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Gender: Male
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Age: 56
Sign: Aquarius

Country: UK
Signup Date: 9/1/2006

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Sunday, February 08, 2009 

Category: Music
I recently found this shot in our archive on a strip of TG negatives.
It's my studio in our apartment in Crouch End, North London and was taken shortly after TG split-up (first time) in 1981. This was the TG / Chris & Cosey crossover period and a few weeks before I got my Roland MC-8 MicroComposer.
Everything in this photo was used on later TG material and early Chris & Cosey releases and while I no longer own the majority of the gear I still have the Boss pedals, the Auratone speakers and the chair.

The modular system on the right consists of three Roland 190 racks and two 191J racks containing: two 182 Step Sequencers, 121 Dual VCF, 130 Dual VCA, 112 Dual VCO, 150 Ring Mod/Noise/S&H/LFO, 110 VCO/VCF/VCA, 172 Audio Delay/Phaser/LFO/Gate Delay.
Also included in the Roland racks were a number of my own self-built modules, including a: Digisound Dual VCO, Digisound Dual VCF, Digisound Dual VCA, Digisound Dual ADSR, Digisound Dual RM, Blacet variable clock/divider, a Gristleizer module and (in the top rack) a flanger/delay and a dual phaser/flanger/delay.
Under the modular system is a Boss DR-55 Dr. Rhythm (sitting on top of) a Roland CSQ-600 Digital Sequencer, a Roland TR-808 (one of the first in the UK I might add), a Sinclair frequency meter (for tuning) and a Roland 181 Controller Keyboard.
To the right of the modular (top to bottom) are a small sub-mixer, a Sinclair mutli-meter, a Leak power amp, s Boss KM-4 a Leak FM tuner and a custom digital delay line and a custom 10-band EQ unit (both self-built). In front of those are two Seck 6.2 mixers.
On the far right of the desk are (top to bottom) three Accessit compressors, a Roland SRE-555 Chorus Echo, H&H Slide Echo.
In the foreground are a couple of Roland Flanger pedals, a Boss micro Amp pedal and an Electro-Harmonix Gate pedal.
Also in shot are a Tandberg stereo reel-reel, a Tandberg cassette deck, a Warfdale cassette deck, a pair of self-built 8" speakers and a pair of Auratone 5C Super-Sound-Cubes.

Techy photo note: the shot was taken with a Nikon F2 using a 50mm 1.4 lens on Ilford FP4 film using available light.
My studio - 1981
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Louis Guidone

 
Holy shit...
 
Posted by Louis Guidone on Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 11:02
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PBK

 
pretty fucking sweet, Chris...
 
Posted by PBK on Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 12:14
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Pilzkopf

 
It looks like you could fly a spacecraft with all of that! Very cool!
 
Posted by Pilzkopf on Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 17:16
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Infernal Jase

 
what did you play your lps on? Ever seen the laser turntable? Out of my price range but interesting.
 
Posted by Infernal Jase on Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 17:28
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Andy Flop

 
rules
 
Posted by Andy Flop on Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 18:04
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Boris Polonski

 
Hey, Mr. Carter. That..s great. I know the Roland System 100 quite well.I also oqned an CSQ600 before getting my MC4(enigmatic way of programmin, but the groove that thing make is godlike). I don..t want to speek about the 808, a true classic. Haven..t you ever used the EMS AKS, that was my favourite synth for long years. But unfortunately I had to sell mine in the end of the last year. I really miss it. I hope to save enough money to get another instrument again.
 
Posted by Boris Polonski on Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 18:22
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vestitches

 
nice chair!
 
Posted by vestitches on Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 20:07
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Moira Scar

 
Amazing tools!--makes me feel inadequate about my CAT SRM II analog synth--do you still make/play analog modules?
 
Posted by Moira Scar on Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 20:56
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BOX

 
Amazing!!! Wonderful modular synth
 
Posted by BOX on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:22
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GRAL

 
If that chair could talk :)
 
Posted by GRAL on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 18:21
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