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Green Dream Drone Machine
« on: June 23, 2012, 03:25:52 PM »

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/

This is how it is supposed to sound:

green machine revision

this is the first finished prototype that doesn't modulate even though I say it does in vid!!:

Green Dream Machine drone box demo


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Re: Green Dream Drone Machine
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2012, 06:38:05 PM »

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/

and this:

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/aidantaylor/green-dream-drone-machine[/soundcloud]
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Re: Green Dream Drone Machine
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2012, 07:10:52 PM »

Sweet! Is this based on the 40106?
I never get tired of playing with this stuff!!!! :) :) :)
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Re: Green Dream Drone Machine
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2012, 08:04:20 PM »

That sounds bloody horrible.  Keep up the good work.
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Re: Green Dream Drone Machine
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2012, 09:06:59 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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Re: Green Dream Drone Machine
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2012, 12:40:17 PM »

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Re: Green Dream Drone Machine
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2012, 12:50:24 AM »

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?
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Re: Green Dream Drone Machine
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2012, 02:21:40 PM »

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!
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Re: Green Dream Drone Machine
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2012, 09:21:05 PM »

cool, stuff sounds great man, how did you get on at supernormal?
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