The Buzzing of Bs

Here’s a six minute demo of Weird Sounds, Generated. WSG demo

B here now

So, basically, the WSG is DONE: Done with an asterisk. The battery setup is a temporary kludge to be remedied later. One of the pots and all but one of the jacks are not connected; they were included for the modifications I mostly ended up not doing, but I might get around to adding them […]

Plan B update

First step in completing the WSG is going to be to get the case ready for mounting the hardware. It’ll be easier to do that now while the circuit board and front panel are not conjoined. I had sketched out how to do that but I think I have an easier idea based on materials […]

Plan B

OK, here’s the plan. Or a plan. Or a plan to plan. Long time readers will remember over four years ago I decided to build a (modified) Weird Sound Generator (WSG), though it took me about a year and a half before I started building it. I did a lot of the work, maybe 85% of […]

The weirder they come

I decided the two resistors I’d had standing and waving on the Weird Sound Generator board would be better moved to the front panel. So I unsoldered them. Then I populated the kludge area with four CV inputs, one for each audio oscillator, and an unfiltered output. I still have to make connections to the […]

Progress is weird

I’ve populated the circuit board for my Weird Sound Generator: except that I haven’t mounted the parts for some modifications I want to make (indeed, I still need to get some of those parts), and I shouldn’t have put the ICs in the sockets yet because some of these mods will require soldering nearby. (The […]

Bwoooopapapapapap

Some years ago I started to build an ASM-1 synth, but for some reason that project stalled. The Gakken SX-150 has put the building bug back in me, at least for the moment. I’ve ordered components for something less ambitious this time, a Weird Sound Generator. No PC board yet, I’ll start by breadboarding it. […]