[sdiy] Lo Fi Munchers (was) Help On Creating An Effect

[The Peasant]

Quoting Michael Ruberto <frankentron at hotmail.com>:

> It's an interesting project though and it brings to mind
> the often put-off 
> plan I had to make an effect box which uses a mic and
> several undersized, 
> crappy, and broken speakers mounted in a box with a
> rotary switch to select 
> the one firing at the mic. yes, it's true the E-peasant
> hasn't made this yet 
> although it's within his most incredible realm of
> slobberingly cool lo-tech 
> sound munchers. 

Hey, thanks for the compliments, Mike! Actually, I have 
been planning something similar to this for a long time, 
but using a rotating speaker. I have a wonderful little 
slip-ring assembly that works very well for a rotating 
assembly, but have not completed a project on it as this is 
not an easily obtainable part for others to get a hold of.

I have experimented with building a slip-ring/drive 
assembly using old tape decks for parts, and have had 
moderate success. Maybe this fall I will get something up 
on the website for others to try.

In my salvaged parts bins I also have a neat little chopper 
motor from a spectrophotometer that would be perfect for 
this chopped vocal effect; it has a flat disc with sections 
cut out to "chop" the light path, attached to a stepper 
motor. Almost exactly what was previously described here.

I was considering building a large box containing a 
rotating speaker source and a number of resonant chambers 
and sound paths to microphones including choppers and 
solenoid gates to control the sound "flow". So many 
projects, so little time...

Take care,
Doug 
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