KVR Audio

_oswald · Post by **_oswald** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:54 am

One bend wasn't going as badass as I wanted, so on inspiration from the MySpace 'Circuit Bending' group, I decided to tear open a telephone.

Hopefully I can make some shitty vocoding crap!

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:03 pm

Right, I'm gonna post on the myspace forums as well, but thought that i would ask here first

Just had a go a bending a '91 model super speak n spell. My first bend as well. You can do some stuff to it, contrary to every web page i have looked at (google bring up about 5 hits all told for "super speak and spell circuit bent")

got some disortion, a very garbled signal, and some nasty white(?) noise out of it. very cool.

However, it likes to reset itself after some of these, er, bends (is that the correct terminology?)

So, is there a way of jumping the circuit or amp or fuse or whatever, so that i can start the thing and play with all the buttons and my switches without it resetting itself all the time??

_oswald · Post by **_oswald** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:13 pm

Bunnyboy wrote: So, is there a way of jumping the circuit or amp or fuse or whatever, so that i can start the thing and play with all the buttons and my switches without it resetting itself all the time??

Are you doing any sort of resistance tests in your bending adventures?

If you're not, then get yourself a Decade Box or build your own, like I did.

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:41 pm

_oswald wrote:
Bunnyboy wrote: So, is there a way of jumping the circuit or amp or fuse or whatever, so that i can start the thing and play with all the buttons and my switches without it resetting itself all the time??
Are you doing any sort of resistance tests in your bending adventures?

If you're not, then get yourself a Decade Box or build your own, like I did.

Ah, no

Will google for that. Ghazla's book mentions it, as do a couple of sites.

problem is, i cannot detach the circuit board from the unit, and i only have the back on display, so i dunno what is what

so, by bypassing the fuse or whatever it is, that would work??

do the eyes glow when it meets a resistance??

datapark · Post by **datapark** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:11 am

bebop wrote:cool another contest! good luck guys, looks rock solid even if filled up fed up with buzzy meat (hello, nice people though)and a solid ground zero of an absolute nothing to do, but wait to get raped by the will to compose on a next two-two-four-four and on so

from where you don't think, hello to Steph who is speeding with his courrier to travel with pigs in hollywood (I'd say your proof reversed sould be incomplete, or blink twice)

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Big Love to Maurice on his man's horse
oh I got to yet already go!

Wow

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:45 am

I'm sold - where can I hear a tune created entirely from circuit bent sounds?

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:34 am

Integratron wrote:I'm sold - where can I hear a tune created entirely from circuit bent sounds?

Entirely? Easiest to point you to Cementimental...

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:39 pm

Great!

_oswald · Post by **_oswald** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:16 am

ew got himself a new toy this evenin, an _oswald original!

The buttons call up SFX and the cue of random music bits while the knob is a huge and strange pitch thing. It's in his hands so if you wanna hear it, bug him to record it!

deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:12 pm

I know, wrong forum...
but I do build things!

was taking pics of stuff to sell when I had to take a pic of this thing.
individual home-built da's on each meter for feeding a multi-transmitter network.

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:14 pm

mines not exactly bending,so tell me to f-off if ye like.
i put apair of mini-headphones and an old telephone earpiece into a magic mic(spring reverb toy) and added some resistors to limit the output.(a tip from someone)i'm not experienced with electronics,(can just knock audio leads together etc)so i was looking for a simple and small circuit to make the thing distort a bit.it's not picking up the reverb as good as i expected which is just bad positioning i guess.so just wondered if there is something a could do,pref without using batteries or just a little cell if i have to.
any simple tips will be much appreciated.(i do have a few mixed bags of caps,res etc)

waiting man · Post by **waiting man** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:58 pm

an info for a newb: are those kind of rotary switches ok for building a testbox with various potentiometers?
http://www.futurlec.com/Switches/ROTP1P12.shtml

deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:09 am

if all your pots 'share' a common then yes (+ the price is right)
I take it you want to build a resister substitution box?

waiting man · Post by **waiting man** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:56 am

yeah, that's what I thought about the remaining "1 pole", but wasn't sure, thanx.

and yes, it's my first resister substitution box, it's time to refine the probing process.
thanx for the answer.

intel · Post by **intel** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:51 am

spacedad wrote:mines not exactly bending,so tell me to f-off if ye like.
i put apair of mini-headphones and an old telephone earpiece into a magic mic(spring reverb toy) and added some resistors to limit the output.(a tip from someone)i'm not experienced with electronics,(can just knock audio leads together etc)so i was looking for a simple and small circuit to make the thing distort a bit.it's not picking up the reverb as good as i expected which is just bad positioning i guess.so just wondered if there is something a could do,pref without using batteries or just a little cell if i have to.
any simple tips will be much appreciated.(i do have a few mixed bags of caps,res etc)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you're playing with those, too? I bought about 8 of them from Target when I found them on sale for $1.99. what I did with the one that I'm working on is glue it to the speaker one of an old computer speaker. the amp on the computer speaker provides enough ass to get the springs vibrating properly. I just haven't sussed out how I'm going to mic the output. contact mics are out because they aren't subtle enough to pick up all the vibrations. I'm thinking of glueing another speaker to the other end and wiring that up to an output jack. my other option is to get a small electret mic and install that inside the cup. once I suss it out I'll be posting some details notes on the project. if I remember I'll come back here and post a link to that.

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