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AKAI MPC 1000

The MPC is THE icon of sample-based music--more specifically hip-hop. While there is an entire line of MPC's out there, what makes the MPC 1000 model special is its portability and power although not right out of the box.

M-Audio AV40 Dead Monitors Revival (capacitor replacement)

1/12/2015

I was recently given a pair of dead M-Audio AV40 near field monitors. These little speakers are great! However, I was puzzled as to how exactly they had failed. After some googling I found that a few of the capacitors used on these have a tendency to go bad and leak. I decided to open up the case and sure enough: I found the capactior were bulging and had a chemical leak at the top. I removed the capactitors and ordered them from mouser.com as follows:

New Kickstarter analog synth project gives you a taste of modular madness

1/05/2015

They call it Phenol--a new semi-modular analog synthesizer that is currently in the works and has already been successfully funded over at Kickstarter.

The project will feature some heavyweight synthesis capabilities that havent been seen in too many desktop analog semi-modulars this size or smaller. Here are some "preview" specs: