Drum Machine

CA's drum machine was a SoundMaster Memory Rhythm SR-88. It features on almost all of our post Video Rideo tracks. It had four analogue sounds (Bass Drum, Snare, Hi-hat and Cymbal) and was programmed by selecting the sound with a switch and then pressing the "beat" or "rest" buttons. We tended to feed it through a lot of sound effect pedals and (best of all) shoved it through the Korg MS10's rather gritty filter. It had a trigger output which could be patched into the Korg for rather hard-edged gated effects – a technique that was used on The Manual of Civilisation and James Is Down with the Heartburn. Before we bought the SoundMaster Memory Rhythm SR-88, our main rhythm box was the one integrated into our Tensai 2-track cassette recorder.

John mentioned to me that there is one of these on display at the Horniman Museum in London (is that right, John?) I wish I knew where our one was. 

Actually, I've found it now. Yay! BN

Samples of the SoundMaster are available here