wierd ring type thing... or Armstrong Green Ringer

[Tomy Hudson]

Scott Gravenhorst wrote:

> Question:  Has anyone here actually ever used one?
> If so, on what?
> And what did it do/sound like?
>
I have one. To get an idea of the sound on guitar, listen
to Hendrix, ala Purple Haze, the sound is very similar to
the Octavia. I think the 2nd harmonic is more pronounced
on the green ringer. Besides the second harmonic you get
some distortion.

> Basically, I want to know if it would be worth my trouble to put a
> "real" one together.  Right now, it's just on a solderless breadboard.
> I can't see this being much good on my FatMan since I have other ways
> of generating the 2nd harmonic that this produces.  Probably electric
> guit*r?

It's definitely worth building for guitar, I don't know
how useful it would be for a synth. I used it in 
conjunction with feedback guitar and lots of distortion.
While the guitar feeds back, switching the unit in and out
produces changes in the guitar feedback characteristics.
It is close enough in sound to be a poor mans Octavia.
I thought this until I got an Octavia, they play very 
differently. 

Tomy
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