So i have been building and modifying pedals for the past few months.
I have built a some of the B.Y.O.C. pedal kits and downloaded some schematics and built 'em from that point.
Just recenctly a friend of mine bought this boutique noisemaker box.
A primitve squarewave synth by my ears. the thing that really got me into it was this little clear bulb/diode with what looked like a little microchip embedded in it. If you ran your finger over the this bit it would change the sound. I'm assuming it is some kind of infared voltage control.
This is a movie of the little guy in action...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkI-coFwH8U
Does somebody on here know what the hell i am talking about?
Links, pictures, schematics what i should refer this as so i can buy some?
Thank you EA.
theglynnisjohns
infared foot pedals? and how to achieve this.
2there's a few pedals/keyboards that have this with different names. I've seen them as "D-Beam controllers" in Roland keys and Boss effects, but there are other things the same photosensitive thingus is called.
Effector 13's synth mangler has one.
MG's "That's Echo, Folks!" has a pigtail option with a light sensor, too.
Effector 13's synth mangler has one.
MG's "That's Echo, Folks!" has a pigtail option with a light sensor, too.
kerble is right.
infared foot pedals? and how to achieve this.
4kerble wrote:there's a few pedals/keyboards that have this with different names. I've seen them as "D-Beam controllers" in Roland keys and Boss effects, but there are other things the same photosensitive thingus is called.
Effector 13's synth mangler has one.
MG's "That's Echo, Folks!" has a pigtail option with a light sensor, too.
Thank you Kerble, but i'm looking for the component versus a pedal.
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infared foot pedals? and how to achieve this.
5Its probably just a photo-resistor hooked up to a 555 timer chip. You can make something similar by building the Atari Punk Console and replacing the pots with photo-resistors. Or its a photo-diode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodiode
Zack
Zack
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6you will take what i give you, bastard.
kerble is right.
infared foot pedals? and how to achieve this.
7kerble wrote:you will take what i give you, bastard.
Quoting what your mom whispers to me wont change anything.
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infared foot pedals? and how to achieve this.
8zack wrote:Its probably just a photo-resistor hooked up to a 555 timer chip. You can make something similar by building the Atari Punk Console and replacing the pots with photo-resistors. Or its a photo-diode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodiode
Zack
Bingo! Thanks mang!
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9glynnisjohns wrote:kerble wrote:you will take what i give you, bastard.
Quoting what your mom whispers to me wont change anything.
forget infrared, you should get a pedal that works on black light.
you can use the one from your mom's room. when she turned it on the whole place looked like a crime scene, so she doesn't need it.
kerble is right.
infared foot pedals? and how to achieve this.
10Rather than start a new thread on funky pedal controls, I'll just derail this one. Our drummer fixes vending/gaming machines, and has lots of parts laying around. It's been suggested that somehow we take a Golden Tee track ball controller and somehow hook it up to some Moog/LFO mod thing and use it as a foot pedal. I.e., you kick it in different directions, and you'd get a really fast to slow woo-woo-woo-woosh sound, etc.
Would anyone know of an effect that could be modded to accept said controller as an input device?
Would anyone know of an effect that could be modded to accept said controller as an input device?