Mini drone project, not complete just yet, I built a prototype and forgot to add 4 resistors to the oscillators which allowed them to modulate each other, the finished version will work the way I intended. There is a blog post on this on my site with more info: http://soundofginko.com/the-monthly-drone/ (http://soundofginko.com/the-monthly-drone/)
This is how it is supposed to sound:
green machine revision (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=655seW_JsKU#)
this is the first finished prototype that doesn't modulate even though I say it does in vid!!:
Green Dream Machine drone box demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-a7n27fxs#)
How do I insert pictures and make them not massive?
I would post pictures but when I try, they are like A3 size on my 13" monitor so here is a link to the finished boxes, awaiting art and green knobs (my partner is going to ink on a design, better than my nasty permanent marker graffiti)
http://soundofginko.com/junes-monthly-drone/ (http://soundofginko.com/junes-monthly-drone/)
and this:
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/aidantaylor/green-dream-drone-machine[/soundcloud]
Sweet! Is this based on the 40106?
I never get tired of playing with this stuff!!!! :) :) :)
That sounds bloody horrible. Keep up the good work.
Quote from: Gordonjcp on July 02, 2012, 08:04:20 PM
That sounds bloody horrible. Keep up the good work.
thanks ;D it's actually very useable, i'm kinda sweeping through sounds in the demo, it's really easy to focus on something you liek the sound of, and with a bit of delay and/or reverb it sounds great! I use drone boxes like this in my live stuff all the time now
yeah this one is 40106 based, 4 oscillators mixed with diodes, they go into a 4049 for distortion (like they need it) the whole thing has a voltage drain activated by the LDR
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hey, nice builds! also had a listen to your liveset video on your site, fantastic stuff mate!!! totally enjoyed that, really atmospheric, was that all done on self built machines?
Thanks! I use a couple of homemade mics and drones and some circuitbent bits - mainly my pss790 which was one of my first bends (although I use an updated version now - thats what kicks out the nicer melodic drones) and I use two pedals, a boss reverb (RV3 maybe?) and a digitech DL-8 - I tend to use the reverb so my vocals don't sound too dry and the DL-8 to create loops with its infinite feedback. I'm playing at Supernormal in a couple of weeks and bricking it!
cool, stuff sounds great man, how did you get on at supernormal?