Tesla Gods at the Make Fair

Does anyone know why the bolts have a specific color, is it the amount of elements that are in the air at the time of ionization?

Fender Bender

Came across this on Ghost Effects. I this this is totally sweet. A 'weird sound generator' built into a Fender guitar by danwagoner! more pics here.

T.L.B.

Just another update of the Tube Loop Boost; Its all wired up and works properly but not perfectly, Ill need to do some tweaking to get it working 100%. Well enough chit chat here are some pictures. 

Mini Lunetta Patched Close up

CMOS-based instrument designs have earned a strong following among the synth-diy crowd - and for good reason. The circuits can be relatively simple and the resulting sounds quite interesting. The Lunetta is built primarily from 4000 series CMOS integrated circuits with inputs and outputs taken to front panel jacks to be patched to other sections.  Lunettas uses counters, shift registers, XOR gates and 40106 schmidt trigger clocks and oscillators.


Check out the Electro-music forums for more project info and users' builds.


This one is built bysndbyte's

010

This is a Fender 75 that my friend Rusty asked me to take a look at; the lead channel of it was not working on it. While working on it I took the opportunity to take some pictures of it, and since photo-shoped. Good news its working now but the bad news is that I don't know what I did in order to get it working again so if it fails again I am back at square one. 010 refers to the binary positions of the switches, great part is I did not plan that when I took the picture.

Apex Electronics

I got the chance to Apex Electronics today, I was stupid and forgot my camera at home. So, here is two images taken by Mighty Ohm. Going to build some cool tube boost with NOS tube sockets I got.


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414 In the Bird House

414 In the Bird House
Originally uploaded by asobernewt

My friend Paul and I discovered that when recording drums live if you want the most compressed industrial sounding drums without having to do any post production work this is how you do it. AKG 414 in figure 8 in a can of sorts, I forget what this one was for originally. Thin metal works best and different cans have different notes to themselves; Also larger openings in the can work better.

HP 132A Dual Beam oscilloscope

60's HP Scope

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Originally uploaded by asobernewt

Took some pictures of my scope today and gas some fun editing them

Came across this while looking at photos on Flicker. Its a CGS65: Dual Tube VCA Built by Granular Matter. He has some great stuff at his blog well worth checking out.

"Pictured here are two Ken Stone CGS65 Tube VCA/Timbral Gate circuit boards. Both will be mounted behind one Eurorack format panel to reduce the build cost."

Germanium Fuzz Face

Man I wish I had some more fee time from school to build beautiful projects like this one! Its a germanum Fuzz Face by Moregeometrico

Coppersynth, October 2010
Originally uploaded by parasitk

This is just as Dave Jones says "this is sex on a stick"

Coppersynth, October 2010

"I’m still wiring up the panels, but it’s almost completed. I need to order the fancy dials for the 10-turn pots on the Living VCOs, but they’re really expensive, so that may not happen soon. I’m also missing a couple small components that I’m ordering tonight.

Overall though, I’m really happy with the way it’s turning out."