so yeah went to the hackspace in hackney yesterday and went to one of befaco's kit days.
looked through the kits where a couple caught my eye, but for the money i chose the ms20 inspired filter.
i had a homemade ms20 style filter that was on vero board, the one by rene schmidt but it kept on busting up and didnt sound too great.. think my choices in modifications were wack out so i figured why not spend £120 and get the kit and the chance to talk to some synth people and learn some tricks.
so i got it home saturday night after about 6 or so hours of making not sure what it was going to sound like.
you can see its next to an MA35 in the pic, so i compared the two (albeit the ma35 is modelled after the ms10 filter which i guess was an earlier revision of the ms20) and the befaco one sounds way wetter and you get 2 of them. i love the ma35 which is the closest i got to sounding like my old ms10 but the befaco one has a lot of screaming resonance that really seems to drive at the top end which i like.
so for the price you get 2 identical filters with high and low pass. cv in for resonance amount, one cv in going through an attenuverter which is pritty neat! and a normal cv in for both channels. and a link switch to series them up.
had a bit of trouble with the mounting holes mind im going to have to open them up more so i can fit in the other 2 screws and i managed to fuck up on the varnish a bit when i was there (you can only see the sagging if you look up close). but all in all its a great filter! and 2 of them for £120 is pritty good i think.
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