Is there a unique phrase your family uses for your modular?

[neandrewthal]

I saw this post on reddit today: https://www.reddit.com/r/modular/commen ... _calls_it/

OP on that thread says his girlfriend calls it a "messy beepy thing." This got me thinking, since this is an archaic hobby and can look otherworldly to the casual onlooker, I'm sure modular synths get a bunch of weird nicknames.

Anecdotally, when I first started with a single smaller case, my wife referred to my little eurorack system as my "hobby box." Now, despite spanning across multiple cases, it's still called a "hobby box" in my household. My kids for the most part even call it this (well, the 3-year old calls it a "synf-a-sizer.")

What do your friends/family call yer hobby box?

I'd take a partner who calls it a hobby box. Not one who calls it a messy beepy thing

My ex called all modulars modsynths. I thought it was cute, as it was practical and concise yet I've never heard anyone else call them that.

[cornutt]

To my wife, my entire setup is "that stuff I try to ignore". The funny thing is, she can play some piano (better than me actually), but touching a synth keyboard weirds her out.

[Mashmore]

my girlfriend just calls it Muff Stuff usually.

[snakejaw]

My sweetie calls it my "Thynth".

[diode_destroyer]

My Dad delights in telling me that we did away with telephone switchboards decades ago every time he sees it...

[shredsickgnar]

My wife refers to it as my "nerd box" or the bleeps and bloops.

My 1 1/2 year old calls it the "Ha dabba dabba" trying to mimic the sounds of a drum beat. He repeats that and points downstairs(to where my studio is) any time he wants to go jam with me. AKA press buttons on my sequencer, and pull out my cables.

[khakifridge]

Wife: "what's that thing you're building?"

So, it's a "thing". And my IT career is "playing with computers". <sigh>

[FNoise8]

My kids call it the blugelblorp.

xD This is what I'm calling modular synths from now on!!!

[jules]

The modular: "the situation"

The room where all the music crap is piled: "the dungeon".

=> "the situation is getting worse".
=> "you're spending too long in the dungeon on the situation"...

[Lineofcontrol]

My wife calls it "Yipp Yipps!"
From those weird characters on Sesame Street that used to go around saying "Yipp yipp yipp Uh-huh Uh-huh!"
That's what she thinks my music sounds like. (even though I mostly do acid/techno/industrial stuff!)

So it will be phrased like "Are you going downstairs to do Yipp Yipps?

[worra]

All my synth stuff has been deemed "my bloops and bleeps" by my wife.

[MoDuLuS10]

"The out of control money vortex of doom"

just one of the colorful names my machine has as it grows...

[interferenz]

After a not so tonal modular session with a lot of hoarse filter modulation, my kids said Dad was making "devil music".

So my Modular got the name "Devil Machine"

[yeatsvisitslincoln]

After a not so tonal modular session with a lot of hoarse filter modulation, my kids said Dad was making "devil music".

So my Modular got the name "Devil Machine"

"See ya later kids, just gonna go make a deal with the Devil!

[Ranxerox]

The modular: "the situation"

The room where all the music crap is piled: "the dungeon".

=> "the situation is getting worse".
=> "you're spending too long in the dungeon on the situation"...

I think this is the dopest name so far. In fact, 'The Situation' is a good name for a band, let alone a synth...

[Blake Smith]

My wife won't refer to it by name and instead just gives it a baleful stare...

[tito_tunes]

My wife will say, "are you modulating?" or "are you going to modulate?" all in British accent, probably mimicing Div Kid or Mylar Melodies since I watch their videos a lot. She'll also say stuff like "why don't you wiggle my muff, why don'cha"

[starthief]

Apparently my Mantis case is my "new box of mods"

[cptnal]

Not a phrase for it as such, but they keep asking "exactly what it is?"

[mousegarden]

Some friends came by the other night while I was reorganising my case, they said....

"Oh look, he's playing with his "thing" again"

[nff]

usually "the mixer" LOL
because of the knobs, I suppose, I really never seen anyone outside the hobby telling a mixer apart from a synth, unless it has a keyboard.
In that case it's a piano. LOL #2

[WiffSnuggler]

button buffet.

[Homepage Englisch]

First reaction: "What is that thing? Are you spying on neighbours!?"

My partner calls it "improved synthesizer" which is not a bad name at all. She is making music herself, luckily.

[folpon]

Me:
"Do you have any pet names for my modular which people on Muffs would find amusing."

Her:
"I have described it to my friends as 'a very elaborate fire hazard which sounds cool.'"

[Shledge]

My family: The box of wires or "that quare thing"
GF: Sonic lego