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It seemed appropriate. ^_^<\/p>\n
I also went at improving an effects box I built a while ago called the Trash-o-Matic 68000<\/a>. You would have heard it on Daleks Behaving Badly (Dalek Boy)<\/a>, a joke track that really<\/em> needs a shorter edit, because it takes way too long to build up.<\/p>\n The best part of this box is the Berthold Ray<\/a> effect circuit that I legit invented. That must have happened in a pretty heavy Science-Related Memetic Disorder attack (or spark hyperfocus, if you’re a Girl Genius<\/i> reader), because I was trying to figure out how the hell it worked and I am here to tell you that this is some serious-business Oscillation Overthruster<\/a> bullshit right here.<\/p>\n It’s basically a multi-store self-reducing sampler feedback effect with frequency shift that’s using the device’s amplifier as a delay loop<\/em> and sending the amplified samples back to the input via a combination of the internal system ground<\/em> and negative phase of a balanced signal lead. Both matter<\/em>. I… don’t entirely know why.<\/p>\n Anyway, the whole thing is noisy as hell, and much of that is the platform I was building onto, and I was hoping to fix that. I was able to reduce noise levels somewhat<\/eM> – no, that’s unfair, meaningfully, it’ll be easier to gate out noise now – but it’s still buzzy as hell.<\/p>\n I’m kind of interested in seeing if I can re-implement the Berthold Rays in a less trashy environment. Sure, it’s fun in this mess of noise and grind and crunch, but it’d be nice to have in a cleaner box as well. Maybe I’d use it more then.<\/p>\n I’ve never used it for music before, but here’s a little bit of noodling I call “Broken Music Box, Found After a Fire,” played on Irish Bouzouki and run through Trash-O-Matic voice 6, with full Berthold Ray attack:<\/p>\n