had a good day

Man, I found some stuff yesterday at that old thrift store. I had plans to make the rounds of thrift stores in my area, but didn't need to hit all three, cause I found these:

Casiotone MT-210





Casiotone MT-45






Casio SA-35






Talk about luck eh? These go a long with my other thrift store find of the Casio SK-1. Neato. I know that the SA-35, and the MT-45 work, but I haven't gotten round to taking the MT-210 apart, and whatnot. Lokin' forwad to it.

hey

Just sold this and thought I would give an overview of its operation. It is fair to say that there is very little information that I could give which would make a person completely able to play it right off the bat. A good amount of experimentation will be required.

At the right you can see the switch which was previously hidden under a sticker. The switch has three settings which simply change the distortion.





If one wanted, one could use the machine to apply an effect to, say, a guitar or other signal passed through it. To do so you would just flip the top switch, turning on the "modulation" circuit, and plug your external signal source into the input.






If you wanted to hear the sounds the machine can make on it's own flip all the switches, as pictured.

The battery packs:

Whoops

Hey yall. Sorry I haven't posted in a long time. As it turns out, a man needs more than amazing talent, and super human will to be a success. This man had to go get a job, which will account for all the missing posts. It's a dang shame, I assure you.

I'm doing something which ain't too far removed from what I did as a vintage electronics salesman, so I'm not in too bad of shape. I probably could come up with some more stuff, and probably will, but it'll take longer.

If it were up to me I would be living in a box right next to the thrift store sticking wires in stuff all day long, but I have familial responsibilities.

hey yall

I added a "links" section in case anyone wondered who could be better than I (me). Most blogs on it are written by people who are.

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#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):