Drone Synthesizer

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Since he gone got himself banned on purpose yet He is my very close friend and is still at it with the strip/vero board layouts each week this one I had to post. It is a really rather simple but decent drone synthesizer, It sounds like this:

http://soundcloud.com/pstevenson/devils-triangle-drone

Should you fancy building yourself one you can grab the layout/info here:

http://www.paulinthelab.com/2012/10/dev ... board.html

Bear in mind it was all done from idea to finished sound making state in a week (Probably less knowing Paul tbh). Also as it is so simple I am sure that there are many possible things one could add/change/mess around with to yield more complex results. PLEASE if you build one and BEND IT, DO POST LINKS/PICS/AUDIO EXAMPLES on Paul's blog page, Revenge will then be mine

Hope that it is useful and works for anyone whom builds one up

All the best to all as always

Dean

[GaryG]

I didn't know he got himself banned, not surprised though going by some of his posts...

From his write up of this circuit: "I've been getting annoyed at seeing youtube videos of people pissing about with these "synths" which are basically boxes of 555 timers with a million knobs that make stupid noises that you couldn't ever actually use in music"

Right there with him on this point.

I really like the sound of this circuit, really warm and, well, usable.

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Yeah mate he got what he wanted and he is just plain brutal/harsh sometimes! It is not an ego related problem with Paul but rather easily frustrated, impatient and says/rants exactly what he is thinking straight up. He does have a genuine passion for electronics and audio/music and will happily talk about either all day. If anyone thinks he has said/spoken harshly then it pale's in comparison to the verbal demolitions I get regular However I do ask stupid questions and wind him up so

Pleased to hear you are into it Gary and hope if you build one up yourself you find it useable, I like it alot myself hence posting the info here as it is ripe for putting through any pedal/multi-fx/whatever really and also firing into into an amplifier for mic'ing up aswell as as a rounded naked sound. Also I'm no wizard with synths so a drone box is just about ideal for me, I'll probably use it where I would an organ for example. Just need to get over to his place and get meddling around with it

Nice one and cheers dude

Dean