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Publison Infernal Machine

January 18th, 2010 by David Kronemyer · 5 Comments

DAVID KRONEMYER: The Publison Infernal Machine is a wonderful effects device manufactured by the eponymous French company in the 1980s.  It also has a great name!  There seems to be an issue on-line about the lack of availability of the manual.  Here’s a .pdf copy.

Publison Infernal Machine – Manual

Publison Infernal Machine

Publison Infernal Machine

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 roginator // Feb 13, 2010 at 1:15 pm

    thanx a lot for this manual

  • 2 Paul Tattersall // Mar 4, 2011 at 3:36 am

    Many thanks for the manual, this really has been hard to find!

  • 3 Gary Hall // Oct 22, 2011 at 2:13 am

    I have many memories of Publison’s owner-inventor demo’ing all day long at AES with a hand-held mic and a heavey accent. “Ziss iss ze Publison Infernal Machine….”.

    We (Lexicon) got one in at one point and discovered that all the chip designations had been laboriously dremel’d off on manufacture. Consider they were all 7400-series TTL, it seemed a bit much.

  • 4 Peter Forrest // Oct 27, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    If Publison thought Lexicon might try to reverse-engineer the Infernal Machine, it would have been a simple matter for Publison to make this process difficult to accomplish.

  • 5 David Crocombe // Jan 31, 2012 at 5:48 am

    I was allocated to maintain one of these when they came out. The chip numbers were missing and not listed in the manual. I didn’t want to pay the agent for service, as that would do me out of a job. So I pulled the chips out one by one and put them in a “chip checker”. It managed to identify many of the chips and I wrote their numbers into the manual. After all that preparation for maintenance, I don’t remember the machine actually failing!

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