These last two days, I worked on some kind of preamp box for my own use. The idea was to combine a 5F6A preamp (using JFETs, no tubes) with a Belton Brick Reverb.
The first switch can invert the order of the preamp and the reverb to decide where the signal should go first.
It sounds devilish! I can’t wait to test it on a rehearsal…
I was too busy these last months to take the time to post anything here. So here’s my last work : the restoration of an old Roland SH-02. Its owner found it covered in dust and rust in a cave. It was very dirty, all posts were crackling and one of the IC (the kind that is very hard to find) was burnt. The ribbon cables were a bit tired and rusty too.
What if a technique was available that enabled one to insert a set of images/clips/visual cues into a machine - it processes the moods and colors and themes - ultimately dispensing a small, clear pill you would take before going to sleep, which releases a nanobot payload that quickly navigates your bloodstream and floods your brain with a perfectly fine-tuned (yet original) dream concept that would contain an intuitive and “understanding” blend of the data you fed the machine. Dream duration (5 min to 7½ hours) and personal data (preferences, experience, toggle sleep apnea alarm) is set either via the external holographic keypad, or the startup terminal.
Realizing the idea would only take getting a bio-engineer, a physics professor, a basement chemist w/o morals, a neurosurgeon w/o medical ethics, a genious programmer, couple of Intel people and the 2 Davids (Cronenberg and Lynch) together on this.
I’m thinking it shouldn’t take more than 2-3 weeks, tops. The Kickstarter will be up and collecting soon - every backer will get a commemorative pill from the first safe batch, pledges over 1000 bucks will also get one with original content from the Davids + firmware upgrades to enable upcoming features such as “Nightmare OptOut” and “Lucid Dream modular support” (both will require DirectX 70)