After building a four super simple oscillator drone box and a handful of guitar pedals, I decided to move onto LMNC’s stripboard modules and my own case.
As is often the case, I built everything up, oiled the wood, sprayed the panel, soldered the circuit, put it all together and… it didn’t work. I was annoyed, start fiddling with stuff a little frustrated and turned the op amp IC around thinking I’d misplaced it, and blew the fuse in my power supply.
After taking a break and coming onto this forum however, I found that someone had made the exact same fuse-blowing, IC turning mistake I had made, and that further, I’d have to ground the last leg of the pot - and it all worked!
I just wanted to say thanks to LMNC, Dud, aaron2, and the many others on the forum who made this a success story; it’s great to know there are likeminded (and more informed) people around.
Hopefully a pic is attached to show the project so far. Roll on the next module!
Not quite circuit bent - it’s a gutted mini Henry hoover that I built a bass fuss circuit into. Sounds surprisingly great though!
I have bent an old Casio keyboard with a couple of switches. It ended up sounding like two flavours of lofi overdrive, or a whole lot of noise with both switches on!
Nice! I’m pretty amateur at circuit bending myself(damn Furbies love emitting brain smoke), but be sure to check out @Dud 's blog soundbender36.wordpress.com - an absolute treasure trove of bent toys/instruments.
Really appreciate it @Dud - I’ll be sure to do so!
I think I’m going to go for something nice and simple for the next module. A clock-divider style sub-oscillator with a 4013. Should be able to get a nice fuller sound before I move onto the more challenging looking ms-20 filter on the LMNC site.
Ha, I missed this one! Cool, loads of unique sounds from a hacked toy! Neat, I like whatever phaser is going on there, and the bit crushing sound on your drums.
