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.
Little-Scale shares this tutorial for building your own ring modulation filter for guitar – cheap, but effective! This circuit is made up of two main functions – a square wave generator and a switching mechanism. By using the square wave generator to control whether an electronic pathway is open or closed (ie. whether electricity is […]
Gareth blogged about Sashimi Tabernacle Choir a while back; seeing it in Austin was wonderful! I don’t know what it says about me that, if I had the time, I could have watched this ridiculous thing for an hour, but it made me deliriously happy. My video doesn’t do it justice – if you ever […]
Here’s a nice DIY tutorial on building an AVR Synth from basic schematics. The author decided to build it with perfboard and turn each element into a discreet module. Check out the details and photo essay at the link below. DIY AVR Synth via Electronics Lab
Justin writes – Hi! With a little inspiration from your blog, I made a sequencer from a turntable and some tin foil. I connected a homemade 555 oscillator and cheap keyboard so that they would be triggered by the strips of tin foil rotating on the turntable. Nice contacts sequencer – always great to hear […]
Frostedminipete housed an Atari Punk/noise synth inside of an old Dreamcast game console, making good use of most of the case’s features – This is my first atari punk console, housed inside a dreamcast. Photo cell is demonstrated with a strobe light in the second half of the video. Extra features include… -Internal speaker with […]
This app called “BeatMaker” for the iPhone is one of a huge list of cool new music creation applications that are out for the device. This one doubles as a portable music production center with a drum machine, sampler, and sequencer that usually only exists in desktop applications. Check out the link for the list […]
(Please do not try this at home … work, at a friends house, visiting relatives, on vacation, or anywhere else for that matter.) Daito demonstrates a unique strategy for synchronize visuals with music – by contracting facial muscles with electrical stimulation. Wow, his look of anticipation at the videos open seems a fair warning in […]
