Plan B Modules Arrive at Big City Music

Currently we have in stock the Model 15 Complex VCO, Model 37 Elf Series LFO, Model 10 Polyphonic Envelope, Model 9 Mixer/Attenuator and the Model 13 Dual Timbral Gate. Get them while they last! Email sales@bigcitymusic.com or call us.

BCM Welcomes Diabolical Devices and Class A Electronics

We're very very excited to offer instruments from Diabolical Devices and their sister company Class A Electronics. Diabolical takes instruments like the Roland TR-707 drum machine, the Casio SK-1 and others and modifies them. Whether it's a pitch mod for every drum sound, or a banana plug patch bay for different bends, or an added LFO, these pieces come back from the dead!

Here's a picture of a circuit bent TR-7027. This is a Roland TR-707 that also has the sounds from a Roland TR-727. You can switch back and forth. All the drum sounds have pitch mods with knobs to control the bends. They also have three separate global bends and a cymbal delay bend. On the left there's a banana plug patch bay allowing you to link several bends at once creating some truly unique sounds.

Class A Electronics makes some incredible guitar pedals as well as small wattage tube amplifiers and more. Check back with us soon for the latest from these guys!

BCM is Proud to Offer Folktek Instruments

From somewhere underground in Portland Oregon Arius Blaze and Ben Houston are creating some wildly interesting instruments. The Folktek pieces are truly unique in every way. Each one is hand crafted by the artists and is a one of a kind. Most of their instruments are crafted into beautiful antique boxes too. These are not your typical circuit bent instruments. The way you can "play" them varies tremendously and Folktek offers some alternative user interaction with their pieces. Check back with us as we will get more pieces soon

Analogue Systems rs290 Crushes Your Bits Too

Man. There's not much this modules doesn't do. Besides an incredible sounding high-quality stereo digital delay with built LFO and a hard to beat voltage controlled sampler mode, the rs290 can crush your sounds too. This great little trick doesn't even require the unit to be engaged. Just select sample size, reduce, and abuse. Our sound source is the Elektron Monomachine.

More NAMM 2009 Pix

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NAMM Pictures from Jürgen at Jomox

Here are some pictures from the NAMM show in Anaheim and from Jürgen's visit to Joshua Tree. via jomox.com

Analogue Systems rs215 Eight Octave Filter

The rs215 Eight Octave Filter is an incredible sounding, 8-band, pure analog filterbank. This module sounds beautiful and is perfect for fitting your modular sounds into a mix.

Analogue Systems rs110 Multimode Filter Trick

The Analogue Systems rs110 Multimode filter has the unique ability to process the resonance externally.

Bob Williams with Analogue Systems showed us this trick where we send the "Notch Out" back into the "Res In". Sending the filter resonance to a phaser or some modulation effect can yield very cool results.

We're using the Low Pass output to our speaker
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Sherman Rodec Restyler w/ modular sequence

Here's a little modular noodle being processed by the Sherman Rodec Restyler. The Sherman is an incredible sounding multimode filter with some fun Sherman quirks thrown in.

The knob on the bottom-left determines at what frequency the modulation kicks in. The big knob on the right is the overall frequency cutoff. The switch at the top-right engages the Sherman in the upper position, bypasses in the center, and acts as a momentary switch in the bottom position.

This thing is fun! We're using the Jomox XBase 999 drum machine for the backing beat and to clock our sequence.

Metasonix Modules Video From Gearwire.com

Metasonix Eurorack Modules From Tube Warm To "Crazy Metasonix-Style"
"Our mustachioed friend Josh from Bigcitymusic.com talks about the three upcoming Metasonic Eurorack Modules. The R-51 -- voiced for analog synth mangling -- allows you to add mild tube warmth or take it to the next level (BAM!) and get all Metasonix-y (i.e. sounding like bathroom humor). The R-53, says the enigmatic Josh, is the most extreme Eurorack so far -- and being that it's from the makers of the amp who's name may never be spoken, that's saying a lot."

NAMM 2009 - Mellotron Mark VI at Big City Music booth

Here's our friend Arlan playing the Mellotron through a Moog MF-104z Analog Delay, then into a JMI AC-30 amp.

The Mark VI is currently in production and is available at Big City Music in Los Angeles. All of the original Mellotron sounds are available as tape frames as well as many of the original Chamberlin sounds.

NAMM 2009 - Sherman Rodec Restyler processor at Big City Music booth

Here is the prototype of the all new Sherman Rodec Restyler which we had at the Big City Music booth at NAMM.

We didn't have much time to learn the fine points of operating this cool device. We will do another, more in-depth video back at our store once we get settled and catch up on things. In the meantime, please enjoy our NAMM noodling on the new Sherman Rodec Restyler.

NAMM 2009 - Metasonix KV-100 AssBlaster at Big City Music booth

Here is the all new Metasonix KV-100 AssBlaster vacuum tube processor that was shown at the Big City Music NAMM booth. We are feeding a drum pattern from the Jomox XBase999 analog drum machine.

The KV-100 contains the basic preamp stage of the discontinued Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher, driving the waveshaping (pulser) and ring modulation functions of the discontinued TM-1 (minus the ring-modulator carrier oscillator). These two sections drive a VCO which was derived from the discontinued Metasonix TM-3.

Nortec: One Hundred and One Synthesizers in Two Minutes

Here's a video Pepe from Nortec Collective made after a visit he and Ramon made to Big City Music. Cool guys!


You can see here at least a knob or slider from Analogue Systems modular, LL Electronics, Metasonix, Cwejman, Mellotron, Sherman, Jomox, Vermona, System 8500 modular, French Connection Martenot-style controller, rs-420 Octave Controller, rs95e VCO, rs370 Polyphonic Harmonic Generator, rs300 CV to MIDI and others.
This is one our many visits to Bigcitymusic, one of our favorite analogue synthesizer store around, we really thanks to Roger and all bigcitymusic family we love you guys.

Pepe and Ramon..
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NAMM 2009 - Metasonix R-51 and R-53 Eurorack modules at Big City Music booth

Here are the new Metasonix Eurorack modules at the Big City Music booth at NAMM 2009.

NAMM 2009 - Signal Arts Tetra MAPS sequencer at Big City Music booth

Here is the latest from Signal Arts at the Big City Music booth. The all new Tetra MAPS sequencer offers so many possibilities. Here is just a taste.