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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Free instrument Design from Ciat-Lonbarde

Peter B of Ciat-Lonbarde is offering a new kit with design schematics in order to help buy food for the clean up crew working on the fire ravaged Tarantula Hill. The fire just happened a week ago, I believe. More devastation images can be found through the above link. Donations can also be sent directly to hello@heresee.com via Paypal. Good Luck to everyone at 2118 W. Pratt, sorry to hear about your loss.

posted by Master @ 3/23/2006 01:49:00 PM  

8 Comments:

  • At 3/23/2006 10:43:23 PM, bsom said…

    Want to know what is really sad? This venue "Tarantula Hill" is in my hometown of Baltimore and I've never heard of it. Too bad the way I found out about such a great venue is by reading about it's apparent demise. I wonder what other jems are hiding out there in Harm City...

     

  • At 3/24/2006 02:14:50 AM, Synthmonger said…

    I don't mean to sound like a prick or anything, but do those things sound not very interesting for the amount of components used?

     

  • At 3/24/2006 08:18:43 AM, Master said…

    Well they are just transistors used for making simple oscillators. Most of the components are cheap and available in bulk. The recording may not be the best one either. But you are right, fewer is better.

     

  • At 3/24/2006 08:43:30 AM, Anonymous said…

    But do any of you actually know what's going on with that circuit?

    It's a daisy chain of oscillators. The previous oscillator gets modulated by the one following that and so on. There's a lot more you can do to this circuit in terms of filtering, adjust each individual pitch using pots, etc.

    I'm going to have to breadboard this.

     

  • At 3/24/2006 09:04:09 AM, goldenechos said…

    I think it is a really cool circuit actually. Not many people build discrete these days. I did not see a single IC in the design; that is why there are so many components.

    T

     

  • At 3/24/2006 10:33:00 AM, Anonymous said…

    hrm, post didn't go through. There is actually 1 IC on that schematic. the LM386 which is used as an amplifier.

     

  • At 3/24/2006 04:30:29 PM, goldenechos said…

    True, there is a LM386, but you could leave that out if you did not want to use a built in speaker. The sound generation circuit is discrete, and pretty cool.

    T

     

  • At 3/24/2006 09:51:25 PM, Anonymous said…

    True, I as just being a stickler. :)

     

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