[sdiy] Greetings

[Richard Johnson]

That's cool, but the specifcs of you LNA (ALN) on that page are
missing. The link 404's! :(

I'm looking for a sound (a Juno Sound?) like the bass note from Van
Halen's "Jump"

Ideas?

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Tim Daugard <daugard at sprintmail.com> wrote:
> Ric,
>
>
>  > Is your primary oscillator your bass guitar? It didn't seem that you
>  > had a VCO circuit listed (other than the sine tester).
>
>  Absoulutely. I figured my bass was a far better signal source than trying to brew a VCO
>  and then figure out how I was going to play it while still playing bass.
>
>
>  > If it's true, that's so strange as my first project is trying to
>  > convert the coil-pickup AC output of a bass-guitar-like instrument
>  > into a simple analog synth by using the output as the primary
>  > oscillator.
>
>  LNA -> ?? -> Amp Driver
>
>  http://home.earthlink.net/~synthfred/patch/chp16c.htm
>
>  Is a page covering my mini-system. It can be built for $30 to $40. The low price is using
>  parts you have or ordering parts from Mouser. The high price is using radio shack parts.
>
>  What kind of sound are you looking for? I have created over a 100 different sounds using
>  my bass - everything from an organ, wood wind, screaming guitar (two octaves up) to 80's
>  synth pads.
>
>  > Hmmmm...
>
>  That's what I said. The three things keeping me from build a synth years agos was: The
>  keyboard, the cost of connectors and the cost of potentiometers. I decided not to use the
>  first and dound low cost ways to solve the other two problems. Check out the parts pages
>  in the construction section of my web-book.
>
>  Tim
>
>