images via this auction via wattson.
"This is a tube noise generator, radio frequency, mute, audio frequency, LF, and ASA is some sort of other noise that im not sure what it is, you cn make some really cool hats and crashes with this thing, the VU meter tells you how many volts you are sending out and you can control that by output knob. the rear of the unit has a 1/4 line level out and a rca line level out. i took detailed pics of the inside, the way the noise is generated there is a tube placed between two magnets its a really neat circuit."
More of a bit of test equipment, but interesting nonetheless.
More info on these here.
"A device that produces electrical noise for use in electrical measurements. Electrical noise generators are commonly employed to measure the noise figure or noise temperature of radio receivers. They are also used in various other tests in radar and communications systems. Celestial noise sources are used to calibrate large antennas."
Update: here's a video of the unit by Shagghie previously posted here.
SunSyn meets Magneto-Tube Random Noise Gen!
it would be alot cooler if he would turn off the damn oscillators. Half the time i couldn't hear the noise.
ReplyDeleteThe point was to use the noise to modulate the fitler cutoff...for that, you gotta hear some other sound source (e.g., an oscillator) so that you have something to modulate that is passing through the filter. The raw noise is really amazing though...I never took any videos just of the noise unfortunately. You might hit up Watson/Company of Quail, as I sold the RNG to him a little while ago.
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