[sdiy] BLGate Switch ---- Electric Kazoo

[Tim Parkhurst]

Leaf Blower + Vocoder = Electric Kazoo?


It's just crazy enough to work... ;)



Tim (crazy enough to work) Servo

"I wanna to hear someone hum 'Whole Lotta Love' into THAT!" - Albert
Einstein


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WeAreAs1 at aol.com [mailto:WeAreAs1 at aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:46 AM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Buchla Lowpass Gate Switch
> 
> 
> In a message dated 8/15/04 9:49:36 PM, scottnoanh at peoplepc.com writes:
> 
> << However. a Vactrol based kazoo would be
> 
> an interesting project =-D. >>
> 
> I have always thought that kazoos make a really interesting distortiony
> sound, and I've often wondered how one might go about synthesizing a kazoo
(besides
> simply sampling one...).  I would especially like to be able to add a
"kazoo
> effect" to audio signals.  Has anyone here ever stumbled across any real
> kazoo-like sounds or effects?  Mark, those overdriven vactrols don't
really sound
> like an actual kazoo, or do they?
> 
> Mike B.
> 
> P.S. -  If you have a kazoo, try playing Led Zepplin's "Whole Lotta Love"
on
> it.  Then, after you stop convulsing, follow up the Zep with Black
Sabbath's
> "Iron Man".  You'll see what I mean about that distortion.
> 
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