Muff's Modules & More

a100user · Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 4:37 am Post subject:

Oh yes the Moisturizer is a nice piece of kit grin

oljud · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:05 am Post subject:

http://www.bugbrand.co.uk/bugbrand_old/images/9vcell/delaybox.jpg – touch points for delay time. So it CAN be a touch synth!

a scanner darkly · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject:

Was fooling around with Machinedrum and modular yesterday and then fired up The Weevil and it's just too much fun. Mutating dolphin screeches into fat kicks!

[s]http://soundcloud.com/fuzzybeacon/sometimes[/s]

evs · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:17 am Post subject: Re: Let's talk weevil

oljud · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:37 am Post subject:

Roughly: don't touch the back or on your head be it. I'm guessing it can handle quite a lot of back-touchery, but for warranty reasons it's difficult to have people do these things. Especially when touching the battery, output and the big transformer?

I haven't really felt a need for touching the back. It's deep enough as it is. Just curious, and wondering about the cross-modulation thing.

BugBrand · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:46 am Post subject:

Yes, it is mainly as a disclaimer. Frankly there's already a LOT of possibilities with the touchplates - and connections to these all have current limiting resistors in series to prevent any potential damage. Not that you're likely to kill anything in normal operation, but I've had a few returns over the years from people taking things a bit too far... (saying that, such occurrences are rare).

Electronically, you are changing the resistance between different parts of the circuit. At simplest - for example with the tune pots, these are 1M pots so if turned down fully you have a resistance of 1M (giving low oscillation rate) - you'll notice there are two touch-points per osc and these simply connect either side of the pot - touching between them tends to lower the resistance, thus increasing the rate of oscillation. Of course, that's the basic - once you start touching other parts you begin creating new flow routes. The resistance depends on how moist your fingers are - dry fingers will have a higher resistance than sweaty ones.

This is why I recommend fingers or something with resistance (croc-cable with pot inserted in series?) rather than simply using wires to join different points (ie. simply shorting circuiting) - the wire approach lacks the subtlety of the variable resistance approach.

Tall Midget · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:46 am Post subject:

Here's my friend playing his Postcard Weevil 2009, my other friend has an earlier Postcard Weevil also. I prefer my Board Weevil over the Postcard, way more possibilities with the LDRs. A Thingamagoop (original version) comes in around 13 minutes in the video.

Edit: Check out the 3:15 mark, hella dope!!! I recommend skipping to the 10:00 minute mark in the video. I spent 4 hours mastering and rendering the audio and was just too tired to edit the video. Took forever to render because the computer is so old.

oljud · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:08 am Post subject:

Thanks for this, Tom!

antfactor · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:03 pm Post subject: Q: BoardWeavil 2012

So... I have a PostCard Weevil and now a (more recently acquired) 2012 BoardWeevil - and I must admit, I'm a bit stumped/curious as to why the contacts on the 2012 are in pairs... and I'd LOVE to know what the left one does versus the right... sometimes they seem to work additively... sometimes do different things(?). Hmmm.

Some elucidation on this would be great - the schematic leaves a bit to mystery... (not that mystery is BAD... ha!)

Mucho Thanxo! -das ant

BugBrand · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:50 am Post subject:

Well,,,,

For the Osc touch-points - these connect either side of the freq pots
(you can see this approach in the WOM project docs)
They're also straddling the 40106 osc/gate sections -> on the one side is the timing cap (roughly giving a triangle wave) and on the other side you have the squared output. By bridging between these points you are lowering the resistance and this increases the frequency of oscillations.

For the RingMod parts - pre and post amplification -> there are 4069 based amps to bring levels up in starvation mode - so the left hand pads can be seen as low level, while the right hand pads are inverted and full amplitude

For the Filter - you've got pads for the three outputs and then also the three summing node points within the filter.

Clear?! Ha, probably not, but... always a balance between understanding and simply accepting the limitations/possibilities of the machine.

oljud · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:46 am Post subject:

Is it true there are THIRTEEN unsold crazy fuckmachines like this in the bugbrand shop? How can this be?

Sat playing mine now, for the first time through my Real Monitors. Sweet sweet noise w00t

oljud · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:47 am Post subject:

Oh, and a side question, roughly how many AudioWeevil08s are there?

BugBrand · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:54 am Post subject:

Ha! Yes...

I think 60 AudioWeevils were made.

oljud · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:08 am Post subject:

Ok. I'm starting to think I need one. Wasp filter? Input? Feedbacking through octaver/delay/distortion/reverb/nothing? Running BW2012 through AW08???

Dead Banana

kursk53704 · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:24 am Post subject:

Weevil sounds fab on its own but putting it through an EHX Tube Zipper, and the looping functions on an EHX Memory Man w/Hazari and Strymon Capistan (slow speed, reverse, and the tape degrade functions on the Capistan) is just lovely. Such a wonderful little machine!

oljud · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:53 pm Post subject:

Showed my weevil to my sister's kids (the 10 and 4 y o girls) today - they loved it! Glued to it till they had to leave. Have to come past with a mixer and all my stuff. Kids love noise!

otoskope · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:55 am Post subject:

I once had a spontaneous noise party with kids (mine and a friend's) in my garden. Like 10 different crackle boxes, weevils, ciat-lonbardes etc. They loved it!

oljud · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:49 am Post subject:

We need to get at them before they grow old and close their minds.

nrdvrgr · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:32 am Post subject:

So true. My 9 yr old daughter has already "gone mainstream" musicwise, but my son loves to make noise with me.

Let´s do our best to keep their minds and ears open!