[ELECTRONIC MUSICIANS PERFORMING AT THE EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO EXPERIMENTAL GARAGE SALE]

MICHAEL UNA: Hi. My name is Michael Una. I’m here at the Experimental Garage Sale at Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio.

So, this is the Akai MFC42. This is playing through the Boss DD-5 digital delay pedal, now made obsolete by my laptop but I still can’t bear to part with it. Not for sale today. It’s going to hang on for another day. And then I’m playing this through a vitamin bottle. There’s Trader Darwin’s Omega 3 Fatty Acids amplification system, and it’s pretty good. It gets pretty loud.

This may sound -- There’s a kit called the Minty Boost. It’s a $5 kit. The circuit board is about this big, and you just solder a couple of parts together. It’s based on the 386 op amplifier, and it distorts a little bit. You get a little bit of a square on the top and bottom of whatever sound you’re running through but in terms of a nice portable sound, and you can access the battery through the top of the vitamin kit.

So, it’s a couple of fun toys I have here going on. Also for sale is a -- I’ve never seen one of these before since -- Audio Pulse Model Two Digital Time Delay System, which I have labeled here as a reverb-delay. It -- There was a slider here that I now run out through a series of wires and put a potentiometer on the end of this, but you have a short delay, a long delay. You can also like EQ it with a little bit of treble and a little bit of bass. And when it says delay, it doesn’t mean delay in terms of like echo like the DD-5. It’s more a reverb, but by altering the resistance value of this, you can get a seriously long reverb, which just sort of extends and expands out forever. You can also sort of get a frequency into the reverb where it will tend to resonate on certain sounds more than others. So, if you hit just the right note, it would [HAND GESTURE REPRESENTING EFFECT OF THE AUDIO PULSE MODEL TWO DIGITAL TIME DELAY]-- it would -- You’d have to clamp down the volume because it will kind of get too high there.

GRETCHEN HASSE: [LAUGHING]

MICHAEL UNA: So, this is for sale for the now whopping price of $1. Anyone who wants to take this home for $1, it is theirs. Also available, I have a -- I don’t even know if there’s a brand name on this. It might be a fisher or something, but it’s an 18-band EQ, and it works quite well. Nice LEDs that light up on each knob here. You can choose, you know, multiple inputs and outputs, and that’s pretty much what it does. You get all the way down from -- starting at 16,000 Hz all the way down to 31.5 Hz. It’s got some super sub bass; just turn this one all the way up. It’s not high quality but I, based on my ear using in my studio, it was pretty good except now I do all my EQing on the computer. So, having an outboard, this would be useful if you were in a room with speakers like you’re living or something and you want to tune it to the standing waves and the resonances particular to your room. So, if you want to kill down certain EQs for a particular installation, it would work really well and it’s $1.

GRETCHEN HASSE: And it’s $1.