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Mutator for sale.

I have a completed Mutator up for sale. It’s in one of the cooler cases that I’ve recycled thus far. This Mutator is of a new design. I’ve found a way to make this pedal work as a Fuzz as well as an insane noise maker. This mutator has a Volume knob, Gain Knob, Mutation [...]

Tutorial Repair Complete

Still working on some of the other pages, but all the old Tutorials should be good now. I guess I should write some more of those one of these days…
 

Circuit Bending Challenge

On October twenty-eighth two-thousand seven, a prestigious challenge was put forth. Thrift stores raided, fingers moistened, soldering irons heated, and toys violated. When the solder smoke finally cleared, only one could stand victorious with their ears covered. This is the story of my part in that challenge….Ok, enough with the epic narratives.
The challenge was to [...]

VSS-30 Tutorial

The video above is of my most recent bent VSS-30 that uses a 12 point switch bay using 2 way center off switches. This is my documentation on bending a Yamaha VSS-30. This ultra sampling keyboard has some really awesome capabilities on it’s own. I got this info initially from one of the bending forums, but [...]

PSS-270 Tutorial

After some major diggin’ for info I found that no one had a specific guide for bending a Yamaha PSS-270, so I decided to make one. Credit to Sean “audioid” (myspace.com/audioidbentaudio), and Paul from circuitbenders.co.uk for the info on this bend. This bend involves cutting data lines that go from the FM synth chip (YM2413) [...]

Furby Bending Tutorial

Since I’ve been asked many times about bending furbies I thought I would make this guide to help those that would like to give it a try.

This furby is in the typical shape I find most of them in. Let’s take away his dignity further by striping him of his fur.

This lump on his bottom [...]

Circuit Bent Samples/Sample Albums

I’ve recently setup my Soundclick page with the ability for people to download the samples of .75 a piece, or as an album for 7.99. I’ve setup two albums, one is a collection of Vocal Glitches (like the Speak and Spells and furbys), and one is a collection of instruments that generate random music, beats, [...]

Instruments

Over the past few years I’ve built a wide variety of instruments. Some are toys/keyboards/whatever that I re-purposed through circuit bending and modification, some are oscillator based instruments that I built from scratch, and more and more I’ve been dabbling in make effects pedals. I’ve built more things then I could ever possibly list here, [...]

Modified Fab Echo

Modded Fab Echo
 
 
On a whim I bought one of these little boxes. For less then 20 bucks I figured what the heck! Did a little searching on Aron’s DIY Stompbox Forum, and found out that the Fab Echo uses a common chip to full on delay pedals. After checking over a couple schematics I (with [...]

Redeaux

Site is getting a facelift. Hope to have it in workable order soon.