[sdiy] DIY tape echo machines

[Loscha]

This all sounds a bit like Laurie Anderson's Tape Bow Violin.
Take a perfectly good cheap violin, put a tape playback head block on the
body, and string up the bow with recorded tape, you can scratch, play
backwards and forwards at will. She's used it to good effect on a few
tracks.

-ed

On 4/4/06, megaohm <megaohm1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Another format was a 8 track tape with cassette heads inside. Here, you
> can fit all three heads (if you are careful) Speed control can be normal
> spped... then pass a variable voltage to the fast forward motor windings
> for shorter delays."  - Harry B.
>
> (see "do electros die slowly" post)
>
> I really like this idea. I have an old (of course) 8 track player. It's a
> seperate stereo component that does sound too good but the motors and
> mechanical parts seem fine. I have a box full of casette deck parts, too.
>
> I've thought of cart machines like they used in radio stations. Probably
> very rugged (probably heavily used, too!).
>
> I've dreamed about a tape echo where the heads are arranged on a 1' X 3'
> table top. Maybe a dozen playback heads. Possibly multiple recording heads,
> too. You could move the heads anywhere around the table perimeter or group
> them together in a few small bunches. Maybe even play the tape by moving a
> head by hand. Might be tough to get good sound quality with a machine like
> that, but if you think of the input signal simply as a trigger to start
> chain reactions...then the tape delay becomes more of the instrument.
>
> peng
>
>



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