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Yeah... these have little-to-nothing to do with each other, other than the fact that this photo combines two of the best things in the world, minifigs and mini-synths. We went to toys-R-us and felt-up every blind-bag they had to make a complete set this afternoon... embarrassingly lame, given that I'm not an obsessive collector. But I had to get these three...
My appendage is shown in the background.
The Korg monotron is really really tiny, even in relation to some of the other small synths I own. My wonderful wife brought mine back from her business-trip to Tokyo - a shop called Miki Gakki. Best thing about the shop? The Engrish slogan on the bag - "SUPER SENSIBILITY FOR SOUND. WE ARE SOUND RIDERS. REALLY?!"
Put a Blacet SUPER VCA 2930 together last weekend, but haven't had a chance to test it out yet. Lovely stuff - have a look at all of the boards (half-stuffed) that make up this incredibly dense, powerful VCA/panner.
Blacet design has shown signs of evolving... keeping up with the times. No flying-wire spaghetti on the back of this one. Those annoying flying wires are replaced with long 1/10" pin headers, and ribbon cable. Even all of the jacks are all board-mount, including a tiny board for CVC. Beautiful stuff. Here's a side-view of the completed module.
And the obligatory finished product photo:
Love the new mini-knobs - not just aesthetically pleasing, but probably required due to how close they are to the Mix knobs. As always, I am astounded by the quality of these kits - nobody does DIY better than John.
