This video was uploaded a while ago but I’ve been a bit crap at posting here for a while!
What you’re hearing is a Benjolin modulating two self oscillating Plague Bearers placed in series with their output fed back through the Benjolins filter.
This video was uploaded a while ago but I’ve been a bit crap at posting here for a while!
What you’re hearing is a Benjolin modulating two self oscillating Plague Bearers placed in series with their output fed back through the Benjolins filter.
A little while ago while having a bit of a sort out I came face to face with the extent of my backlog of projects! So, I’ve been on a bit of a mission to make a bit of a dent in it.
Here’s my progress so far… (part 1)!
This was an easy one. It’s a cheap and cheerful kids toy I was given as a gift at some point which makes a pretty great noise. Years ago I started experimenting with putting a jack in the side to take a signal straight out for recording purposes. To this end I knocked up a simple opamp gain stage to boost the signal to a better level.
The unit originally worked by a basic trigger switch connecting power to the unit every time you wanted to speak into it. This generated a pretty load pop so I installed a switch for the power and a good quality pushbutton switch to switch on the microphone when you wanted to talk into it. It still pops a little but not that load and I quite like it!
I purchased 4 PCB’s back in 2013 when Fonik first did a run of them and at the time only built one up. To be honest I rarely use ADSR envelopes as I find Buchla and Serge style function generators more useful and flexible. But as they were languishing in the backlog I thought I’d build two of the boards behind a single panel to make the most of the space. The individual gate outputs for each stage of the envelopes have been included as anything that generates more timing signals is a useful function to have.
Single Benjolin drone with Serge Resonant EQ in a feedback loop of one of the Benjolin’s oscillators back to the ext in along with my standalone modulated fuzz delay.
First patch after tweaking the output level of my two benjolin’s. I actually built them quite a while ago but have had a lot of other projects on the go and have only just got around to sorting them.
Rob Hordijk’s original design was as a standalone units with a line level output. The fix was really simple, I just changed the gain of the op-amp feeding the filter. One little resistor and it only took me 6 months to get round to it!!!