Atmospheric drones, eerie pulses, and unstable overtones pour out of this little box as its twin oscillators push each other into strange, dark corners of the sound spectrum.
The Atari Goth Console Kit by cctv is a beginner-friendly DIY patchable drone synth built on the classic Atari Punk Console circuit conceived by Forrest Mims in 1982, reimagined for experimental noise and Eurorack-friendly workflows. You get two interlocking oscillators whose pitches influence one another in unpredictable ways, a front-panel momentary button to “energize” the circuit into bursts of malignant drone, and a set of 3.5 mm jacks for CV inputs and mono audio output that sit comfortably in the range of guitar pedals, modular systems, and other desktop hardware.
Designed as an accessible first build, the kit keeps the parts count down to just 21 components and lays everything out on a spacious PCB, making it ideal for anyone new to soldering and synth DIY. Power it from a 9V battery, patch in your favorite CV sources, then feed the output into reverb, delay, or distortion to push its analog square-wave core from playful chattering to ritual-grade, behemoth-awakening drones.
