[sdiy] RE: how it all started

[harrybissell]

Earliest music project was the fuzzbox section from (then unknown) Craig
Anderton's
"Timbre Gate" project.  It used an RTL two input gate (nand?) as a linear
amplifier...
setting the satge for a classic fight with my dad.  He said "You'll have to
take those
back to back diodes out, they're gonna clip the shit out of the sound"  I
replied "That's
great its SUPPOSED to do that"  He added "Get the Fvck out of here you
little B at st@rd...
I work all gaddam day to get RID of distortion and here you are trying to
make it INTENTIONALLY !!!"

Later I understood that he didn't understand the difference between timbre
and pitch... thinling
that a flute had a higher frequency than say... a piano. He was not
musically inclined but would answer three electronics questions per night...
after those three wishes he gets to watch TV
undisturbed.  Best way to learn IMHO.

Next projects were a fuzz-wah based on an article in Electronics World
(maybe Fred Maynard
iirc)...  that was the first really original thing I did.  Also a guitar
compressor that should have been a ham radio compressor... did not work real
good.

PAiA 2720, then a couple of Aries Modules... then I started designing a lot
of my own circuits.

Built the Phlanger AND the Rat Shack "Reverb" so don't say BBD to me :^P
(I actually sold them for enough money to totally recoup the costs
involved... so nbd.)

Now mostly involed in rebuilding and adding to my modular, and Guitar
Synthesis experiments
such as "Muffy the Hex Distortion slayer"  (as named by our own Mike
Irwin).   I'm starting
work on adapting a MAtrix 1000 to be a guitar synth with no delay

H^) harry