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greetings your cortexhood,
    I started with the #3 standard and made several changes and 
experimented with MORE than several changes. and yes, you are quite 
correct. one of the easier mods I implemented is modulation of the 
rate of the 555 independent of the Vactrol CV. I'm pretty sure that 
this is one of the many goodies that grant added in version 5.
    Also, I take my wogglebugs fishing but the other fishermen 
vandalize my car when I turn it up loud enough for the fish to hear.
    
-doc
"it's not time AND space... it's time OR space"



--- In wiardgroup@y..., 8brain@s... wrote:
> 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
> > > -------------------------------------
> > > -------------------------------------