{"id":261,"date":"2011-01-26T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/tech-details-on-soldersmokes-theme-music\/"},"modified":"2011-01-26T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T23:21:00","slug":"tech-details-on-soldersmokes-theme-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/tech-details-on-soldersmokes-theme-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Details on SolderSmoke’s Theme Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

This will be discussed in the next podcast, so I thought I’d share some tech details on our theme music. From the artist, Maestro Moj: <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Geeky details about the music:
In the homebrew spirit, I tried to make all the sounds with instruments which I had soldered <\/span>together myself. These were a Formant music synthesizer designed by C. Chapman from the Dutch\/British <\/span>“Elektor” magazine, circa 1977, and a FatMan synthesizer kit from PAiA Electronics<\/span>. I play them through an <\/span>ancient Kustom 200 guitar amplifier<\/span>, which I’ve caused to smoke at least twice. The beginning is my K2 <\/span>being powered on and tuned across 80 meters. I cheated and used a real gong at the end which a good <\/span>friend went to the trouble of finding and buying in China<\/span>, but I fed the sound through a PIC Polywhatsit <\/span>designed by John Becker and described in Britain’s “Everyday Practical Electronics,” December 2001.
If anyone wants to sing along, it seems to me that the words are: ” – Sol-Der Smo-Oke, – Sol-Der <\/span>Smoke (repeat over and over) “<\/span>
Music, like all home-brew, is never truly done. Next time I’ll try to get a theremin working <\/span>again – there’s a radio-circuitried musical instrument!
If my grandson has kept the site up, there may be garage band music<\/span> of his and mine on MySpace<\/span> <\/span>under Mikeandtheceiling. <\/span><\/div>\n
Enjoy!<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
Mark “moj” Johnson
W8MOJ<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This will be discussed in the next podcast, so I thought I’d share some tech details on our theme music. From the artist, Maestro Moj: Geeky details about the music:In the homebrew spirit, I tried to make all the sounds with instruments which I had soldered together myself. These were a Formant music synthesizer designed … Continue reading “Tech Details on SolderSmoke’s Theme Music”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soldersmoke-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}