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| Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | 9:11 am
[vanillatray]
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circuit bent cheap distortion pedals Washburn and Fender had made a few effects pedals for sale at Target and other commercial outlets. It was odd seeing music instruments for sale at Target... Found a pic of the fender pedal  I don't have the exact pedal title with me so I can't find the Washburn one. Target had a clearance sale and I picked up these pedals for $10 each. If I can't circuit bend them, I'm going to use the parts or rehouse other stuff. Any ideas? Tips? Is this idea win? | | Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | 4:11 pm
[kurt_liedwart]
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New releases on Mikroton Digital Mikroton Digital is a mp3 sub-label of Mikroton label specializing in sound art, modern composition, minimal, experimental and improvised music. I'm happy to announce three new releases available here. With best regards, Kurt Liedwart. ( Read more... ) | | Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | 4:56 pm
[redclove]
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BENDER mag call for artists Hi - I'm putting together a magazine/zine called BENDER, revolving around circuit bending and DIY audio/video experimentation. We've got a fair bit of interest and contributions, but still have some more space to fill. So if there are any benders/DIY builders interested, I am looking for material to publish in this. It will be online via issuu.com and some will be printed out too for shows etc. I'm being pretty wide open about this, anything goes. Articles, schematics, art, sketches, photos and descriptions of build/ideas, whatever. There is a fair bit of material in already and it is looking good. so, anyone ? cheers, Matt http://www.mattdurant.com | | Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 | 7:32 pm
[vanillatray]
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bent keyboard
Total time in build: about two hours. There hasn't been much posted to this community lately so I thought I would upload something. | | Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 | 11:34 am
[uoki_toki]
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Sitar Swami Bent  My Circuit-Bending Sound Sample: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | | Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | 10:00 pm
[vanillatray]
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Make Magazine Project
Instructions to make this are in the newest issue of Make Magazine, Vol. 14.
I'm heavily considering this, and am going to combine it with my projector for live sets.
Thoughts? | 3:34 pm
[nkondi]
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| 1:34 pm
[jaypee]
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Bending in Boston Wow, how did I miss this community? I'm Jimmie Rodgers, and I recently ran the second Boston area circuit bending workshop ( go here to see info about the first one I ran). I wish I would have known about this community earlier, because I would have posted to it. You can check out my blog or my flickr account for some of the stuff I've bent. If you are in the Boston area, I would suggest you join the Bending Boston Google group. It's new, but hopefully it will become the place to go for bending related activities in the area. Also, if you are looking for toys to mess around with, the Willoughby and Baltic in Davis square just received a fairly large donation of toys to bend. They will be available for free at any time for members, or during the next bending workshop for everyone else. The workshops are free, but donations are welcome. Let me know if you have any questions, and I'll make sure to post things relevant to any future projects. | | Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | 3:24 pm
[tearupthesoil]
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Projects
So the keyboard in the last post I made... I totally reworked and was able to get it to do what I wanted, although occasionally I still need to mess with the capacitor. Yesterday I purchased a couple more keyboards, however, the first one I cracked open has those little tiny SMT resistors and not a whole lot else going on. There is one standard diode and one banded resistor and one normal cylindrical capacitor, although those are slathered in hot glue. Also hanging out with the little SMT resistors are what appear to be SMD capacitors. This is the first time I've come across a board like this in my experiments. I'm not quite sure what I will be able to accomplish. One interesting thing about this board that I have also not come across on other boards is an array of unused spaces. Plenty, plenty of room to add other things to this board, but since the only thing I've ever put together is just a row of photoresistors and led's I don't even know where to begin. I'm sure this keyboard has a lot of possibilities but a little insight would definitely be helpful. At this time, unfortunately I am unable to take any photographs but any thoughts/ideas would be greatly appreciated. | | Thursday, May 29th, 2008 | 11:10 pm
[ogo235]
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i've totally been doing it wrong the whole entire time!
THIS IS VALUABLE INFORMATION TO YOU ALL:
I AM WORKING ON DOING THIS:
linked video is the bent Sega Megadrive, it seems the Genesis I have has a different chip layout and the video-bend-reactive chip has SMALL ASS pins which is a fucking pain. i'm about to just gob all over with solder so it's perma-bent but at least will look cool.. >:o
back to the lab, updates later.
Current Mood: solder soldier | 7:19 pm
[tearupthesoil]
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My latest project
Ok so I picked up a wiggles keyboard a few weeks ago and have had consistant problems with it. When I purchased it, it didn't work but all I had to do was reattach the battery pack, done. Now it works, so I start messing around finding bend points and it just stops working. I took the batteries out and let it sit. I turn it back on and it magically works. Ok so the capacitor is holding a charge that needs to be released before I restart it. I figured its a one time thing so no big deal. Its working again and Im playing with some bends I have found, but every bend is inconsistant. It either sounds really cool or it shuts it down and then I have to discharge the capacitor, every time. I ended up taking all of the old wiring off and replacing it with new stuff. It was behaving a little bit better for a while but started doing the same thing again. I took all of the wires I attached to my bend points back off to try to reconsider the ones that I had, but the effect is either not good enough to use or it acts goofy. The best one I found I ended up hooking a photoresistor to and when it gets too much light I need to discharge the capacitor. My question is should I keep working on this super frustrating project or does it sound like a waste of time and to move on to a new project? | | Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | 8:32 pm
[king_earth] |
Bending & repairing footswitches? A friend of mine gave me a busted Boss AC-2.  In reality, it wasn't busted. The actual press-button footswitch mechanism, thing, was busted. One needed to stomp two or three times to use/bypass the effect. Anyways, in the interest of using it, I cracked it open and played with the guts until I got a sound I liked. Now that I have a use for it, I need to fix the switch mechanism to actually put it to good use on the road. So far, i've met with no success. I was hoping someone could help me out. It looks like the three pieces (the wired piece and the other two shown off to the side) should just snap together, but nothing seems to stick. Any advice/ideas? ( for reference... ) | | Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 | 1:56 pm
[darrix206]
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Safety Question
Hey, I'm fairly new to circuit bending and I was hoping someone could answer a question for me. I understand the dangers of trying to bend something that is powered by an electrical current like the one in my house as opposed to batteries. If I install a jack in my instrument so that I can plug it into an amp which powered by an electrical current like the one in my house is there danger involved in that. I guess I'm just confused as to when you should never use an electrical current more powerful then batteries and if it's possible that I could get hurt by combining my battery powered instruments with things like amps or effect pedals that are plugged into a more powerful electrical current. Any info on this would be greatly appreciated. | | Sunday, April 20th, 2008 | 6:11 pm
[brokenglostick0]
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Long Shot
I have recently acquired a Casio PT100 from my local thrift store. But it isn't working at all really. When I put some new batteries in it the on light came on even though the on/off switch was in the off position. Nothing changed when I switched it on and nothing would make any sounds. Okay, I know this is a long shot but has anyone else come across something like this and perhaps would know what to do about it. I opened it up and nothing looked damaged inside as far as I could tell. Thanks. | | Monday, April 7th, 2008 | 10:05 pm
[brokenglostick0]
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| | Friday, April 4th, 2008 | 1:59 pm
[redclove]
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Please hang up and try your call again
Anyone going to Bent Festival 2008 this april?
here is a demo of the phones I'll be installing in the NY bentfest..
| | Friday, March 7th, 2008 | 8:51 am
[groovemonkey]
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Also...
I have this idea....it is to create a box (not like a pedal but more like and old stereo speaker) and place a bunch of LEDs in the front (audience side) and basically make it like the little signal level lights on a stereo or what have you. You know the little green-yellow-red as the signal gets louder. I think having a two foot tall visual representation of how loud I play could be cool....plus you could arrange the LEDs into some sort of shape or swirl instead of just being a bar that goes up towards red.
Any ideas on how to make this happen? I don't think it would be too hard to just make it light up with you make a noise but the different/more lights based on signal level I have no idea. Really I have no idea about any of this stuff but would like to. | 8:29 am
[groovemonkey]
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Hey Guys!
I'm looking for a wobblevision type schematic. Can anyone point me to one? Also if anyone knows where to find a good joystick synth schematic that would be cool too.
Any advice on splitting your audio signal like one to wobblevision one to amp?
Thanks a ton!
-Matt | | Thursday, March 6th, 2008 | 11:07 am
[the_serg]
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Ok so I just joined this community so bear with me. I stumbled upon circuit bending about a year ago and immediately picked up a Casio SK-1 because the ones I saw looked and sounded amazing. Sadly, I got totally bogged down with everything and forgot about it. But now my thirst for knowledge is back. What I am trying to say is where do I start? I know I won't bend this SK1 on my first go since I don't want to ruin it or anything. Is there a tutorial for a 1st time bend? Or any recommendations on something I should pick up to bend? Also what sort of tools will I need? I have searched for the Reed Ghazala book but I think I need to order online since no retailers carry it. Thanks for your patience and hope I get bending soon | | Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 | 10:25 am
[hajwest] |
can anyone help? I'm working on a project and have lots of loops and bends that sound great but I’m stuck on something, maybe someone here can help?
I was scanning my finger over different points on the board and I found a soldering joint that when pressed it slows down the rate of my loops. I kept doing this on the board and then found a place where if I pressed it increased the rate of my loops. My problem is if I try to hook up a body contact to these points or even put an alligator clip to it I can't get it to reproduce the same effects. Does anyone know how I can make this work? It may also be impotant to note that if I touch these two points together, (alligator clip), the board crashes. |
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