Recent Acquisitions

[barry]

Student loan just came in as well so I may end up picking some more stuff up soon... Also I think I'm going to order a BYOC rat clone kit. I miss my rat pedal.

i have one just sitting around PM me if interested

[orangettecoleman]

Not a recent acquisition, but a recent construction... two pickups, two kill switches, and an output jack in a speaker I got at the thrift store. I'm inordinately proud of myself for having built this. I'll put a volume and tone control in and it's going to be my new invention - the no string guitar.
Barry, funds are tight at the moment due to my recent CD buying spree (which includes a title by one Barry Chabala as a matter of fact) but I'll let you know if and when I can take that Rat kit off your hands. Assuming it's still around...

[barry]

i still have it. its not a kit though, its the whole real rat

[bryan]

the no string guitar.

Nice. Is that a contact mic as well? Is this a feedback machine since it's basically in a speaker?

I've been playing this too but mine is considerably less elaborate - just the pickup wired directly to a cord.

[orangettecoleman]

the no string guitar.

Nice. Is that a contact mic as well? Is this a feedback machine since it's basically in a speaker?

I've been playing this too but mine is considerably less elaborate - just the pickup wired directly to a cord.

Believe me, I thought about trying to hook up the speakers as well but I don't think it would work without an onboard preamp. I may hook up a 1/4 input so I can run an out from my mixer back into those speakers though, it should be feedback goodness. That round thing is actually a chinese coin I picked up off the ground in Bali years ago, I bolted it to the speaker case and hooked the ground wires up to it so I'd be able to ground the buzz away. I do have some contact mics in the mail though so I'm sure they will find their way onto that box soon enough.

[Joda]

Olympus LS-10 Linear PCM Recorder

Looking forward to having this in my pocket, it's the size of a cell phone.

[Wombatz]

Love it. It gives me feedback at the lowest of volumes.

[moesgaard]

the no string guitar.

Do you know the work of Pascal Battus? he's been doing a guitar pick-ups only project for some years now, he has released a superb record called pick-up on the Amor Fati label (France). He's an awesome guy, you should check it out, really raw and uncompromising

[orangettecoleman]

the no string guitar.

Do you know the work of Pascal Battus? he's been doing a guitar pick-ups only project for some years now, he has released a superb record called pick-up on the Amor Fati label (France). He's an awesome guy, you should check it out, really raw and uncompromising

Sounds interesting, I will investigate. A fair amount of what someone like Keith Rowe does is basically interacting with the pickups anyway (electric fans, pot scrubbers and what not) so i figured that since I do a lot of that I could just make a box for that purpose and save space. I thought about buying a cheap electric guitar and taking the neck and strings off, but this was cheaper and I had the parts laying around so...

[.bzr]

Just received this from MFOS, damn fast shipment !
Sounds great, nice woody case

[howsthatsound]

nice! i've been building a soundlab for like 3 years. haha

[Dohol]

Why? Why do I need yet another delay?? Why???

[MKULTRA]

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[Dohol]

[quote="MKULTRA"]

Status report if you please.

Well, it shares all the peculiarities of the Digitech Digidelay (it's glitchy and you have to be always aware of the repeat setting {if set for maximum repeats it won't repeat} ..and it literally eats batteries as snacks..) Still, it's got eight seconds of delay/sampling and the quality of the sound is definitely a step up from the digidelay...

It's also got this molded rubber...thing...that is supposed to fit over the knobs to save your settings....I for one, cannot imagine using it..


I think once I buy a proper power supply for the thing, I'll be well satisfied with it..

[flies]

http://thesquarewaveparade.com/bleak-follw.html
my most recent purchase, from a troniks board classified at a low price. I've had it now for about 2 months or something. it's a VC-distortion, more or less. I use it to get cross modulation effects out of my mixer feedback setup. it's alright. it's passive, and it doesn't have a bypass. I played aroudn with it using two sine-waves from max-msp and got some pretty neat effects from it. Looking at its output during this test, i can see that half-wave rectification is a major part of what it does, with some additional non-linearity, and the CV apparently cross-fading between clean and dirty outputs. or something.

anyway, I wanted a two-input device, and i've got one.

[Wombatz]

Bad buy. Sounds as awful as the same function on my digitech rp250 (which is why I bought it). Well, there will be a way to use it, I guess, but compared to the slow gear emulation on my zoom g2, it really sucks. And that already sucked in comparison to the zoom pedal I had 10 years ago, which probably sucked compared to the boss, which I haven't heard. It seems civilization is slowly unlearning the swelling effect.

[p_ano]

just ordered this from curious inventor (these guys are located in atlanta, which helped to sell me on the kit) ->



this will be my first foray into kit building... stoked!

[faster]

[jkudler]

is that a sound devices 8 track? those things are super nice. i am afraid to ask how much it cost.. .

anyone tried to behringer vd400? a friend told me about them yesterday, and i went and ordered one that night. true analog delay, for $30 shipped new??
http://www.behringer.de/EN/Products/VD400.aspx

any experienes? the other stuff in this series seems like junk, but i guess so what. ..

[faster]

is that a sound devices 8 track? those things are super nice. i am afraid to ask how much it

Yeah, I'm really happy with it. It cost a lot, but I worked a ton the last couple years and my existing recorder is shitting the bed.