Designing a TR-606 style hi-hat from scratch

Build your own as a DIY eurorack kit: Support the channel... ... through Patreon: ... by buying my other DIY kits: Simulation in CircuitJS: Video on passive filters: Join my Discord community: Synthesized, analog hi-hats are pretty fascinating. That’s because emulating any kind of cymbal using an analog circuit is tough, since the sound a real cymbal produces is not quite pure noise – but also not really harmonic. Still, a couple classic drum machines like the Roland TR-606 and TR-808 took their best shot at it, with quite strange sounding results that I personally really like. So I decided to follow suit and came up with this simple, but very versatile and crunchy sounding DIY hi-hat circuit. If you want to build along, here’s the bil