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Circuitbenders Forum => Circuitbending discussion => Effects Units => Topic started by: AttDestroyers on February 28, 2007, 05:43:34 PM
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So i saw this sweet site about making a cassette tape walkman into a distortin box and decided to try it. i made it just like the site said but with little/no luck. mine is very clean, there's not even a hint of distortion or fuzz. anyone ever try this or know what i did wrong? anything will be appreciated.
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Where's the site at?
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i made one of these - works fine - just open the walkman / cassette player case and wire the input jack directly to the play head (i hooked mine upto the wires coming off of the play head) then just plug your synth/guitar in and hit play - instant filth :) oh and it also has the added bonus of being able to record at low dirty volume if i put a blank tape in :) hehe which is odd
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Yeah did this as well, though mines now dead. >:(
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alright, well mine wasn't "instant filth" ... which disapointed me. here's the website that i found info at.
http://www.necrosensual.com/bent/no-fi/no-fi.html
a few questions...
1. do you leave the tape head hooked up to it, because i didn't.
2. do you have to leave the tape player section in it, because i didn't. I just used the circuit.
-Is this why you said "hit play" because it has to go through the tape to make it distort?
Thank you all for the responses.
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on mine i left the whole thing intact and just fixed the input into the case near the output ... works great and is seriously filthy
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I re housed mine, didn't affect it initially. but the batteries ran down quickly. gonna try adding mains adapter power.
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I did this and all I got was this dirty noise with no input sound at all. Followed all the instructions and my soldering was nice and neat so beats me. I think its maybe because it is a newer quite high quality model. The tape head wasnt so straight forward, theres some micro circuitry and stuff in this one so not just 3 wires to solder.
I have some kids toy walkie talkies, do you reckon i could rewire them to be demonic bringers of distortion?
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I've been thinking about walkie talkies lately as well. My plan is to remove the speaker from one of the pair and replace it with an output, thus making the world's coolest and totally gritty cordless mic.
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I've just destroyed an old walkman too... >:( Some brands must be better than others...?
Walkie talkies sounds like a great idea!
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I've been using this trick for a long time. I always like the results. If you want to try it with basically no risk pick up one of these:
(http://www.newmp3technology.com/prodimages/cass2.jpg)
Slap it in any tape player and you've got a line-in! If you don't like the background hiss and motor noise you can open it up and snip the motor wires. Play around with the volume both on your instrument and the tape deck to get that "saturated" distortion that I can't ever get enough of. Yay! ;D
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(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v672/92/97/572677266/n572677266_1562675_8475.jpg)
Sorry for the crap quality, but my camera took this photo and shut off due to low battery. Whatever, I picked this up last week to make the distortion box with. It looked the oldest, though it has the fancy EQ and digital radio tuner. I threw one of those tape convertors in with my iPod as an input, and I heard only a normal amount of fuzz coming out,
Am I doing something wrong, or is this just too new and not able to be fuzz-boxed?
Or maybe it's gonna work once I do it all up plug in my guitar?
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(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v672/92/97/572677266/n572677266_1562675_8475.jpg)
Sorry for the crap quality, but my camera took this one photo and shut off due to low battery. You can blame me for the blur; I've got shakey hands. Sucks for soldering, but it's a cross to bear. Whatever, I picked this up last week to make the distortion box with. It looked the oldest of options available, though it has the fancy EQ and digital radio tuner. I threw one of those tape convertors in with my iPod as an input, and I heard only a normal amount of fuzz coming out,
Am I doing something wrong, or is this just too new and not able to be fuzz-boxed?
Or maybe it's gonna work once I do it all up plug in my guitar?
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I'd go ahead and do the popular mod where you remove the tape head and so forth (not sure of the link at present; necrosensual's one above is broken). That gets a nasty sound.
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Yeah, it's only two jacks. Provided there's still a chance it will work, I'll try it out and just steal my jacks back if I needed. I only spent a buck.
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Well, my first one went to the dump, cause nothing came out of it but a loud hum. Now I got a Sony one that looks newer, and I've got it worked. It does sound filthy, especially when you're not playing.
My question is how to wire up a switch to bypass the distortion, and how to change the three-wire 1/8" stereo jack into a 1/4" mono jack....which channel should i keep to make mono, or is there any difference, and will I have to add a resistor?
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I think you would need a 2 x DPST switch.. Don't know the name of that switch.. 4PST ? Then it should route the signal thru the walkman at the same time it makes the output jack connect to the walkman. And the other way it should disconnect the input from the walkman and route it directly to the output which also will be disconnected from the walkman.. If you dont disconnect the output jack I'm sure you'll get hiss/ground/gunk sound from walkman..
Personally I've never had any problems making sterio to mono just connecting L and R togheter.. If you don't want that you should use R, which should be the tip of any mono jack..
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Well, apparently a DPST switch looks like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/DPST-symbol.svg/100px-DPST-symbol.svg.png (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/DPST-symbol.svg/100px-DPST-symbol.svg.png)
{sorry, it wouldn't diplay on the forum}
...which looks to me like what you said I would require.
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Will have to dig mine out of the garage and try this one.
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Well, apparently a DPST switch looks like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/DPST-symbol.svg/100px-DPST-symbol.svg.png (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/DPST-symbol.svg/100px-DPST-symbol.svg.png)
{sorry, it wouldn't diplay on the forum}
...which looks to me like what you said I would require.
Actually you need a DPDT switch.. Anyways I made a small diagram for you.. It should work just fine, if not you might need to switch the GND aswell, but I can't see how it would have any effect..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lofininja/3461678977/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lofininja/3461678977/)
Feel free to UP my karma ;)
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Oh yeah, no kidding. I realized what I forgot to think about.
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My walkman distortion box / crazy noize box... It self oscillates making all kinds of noise..
32 body touch point / patch bay
2 Potentiometers
5 Switches
In
Out
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LNRnB1htLA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LNRnB1htLA)
First part of vid is just self oscillation.. Middle is toy drum into the input.. Last part is output of toy drum tied to my finger...
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LN your stuff is always so creative, effing love it. Keep it coming man.
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I made one of these and for the bypass I've simply soldered the central lug of a SPDT to the tip of the output jack socket and then I've soldered one wire from the headphone jack's tip to one of the lateral leg of the SPDT and another from the input jack's tip to the third leg of the SPDT.
The sound is very satured, I would say too saturated, the sound is very "cutted". Anyway, I have other 2 cassette players so I will try with these, maybe I will have best results.
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LN your stuff is always so creative, effing love it. Keep it coming man.
Thanks alot. I got something in the making. It's working, but it is a VERY compact build. It's basically like every 1/10 of a mm is counting. So I'm still fighting that. And no, another casing is not an option ;D
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maybe you can hook two of these up, one with a record head, and make a tape delay?
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maybe you can hook two of these up, one with a record head, and make a tape delay?
That has been done before and is very possible. Just have a search on google. Something like "casette tape delay" should do it.
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Didn't want to start a new thread, so I decided to necro this one. Hope y'don't mind.
Just finished making my walkman distortion last night. Nothing too fancy, just the distortion and a demented sort of bit crusher/gate feature that uses a sort of enhance toggle switch. Not too learned on pedals so I don't know what the effects are called, so yeah. Here's a video, http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylanpalme/5297498486/#secretaea5445271 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylanpalme/5297498486/#secretaea5445271)
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What's that bass you've got, and please can I have it?
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haha, it's a 1964 Teisco Del Ray, here's a full picture of it http://www.friendlyrivermusic.com/uploads/images/images/64TiescoBass.jpg (http://www.friendlyrivermusic.com/uploads/images/images/64TiescoBass.jpg) (that's the same one I have, picture's from the shop I got it from). And no, no you cannot have it. It's my baby.