KVR Audio

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:16 pm

thanks intel,glueing's a great idea,i didn't think of that.i'll give it a shot.
i've got one of those kids megaphone-voice-changers,that has pitch-shifting+robot voices,i might try wiring that on the end too.

_oswald · Post by **_oswald** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:56 pm

I made a cuter version of the toy I gave Ew for my friend Emy this weekend.

...and I'm knee-deep in a bend of another telephone. This one can (somehow) generate screamin' tones and I found this really weird 'anti-gating' effect (it'll allow the first bit of the audio signal to come in, then it'll quickly ramp it down and then let it back in near the end. Really strange on pulsing material.)

mikebeck · Post by **mikebeck** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:17 pm

It's good to know that mad scientists continue to flourish.

_oswald · Post by **_oswald** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:51 pm

mikebeck wrote:It's good to know that mad scientists continue to flourish.

we never die, we simply get occupied with more boring matters (ie - life).

i hope to have the phone painted and re-built by the end of the week.

deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:21 pm

_oswald wrote: we never die, we simply get occupied with more boring matters (ie - life).

Sometimes real-life isn't so boring.
Someone (looks like a bot-thingy,actually) just attempted to scam me on one of my many craigslistings.
It's completely 'classic'... involving the 'way-to-large' cashier's check, the 'third-party' shipping agent the poor use of engrish gender-swapping and the need for me to wire back the 'difference' via 'western-union' (I believe Western Union gave up on that part of their business because of all the scams involving 'wiring money'

)
what a bunch of morons (nyuk nyuk nyuk)

-now back to the main show...

mikebeck · Post by **mikebeck** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:29 pm

And here I thought life was an experiment in itself! I mean, it's certainly not a system.

jack [psychicmodulation] · Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:40 pm

_oswald wrote:...and I'm knee-deep in a bend of another telephone. This one can (somehow) generate screamin' tones and I found this really weird 'anti-gating' effect (it'll allow the first bit of the audio signal to come in, then it'll quickly ramp it down and then let it back in near the end. Really strange on pulsing material.)

Looks very interesting!

I've been toying with some phones lately, although I have no idea what Im doing. I managed to make a dj headphone out of an old telephone headset, hooking up a spliced 1/4" cable to the earpeice...it works great. Now I'd like to make the base into some kind of synth...or just a push-button tone box with an output. Guess I'll experiment and see what happens.

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:24 am

i doubt it'll have inbuilt tones,i tried to do that,but found that it gets them from the telephone exchange.

_oswald · Post by **_oswald** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:37 pm

spacedad wrote:i doubt it'll have inbuilt tones,i tried to do that,but found that it gets them from the telephone exchange.

Heh. It has tones. I've wired up a joystick to two contacts which produce two tones that I call 'scream' and 'whine'. The pitch of them changes depending on the amount of current sent to the points.

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:47 pm

_oswald wrote: Heh. It has tones.

oh,just shows how reliable my info sources are.

i should have another go then.

jack [psychicmodulation] · Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:10 am

Okay, I need advise:
I managed to wire up a telephone to a small speaker and power it with a 9v battery and I'm getting tones, but it's really low...is it supposed to be this low and should I hook up some kind of volume control or amp?

intel · Post by **intel** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:18 am

I've never dealt with anything like this, but if the volume is too low then you'll likely need an amp of some kind in there to boost the signal.

_oswald · Post by **_oswald** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:53 pm

Jack R wrote:Okay, I need advise:
I managed to wire up a telephone to a small speaker and power it with a 9v battery and I'm getting tones, but it's really low...is it supposed to be this low and should I hook up some kind of volume control or amp?

That's weird - my telephone is on a 9V battery and it's loud-out-of-the-box.

Edit: I'm also not going for tones, but I run synths into my phone - so it's probably a louder volume than you're dealing with. The tones from my dialpad are low as well, so you really may want to amp it if those are your goal.

jack [psychicmodulation] · Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:37 pm

_oswald wrote:
Jack R wrote:Okay, I need advise:
I managed to wire up a telephone to a small speaker and power it with a 9v battery and I'm getting tones, but it's really low...is it supposed to be this low and should I hook up some kind of volume control or amp?
That's weird - my telephone is on a 9V battery and it's loud-out-of-the-box.

Edit: I'm also not going for tones, but I run synths into my phone - so it's probably a louder volume than you're dealing with. The tones from my dialpad are low as well, so you really may want to amp it if those are your goal.

Yeah, I just want the tones from the phone itself. Once I get the sound to be audible, I might mess around with the circuit, see if I get any bends. It would be great if I could slow down or speed up the redial function...not sure if thats possible.
For the amp I think I might just run it into a cheap distortion or eq pedal before the mixer...that should beef it up.

deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:53 pm

hey _oswald

I'm assuming you know about this stuff?
http://www.electronics-lab.com/downloads/pc/

that kind of software crap is what prompted me to drop the hardware (but of course, you like hardwarez

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