Muff's Modules & More

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[slow_riot]

I've just been playing with 2 recently purchased Borg 2's.

Both seem to have very very different resonance characteristics, even if I use different outputs or remove or replace the jumper on the back. One is very screamy and the other one very much less so. The nicer one won't stops self oscillating at a higher frequency... the stronger one goes almost into subby territory.

I think the varierty could be useful... but I'm just curious about whther this is somehow 'normal'.. perhaps through different tolerances/variences in components. I recall someone mentioning their Borg's differed similarly but I couldn't find the post.

I'm planning on getting a Borg1 also anyway. Amazing modules.

[J3RK]

You might be able to calibrate them to behave a little more similarly, but from my understanding, Vactrols vary from unit to unit, so you're likely not going to get identical behavior from any two units. It consists of a a light-source (LED) and a photo-cell. So I imagine that there are several ways for variations to come into play. (imperfections in LED dispersion, LED brightness, varying tolerances of the photo-cell/LDR, isolation, etc.) I think you could probably get a bit closer behavior than what you describe with calibration.

I have a Borg One and a Borg Two, so I can't do a direct comparison on mine.

I'm wondering if the color of LED used would have any impact on this based on wave-length of the color. Now I want to make some vactrols. I may have to buy another Borg, place at socket of some kind where the vactrols connect, and plug in different ones. Maybe go for "ultra-slow" and use an incandescent light. Perhaps make a vactrol expansion board, with switches to change between responses...

[Malekko]

This is normal, and it isnt a calibration issue, in building these we've seen a pretty big difference from unit to unit...sounds like you have one from each spectrum! It's from the tolerance of the vactrols.
In my personal ones i leave the jumper off for the ultimate

[slow_riot]

Aha thanks for the clarification.

I think I got lucky to have the 2... i can see them being complimentary. and also it's possible thru jumper settings and seperate outputs to work with the personality of each different vactrol response. i can tame the screamy one or boost the soft one, for exmaple.

the only issue is the large potential of long term addiction...

[Malekko]

yeah, i cherry picked two opposites for myself too, you can get a wide variety of possibilities with the two you have!!!

[slow_riot]

i think i will try with the jumper on the soft one and the jumper off on the other.

[bleeps]

I walked into BCM today with the honest intent of just buying an Envelator when Josh says, "Hey, you in a rush?"

20 minutes and some knob twisting later I walk out with a Borg to keep the Envelator company. *sigh* At least I got a wooden nickel out of the deal. :insert wooden nickel emoticon here:

Now I just need to find a good place to keep the jumper bit...

[felix]

!!!! WOODEN NICKELS !!!!

[RichyHo]

[Hi5]

given the multiple ins and outs on the borgs anyone patch up some vc resonance control on these guys?
I have the lpg thing covered but am interested in it as a svf.

[lukas412]

[jonkull]

OK, so what's this wooden nickel stuff about?

[miditerranean]

I'm pretty sure there were only Wooden nickels in the first production run of the Borg 2 and Boogie filters but then the manufacturer stopped making the wooden nickels. Malekko clarified this somewhere in the forum but I can't find it right now.

[tortug]

I also got a wooden nickel with the Borg 1

[qu.one]

there was a rubber roach in one of the malekko pedals someone opened at an NYC meetup. it was hysterical.

[dequalsrxt]

psst: enlighten a noob - svf?

[qu.one]

[dequalsrxt]

got it, thanks!

[felix]