike D]

Was just chatting to a friend tonight about how to maybe make my own midi controller using Midibox.

I am shit at soldering, which it seems is a major aspect of build your own.

Back to hunting down an affordable all in one amazing controller.

[[DBR] PunkAesthetix]

I love soldering. Great fun, I have a bit of a shaky hand issue but I'm anal so it's always incredibly neat. I'm no expert on bending- That's why t'internet is MINT!

[RabidGravy]

Rabid Gravy likes hardware:

   

I described a typical live setup at http://blog.rabidgravy.com/for-the-gear-geeks, it varies from gig to gig as I get new stuff, change the tunes or whatever.

I do make stuff with software but never live, this is why stuff sounds completely different live See the version of "Lifetime of Dither" on the set I did for DVNT



and the other version on my soundcloud as an example.

[Mike D]

[DBR]PunkAesthetix Wrote:I love soldering. Great fun, I have a bit of a shaky hand issue but I'm anal so it's always incredibly neat. I'm no expert on bending- That's why t'internet is MINT!

I just haven't really spent the time to be better. As with most things really eh? lol

[RabidGravy]

I've got a big old blanket chest full of electronic musical toys at home, just ready for the bending. Infact there are some I might not actually circuit-bend per se, just add a 1/4" output and a power inlet.

My problem is that I get a bit impatient and break things while I'm taking them apart.

[hednod]

in the market for a good and fairly easy to use soft synth - something a bit out of the ordinary.

any recommendations?

[billywood]

(02-16-2011 11:36 PM)[DBR]PunkAesthetix Wrote:  I love soldering. Great fun, I have a bit of a shaky hand issue but I'm anal so it's always incredibly neat. I'm no expert on bending- That's why t'internet is MINT!

Fancy making me a MIDIBox SID?!

(02-17-2011 10:52 AM)hednod Wrote:  in the market for a good and fairly easy to use soft synth - something a bit out of the ordinary.

any recommendations?

If I used software synths I'd probably go with Vaz Modular. WeeDJs gets some suberb sounds out of it.

(02-16-2011 11:27 PM)DVNT Wrote:  Sounds like a right potential mess. I'm very happy with the conventional way of doing it.

I've never spilt a drop and I'm pretty clumsy. Do eeet!