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Our Roland Juno 106 Sings Again!

erico — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:20:39 +0000

It worked. It actually worked. We soaked the Roland Juno 106 80017 Sound Chips for over two days in Acetone. Their rubber coating fell off, we re-soldered them back in, and one of our vintage synthesizers came back to life. Again, we love the Internet. If you have a Roland Juno 106 or Juno 60 and notes start to irregularly hold on your keyboard, call us. We’ll talk you through it. Total repair bill? $3.28.

We’ll be making Juno 106 Sound Sets this fall. Stay tuned.

The Doctor Is In…we hope

erico — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:21:49 +0000

On Friday our little Roland Juno 106 was feeling under the weather so we decided to try to fix it. We figured out quickly that it was a couple of the voice chips misbehaving. Instead of replacing them we decided to try a trick we found on the internet. We would attempt to revive them by any means possible (in this case soaking them in Acetone and crossing our fingers). Here is a photo diary of the process. It is a work in progress. Feel free to follow along…

Open Wide

The Culprits: 80017A’s

Desoldering Iron and Removed Chip (not as hard to do as you might think)

The Acetone Bath

The Evening Rig

erict — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:33 +0000

Working on some new tracks for long-time friends The Evening Rig. As we’ve just finished construction of our studio, we needed a guinea pig, and The Evening Rig were understanding enough to help inaugurate the NoWare drum room. And you know what? It sounds pretty great. With even the best laid plans, acoustical materials, and drawings, you never know how a space will sound until you start making music. We couldn’t be happier. Drums sound big and boomy, acoustic instruments shine, and vocals have a perfect amount of air.

We did have one issue however… we had to raise the chandelier 20 inches to make more room for our overhead microphones. Oh well, we think this is a small price to pay.

Expect 3 new songs in the coming weeks.

Stylophones are cool.

erico — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:15:57 +0000

Here’s a sample: Stylophone Scale

We’re nerds. Last week we ordered a Stylophone, an obscure stylus based instrument that apparently David Bowie used to great effect. Quirky and weird, it arrived in the mail this morning from London, England. The link below is a Live Pack and under that are the raw WAV’s to make your own sampler instrument in whatever format you choose. We recorded them with a single Neumann U67 on the built in speaker, maybe we will do a direct out version and a more complicated interface soon. Please “Like” us on Facebook and comment on the Live Pack there. Enjoy…

NoWare Stylophone Live Pack

Stylophone Samples

If you’ve got a hankering for your own silly time wasting instrument, you can find out more info on them at the original manufacturers site here.

We fixed our Six-Trak!

erict — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:48:38 +0000

Thanks to the good people at Wine Country who help maintain old Sequential gear, our Six Trak is finally up and running. All we needed was a EPROM chip to restore all of the unit’s factory settings and sounds. Wow. Pure analog goodness abounds, and Wine Country only charges $25 for the chip (I KNOW!!).

We’re kind of giddy. We’ll be posting audio files in the next few days.

We won a Cannes Bronze Lion!

erict — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:37:12 +0000

Well, actually, the amazing marketing and advertising firm Mono won, and we helped contribute some of the audio and sound design for the project. Our collaborative work with Mono on the Real Good Chair project for Blu Dot earned Mono, supermarche, NoWare Media, and Blu Dot recognition in this year’s Cannes International Advertising Awards. A Bronze Lion is pretty cool in our world and we’re grateful of the opportunity to have helped with such a fun project.

Younicornme

Karen — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:58:32 +0000

We made the music for this promotional video for local marketing agency Mono. They made a really fun iPhone app called Younicornme. Enjoy.

Real Good Chair

erict — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:47:35 +0000

The Challenge: Seamlessly replace a (too) popular song performed by the young guitar player at 7:18 with an original composition that adds energy to the outro of this promotional video. How did we do?

We are up and running!

Karen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:03:39 +0000

Here’s a quick shot of the performance area. More photos to come (isn’t Hipstamatic too cool?).

NoWare is open(ing)

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:12:16 +0000

The North Warehouse Media Group will officially open for business in February 2010. Music composition, licensing, and other audio media for film, television, and interactive branding.