This one in via Simon. Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. Check out the mirror and what looks like pages from a book underneath the controls.Details:
The Time machine is a delay/sampler/tone-noise generator made by Quad4 productions.
- 15 brass keys activate any of 15 tones/noise and/or effect alterations.
- The keys used in combination alter and retexturize the tone structure.
- The sampler part samples any incoming source or tone played on the keyboard and loops for approx. 1 sec. The loop can be effected with pitch control and ring mod and the tones/noise can still be laid over top.
- The tones or any incoming source can be sent through the delay section and effected by xtreme feedback and delay alterations.
- It has 1 input, 1 output, runs on a single 9v battery and has controls for feedback/repeat, wet/dry, time/loop, time2, feedback 2, ring mod, on/off button, 2 bannana jacks for plugging the 9v cable, and 2 glowing blue lamps (not pictured lit).
- The Time Machine has a 1 year warranty.
Nutty.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the paperback recycled into the control panel is The Time Machine by HG Wells?
Si
Take 3 guitar pedals, a bunch of crap from a junk yard or surplus sale, pee on it (varnish to seal in the smell), weather it a bit to tarnish, and sell it on ebay for 10x what it is worth.
ReplyDeleteOn that note: anyone interested in a 'broken blender' percussion drone unit?
I've seen a lot of these kinds of things on eBay. Toy organ + stompbox + circuit bending + bizarre case/interface = $$$
ReplyDeleteIf you can make it look cool enough, you can do well on this type of thing...been thinking of trying my hand at it...without the urine of course... ^_^
Did Arius Blase build it?
ReplyDeleteArius Blaze doesn't do anything anymore.
ReplyDeleteHe's been scamming people during the last period of his "career".
Some of his stuff was pretty cool, but he burnt some bridges with some clients by not returning machines that he was supposed to repair.
Arius's stuff did sell for a friggin shite load on ebay a few years ago. I saw something fetch well over $1000. Then I saw some of those boxes in NYC at Bent2004. They were a lot smaller than I thought. I heard there was quite a bit of electrical tape inside his devices. I never saw the circuits. He sure made them sound like they were a path one needed to achieve cosmic karma with the forces of galactic deities and to exist on the plane of inverse vibration to show you the way. Or something along those lines.
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