Artifact Shore

This little contraption is quite cool and the live possibilities with it could be great.   The device in the video is from  Randall Jones’s thesis project, which you can read about here.  I recommend reading about it if you like the video.  He has some good comparison to similar products… Haken continum … and how and why this product could be different.  Overall, he leaves you with enough information to build one fairly cheap, but I would prefer to buy the finished product.

So, hopefully, his new company, madronalabs, will come out with an updated version of the  product.  I also hope that it will have CV control for modular synths added into the final version!

Sly Stone’s recording console preamplifiers are being reproduced!  Daniel Flicking made some great consoles in the late 60’s and early 70’s, truly funky and original.  In addition to Sly, Flickinger made consoles for Johnny Cash, Parliament & Muscle Shoal.   Most of his creations were custom in some form or another, and based on the cliental he was building for they were top notch boards.

Per Steve Albini, “I will go to my deathbed claiming Flickinger consoles are the best sounding mixing desks ever made. Period.
I have worked on several, and in good repair, they have the best bass and the best high-end of any desk of their era. They crap all over anything built since.”

Skibbe electronics, owner of Keyclub recording, and the Sly Stone board (top picture), have recreated the preamps (2nd photo) and are now releasing them in the 500 format.   Should be super cool.

Also of note, Skibbe’s announcement for the release of the Flickinger A58 equalizer.  With Electrodyne reproductions out now, Quad Eight available in a couple different formats and Purple Audio’s version of the Auditronics/Sphere eq, nearly all of the great American 70’s consoles makers have reproduction gear available again today.