IT!!!

I finally made some more It pedals, they're on ebay right now.

breakbeat mashup

I played two videos at the same time and created this mash up jam fest.

drum and bass theremin

This is a my drum and bass theremin. It's a modded atari punk console with a low pass filter. There are light sensors for the pitch and filter cut off frequency and the whole thing is housed in a Asian honey loquat candy tin. The video I'm jamming with is called drum and bass/breakbeat and the guy playing is Eddie Pollard.

More altoids low pass filters

I know it took me long enough but I finally have some more of these awesome altoids filters for sale on ebay. People seemed to really like 'em they sell out quick every time. If you are into it I suggest you go get one because I'm thinking about charging more next time, the circuit is so small and some of the parts were expensive. I haven't gotten around to making a white noise generator lately so I used my modded analog delay with no input for the oscillator.

Drum Buddy!

Ok obviously many of you out there have seen this already but it has now hit classic status in my book so if you have seen it go ahead and check it out again. If you have not had the pleasure let me introduce you to the drum buddy. It's a magnificent five oscillator synth with light sensors and a turntable/light combo that makes for the most simplistically genius blend of form and function I have seen since the pistol! Functional folk-art. Whatever you want to call it, it inspired me so much when I saw it around 2008! It blew my mind. I paid homage to it with a turntable wah I made but I can't touch the craftsmanship that goes into the drum buddy. Like I said, It's just an homage. Quintron is the great genius behind the drum buddy. If you haven't heard his music yet check it out. Q and miss pussycat just came through Eureka and played the shanty, it was amazing!

Rogue "analog" delay pedal

pretty nifty box it came in

I was in the market for a new delay pedal when this one came along. The rogue "analog" delay pedal. This one I swooped on for $30 bux shipping included! We cannot compete with the Chinese! I can't make a delay pedal for parts alone for that cheap. Slaves probably made this pedal and I'm a dick for buying this but I needed a new one and the good ones like the boss or line6 delays are just a little bit out of my budget. I digress, I got this "analog" delay pedal for ridiculously cheap and I am putting analog in quotes like that because It's a digital delay, when I opened it up it had the same pt2399  chip that is in all these cheap digital delays. I had a danelectro spring reverb pedal and a rocktron short timer and they both used this IC chip and I easily modded those so they worked the way I wanted to. This time I took pictures. Right away when I got it out of the very cool looking box it came in I noticed two things that sucked about it: one was that the shortest delay you could get from it was not very short at all, and the second was that it would not self oscillate no matter how high the repeats. These aspects especially the  latter would be semi-desirable traits of a delay for some people but I like to have a really short delay so I can get a room sound and I like a lot of feedback from a delay it reminds me of skinny puppy vocals. Also bauhaus used delays alot.  If you just google search pt2399 there's a plethora of good stuff on modding this chip and making your own delay pedal.

Pin 6 resistance to ground controls delay time. I took out a 10k resistor = quicker delays. I read that you want to have at least a 1k resistor here. It's true I just removed it and put a glob of solder there so now I just try not to have the delay time all the way up during start up or else it needs to be reset.

The 10k resistor I took out is right there it says 103

glob=after

this is the example circuit on the datasheet. Inside this pedal there's pretty similar stuff going on. The feedback or repeats knob is the pot in between pins 14 and 16. This pedal had a fixed 33k resistor that I took out that was limiting self oscillation.

it's the third one down, the row on the right, the one that says 333 on it

and after no resistor = massive self oscillation
and the final product!

The green monster

I've always had the most trouble with names, I don't like to name songs, I have lots of ideas for bands but i would hate to have to choose just one, I even hate naming pets! I usually just let someone else suggest a nickname that becomes a title or I just describe the thing I'm naming and that's the name. In this case both happened. My friend mike called this thing the green monster before I had a name for it and it is just a big green monster. it has three oscillators and a filter. The knobs are authentic de-commishined aircraft knobs from the inside of an airplane cockpit.