2022: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2022)

[cryophonik]

I've been going back and forth on this, but I think I finally decided that I'm in desperate need of an Elektron Digitone to mate with my Digitakt. Should make for some lovely offspring.

[pekbro]

This one is not going to appeal to most, probably. Though, I know there are a few connoisseurs
out there like myself, who might appreciate it. The images are the one I bought, No. 6 of 10 available for 2022.

http://www.rootbeeraudio.com/#/pusherman/

The PUSHERMAN Pedal from Rootbeer Audio.

"PUSHERMAN is what happens when you try to make an LPB-1 circuit distorted and fuzzy. The result? A never-too-clean, lo-fi distortion that can be adjusted for more gain and tight//gated//angular distorted tones. Flip the heavy-duty Carling switch to smash your signal with germanium diodes for a gooier grind bordering on fuzz. Imagine playing guitar through your cassette deck with blown earbuds. It’s kinda like that but smoother.

All PUSHERMAN pedals are drilled, designed, adorned, built, soldered, and tested by Matt Manhire. Pedals are built point-to-point with a mix of vintage and modern “tube amp” components."

Matt Manhire AKA Rootbeer Audio, also teaches audio electronics classes at the University of the Arts and the Art Institute of Philadelphia...

[elxsound]

The description sounds great. Gooey distortion, almost fuzz compared with tape sounds good to me.

[elxsound]

Delivered by a ninja! I had 2 packages coming this morning. I was right next to my door, didn't hear a thing but got the alert it was delivered to my door. I thought, here we go again... another one delivered to a neighbor or a wrong building, but nope... it was resting against the door. Not a single sound this delivery ninja made.

3 minutes later... I'm still by the door. I get the alert for East Beast. Same exact placement, resting on my door and they made no sound.

I hope to try it out later tonight

[vurt]

look forward to hearing what you and tcc think?

[foosnark]

I still have to work for a couple more hours so I can't let myself get distracted by playing with it yet... but my BeetTweek arrived and I hooked it up and immediately won the prize for Best Light Show in Eurorack.

There's a double ring of 88 LEDs around the knob, plus a backlight, plus 8 more LEDs on the panel. And everything is super colorful and animated All I did is turn the knob a few times in Spring mode and watch the rainbow trails, and then also plug in an LFO which turned the knob and made the trails and wheeeeee. Like I said, gotta work a couple more hours...

[vurt]

I still have to work for a couple more hours so I can't let myself get distracted by playing with it yet... but my BeetTweek arrived and I hooked it up and immediately won the prize for Best Light Show in Eurorack.

There's a double ring of 88 LEDs around the knob, plus a backlight, plus 8 more LEDs on the panel. And everything is super colorful and animated All I did is turn the knob a few times in Spring mode and watch the rainbow trails, and then also plug in an LFO which turned the knob and made the trails and wheeeeee. Like I said, gotta work a couple more hours...

i may need visuals

[pekbro]

Yeah, I still can't bring myself to pay $600+ for a motorized knob, maybe if he had actually
given the early bird orders a better deal than everyone else like he was supposed to.
Kind of turned mem off to it.

[foosnark]

i may need visuals

Here's a little bit with Turntable Mode, then Spring Mode with a knob recording.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cg0gk1bgHn1/

In Turntable mode, output B can be set to triggers or a sine or ramp LFO synchronized to the "beat" dots around the circle. There's also an output for the circle as a whole. But it also records audio and plays it back (lo-fi) as you spin, and it can sync to an external clock and stop/reverse via CV (and you can slow it down/scratch it by interfering with the knob).

Spring mode lets you set a position with CV that it will spring back to (if you turn the knob, or change the CV fast enough), so it kind of acts like a bouncy, physical slew limiter. You can also use gates to temporarily turn off the spring action or CV to reduce the spring strength. A couple of the outputs can be converted to LFOs whose rate is affected by how much the spring is stretching. Very cool stuff

My other favorite one is "orbit" mode, where a particle is attracted to or repelled by the knob position. By moving the knob you can "fling" the particle so it keeps spinning, and/or capture it in the gravity well again. It generates CVs from the distance, speed and attraction force.

Some of the modes are more for feeling signals through the haptic knob, and some of them I think I understand the behavior but am not sure yet how I can make it work for me in patches. But I've only had a few hours to play with it so far.

Yeah, I still can't bring myself to pay $600+ for a motorized knob, maybe if he had actually
given the early bird orders a better deal than everyone else like he was supposed to.
Kind of turned mem off to it.

Yeah, it's pricey, the shipping was pricey, and the inverted panel is absurdly pricey and I'm skipping that. (I might try just turning it upside down in the case and not worrying about the panel labels, which are really pretty generic anyway). I don't think I'd have gotten this if I weren't looking for a way to celebrate a bigger paycheck. But I don't think I'm going to regret getting it, either

[pekbro]

i may need visuals

Here's a little bit with Turntable Mode, then Spring Mode with a knob recording.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cg0gk1bgHn1/

In Turntable mode, output B can be set to triggers or a sine or ramp LFO synchronized to the "beat" dots around the circle. There's also an output for the circle as a whole. But it also records audio and plays it back (lo-fi) as you spin, and it can sync to an external clock and stop/reverse via CV (and you can slow it down/scratch it by interfering with the knob).

Spring mode lets you set a position with CV that it will spring back to (if you turn the knob, or change the CV fast enough), so it kind of acts like a bouncy, physical slew limiter. You can also use gates to temporarily turn off the spring action or CV to reduce the spring strength. A couple of the outputs can be converted to LFOs whose rate is affected by how much the spring is stretching. Very cool stuff

My other favorite one is "orbit" mode, where a particle is attracted to or repelled by the knob position. By moving the knob you can "fling" the particle so it keeps spinning, and/or capture it in the gravity well again. It generates CVs from the distance, speed and attraction force.

Some of the modes are more for feeling signals through the haptic knob, and some of them I think I understand the behavior but am not sure yet how I can make it work for me in patches. But I've only had a few hours to play with it so far.

Yeah, I still can't bring myself to pay $600+ for a motorized knob, maybe if he had actually
given the early bird orders a better deal than everyone else like he was supposed to.
Kind of turned mem off to it.

Yeah, it's pricey, the shipping was pricey, and the inverted panel is absurdly pricey and I'm skipping that. (I might try just turning it upside down in the case and not worrying about the panel labels, which are really pretty generic anyway). I don't think I'd have gotten this if I weren't looking for a way to celebrate a bigger paycheck. But I don't think I'm going to regret getting it, either

lol now i'm kinda jealous

[vurt]

ooh that does look nice!

[pekbro]

I'm not going to buy one of these myself of course, but it's pretty cool imo, maybe keep it away from justin3am at a mere $4k.

*This is the cheap one btw, the tube driven version starts at $1600 more.

CVPA CVPlate Analog Stereo Plate Reverb.

https://reverb.com/item/13000347-cvpa-c ... l-preorder

[vurt]

i like that it comes in a filing cabinet.

[pekbro]

That's so you can insert cash directly into it, no doubt...

[vurt]

im sure it's cool, but i think id have to own a working studio.
i do like those big plates for experimental stuff rather than vocals.
although im sure id get hit if i started hitting it with things...