[rickcr42]

For your listening pleasure

something to play with would be really cool so these are a couple of interesting links to music makers instead of music players

Tube analog synthesizer , no a kit but easily done with point ot point if you know how,add a midi interface and let 'er rip

http://www.blaze.net.au/~sasami/synth/tube/index.html

PAiA's version of the Theremin , the Theremax . all schematics and cabinet plans available . If you build it cruise over to fred nachbauers site for the mods . Anyone old enough to remember the old science fiction B movies will recognize the sound of this guy

http://www.paia.com/theremax.htm



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[erix]

I've been having fun lately with stompboxes.

This is my version of Joe Gagen's Easy Face , a Fuzz Face derivitive using a silicon transistor driving a germanium transistor.

I'm starting to love painting...

Controls are:

VOLT = a series resitor between the battery and the circuit which you can use to starve the circuit and give you truly nasty gating-splatty sounds.
GAIN = adjust the gain of the first transistor
TONE = adjusts the low frequency cut-off at the input of the circuit
VOLUME = makes it louder

Note the fancy-shmancy boo-teek caps - I guess my junk box is a little different from most stompbox builders...

Next up - an envelope filter!!

noisy,
erix

 

[rickcr42]

nice work man

have you ever built the Real McTube FUZZ Box ?

 

[erix]

Quote:

Originally posted by rickcr42 nice work man have you ever built the Real McTube FUZZ Box ?

Thanx!

Nope - haven't built it but I've thought about it and even e-mailed Fred a few times - nice guy. He's got a new version now.

Fred's Tube Projects

Theramins too - Hey, are we back on topic now?

ok,
erix

 

[rickcr42]

considering the topic was off topic how would we know when we were on topic

 

[rickcr42]

but yeah , kinda sorta

pretty much anything performance based rather than reproduction based

The axe 84 site has a pdf file of the real mctube and there is a downlaodable pdf file available for it from another site

i am considering a build due to it being a preamp as well as an overdrive stage according to the usage

and fred's site also has mods for the theramax plus a rally cool theremin made from an old radio

the tube synth is a "will build" but it is presently down on my list of things to do , as is the theremin .

I would like to do a classic rather than modern theremin but the parts from the old RCA and MOOG plans are not easy to find and it looks like keeping them in tune would be a real b*tch

But hey ,that's why this is fun

BTW-you ever check out the virtual theremin from the BBC ?

A link to it is under "just for fun" in the DIY links section above

 

[erix]

Of the tube-based stompboxes I've got wood for a Matchless Hotbox. It's two channel, clean and filthy, with tone controls.

Here's the schem, and here's a layout.

ok,
erix

 

[danlaix]

erix.. did u get my email?

 

[rickcr42]

OK

you win man

I bow to the resident head-fi stombox master and paint meister extroadanare

 

[Budgie]

There is something pretty funny about Cerafine caps in a stompbox.


"Cerafines, The Best Caps for Cleaner, Smoother, Distortion."

 

[rickcr42]

Check out the Alessandro line of guitar amps ,cerfines ,solen fast caps,audioquest wire-built like audiophile equipment with boutique parts

and BTW-for me they are the best looking guitar amps on the planet

love real wood

 

[erix]

My favorite pr0n site...

No Alessandro's but the Matchless guts are certainly something to behold.

ok,
erix