Showing posts with label Homemade effects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homemade effects. Show all posts
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Feedback Looping!
This is a video I did awhile back on feedback looping. Using this technique, you can make some really cool sounds using only a mixer, or you can play effects pedals, as if they were their own musical instruments. Dig!
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Homemade Tape Delay
My latest project is a homemade tape delay effect, made out of a tape recorder, a walkman and a radio shack mixer. This is probably the third time I've set out to make one of these, and this is the first time it's actually worked. The concept isn't that far out, but it's just hard doing anything with cassette tape, it's skinny, the tension on the tape has to be just right, tape players tend to eat it, and on and on and on. The sound I get is still a little warbly, but not too bad. Here is a crappy diagram of what I did, followed by a link to what it sounds like. Notice at the end of the recording, I just let it repeat itself, and it kind of just degrades into oblivian. Some of the connections were 1/4" to 1/8", I made myself some cables with 1/4" on one end and 1/8" on the other. These have come in very handy for weird little projects like this.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Walkman Distortion Box
Here's a look at my latest electronics project, a distortion effect box for electric guitar made out of a cassette walkman. This is perfect for me not only because I've been stockpiling walkmans for years now, since they were so cool when I was a kid, and now they're available for $1 at any junk store, but also because this project is right at my skill level, it really was much easier to do this than you'd think. You could use any small cassette player for this, but I think the cheaper it is, the better the distortion will end up sounding. I used a GPX model that doesn't even have a radio, so there really wasn't much to it, I pretty much just took the little circuit board out and did a little re-wiring. Finally, I housed it in a Radio Shack project box. Here are some good instructions, followed by a sound sample of my finished product.
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