'NO GUITARS'

Realtime, hands-on, looper and effect processor. Here being driven solely by one of Tom Bugs' PostcardWeevil noise generators.
In theory this whole unit can be (has been) battery powered but that's impractical so I run it all off a single 9v PSU.
Audio examples to follow soon here...

'No Guitars'

BOSS'ed NANOLOOP

I've just uploaded my first CCCL track: Haz Chem (beta3). I can't really say it was recorded using any of the modded, bent or self-built gear I've been mentioning lately but I thought I'd put it in 'the wild' anyway as it's one of the first experimental pieces that I've committed to a recording NOT using my usual (C&C+TG) gear.
The set-up was as follows:
A Gameboy ASP running a couple of Nanoloop sequences > into a Boss PQ-4 parametric EQ, mono out > into a Boss PN-2 Panner (square-wave pan setting), stereo out > into a Boss RV-5 reverb (Gate setting), stereo out > into a Boss DD-6 digital delay (modified), stereo out > into a Mac G5 recording (via MOTU 828 mkII) into Soundtrack Pro. All realtime tweakery (mostly the PQ-4 + DD-6), no editing.
From small acorns...

Set-up for Haz Chem (beta3)


You can hear the track at this link >
myspace.com/chemistrylessons

ONE STEP CLOSER TO AUDIO FRUITION

One step closer... I'm a lot nearer now to actually putting (what could be) the sound of CCCL into the wild.
After a lot of R&D, patching, experimenting and modifying I'm almost ready to put my 'No Guitars!' pedal collection (well most of it) into a flight case and wire it all together. When this is done I plan to do some 'live in the studio' recordings direct to disc (no guitars, no MIDI, no editing). When I say soon... I mean soon'ish, as it will probably be within the next 1-2 months.



'No Guitars' beta version - before casing...

MT-30 REBUILT & MORE MODS

The Casio MT-30 project (earlier details below) is 95% completed.
After stripping it down and giving it a good spruce-up I replaced all the noisy pots and switches. The new pots are smaller and smoother than the previous and the new switches have a more positive 'click' action. I had to remove the internal speaker to accomodate the new circuitry and I also removed the old (unreliable) rear phono output socket and replaced it with a regular jack socket. Same procedure with the old DC input socket.
The newly included ring-modulator is the only thing I'm not entirely happy with. At the moment both the carrier and modulator are being fed by the MT-30 audio so it acts more like a kind of harmonic octave shifter (upwards). But I've left a hole on the rear of the case to take a switched jack socket for feeding in external audio (an oscillator, or whatever) to the modulator input, which should be fun.


The newly refurbished and further modified Casio MT-30 keyboard.
The internal speaker in the photo below was removed to accommodate the new circuitry.



Close-up view of modifications in top right panel.
Includes: the fixed/variable master clock, tune, primary octave switch, variable digital distortion, ring-modultaor balance and a psuedo/semi random function.

Close-up view of modifications on the left end column.
Includes: 'quick' memory select function, secondary octave switch, vibrato rate (slow or slower), vibrato depth (none or shallow) and hold.


All these modifications work in addition to the existing Casio controls.