[sdiy] germanium transistors?

[anthony]

> How about using them as noise sources?
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> Tim (art of noise of electronics) Servo


I have an old Radio Electronics or Popular Electronics magazine with an 
article on tape recording ghost voices, with a lot of different circuits to 
facilitate this. One of these was a noise generator using a germanium 
transistor - a circuit the likes of which I have never seen. When I get 
around to it, I'll scan it and post it to my synth page (which isn't really 
up anyway)

It caught my eye because apparantly the noise it generates isn't like white 
or pink noise - there's a lot of crackling and sputtering, which I think is 
a very useful synth sound.

Speaking of that, I've always wanted a circuit that would realistically 
replicate the sound of water over a waterfall and another one for the 
bubbling and gurgling of a babbling brook.

cheers,
aa