Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Saturday, 28 October 2017

Acc Your Ankle (Part Two)

It lives !
There seems to be a minor phase issue at some settings, and I need to decide whether to add the filters and mono switch.

And I'm tempted to see if I can get any more reverb time...

At the moment it's on soak test

Friday, 27 October 2017

It's Black Cat Day...

...doesn't time fly..?

Sunday, 22 October 2017

Acc Your Ankle (Part One)

I set myself the task of building a stereo reverb from the Accutronics BTDR-3H. There are a lot of mods out there to play with the stereoness and add things like EQ. The base circuit is pretty simple and I'm just waiting on some proto board...

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

It Lives...

...The Powertran is back. It needs a bit of a clean, but I also finally tracked down the documentation for the mysterious trigger mod which at the time claimed to turn the Powertran into a £10 Emulator

Saturday, 16 September 2017

1803 Overture

As I've been playing around with electro-acoustics a little more recently, I decided to upgrade my Velleman K1803 amplifiers into a pair of triple amplifier modules. This gives me more opportunity to set up multiple gain stages or wire up stereo devices. The K1803 kits are really simple and work well with piezo elements. Plus you can get them for around a fiver each, which is nice. Here's one wired up to the Potatoverb...

Thursday, 7 September 2017

Tin Man

I've been building this on and off for a couple weeks, but was held up by the fact that the one ideal compression spring was being used in the Tudor3 experiments. Let's call it a Potatoverb owing to the fact that the case is an empty tin of potatoes...