Keystone Amplifiers

06/06/2024

Magic box. It has this k**b that if you turn it far enough you can't hear the bu****it anymore.

05/14/2024

I took the weekend off and let Liv drive. She sent me to the woodstore for some katalox and then got busy. Still trying to figure out what she built but it looks cool and it was fun to watch her work.

05/02/2024

RIP Duane. Thank you. Every note is burned in. You can rest now.

04/22/2024

Doing a little research for next weekends project and stumbled onto what I think might be the coolest IT tutorial I have ever seen. It addresses a very specific challenge brilliantly but it is the source and presentation that I found breathtaking.

It is way longer than it needs to be but when he rocked out on a pile of electronic crap at the end I appreciated every second of the ride. This isn't ADHD...this dude is friggin brilliant. He sees abundance others don't.

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04/18/2024

Conrad Fisher we need to sell whoopie pies to buy this for Ragamuffin Hall

Not too many things cooler than a synth from the Spiders from Mars tour. Ziggy played guitar...jamming good...

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04/13/2024

I think Mr. Hoover's taste in percussionists is exquisite.

04/12/2024

I have had it powered on for over 24 hours now and somehow the unit is "learning".

Henry was way ahead on this. I am certain there was much more to his babbling about "time" at the asylum.

Kevin Cole.. The Johnny Cash preset makes me think of you.

04/12/2024

The antique dealer who sold me my Henry Hoover amish synth unit tracked me down because he had another he didn't mention.

After he saw my excitement he rushed home and tried to fire up the other unit he had stashed. When I spoke with him he looked very pale and upset. Apparently his wife's 17 year old tea cup yorkie doesn't handle ammonia bleach batteries as well as Liv does.

He wasn't in a bargaining mood and I got it for $15!

You just pick the artist you want to sound like and tweak whatever parameter Henry decided to drop in there.

So hard to believe he put this stuff together in the 1930s. Like it is really, really hard to believe.

04/03/2024

Flea Market find of a lifetime at Renningers this weekend. Back in the late 1930s there was an Amish cat named Henry Hoover who lived in the Juniata Valley and dabbled in all kinds of things he probably shouldn't have touched. To describe him as "odd" would be generous.

Before he left us he created what he called his "Fancy Piano". I am grateful he didn't enjoy playing pump organ or we would have another "Bird-in-Hand" situation to clean up.

I became aware of this device as a small child in the early 70s when I saw it in a polaroid they were passing around the Mummert farm during a family reunion. They were making slaw in the summer heat. Why then?

The device still had the original battery which resembled an old fashion ice cream maker with terminals out the top. Unbelievably the vendor had no idea what it was and sold me the whole rusty lot for only $30. It fired right up but it put off a funny smell and Liv started getting woozy so I disconnected it once I was sure it was the toxic fumes getting to her and not something she ate. I dropped it into my rack instead. To my surprise it fired right up and sounds amazing! The truly weird part is it has piano voices up to the 70s. Hard stop after that. Henry died in 1956 in an asylum outside Bellefonte babbling something about "time".

Photo of the "Fancy Piano" all cleaned up running and another of creator Henry Hoover. Note the ligthbulb. No beard so he wasn't married but you know he had already figured out that cool bleach/ammonia battery!

03/28/2024

I hope you didn't bet against Erica. She was waiting for me in the rack after work with a new sub-harmonic expander strapped on.

She just sent "Orbital" back to the french truck stop parking lot.

I am so in love with this oscillator.

03/28/2024

So I have been getting pretty intimate with Erica over the past month or so and things have been going very well. She is from Latvia and before you even ask...yes...she was mail order. It is also a non-binary relationship given she is a voltage controlled oscillator. Don't judge. It works for us.

Our blissful harmony was wrecked today when this little tart Cecilia showed up from France this evening via "la poste" which I think translates to "when we get around to it". "Orbital" is her stage name from back home where she worked at a place next to a truck stop.

If you look closely you will see they both have "sub" outputs. Big bottoms. But Cecilia has a switch to drop things another octave. She might be skinnier but she has a much bigger bottom.

Erica...we need to have a talk.

03/24/2024

My "Opposite of Mercury Retrograde" got hit with a hard stop when I jumped into a an Eastern European version of a "DIY" audio module. Super high quality parts and PCB (think Mesa Boogie) but just a bag with instructions that made me burst out laughing ("mind your polarity."). I take no pride in assembling a kit like this and this made it even more brutal. Got it all together only to find the midi port was defective. At 4am this morning it started chirping. Was actually chirping in tune by 4pm. Last link in my chain complete. I expected this to be the easy one. Nope.