Thyratron Tentacle Attack! Sample Pack
These samples were recorded from several home-made Metasonix modules that I built from scratch in my basement.
Eric Barbour, the owner of Metasonix, posted his hand-drawn diagrams for several of his older modules on the Modwiggler forums. On their own, the diagrams are not usable as they are missing a lot of key pieces of information - no surprise, since the drawings were for himself and he already knew what blanks to fill in. But for anyone wanting to work off of them, they require quite a bit of work. I went through and reworked the drawings with some help from the user manuals for each of the modules and made working schematics for several of them. I then built each module from my diagram, making changes as needed until I had a complete schematic that I could post that anyone could build. I posted the diagrams along with photos and sounds of the completed modules. As of this writing (5 October 2025) I have a handful of modules left to complete.
The TM-3 dual thyratron VCO samples come in two flavors. The first is both oscillators synced, with the neon lamp suboscillator on. The second is both oscillators unsynced and no suboscillator.
There are also several samples I recorded of the TM-3 VCO running through a TX-3 iCunt and a TM-1 waveshaper/ringmod, both units hand-built by myself as well.
If you want to see the thread with the original drawings, my schematics and each module I built, it is linked here:
https://www.modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=235632
Each sample is cut at zero crossing and will loop seamlessly without any further modification.
Cover art by me. Cherri the kaiju girl made for me by my partner.
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Several samples of my home-made Metasonix tube synth equipment, cut to zero crossing and organized by frequency.