Some people may know him in electro-music forum as “the guy with the custom table” which is apparent in the following pictures.

He has a very organized electronics lab [...]]]>

Oscar (nickname: sound on electro-music.com) is from Spain but lives in Greece. We had the pleasure to meet him in person and take a peek at his lab.

Some people may know him in electro-music forum as “the guy with the custom table” which is apparent in the following pictures.

He has a very organized electronics lab and there is a whole room devoted to music and sound with the “table” as its center!

On the far left side there are two wonderful semi-modular synths. Both cwejman sound.

There is a S1 MK2 and an S2.

The S2 has serial number 11!! (Oscar tells me that there were only thirteen S2 produced EVER!)

Oscar builds his own module: the Τεσσερα (Tessera).

In his own words:
“The Tessera is a 4 SSM2164 VCAs, with linear response like Mike Irwin, with control over their offset or initial level. One signal IN, one CV IN, one switch per channel that allow to invert the signal before that it enter in the mixer, and the mixer give us, the direct outs of all the channels, 1,2,3 and 4, the sums of 1+2, ALL, 3+4 and 3+4’.

It is a very useful module that it is able to process AC signals and DC signals. It is very clean, start to distort the signals over 20V peak to peak. You can control, manual and with voltage, the amplitude of the signal, sum, split and invert, so also subtract signals. “
You can get more info about the Τεσσερα (Tessera) here

And you can see more pictures of it right below!

Mr. Braska happily sits among four Serge VCS modules. Sadly, this module has been discontinued.

As a electro-music dweller, sound could only have such modules:
Dual Sheboygans and dual Mankatos! He is the reason I got a couple of PCBs of both!! (Hear hear!)


(and an mfos noise module on the right!

Exactly underneath, a klee sequencer

Playful little frog!

And to close the day, here is Mr. Braska that tests the Τεσσερα in his breadboard form!

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A corroded Ultimate Percussion module. It is also here (exactly the same This one must be quite rare. Couldn’t find any manufacturer info..

Well here we are at a cable junction.. A serge VCs is right behind Mr. Brask and LFO/VCA at the left.The mising link might me [...]]]>

Some more views of tigrics’ workplace!!!

A corroded Ultimate Percussion module. It is also here (exactly the same This one must be quite rare. Couldn’t find any manufacturer info..

Well here we are at a cable junction.. A serge VCs is right behind Mr. Brask and LFO/VCA at the left.
The mising link might me a filter? The red in the middle?

Another view.

Here, Mr. Braska with cucc… The drawings of tigers all over the place is by tigrics’ hand

Beside the distortion generator… BZZGGFFFZZZZWEEEEZZZZFFGGHHHH

VCO Core. If it has hard sync it will be VCO Hard core!

Module graveyard!

A small VCF

The unfinisheds

Future formant

MS20 VCF!! This should include a sample!

Mr. Braska with the owners of all these modules: szarvas and MJ. Tigrics pays them rent to use them!

And of course, Mr. Braska is always in the mix. Or better, in front of it!

Here you see both of them on the STEP64!

After that, Mr. Braska took a quick nap on the midiman!

And afterwards, refreshed, he set out to explore tigrics’ self made [...]]]>

Mr. Braska felt right at home at tigrics’. There was a moose named SzarVas to welcome him, show him around and let him use his gear.

Here you see both of them on the STEP64!

After that, Mr. Braska took a quick nap on the midiman!

And afterwards, refreshed, he set out to explore tigrics’ self made modules !

And there is a Shaper!!

Small break!

In front of pocket history poster

And back to the house, lying as sexily as a frog only can, on a wasp filter and a ring modulator!
Great sonic potential!

This is tigrics’ backlog!

Well, tigrics mentions his workplace is, like, everything, everywhere:

“there’s not much of a workshop here, it’s all over the room.
2 soldering irons, two drills, still no stand,
I acid next to the entrance, doors open,
have a computer on the desk with a good wacom, no mouse, oh no,
I draw a lot… I like inkscape, but flash even more.
still use pencil a lot.
quite a few partboxes, and bags with stuff sorted, resistors in cd wallets”

Well, just drop over his site and see for yourself.
He is as talented with pen and paper as with soldering iron/pcb

He promised some photos of his lab tomorrow!!!

He has used a custom made panel (Made by [...]]]>

While searching for midibox SID stuff I stumbled upon Subatomicglue’s super-extensive build log. He has info on almost every aspect of making a SID synth. It follows the panel design of the original Midibox SID made by T.Klose and it is packaged inside a Commodore 64.

He has used a custom made panel (Made by Schaeffer)

and he is quite good with the soldering gun

More of it on his work log

From now on, Braska will be on the move. DIYers will get to host him and shoot him (photo shoot that is) with their lab and equipment.. He won’t say [...]]]>

Braska will be away for some time. He wants to know more DIYers and I will grant his wish by letting him do just that!!

From now on, Braska will be on the move. DIYers will get to host him and shoot him (photo shoot that is) with their lab and equipment.. He won’t say no to have his picture taken on top of an exotic synth/musical instrument either.

.. So, if you want to host him, just drop me a comment/email at akorbeti [at] gmail [dot] com.

Now, on to his first trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(the following photo is on the weigh scale of the post office. There, he had to play dead. Stuffed frogs don’t speak or move. (something like toy story!))