Buchla Tech

The chronicles of one man's experience building, repairing, cloning and adding to the Buchla Electric Music Box. A manifesto of a very specific obsession.

November 21, 2012

Spring Chickens

In the golden age of analog synthesizers, everybody had a spring reverb in their system. In fact, sounding like the Radiophonic...

October 2, 2011

Harmonic Oscillators

Buchla made the 148 Harmonic Generator in 1969. It is a sawtooth oscillator core, the same as the 158, with waveshapers creating 9 harmonics...

March 18, 2011

Prototype Music Easel!?

The Music Easel is the street name for the combination of the Buchla 208 and 218 touchplate keyboard. I was recently called upon to repair ...

Good Ol' Filters

The Lopass Gate is widely recognized as a sweet sounding filter with a Vactrol-induced slew to it. Set into the top switch position, it is a...

June 17, 2010

Just because

June 16, 2010

I didn't know Vactrols could do that!

I recently repaired a 227. It has several problems: A dead channel, reverb wasn't working, I forget. It seemed like a quick turn around ...

February 1, 2010

Good Times In Anaheim.

It was great to meet everyone at NAMM. I'm glad I decided to go.

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mark verbos: new york, new york, United States; music producer, tech, visionary

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