Now here's an interesting find, namely the Drumssette drum machine, built by DIY-er Mike Walters, of Mistery Circuits. The guy is quite ingenious, as he built the Drumessette out of an old Tascam four track cassette recorder, since he could take advantage of the drum sounds coming out of the prerecorded tape.

The same sounds are the likes of what drive the sixteen step sequencer inside the Drumessette, and while the cassette plays, Mike can map out rythms on the switch interface. That's because each of the four tracks are completely separate from each other, and contain a single, repeating sound, but are all synchronized.

Now, there's something that might get you to cross your eyes a little, but here it goes – as complicated as it sounds, Walters added a step-able four position rotary switch on the front panel of his drum machine, through which he controls routing of a parallel audio signal, that doesn't go via the output, from any of the four tracks and drives it through the Tascam's headphones amplifier circuitry, with a delay stage, another amp and input in the 16 step sequencer, so to toggle between several sequencer frequencies and making it to step.

Guess that's enough from my side, so I'll leave you guys with the videos bellow, to amaze yourselves at analog-magnetic technology.

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