How-To: Upright electric bass from a 2×4
Mark just posted a link to this cool magazine how-to from 1961 (.pdf) by Roy L. Clough, Jr. It’s hosted at Cigar Box Nation. [via Boing Boing]
Music
Take your creations beyond the workshop and onto the stage with diy music instruments! Let us show you how these creations range from simple, basic setups that produce beautiful sounds to more complex projects that require a greater level of engineering knowledge. With these tutorials and examples, we’ll guide you on this journey to make your own musical instrument for experimental, artistic or everyday use – so whether you’re starting out new or a seasoned sound creator, come explore the wonderful world of making your own music.
Build a clone of the MiniMoog filter
Yusynth has a nice PCB layout for building a classic voltage-controlled Moog filter. This particular iteration appeared in MiniMoog synths, utilizing Robert Moog’s signature transistor ladder design for sweet, sweet analog sounds.
Random MIDI generator
Miketron converted his random MIDI note generation software(MAC/PC) into hardware form via an ATMega168 chip – A couple of months I took my MAX/MSP code for Random7 and rewrote so I could embed it into a hardware version. Random7 Hardware Version 1 (R7H) is a very basic version of the Random7 software. The core element […]
Lamellophone built from surgical steel
The Steel Rod Box creates some surprisingly pleasant sound from surplus surgical hardware – For reasons unclear, my father has a few boxes of unused spinal surgery equipment and tools in the garage. including a whole heap load of stainless steel rods that are threaded the entire length. Something had to be done. So i’ve […]
Handmade Music Austin #2 this Sunday
From the MAKE Flickr pool Looks like the Austin-area Handmade event series is going strong, not to be missed for those local – We’ll be building 4ms’ Autonomous Bassline Generator. The upper division class is filled but there should be some space in the beginner class. Even if there aren’t any seats available, there will […]
SoundCloud’s CitySounds.fm
Last month I posted about SoundCloud‘s slick music sharing site, really the best I’ve seen. David Noël from SoundCloud posted in the comments about one of their hacks from London Hack Day called CitySounds.fm. I’ve been tuning into the site a lot for a bit of the unexpected and to gain exposure to artists I […]
Electronically modified Didgeridoo – complete with Bluetooth!
Kyle Evans’ heavily modded didgeridoo looks a bit like it was plucked from Master Chief’s luggage and it’s malleable drone sounds just as intense – I created this instrument to experiment in the combination of the organic sound qualities of a didgeridoo with the advanced signal processing capabilities of modern computer programming and sound synthesis. […]
