[sdiy] European VTL5C3 group order update

[Jeff Farr]

Sorry to jump in unimformed.  Where in America can I order these?

On 12/23/05, Andre Majorel <amajorel at teaser.fr> wrote:
> On 2005-12-22 15:18 -0500, Aaron Lanterman wrote:
>
> > I'm in the US so I can easily order from them directly - I was
> > planning to get some for my synthesizer class to be able to play
> > with.
> >
> > I've heard that the VTL5C3 and VTL5C3/2 are most common - what
> > are the VTL5C2 and VTL5C4 used in? Should I pick up some of
> > those too?
>
> The VTL5C2 is slower than the VTL5C3. Charlie Lamm has built an
> envelope follower that can take either :
>
>   http://www.charlielamm.com/synth/vactrolenv.php3
>
> Scott Stites has used it in his phase shifter :
>
>   http://mypeoplepc.com/members/scottnoanh/slsdiy/id10.html
>
> He wrote on the subject of VTL5C2 vs. VTL5C3 in the link I gave
> last week :
>
>   http://www.the-gas-station.com/messages.cfm?thread_id=56949&lastdays=2000&
>
> For the sake of disseminating knowledge, here's Scott's post :
>
> | "Yeah, but what am I gonna do with all these VTL5C2's?"
> |
> | Lemme guess - BGMicro, right? =0)
> |
> | Obviously, the VTL5C3 and VTL5C3/2 are the 'prime' Vactrols for
> | a lot of apps, due in part to the fact that, purely by glorius
> | chance, the response curve closely matches the natural envelope
> | of percussive attacks such as plucking, malleting, etc.
> |
> | But the lowly VTL5C2 can be quite a useful little guy to have
> | around - it'll do all the stuff the VTL5C3 will do, just a lot
> | 'squishier' - it's much slower on the draw, so to speak. But,
> | for slow modulation, it's perfectly fine, and the squishiness of
> | it can actually impart its own sound on what you're doing.
> |
> | Since you got a bunch of them, build a big-ass, multi-multi
> | stage phase shifter with them - it can really sound good and is
> | a fairly simple thing to do. I've proto'ed a 10 stage phaser
> | that I like a lot (I call it the Lazy Phaser, because of the
> | response of the VTL5C2's to fast transients - I wouldn't
> | offically name it that out of deference to Konkuro =-D).
> |
> | Charlie Lamm has built a bitchin' sounding filter out of them,
> | and they've been used in some compressors for years (DOD comes
> | to mind). I've actually used them as the control element in
> | simple yet very effective voltage controlled lag circuits. Don't
> | toss'em, whatever you do, they'll come in handy one of these
> | days.
> |
> | I've got some crude sound samples of my 10 stage VTL5C2 phaser
> | on my page. It's been lying fallow on the breadboard as I've
> | pursued other things, but I want to get back to it.
>
> Regarding the VTL5C4, don't know what's its selling point is
> compared to the VTL5C3 other than that it's been used in
> compressors. Try a web search for "vtl5c4 jh"...
>
> --
> André Majorel <amajorel at teaser.fr>
> http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
>