After Ryan of Foodteam posted his
bent instrument gallery on the Benders list, I was simply astounded. Wow, what an assortment of delays, reverbs, PSSs, other rackmount gear bent to oblivion. The best part was when I emailed him and asked for some inside shots of the instruments. Being nicer and less up tight then a lot of other benders he graciously responded to the request. Here is a little quote from the email with some descriptions and pointers:
"the pss-470 is my instrument of choice and is what I perform on as
FoodTeam (solo) or in the group Mystery Palace (w/ bass, drums,
vocals). I always use two of them identically rewired and in tandem.
I don't hard sync them and there's no midi. I match beats by ear like
a DJ. These are very stable and can take tons of abuse... and they
sound better than casios.
The cm32p has pcm cards like sound effects, ethnic, rock drums, etc..
all which can be manipulated! There's also a chart in there vaguely
describing what each switch does.
The proverb was my older brother's who got it when it came out in the
early 80's. Luckily it turned out a success.
The Roland and the art operate on a 16bit pcm architecture. The
Yamaha pss stuff I believe is 12bit pcm."
P.S. If anyone reading this is from Minnesota, check out Foodteam at a
venue near you.
After Ryan of Foodteam posted his bent instrument gallery on the Benders list, I was simply astounded. Wow, what an assortment of delays, reverbs, PSSs, other rackmount gear bent to oblivion. The best part was when I emailed him and asked for some inside shots of the instruments. Being nicer and less up tight then a lot of other benders he graciously responded to the request. Here is a little quote from the email with some descriptions and pointers:
"the pss-470 is my instrument of choice and is what I perform on as
FoodTeam (solo) or in the group Mystery Palace (w/ bass, drums,
vocals). I always use two of them identically rewired and in tandem.
I don't hard sync them and there's no midi. I match beats by ear like
a DJ. These are very stable and can take tons of abuse... and they
sound better than casios.
The cm32p has pcm cards like sound effects, ethnic, rock drums, etc..
all which can be manipulated! There's also a chart in there vaguely
describing what each switch does.
The proverb was my older brother's who got it when it came out in the
early 80's. Luckily it turned out a success.
The Roland and the art operate on a 16bit pcm architecture. The
Yamaha pss stuff I believe is 12bit pcm."
P.S. If anyone reading this is from Minnesota, check out Foodteam at a venue near you.
1 Comments:
At 11/25/2005 08:50:53 PM, Kaden said…
Gack! The ART pro-verb! *Cripes* what a mid '80s douche-chill flashback. The ProVerb was manufactured for ART in by Yorkville Sound (they of Traynor amps infamy) at their Scarborough Ontaro plant. Like all music tech manufacturers, Yorkville had a 'Final Quality Control' department, comprised of 2 'between gigs' barband musicians locked in 6x6 foot cubicles at the end of a *very* fast moving production line.
Not a gig for the faint of heart. We'd have about 3 minutes to audio check and cosmetically check whatever they were manufacturing that day. Not too tough with a 2 18" subwoofer (sine wave sweep, check the phase of the speakers, count the screws in the corner pieces, check to see if Wally had screwed the cabinet shut with Emmanuel inside it... that sorta thing), but testing a 16 channel powered mixer was...er...character building.
I was one of those guys. If you bought a Yorkville product, or anything we made for somebody else through the mid '80's and your warranty card was stamped 'tested by #4', that was me.
I Q.C.'d (I believe) every single ProVerb ever made. Multiple times. The ADACs aliased like crazy, and changing programs was accompanied by an absolutely terrifying DC pulse into the audio path. The bench techs went nuts trying to fix that, but it was never really stable. Full props to the Bender for actually making the product useful. I had one of the prototype boards in my rack for years, right on top of a Korg GR-1 gated reverb and a Fostex 3070 compressor. The GR-1 was a sublime device: 1 rackspace, stereo spring tanks and a noise gate with side chain. I would *love* to see someone bend up one of those things.
I'll shut up now. Had to vent...like I said, it was a brutal flashback
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