New stuff I've been doing

[snorky]

I was a little bored last month, so I decided to try some new projects.  

Project One:

I'm not a big fan of digital stuff, but I like the capability, and one of my favorite pieces of gear is the MIGHTY tc electronix g-force.  
BUT it's got alot of digital stuff in there which doesn't ROCK.  So, having just bought a brand new voltometer, I decided to bite the bullet, and try an ANALOG clone of this fine unit.

I'm not that great at etching pcb's, so i decided to just use perfboard (safer anyway).  The entire project worked out to about 5 square feet in total.  Yeah, lots of soldering.  I did cheat a bit and use some PT2399's I had laying around.  Before you jump on me about this, well, I was running real low on caps, so what are you gonna do?

Again, I know what you're thinking.  No way - what about software?
Well, yeah.  What can I say?  Dude, I just decided to clone the current version, and if they do any upgrades, I'll just have to whip out the soldering iron and voltometer again.  :-)

It sounds pretty good!  I'm running on 4 9v batteries right now, but they don't last more than a minute or 2.  Note to self:  find another way of powering this mutha...

Here's a couple of the settings:

setting 1: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip1.mp3
setting 2: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip2.mp3
setting 3: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip3.mp3

By the way, if you use a magnesium enclosure like i did (the BESt for RF rejection, but burns pretty good too), PLEASE make sure you have a fire extinguisher nearby.  I ended up having to take my cat to the hospital after a small but surprisingly hearty living room blaze - but that's another story.




Project Two:

So, that was cool.  But again, my brain would NOT be stopped!  I've never really done much with software, so I thought i'd try that next.  One of the other pedals I like is the Roktorn Profesy.  My friend has one, and it does rock.  Indeed.  IT's got software in there, but you have to buy the whole enchilada (hardware) to get it running.  What's up with that??  I thought, hey, i've got a Perfectly good software runnin' monster right here in my tried and true Macintosh II. (this thing rocks practically on it's own).



After I transfered the software from the Porfesy to the Mac, I was pretty sure I would SUCCEED.  However, the old Macs don't have the best soundcards, so I quickly wired one up to fit.  (Another couple hours...)  The Mac startup sound was really really really good with this upgrade, so again, I felt pretty optomistic.

The emulation was harder than you'd think!  It took like the whole freakin'
weekend - my girlfriend was pissed at being left on her own!  You could control everything with the keyboard, and mouse, but with an axe in your hands, how're you gonna to do that??  Girlfriend?  Yeah, maybe, but not mine (she WAS pissed).  Again, a solution appeared in my FCB1010 pedalboard! I had to do a quick MIDI implementation, but I was again rocking out in no time!  
Changing patches takes a few minutes, but at least I don't have to keep changing batteries!

Proffesy emulation examples:

example 1: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip4.mp3
example 2: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip5.mp3
example 3: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip6.mp3

That's all for now.  I got a couple things up my sleeve for this weekend, but you'll have to wait until Monday or Teusday to here about them!

[AL]

:shock:  WOW !!!! When I get bored I usually just rent a movie.

AL

[markusw]

It's still April 1st  :?:

Markus

[casey]

I was a little bored last month, so I decided to try some new projects.  

Project One:

I'm not a big fan of digital stuff, but I like the capability, and one of my favorite pieces of gear is the MIGHTY tc electronix g-force.  
BUT it's got alot of digital stuff in there which doesn't ROCK.  So, having just bought a brand new voltometer, I decided to bite the bullet, and try an ANALOG clone of this fine unit.

I'm not that great at etching pcb's, so i decided to just use perfboard (safer anyway).  The entire project worked out to about 5 square feet in total.  Yeah, lots of soldering.  I did cheat a bit and use some PT2399's I had laying around.  Before you jump on me about this, well, I was running real low on caps, so what are you gonna do?

Again, I know what you're thinking.  No way - what about software?
Well, yeah.  What can I say?  Dude, I just decided to clone the current version, and if they do any upgrades, I'll just have to whip out the soldering iron and voltometer again.  :-)

It sounds pretty good!  I'm running on 4 9v batteries right now, but they don't last more than a minute or 2.  Note to self:  find another way of powering this mutha...

Here's a couple of the settings:

setting 1: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip1.mp3
setting 2: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip2.mp3
setting 3: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip3.mp3

By the way, if you use a magnesium enclosure like i did (the BESt for RF rejection, but burns pretty good too), PLEASE make sure you have a fire extinguisher nearby.  I ended up having to take my cat to the hospital after a small but surprisingly hearty living room blaze - but that's another story.




Project Two:

So, that was cool.  But again, my brain would NOT be stopped!  I've never really done much with software, so I thought i'd try that next.  One of the other pedals I like is the Roktorn Profesy.  My friend has one, and it does rock.  Indeed.  IT's got software in there, but you have to buy the whole enchilada (hardware) to get it running.  What's up with that??  I thought, hey, i've got a Perfectly good software runnin' monster right here in my tried and true Macintosh II. (this thing rocks practically on it's own).



After I transfered the software from the Porfesy to the Mac, I was pretty sure I would SUCCEED.  However, the old Macs don't have the best soundcards, so I quickly wired one up to fit.  (Another couple hours...)  The Mac startup sound was really really really good with this upgrade, so again, I felt pretty optomistic.

The emulation was harder than you'd think!  It took like the whole freakin'
weekend - my girlfriend was pissed at being left on her own!  You could control everything with the keyboard, and mouse, but with an axe in your hands, how're you gonna to do that??  Girlfriend?  Yeah, maybe, but not mine (she WAS pissed).  Again, a solution appeared in my FCB1010 pedalboard! I had to do a quick MIDI implementation, but I was again rocking out in no time!  
Changing patches takes a few minutes, but at least I don't have to keep changing batteries!

Proffesy emulation examples:

example 1: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip4.mp3
example 2: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip5.mp3
example 3: http://www.avdb.com/music/clip6.mp3

That's all for now.  I got a couple things up my sleeve for this weekend, but you'll have to wait until Monday or Teusday to here about them!

funny stuff.

[Transmogrifox]

The sound clips are great!!!  I can totally tell the difference between them all.  Your girlfriend shouldn't be pissed.  If she's any kind of girlfriend, she would have been soldering the thing with you so it would only take half the weekend--then she might have been able to save your cat when the magnesium went off.  So how did to ignite the magnesium with a 9V battery???

[syzygy]

Yes, and who knew you'd hear Godzilla in the G-Force?  WEll, that's it, you've convinced me... THIS is the next effect I'm building!





:lol: