http://www.notbreathing.com/synth.html
I have been lurking around your site for a while and never said anything,
so here it is……..
Im also surprised to see that you haven’t mentioned it here yourself;)
http://www.notbreathing.com/carrion/mp3/theeyeand606.mp3
Cool stuff, cool sounds, thanks for entertaining me and wish I was there in the picture.
Here is the left side. 9 tubes in the sound section, and a power amp made with a 12AX7 and two 6BQ5s. 2-way speaker with two tweeters, one coaxial with the woofer and the other on the front of the cabinet, under the control panel. The big aluminum disk turns the contact arm–it is driven by the motor thru a rubber belt and a rubber idler wheel. The speed slider on the control panel drags the idler on the disk, closer to the center and the rhythm runs faster. Power is shut off by pushing the slider all the way rearward. All the tubes in this thing were original, dated 1958, and still good.
I’m fixing this one for a friend. Introduced 1958. In this view we see the “pattern sequencer” — a large printed circuit board (the only one in the unit) with a set of contacts on a rotating arm. The contacts close circuits and generate trigger pulses, which hit vacuum-tube ringing filters to generate most of the drum sounds. This unit was in remarkably good condition, if you don’t count the ugly black padded naugahyde someone put all over the outer cabinet.
I rent out and sell weird, mostly one of a kind electronic devices. My website is here: www.buzz-r-electronics.com
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