TRANSMIT
The Texas Instruments Speak & Spell: How a Demo...
How a $25,000 engineering experiment became the demonic voice that launched the digital age. In 1978, four Texas Instruments engineers accidentally created the first consumer AI while trying to build...
The Texas Instruments Speak & Spell: How a Demo...
How a $25,000 engineering experiment became the demonic voice that launched the digital age. In 1978, four Texas Instruments engineers accidentally created the first consumer AI while trying to build...
The Z.Vex Fuzz Factory: How a Broken Guitar Ped...
Discover how the Z.Vex Fuzz Factory transformed from an engineering "mistake" into a 30-year meditation on beautiful chaos. This deep dive explores why Zachary Vex's broken fuzz pedal became a...
The Z.Vex Fuzz Factory: How a Broken Guitar Ped...
Discover how the Z.Vex Fuzz Factory transformed from an engineering "mistake" into a 30-year meditation on beautiful chaos. This deep dive explores why Zachary Vex's broken fuzz pedal became a...
Zen And The Art Of Time Stretching
At sixteen I launched my car off a buckled Los Angeles street we called Hodis Mountain. In the air, time slowed—the music dropped pitch, the world fractured into frames, and...
Zen And The Art Of Time Stretching
At sixteen I launched my car off a buckled Los Angeles street we called Hodis Mountain. In the air, time slowed—the music dropped pitch, the world fractured into frames, and...
The DigiTech XP-300 Space Station: The Pedal Th...
Released in 1996, the DigiTech XP-300 Space Station was stacked unsold in Guitar Centers and written off as a failure. Decades later, this “yellow box” commands hundreds on the used...
The DigiTech XP-300 Space Station: The Pedal Th...
Released in 1996, the DigiTech XP-300 Space Station was stacked unsold in Guitar Centers and written off as a failure. Decades later, this “yellow box” commands hundreds on the used...
The TMC0350/TMC0355 ROM Chips: The Digital Soul...
The real magic behind the Speak & Spell's robotic voice lived in two unassuming black rectangles: the TMC0350/TMC0355 ROM chips. These 128-kilobit memory monsters achieved compression ratios so absurd they...
The TMC0350/TMC0355 ROM Chips: The Digital Soul...
The real magic behind the Speak & Spell's robotic voice lived in two unassuming black rectangles: the TMC0350/TMC0355 ROM chips. These 128-kilobit memory monsters achieved compression ratios so absurd they...
The DigiTech XP-300 Space Station: A Breakdown ...
The XP-300 Space Station wasn’t categorized by effect type but by a psychedelic taxonomy of instability: Synth, Warp, Alien, Sonic. It turned guitars into haunted radios, gave permission to fail...
The DigiTech XP-300 Space Station: A Breakdown ...
The XP-300 Space Station wasn’t categorized by effect type but by a psychedelic taxonomy of instability: Synth, Warp, Alien, Sonic. It turned guitars into haunted radios, gave permission to fail...