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Electro-Harmonix Effectology, "Freeze Tricks" By Bill Ruppert

YouTube via Effectology | August 09, 2010

"Electro-Harmonix Effectology 'Freeze Tricks" Special Edition
"Expanding the Freeze Effect"
By Bill Ruppert

Welcome to Electro-Harmonix's "Effectology" series, in which we create a remarkable collection of impossible sounds using just a regular guitar and EHX effect pedals!
No keyboards, samplers or midi pickups were used.

"Expanding the Freeze Effect"
In this video I show how to make some cool and very interesting sounds using the new Electro-Harmonix Freeze pedal."

Click here for all videos in the series featured here on MATRIXSYNTH.

SNAZZYTINY SYNTH 1.mov

snazelle | August 09, 2010

"An old 80's Casio synth with the TRACER CITY, and the WOW and Flutter.
Sound was taken from the the casio's headphone out, which though less than ideal, is one way of getting the sound out of the synth and into the pedals.

This video demonstrates some of the fun you can have just picking ANY random sound source, drums being a particularly good source of fun. The envelope follower section of the Tracer City is in use, as are some of the pitch warbling properties of the Wow and Flutter. This is going through a guitar amp, which adds a lot of grit."

SNAZZYFX BASS 1.mov

YouTube via snazelle | August 09, 2010

"THE FIRST SNAZZY FX BASS GUITAR VIDEO...FEATURES ALL THREE SNAZZY PEDALS, BEING USED WITH THE DIRTY CHANNEL OF A GUITAR AMP. (and later clean channel)

more bass videos to come (yes, you can get TONS of low end out of these boxes) they are perfect for use with bass or bass synth."

Lucky Gnomes

flickr by jobenbelgium

"Analogs have meeting in the garden.Beginning from the left: EML-101 aka Electrocomp 101, ARP 2600C aka Grey Meanie with matching keyboard, EMS VCS3 aka The Putney with modifications done by Robin Wood from EMS UK,VCS3 also have the DK-1 monophonic keyboard for the VCS3,Moog Sonic 6."

Alessandro Cortini on CDM

Interview and pics on CDM here. Lot's of Buchla of course. After checking out CDM, see the SuONOIO label below for more including a link to TRASH_AUDIO's interview.

Scrambled speech circuits from 2 vtech speaking toys....

YouTube via squidfanny | August 09, 2010

"Work in progress. Cross modulating the speech circuits from a couple of vtech toys. Astonishing glitch sounds, but highly un-predictable. Hopefully it will eventually become a usable musical instrument. Right now though it needs many more hours of work.....

Machines are - 'Talking scholar' & 'My amazing starter'"

MOOG Modular System 3C IIIC

via this auction

"Top cabinet:
2 960 Sequential Controller Step Sequencer (3 rows of eight steps with fully variable voltages)

1 961 Sequencer Interface Sequencer Interface incl. voltage-trigger to S-trigger and back

2 962 Sequential Switch is used to control how sequencer is set up

1 ? none not known

Middle Cabinet:
1 914 Fixed Filter Bank 12-band, 125 Hz to 5 kHz, with high-pass and low-pass knobs

4 902 Voltage Controlled Amplifier VCA: 2 inputs, 2 outputs, 3 CV inputs (linear or exponential control voltage) ins

4 911 Envelope Generator ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release) Envelope Generator (Attack, Decay and Release is adjustable from 2 ms to 10 seconds)

1 992 Control Voltage illuminated red or blue switches linked to the 904A

1 904A Voltage Controlled Low Pass Filter 24 dB-per-octave, considered the classic Moog filter

1 904B Voltage Controlled High Pass Filter

1 904C Filter Coupler

1 993 Trigger and Envelope Voltages illuminated yellow or green switches

1 911A Dual Trigger Delay

1 912 Envelope Follower

Lower Cabinet:
3 921A Oscillator Driver VCO Driver (1 volt per octave)

9 921B Oscillator VCO (more stable than 901B)

1 921 Voltage Controlled Oscillator VCO (1.01 Hz to 40 kHz)

1 928 Sample Hold This was a separate long, thin box, both versatile and effective.

1 903A Random signal Generator Random Signal Generator (Output for White or Pink Noise)

1 984 Four Channel Mixer 4x4 Matrix Mixer

4 CP3A none Mixer (illuminated switches linked to the VCOs)

1 CP2 none CV and Trigger Outputs

1 CP8 none Power Switch

Shematic sheet" (click on each module when you get there).