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#15

#15
Originally uploaded by preposterousman

Here it is everyone. It took me a while to finish this. Believe it or not the hardest part of bending, for me at least is trying to come up with, or build enclosures. This time I made one out of cardboard. Looks pretty sharp doesn't it?

Yep, the enclosure is made of a stiff cardboard, and is painted with some pretty sweet spray paint. It is all shiny and nice. The knobs (4 out of 5) are off of a vintage television.

It has an 1/8" input, and output, and five distortion knobs. It is designed to modulate the input of other electronic instruments, but it can produce its own sounds, and quite well.

It takes one 9v battery.






















I think most of the sound samples work now. If they happen not to, just wait a while, or come back again, or if you're real desperate to hear em', just leave a comment, or email me, and I will give them to you. Also if you are annoyed by the lack of sound file dependability, and believe in what I am doing, give me some money.

On two, or three, I can't remember, I had to use the laptop mic for lack of sufficient cables and adapters, so the sound quality may be poor, and I think on one, perhaps the last one I forgot to amplify it in audacity, so you may need to turn it up.

When ever I record stuff, it is probably my first time to sit down with the instrument, so It is not as if I really know what I am doing with it. This means there still could be a whole lot of cool unfound (apparently unfound isn't a word) sounds in them. Also all patterns, and/or beats you hear are independently produced by the instrument. I'm just turning knobs:


This one is #15 working all by itself


This one is #14 being modulated by #15


This one is #13 being modulated by #15


This one is #15 being modulated by #13

I am working on it

#15
Originally uploaded by preposterousman

Here is the guts of it. Look for sounds tomorrow, and if I can get someone with a camera over here, maybe videos. (Obviously, it isn't in its case)

#14

#14
Originally uploaded by preposterousman

Here is number 14. This really is meant to be used with something which I have yet to make, but is in the works.

It has a pitch knob, witch pitches it up, and a distortion knob. For some reason I couldn't make the distortion knob do any cool stuff while I was recording in audacity, therefor the sound sample only demonstrates the pitch knob, but it really does some craziness through its own speaker, or amplified.

I fed this thing through number 13, and some really wacky sounds came out, and one day I may record that and post it.

Sound sample(just the pitch knob, everyone):

batteries

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In case I didn't say anything about it (I didn't) this thing takes five AA batteries in two packs. They were contained within the box, but removing the guts of the thing to change the batteries wears out the solder points, leading to wire breakage. No one should ever have to go through the terrible condition of wire breakage.

Workin'

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I was workin' today on that little red keyboard. You can also see the purple voice changer, which will become something really super awesome.

I will probably get some sound samples of the little red keyboard, or what is #14, tomorrow, but what I really need to do is get a video of me playing it through #13. It sounds totally awesome.

Look out y'all.

Good news everyone

Well, my very good friend has just bestowed upon me his very nice laptop, and I am grateful. He was able to procure another laptop through means I apparently am not at liberty to discuss.

I now am able to compute like never before, In my well lit living room, sitting in my relatively uncomfortable reclining chair.

In relevant news, I am waiting on parts to arrive so that I may begin work on my sk-1. Unfortunately I somehow forgot to order switches, so it looks like my work with the sk-1 will be somewhat basic. That is unless I can find some way to get radio shack to give me some free parts. Well I already have a way, the question is can I receive them in a timely manner.