8 Monotron Delays in The House! 8X8 Seq. to drop soon.. well.. soonish..
The Monotron Delays for the Super Fantastic 8×8 have arrived…and they look and sound great. I could play with just one forever, so sequencing 8 of them is gonna be pure madness.
I was really stoked to get this commission, in fact the first time I heard the idea I my boy off as a bit n the bonkers side. Here we are almost a year later the sequencers are up are running, Monotron delays in hand…my next post should be portable Monotron Jesus!
Stagnation.
Sorry for not being active, I have bent an Sk-1, another DD-5 etc. etc. Lots in my personal life right now, give your friends, family, and ex spouses all the love they need… ANYWAY>>>
I have also been repairing/restoring an old 117L7 test oscillator, I hate using new parts but I had to see if I could get rid of the terrible buzz. So far both my pots are old/dead stock. One is a Japanese 10ka power & volume. The original was 30ka, but 10 is working great and no gritty pot sound when you turn the dial. The other is an old 250k Mexican pot. This handles the range/octave and I would really prefer a 1m or greater but this pot was vintage and clean. Sounds good. I am still looking for a couple of dead stock big brown resistors 1k, and 10k.. I have some older stuff to trade, .. contact me.
I should be able to record some of the tone/signal soon.
Stuff on the eBay… started these puppies low!
Unforeseen occurrences have deemed it necessary for me to try and make a couple bucks on the pieces I am most fond of, the Ebay seems like the best place for these even tho I the market is saturated. Namely my Roland TR-505 and my Yamaha MU5. Both have served me well and I’m sure I’ll find on or the other again in my travels (hopefully both). Any who, now is your chance to own a part of POTAR history (lame, right?).
http://myworld.ebay.com/potarian
DEVO on American Bandstand interview
Look for more “Heros” posts to come.. they may not be music videos, or interviews with Devo but they are mos def related my music, my influences and how I get down..PLUS
HISTORY lesson with Thurston Moore
V-Tech Video Painter
A couple more pics and a video of the video painter doing what it does. I probed and prodded for these results but have since found THIS, on one of the best circuit bending blogs ever, GETLOFI.com I’ll open this guy back up and see what these connections can do.
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Yamaha Mu-5 Build Pics
I bent this Yamaha MU-5 a few months back and never posted the pics here. The ic is surface mount and has tiny legs that make it a chore to solder to, but the results are worth all the solder stress. I love to chain this thing to my Roland Tr-505 or Alesis HR-16 and let the weirdness fly. 16 MIDI channels allow you add up to 16 instruments that all play along to your drums.
MXR M-86 Classic Distortion mods
I did a couple of quick mods on my MXR M-86 Classic Distortion Pedal. The thing is sort of flat sounding so I did a quick google search and found a couple sites with some good info on the pedal in question. The most poular mod is to remove C4, and that made the pedal a bit too bright, almost noisy. So I kept reading and one of the members over at DIYstompboxes.com had recomended using nothing smaller than a .01uf and that seems to really brighten up the sound. I attached the old cap and the new cap to opposite ends of a SPST switch and now I can switch back and forth. I also added a Blue LED, it does not really effect the sound, but is much cooler than standard red.
All the info can be found by following these links.
FreeStompBoxes.org has a bunch of pages of dedicated to these mods in the forum, so check that link for all the juicy details. Photos of someones mods can also be had at DIYstompboxes.com
Noise567
I have been building a couple of these ultra simple Noise567′s here and there, what a great little circuit! Super noisy, accepts an input, and has the craziest distorted ring modulator/fuzz depending on pot position. The only drawback so far has been that it has a constant VCO running that you play over. It’s fine when dealing in drum machines and keyboards that you want to sound like hell, but it just doesn’t cut it for guitar in my opinion. I tried a couple of different cap and resistor to ground combos in different places with some luck, but it always seemed to mute out the real beauty of this circuit. Anyhow, I’ll keep soldering away and searching the forums for some relief from the ultra VCO. In the mean time here is the orig schematic for the Noise567.
I’ll record a video in the next couple days, hopefully I’ll solve the crazy VCO issue before that. Happy building friends.
UPDATE:01.30.12
If I could get the constant osc. to shut up, this would be the best effect ever. There are a couple different versions of the 567 (the LMC567, LM567, & LM567CN that I know of so far) available, all with different audio results. I hear the LMC567 does not work in the NOISE567 circuit, but I am using the LM567CN. I’ll have to order all the different varieties and give them a go.
Opto-Oscillator LFO based on the 40106 IC
Super simple OPTO LFO for a friend who was looking to design his own enclosure based around some kind of electronic noise toy. Here is an even simpler drawing of the schematic. (I mistakenly called the glass insulator I used to diffuse the light and inductor, too many beers before filming).
Circuit Bent Yamaha DD-5
Circuit Bent Yamaha DD-5 with a 10 position rotary switch providing various distortions and glitch beat variations, plus 4 more buttons providing additional variations and distortions.
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