I've made a brand new video that's all about my latest thrift store acquisition: a Charango from South America. As usual, I don't want to give away too much information here, because I think it will be much more fun to watch it as a video. Enjoy!
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2025-10-11 16:39:58 +0000 UTC View Post
A charango is a small, high-pitched South American stringed instrument traditionally made with an armadillo shell body, featuring five pairs of strings and commonly used in Andean folk music. I had the extremely good luck to find one in a thrift store on South Street in Philadelphia. I made a vid...
2025-10-11 03:38:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the video that I've been working on for the last two weeks. It ties in with the sample library I just uploaded.
Enjoy!
– Dave
2025-09-12 22:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a brand new sample library which features the (surprisingly) cinematic sound of a homemade guitar I found on the street. A video about this guitar will be posted tomorrow morning. I don't want to say too much about this instrument before that video goes up as it might spoil your enjoyment...
2025-09-12 20:08:06 +0000 UTC View Post
For the past few weeks, I've been playing with a beautiful and unique synthesizer called the Chromaplane. You can see a video about my experiences here.
As part of those experiments, I have (of course...
2025-08-18 20:32:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In my latest video, I check out the Chromaplane, a beautiful and unique instrument by Passepartout Duo and 2025-08-16 11:17:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here is my latest video – it's all about the new version of the Novation Bass Station II. I had lots of fun making this one!
– Dave
2025-07-20 16:10:52 +0000 UTC View Post
A few months ago, I went to the annual Superbooth synthesizer festival in Berlin. One of the things I saw there was a beautiful new version of the Novation 2025-07-17 14:20:47 +0000 UTC View Post
In May 2025, I had the pleasure of going to Berlin to attend the annual Superbooth synthesizer festival. This time, I decided to tack on an extra day to my trip, and I'm awfully glad I did, because that Sunday ended up being full of adventures...
The full video can be seen here:
In April 2025, I had the good fortune to be sent Polyend's new effects pedal: MESS. It's an extremely flexible multi-effects pedal with sequenceable parameters. In 2025-05-29 21:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of traveling to Berlin to attend the annual Superbooth synthesizer festival. And about two weeks before that, I purchased an OP-1 on eBaY. If you don’t know what that is, it’s an iconic little synthesizer by Teenage Engineering. I’ve personally wanted one o...
2025-05-23 22:32:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all!
My latest video is all about making music on the Nintendo Gameboy, the Nintendo DS, as well as the Xiphonics Pico Tracker. I cover so much in the video that I felt like it only made sense for me to write a blog post just to provide all of the details. Everything below is going to be...
2025-04-25 23:29:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Last spring, as I was walking through the flea market in Philadelphia, I stumbled on a vendor who had dozens of wooden flutes for sale. At the time, I didn't find it all that exciting. In fact, since I had already bought a bunch of stuff at the market that day, I was about to walk on, but then, a...
2025-04-25 21:42:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week, I got to borrow a Casio DG-20 from Max Goldberg, so I made a video...and a sample library. The sounds can be downloaded 2025-04-03 14:13:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
A few folks have reached out and asked for Bandcamp download codes for my last record. I'm pasting a bunch in the comments below this post. You can redeem them here. If you use a code, reply to the commen...
2025-03-19 13:29:25 +0000 UTC View Post
My latest video is finally done! In this installment, I explore an often overlooked gem from Casio's past: the MT-70 sine wave synthesizer. And yes, there's also a sample library. I want to give...
2025-03-12 02:23:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Casio MT-70 is an electronic keyboard from 1984. What makes it unique is that, unlike most other Casio keyboards, its sounds are generated by adding together sine waves, an approach that is often called addit...
2025-03-12 02:10:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I recently got to take a trip to Milkboy Studios in Philadelphia, where I sampled this very cool piece of American synth history: a Baldwin Interlude (aka Fun Machine) electronic organ.
Download samples here: 2025-02-27 16:23:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my latest video. :)
Here is the song from the video: https://manwomanchild.bandcamp.com/track/force-that-smile
And here is the free sample library of the bass: 2025-02-05 04:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I made a new album! As you all know, every few weeks I publish a Youtube video about a different musical instrument. Each video contains at least one new piece of original music, and yet, because of time constraints, I almost never end up releasing the music from those videos as tracks. With this...
2025-01-28 17:13:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple of months ago, my wife got me this beautiful tongue drum as a gift, and it's been a fixture in my studio ever since. It has a very pleasant, meditative sound. The instrument consists of a single, bean-shaped pod of metal with eight U-shaped slits cut into the top. The slits form the ...
2025-01-25 00:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I recently got my hands on a pretty neat vintage item: the Panasonic Do-Re-Mi. It’s essentially a little analog synth / organ with a built in record player. Panasonic also sold a version with a built-in tape deck, and another even rarer unit that just contained the synth ...
2025-01-11 14:08:09 +0000 UTC View Post
About a year ago, I found this old bicycle wheel in the trash, and, being the person that I am, I saved it. Well, in my last video, I finally got to put it to some good use. I clipped on some contact microphones, and soon d...
2024-12-20 17:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I made a video about contact mics! This one was lots of fun.
2024-12-07 12:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I recently took a trip to one of my favorite thrift stores in Philadelphia. Amidst the old kitchen appliances, VHS cassettes, and assorted cultural detritus, I stumbled on this charming antique toy piano. It was in pretty rough shape, but I decided to try out anyway. As soon as I pressed down on ...
2024-11-27 22:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post
A while back, I made a video about some electro-mechanical experiments I had been doing. Specifically, I took an electric motor, attached a piece of metal wire to it, and then used a guitar pickup to record the sound of the...
2024-10-31 14:25:54 +0000 UTC View Post
A while back, I made a video about some electro-mechanical experiments I had been doing. Specifically, I took an electric motor, attached a piece of metal wire to it, and then used a guitar pickup to record the sound of the...
2024-10-28 02:07:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a video I've been working on for the last 7 days. I'm going to be officially releasing it on Saturday. It's about a guitar that I bought in Lambertville, NJ. I made a free sample library of the guitar, which you can find 2024-10-16 13:23:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm releasing this video tomorrow!
2024-09-27 22:35:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Swiss Museum of Electronic Musical Instruments, which boasts the largest collection of synthesizers in the world. I'm hopefully going to make a video about the experience, depending on h...
2024-09-17 19:33:47 +0000 UTC View Post