It seems that I have caused some real shit here, firstly I mwould like to appologise to Paul...sorry.
I have recieved quite a few comments from various members and have managed to upset some and make others laugh. My information about copyright was supposed to give an idea of what is possible for todays new electronic experimentalists and if I could have stayed on the site to discuss the issue further then maybe things would have been different, but its shit in my face now(LOL) and that's fair enough.
There are a few things to cover here so I will start with the sale of the bass station, it really was damaged in the post and sold for just £30 I think. How gutted was I, as if I had circuit bent the unit then it would have sold for more. The spares that are for sale are not from circuit bent failures, they are leggitimate parts from old machines that I have picked up over the years. The TR-606 spares came from a seller who sold me a Computer that was supposed to be a Pentium 4 and turned out to be duff but when I collected the unit from him I mentioned Circuit bending and he said that he had an old drum machine that I might be interested in. He showed the machine to me which had been stamped on and the volume dial/pot had been pushed through the main board, but apart from that it was all there. I went on to sell the parts and made over £600 so that balanced the dodgy comuter for me.
I contacted Reed Gazala and were happy to recieve a reply praising our work ,wouldn't you? he gave great advice and I have followed it. The VL-1, MT-65, DD-series and Dub sirens are our main units now and work has become simpler.
The name S-CAT was created with the 2008 definition in mind and was funny for us to see that people felt that they thought we did not know of such Sports. Ater all we are adults here!
As for the R-8, It is still here and we have now bought an R-5 which we think will be as easy to do and hpe to complete the pair soon, the R-8 has so many coates of paint on it that has taken 6 months to dry.
Circuit bending in general is hit and miss and when we come up with a good connection on the board then we go for it, someone mentioned that we are just adding distorted bends and that they could achieve the same result with a distortion pedal and a selection of drum machines, but when using pedals you will get a tremendous amount of hiss, I used to use 10 distortion pedals in my live techno sets many years ago and even got a chear from the crowd once when the sequencer packed up and all 10 were hissing like a cat, but thats another story. The thing with the distortion bends is that you do not get the white noize just pure distortion.
The state of my mind is balanced at the moment and manic depression has been one of the driving factors in my life, I spent 10-15 years playing techno at squat parties on our 15K rig which some of you may know of...
BIOSYSTEMS, We built the rig in 1996 and have been responsible for some of the messiest parties out there and I definately recived a fair dose of brain damage in the process.
Good luck to anyone who builds machines and expresses theirselves, but you cant please everyone at the same time now can you?
Arron
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Topic: Roland R8 / THE S-CAT HILARITY THREAD! (Read 79762 times)