Today we've mostly been getting enraged by patchy print quality on our thermal label printer, and every web page supposedly offering advice just suggests checking the toner, because they're all written by feckin' AI and don't actually understand what a thermal printer is. Welcome to the future. 😡

Want to see something REALLY stupid? You know how people 'relic' guitars, giving them artificial road worn damage? These people are doing it to clones of vintage compressors, because of... reasons. Want some very expensive kit that just looks absolutely fucked? www.audio-scape.co.uk/trainwrecked

Its truly impressive what some people have the dedication and capability to do! A new drop in replacement OLED screen for the TR707 and TR727, which also appears to include all the new instrument names for the HKA ROM expansion upgrade. addictiveinstruments.fr/en/display/2...

Like many companies at this time of year we've coldly run the numbers and established that we can profit more from supporting gay pride than from catering to mentally challenged right wing knuckledraggers, so heres a rainbow of slightly unfortunately named pedal cases! Hurrah for the gays!* 😉

General purpose tip #472: Letting your cat piss inside your vintage drum machines before selling them is NOT a good idea, although the smell emanating from this Roland TR77 has certainly cleared my sinuses for the first time in weeks.

Yamaha RX120 with a load of glitching switches. Essentially the RX120 is a preset only version of the RX17, and as such has absolutely no reason to exist.

Further adventures in AliExpress listings #635: "Just do the product photos with the AI. It won't look absolutely insane at all!"

"Sir, in English they have a thing called punctuation. I don't know how it works..." "Don't worry about it lad, it doesn't actually mean anything. Just stick in as much as you can. They can't get enough of it!"

WARNING: Once you become known as "that guy who does the electric stuff and soldering and that" you will find most of your weekend is spent running a repair cafe whether you intended to or not. DC power input added to this RFID cat feeder, now whats wrong with the right side of this amp.... 🤔

I'm so inexplicably cool and underground that i've never even listened to a Boards Of Canada album, and on some bafflingly obscure level that probably makes me better than you* *I fear this is one that i'm going to have to explain is a joke, although obviously its also true. 😉

Forget our R8 drum destruction patch box. The ultimate Roland R8 drum machine mod is giving it the high quality wood veneer of a 70's games console.... maybe. 🤔

Personally I love nothing more than spending much of a Friday morning painstakingly unwinding a single turn of hair thin wire from a tweeter coil, and then meticulously scraping off the enamel insulation so I can resolder it after the connection mysteriously detached itself. You should try it.

We are more than happy to add any new image under the pad of a Korg KP2 when we mod it. Regardless of how difficult selling it again might be in the future! 😉 I'm guessing some kind of harsh noise / power electronics thing. Lovely stuff!

@oscillatorsink.bsky.social has done a top quality video on our Yamaha R100 FX reclocking, RAM loop and glitch matrix mods. Its quite long and very noisy... as the actress said to the Bishop... or something. 🤔 ALL HAIL OscillatorSink! This is the way!

I like the idea that the Chinese can't even be bothered to track you and sell your data, because you're not remotely important to them. They're like Cthulhu in that respect. 😉 Much better than the sycophantic western way where corporations have convinced people that they're actually worth spying on.

Was just planning on making a fairly large Aliexpress purchase. only to find its apparently the single day of the year where they don't have a "Spring Greed Festival" or a "Holidays Capitalist Frenzy Bonanza Celebration" and there are zero money off coupons available. This never happens...

EBAY: Heres a 10% off coupon... US: Hurrah! EBAY: ...that cleverly doesn't apply in any category or for any item you'd ever want to buy. US: Boooo!

Theres actually some pretty good stuff on the iFixit repair guides page, as i discovered when repairing a RFID cat feeder last week, but its kind of weird how every guide has a dozen comments under it basically saying "i have the same thing with a completely unrelated fault, how do i fix it?"

Hey look, its another one of these... and its a holiday in the UK so you should probably buy it... "Solid reasoning for a better world."

Assistant #1 and #2 investigate the cable tie flicker we built from some bits and pieces we had lying around. #caturday

That weird thing where you sell something on Reverb, and then 4 years later someone randomly sends you a message to ask if its still available. 🤔

Isn't it weird how 3.5mm patch cables cost 60p each until you put the word eurorack anywhere near them, and then they're £2+, and people start getting fussy about preferring certain brands of completely identical generic molded cables?

What is wrong with the world part 726: Every DHL delivery is foreshadowed by 3 or 4 emails and text messages all begging you to waive all your rights and "authorise delivery without a signature", which means they can legally ignore their own T&C's, dump the package outside your building and run.

🚨🚨🚨!!!BREAKING!!!🚨🚨🚨 Great news for those of you who have been sitting on the internet endlessly refreshing bluesky just in case we have a modded Alesis Nanoverb2 for sale... We have modded Alesis Nanoverb2 for sale. reverb.com/item/97295800

A couple more wobblevision photos from back in the days that we had more of a deathwish than we do now. A 25,000 volt shock from a CRT tube is probably even less fun than it sounds... Wire speaker outputs to the electron beam deflection coils of a CRT display and it draws the audio on the screen.

Green screen monitor wobblevision from way back. Wire your hifi amp speaker outputs directly to the electron beam deflection coils on a CRT monitor, and you've got the fastest waveform display you'll ever see.

I feel it is important that we once again share this image of us really losing our shit to some bangin' acid techno! Taken from the TD-3 page on the Behringer site.

Ah yes, the direct result of giving The Butthole Surfers access to a sampler in the very late 80's Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus present The Jackofficers - Digital Dump: simultaneously one of the best and worst electronic albums ever made.

Modularmatt has a couple of circuitbenders drumBs modules up for sale on ebay, because hes a great guy. If you have something we make or mod up for sale, let us know and we'll put up a link, but make sure you actually try to sell it or we might be slightly sarcastic 😉 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/29832586...

The only thing i know about Drake is that it would appear that he likes hanging around in warehouses mumbling, and i'm reminded of UK grime artist Terminator, whose whole thing is hanging around car parks in the hood giving financial advice, without a hint of irony. Its absolutely magic...

Want to get a lot less people interested in buying your synth on ebay? Then do this with the price... Yeah, you thought it'd be really inventive and witty, but everyone knows they're paying an extra £50 or so just so you can 'gone an dun a clever'.

Have you considered just sending us some money?

BEHOLD! Rowland Earthing bedsheets! If you think you've witnessed absolute weapons grade horseshit before, get ready to completely reassess the limits of what you thought possible. This is beyond even hardcore audiophile territory. "Probably The Most Important Health Discovery Ever"

I don't know if Wunderground are on here, or who they are, but they deserve a medal...

Email of the day no.635-A: "I read on Facebook that i should replace all the capacitors on my vintage synth, and now the VCO doesn't work. Can you tell me whats wrong with it?" * *Specifics have been changed to protect the idiot.... I mean innocent.

People, companies, organisations and places who have a website thats got absolutely nothing on it and is essentially just a holding page so nobody else steals the domain, and yet in all their publicity, social media, flyers etc, they direct people to that website anyway... I'm confused.

People who take the mains plug off a piece of audio kit they've sold before shipping it. There is a special circle of hell reserved just for you, and guess what...... theres no plug on the air conditioner.

SHIT! 😵 Its a remarkably good condition reclocked Alesis Microverb II, and there is absolutely no shame in being overwhelmed with a slightly sticky, and possibly illegal degree of lust for it! Make it yours here: reverb.com/uk/item/9689...

Sometimes you just have to buy the thing and then work out what it is afterwards......

Email of the week: "whats good about this?" Simple, effective and to the point, with an economic efficiency we can all admire...

For some reason this bizarre accordion / Korg PA80 hybrid mod just popped into my head that i probably haven't though about for a decade. Astonishing work!

Currently fielding random abuse from a guy on Facebook because i didn't bother reading a technical paper on artificial reverb from the 60's that he bafflingly decided to send to us completely unsolicited after we posted a reclocked microverb II... he's furious! 😕 What is wrong with Facebook people?

Thanks to some new enclosures finally arriving we currently have an whole ejaculate* of Demon Seed pedals available in our etsy shop... circuitbenders.etsy.com/listing/1698... *and yes, that is the collective noun.

I've always been inexplicably drawn to analogue sequencers. I've owned 2 Doepfer MAQ 16/3's, an Analogue Solutions Oberkorn3, a DIY MFOS 16 step, some weird DIY 16 step thing i got from ebay, and have a couple of 8 step eurorack modules Not once have i ever produced anything usable with any of them!

We've all seen enough police dramas to immediately assume that this is the universal packaging of someone who has sent us 5 kilos of cocaine, rather than the rather less exciting 5 x Yamaha R100's.... 😐

Its the unwelcome return of Friday Afternoon Hate Echo! We haven't had any of these for a while due to sheer unadulterated laziness when it comes to ordering new enclosures. Get this orange one here: circuitbenders.etsy.com/listing/1173...

So as a massive fan of Math Rock / Noodly Trouser Jazz, am i contractually obliged to hate Angine de Poitrine because they've made Math Rock seem effortless, fun and accessible? Clearly these are all crimes in a genre that takes itself hilariously seriously. 😉

Nothing embodies the utter absurdity of the vintage synth market more than the MAM MB33 Retro. About 3-4 years ago you could buy them brand new for £100, but MAM apparently couldn't compete with the Behringer TD3 pricing when it came to TB303 clones, so they stopped making them...

One should always give much care and consideration to solder choice...

Apparently the 'Steven PDR-3500' is a rebranded Phonic PDR-3500, which is a rebranded Alesis Midiverb 1... Personally i couldn't care less what it actually is, i just want to own a bit of kit made by Steven. I can't think of a more impressively banal company name!