{"id":61,"date":"2011-11-17T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/11\/17\/the-synthstick-by-t-escobedo\/"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:47:53","slug":"the-synthstick-by-t-escobedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/11\/the-synthstick-by-t-escobedo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Synthstick&#8221; by T. Escobedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/Resources-files\/synthstick-thumb.png\" align=left hspace=10 vspace=15 width=300> For years, Tim Escobedo maintained the excellent FolkUrban website, which featured a wide array of instruments&#8211;both traditional and electronic&#8211;cunningly made from cheap, common supplies (lots of PVC and tupperware, grocery sacks, etc.)  His projects were a huge influence, and served as invaluable templates to my tinkering; the synthstick was the first synth I ever built, and its VCO (the core noise-making circuit) found its way into many of my projects, as well as those built by my students (sharp eyes will see something very similar nestled at the heart of the Cigar Box Synth, Project 17).<br \/>\nGeoCities evaporated in October 2009, and Escobedo&#8217;s entire site with it.  I archived the Synthstick and his collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/2010\/11\/circuit_snippets_by_t_escobedo.html\">Circuit Snippets<\/a> as PDFs, but these don&#8217;t include any of the audio examples.  Happily, I&#8217;ve discovered that many other tinkerers loved Escobedo&#8217;s site as much as I did, and archived various chunks; Googling for &#8220;T. Escobedo&#8221; is a good place to start.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/Resources-files\/Escobedo-Synthstick.pdf\">&#8220;The Synthstick&#8221; by T. Escobedo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Tim Escobedo maintained the excellent FolkUrban website, which featured a wide array of instruments&#8211;both traditional and electronic&#8211;cunningly made from cheap, common supplies (lots of PVC and tupperware, grocery sacks, etc.) His projects were a huge influence, and served as invaluable templates to my tinkering; the synthstick was the first synth I ever built, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/11\/the-synthstick-by-t-escobedo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The Synthstick&#8221; by T. Escobedo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}