Need a tube Synth?
Trogotronic has you covered. The sounds from these units are fairly interesting, but I am not really sure as to how the the tubes are used. My guess in some unorthodox way, however I am confident this builder knows what they are doing granted they built a huge Tube Mixer for themselves. I will say that the sounds are different from just a basic 555 oscillator, but they are similar none to less. Also these units must use low power tubes because the cases would never fit an entire power stage safely. The blue joystick box is apparently a switcher for patching signals in and out based on the direction of the stick. [Thanks to Housepig for the link]
3 Comments:
At 12/03/2005 06:42:02 AM, David said…
hey,
actually, those are old tube signal generators... used for testing gear you've built (or was broken). Plenty of tubes in 'em :) And like most old testing gear, kinda big. The dial/meter on the front selects the frequency range (usually from very low hertz up to about 15-20khz but some went up to radio frequency range).
At 12/03/2005 12:35:37 PM, Master said…
Cool, thanks for pointing that out. Trogo must have just modded the controls then.
At 12/05/2005 03:18:04 PM, Anonymous said…
there are extra controls modded on, and some internal modifications - most are switchable, so they can behave as stock if necessary.
as for size, they are bigger than pedals, but not huge - the Ogre is about the size of a lunchbox (thermos not included!) while the Destroyer is a little bigger, maybe 10"x8"x5" or so.
- housepig
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