X1L3 - circuit bent - Yamaha DD12 - (DE-CAT)

Published on Jun 12, 2013 manufacturedZ3R0·95 videos
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"A yamaha DD12 i stumbled upon at a car boot sale that had previously been circuit bent by (i'll let you guess who by the title of the video)

Not exactly ambitious. Just a selection of toggle switch rom shorts and a couple of pots wired to the amp pcb in the back of the machine to over drive the output. Strangely there was a signed sticker inside the machine with a copyright notice on it? Was the sticker copyright? The two vinyl stickers on the shell or the rom glitches?..... Maybe they had put a copyright on where they drilled the holes in the case? Beware fledgling circuit benders.. You walk on thin ice every time you dare to pick up your soldering irons :-|

Who knows? Who cares?..............

I removed the lot anyway as i wouldn't want to breach these mysterious rights reserved on such innovation.

Lazy:
Two rom pins per switch and not even on a matrix. It was basically a nice easy project that someone getting into bending could have taken on as a first project. No holy grail of fiercely guarded secrets, forbidden fruits and dark art here. Just a shorted out rom....

All evidence of the (i'll let you guess who from the title of the video)'s work was removed but i kept the sticker inside as it made me laugh.

The machine is now fitted with a synthacon filter, psu/noise suppressor, pt2399 'death industrial' delay circuit, rat distortion clone - pretty much a carbon copy in performance the the rat stomp box i own, ltc1799 pitch over ride and a 3 x 15 glitch matrix (and yes it's now one pin per glitch)

It adheres to my familiar filter, delay, distortion formula and sounds pretty good for the make over too. Very 'organic' in feel now as opposed to black or white on/off rom glitching which gets old really fast when you build these things and play about with them.

I fitted blue leds into the holes where (i'll let you guess who from the title of the video) had fitted toggle switches to tidy it up a bit. Turns out it now looks great in a dark place. Seemed a shame to put all that labour and time that had gone into drilling the holes to waste.

As is so often when i see (i'll let you guess who from the titlee of the video)'s work on machines i couldn't help but think to myself "where is the art?" when i picked this machine up.

20 minutes of abstract analogue/digital glitched percussion as it should be..............."