Field Supplies for Sound Exploration
Noise made by POTAR
Headphones Recommended – Just a fun little sound experiment with our lizards food. I attached 2 – 35mm piezos to a small tub of meal worms via my Dual OPA field buffer and then into the trusty Mix Pre 6 II – kind of what you would expect, lotsa scratchy little legs in the saw … Read more
I passed by an Arlo doorbell camera on a business near my place and just knew it was hiding some sound secrets, it was.
Build and EMF sensor to listen to electromagnetic fields and the sounds your electronic devices make.
This would be a great addition to a studio for making weirdo soundscapes, crazy pitch-bent bleeps, and other fuzzy madness.
Special thanks are in order to The Torrance Art Museum for hosting, Insufficient Despair for organizing the event, and Phog Masheen for providing the live PA.
I have had this old DOD Flanger kicking around in my parts box for about 10 years. I finally got around to testing the mods on it, and WOW! It’s a killer. From added LFO tones and noise to delay-like repeats The mods are pretty simple, you replace the 3 internal trim pots with comparable-value … Read more
Here is a fun little noise project that you can hook up to your Baby 8 Sequencer to get some gnarly sounds. Taking CV (control voltage) from your sequencer or another synth the POTAR CV Hex Noiser creates funky noise beats, bleeps, and squelches in time with your setup. Don’t have a sequencer? No problem, … Read more
Here is a stripboard layout I did for a preamp/boost using the JAN 6418 subminiature tubes I have been experimenting with lately. It is based on the schematic from the previous post, but rather than powering the heater with a 1.25-volt battery, I utilized an LM317 voltage regulator and a 100-ohm resistor. This ultra-simple circuit … Read more
