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Hello Doktor,

I had no idea that fish respond to music, but that gives me an idea 
for the next time I go fishing... heh heh!

Did you build the wogs as they are on Grant's schematics or did you 
modify the design at all?  One thing that seems like it would be easy 
to do is to add voltage control to the 555.

R.

--- In wiardgroup@y..., drmabuce@y... wrote:
> Hi Les,
>    re: the "traditionalism" of wogglebugs...
>    (please see below)
> 
> --- In wiardgroup@y..., "Les Mizzell" <lesmizz@b...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Shouldn't be buggin Grant you as he oughta be building modules, 
not
> > answering
> > email, but...inquiring minds want to know....and maybe somebody 
> other than
> > Grant has an answer...
> > 
> > 1. What is going to be the primary difference between the 
Envelator 
> and the
> > Envelooper?
> > 
> > 2. Can the Osc's in the Wogglebug be used as "traditional" Ocs's 
in 
> the
> > system, or are they too "weird" (...uh) in function for the 
> Wogglebug to be
> > used in
> > a more traditional manner as well?
> >
> 
> (Like Mr Pearson, I assume that your traditional application is a 
> 1v/octave pitch response to CV.)
> NO,
>  I have 2 #3-standard wogglebugs and the CV-to-freq inputs to each 
of 
> the VCO pair are fully employed in the scheme that keeps the two 
Osc's 
> chasing one another. To my amateur eye, the circuit is designed to 
> periodically disrupt stable conditions. This feature would preclude 
> the Wbug's use as a 1v/octave VCO.
>  When I link my 2 Wbugs (the 300 series module will feature just 
such 
> a dual configuration) and just let them have at one another, the 
fish 
> in my aquarium pay calm attention for a few minutes then begin to 
swim 
> in eerie nervous patterns that track the Wbugs output. This is a 
scary 
> circuit and rumor has it that Grant got an accidental glimpse of an 
> extraterrestrial vehicle owners manual during a routine abduction 
and 
> part of a diagram manifested itself to him in a dream. Don Buchla 
may 
> have been abducted by the same crew in '65. In any case it should 
be 
> worth a few hundred just to find out how long the damn thing will 
go 
> before repeating itself (mine have been at it since the 4th of July)
> gotta go
> the fish are signaling
> -doc
> 
> > 3. Let's see some faceplates for these!!!!
> > 
> > 
> > Les Mizzell
> > -------------------------------------
> > -------------------------------------
> > He say WHAT??????????????????????????
> > -------------------------------------
> > "I think we ought to raise the age at
> > which juveniles can have a gun."
> > George Bush
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