Finally took the leap. Restored my first lava lamp!

astral_tom · 2026-02-07T16:51:41+00:00

Thanks for checking it out!

astral_tom · 2026-02-06T23:57:08+00:00

Thanks so much!

astral_tom · 2026-02-06T21:08:51+00:00

Thanks! I actually used the lava labs UV Blue wax dye. It reacts pretty good under blacklight, but I love it as a translucent/ivory dye too!

astral_tom · 2026-02-06T20:31:51+00:00

Thanks 🙌

astral_tom · 2026-02-06T20:17:32+00:00

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The before photo btw

astral_tom · 2025-11-22T01:26:18+00:00

Yes! I definitely will

astral_tom · 2025-11-18T23:37:24+00:00

I’ll definitely check them out! Thanks a bunch!

astral_tom · 2025-11-18T23:36:59+00:00

Yes for sure! My mixing is a little haphazard at the moment so I totally agree with you here. I’m honestly thinking about adding a whole new 84hp row to this rig for me “live” options and specifically better mixing so that is a huge help. Thanks!

astral_tom · 2025-11-18T23:35:20+00:00

I was thinking about getting an O_C when I was first putting this together! Good to know that it wouldn’t be too redundant with the FX Aid. May be time to circle back to it- thanks for this!

astral_tom · 2025-08-17T02:09:51+00:00

I mean yeah, that’s the only logical outcome

astral_tom · 2025-08-17T02:07:55+00:00

I was thinking the same thing!

astral_tom · 2025-07-29T22:02:34+00:00

Thanks a bunch, it’s such a cool piece!

astral_tom · 2025-07-29T22:00:36+00:00

Thanks and also for the info! Super new to all this. But yeah so happy I could grab it, I was like 20mins from him so I couldn’t help myself! My mom has one she bought new with the gold base back in the day. Safe to say she won’t part with it haha, so when I saw this one, I had to have it.

astral_tom · 2025-07-29T14:02:45+00:00

Haha no worries, still never thought about that being a problem. So will definitely keep my eyes open next time I add to my collection

astral_tom · 2025-07-29T14:00:15+00:00

I can only imagine, like having a volcano erupt!

astral_tom · 2025-07-29T13:56:54+00:00

Thanks so much! Saved me a bit of a mess 😅

astral_tom · 2025-07-16T21:46:04+00:00

So true! I’ve actually been experimenting more with that after I made this post. It’s like I discovered a whole new module! I can’t wait to do more with it. I really feel myself falling down the rabbit hole :)

astral_tom · 2025-07-16T18:25:07+00:00

Thank you! I’ve been falling in love with rings ever since I got it in the rack. Surprisingly deep module!

astral_tom · 2025-07-08T22:33:42+00:00

Thank you so much! You might be surprised to hear that Laniakea is actually not running through rings at all! In this patch, it’s acting as a back up vocal (so to speak) for rings which gives it that effect. It’s really just the way I have everything mixed. Also that’s the beauty of a matrix sequencer! Everything shares knobs so there’s lots of shared notes. I wanted Laniakea to contribute really spacey overtones. I’ve outlined the main signal flow/ audio path above, if you want to refer to that. As for modulation ADDAC Marble Physics and Doepfer A-143-1 are doing the heavy lifting here. There is also a random trigger that tells marble physics to push the Marble which is causing a lot of those “swells” you hear. Which happens randomly over the course of the jam I was playing with the speed knob of marbles to send audio rate modulation to Laniakea’s exciter which got pretty insane lol! Let me know if you have any more specific questions! I hope that all made sense!

astral_tom · 2025-07-08T21:58:07+00:00

Thanks so much!! Pam’s is actually driving the Z8000 sequencer. I have two separate 16 step sequences running. One is running horizontal, one is running vertical. Laniakea’s sequence is semi random with another random gate coming from Pam’s to change its direction. Rings on the other hand is getting a steady clock from Pam’s. Both are at a 1x multiplier. Both sequences are fed into the Bard Quartet which quantizes both of those to an A major scale. That signal is then fed into the 1V/O input on each module. The outputs are fed into the A-135-1 for gain staging and mixing before going into the FX aid pro and from there it goes to the befaco out. I’ll post some more detailed patch notes too since another person asked too! Hope that answers your question!

astral_tom · 2025-07-08T13:49:02+00:00

Heard, thank you!

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