[sdiy] cute idea for ring modulator & pitfalls when using as tremolo?

[anthony]

Right now I am focusing on where to drill holes and how the box will look. I 
am sticking with the diode-ring/transformers circuit along with a transistor 
based, voltage controlled phase-shift oscillator and 2 input and 2 output 
buffers (with a small patch panel inside to configure it in different ways). 
The really unique part is the retention of the music box mechanism. I'm 
going to stick a piezo transducer in the box and amplify it and send it 
through the ring modulator. Thus the song can either be modulated by the 
phase-shift oscillator or the song itself can modulate an incoming signal. 
The latter should produce some really wild results. I even thought it might 
be fun to add a trigger source that generates pulses from the music box 
plucking.

In a nutshell I decided that if it won't work as a tremolo, that's fine. 
Especially since I've also worked up a wild stuttering tremolo based on Ken 
Stone's Gate Sequencer and the Buchla 292C lowpass gate.

Right now the project is still in the design phase. I have all of the parts 
and the ring modulator itself has been built, but deciding where to drill 
holes in the box and how many has been a tricky thing to figure out.

I have so many to build myself.

I just got a Yamaha QY10 and now I have all of these MIDI circuits going 
through my head that I never even pondered before. Suddnely I'm thinking 
about neuron pulsers and MIDI2CV converters and whatnot... Ah well...


aa

> so what ever happened with this design??? did you make it or did it
> have about as much success as all of my great ideas have....
> i have so many projects that i need to build
>
> -spencer
>