Benjolin love

Mr. Sound Boy King · Post by **Mr. Sound Boy King** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 1:49 pm

I rock this little snack and have nothing but love for Benjolin.

pieter · Post by **pieter** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:27 pm

maaaks wrote:
pieter wrote:Which Benjolin do you have? I know there are some fairly straightforward fixes that bring up the output levels (nothing more complicated than replacing resistors, I believe).
Ooh I'd be interested in this too. I've got this one: http://www.epochmodular.net/benjolin.html are mods possible?

Lowering the resistor R36 in the filter section in this schematic from 150k to 30k will do the trick. It is the resistor right after the opamp that takes the input of the filter (not the external input). The easiest way is to solder a 39k resistor in parallel.

I don't have the Epoch version, but I'd imagine the circuit is largely identical.

maaaks · Post by **maaaks** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:48 pm

pieter wrote:
maaaks wrote:
pieter wrote:Which Benjolin do you have? I know there are some fairly straightforward fixes that bring up the output levels (nothing more complicated than replacing resistors, I believe).
Ooh I'd be interested in this too. I've got this one: http://www.epochmodular.net/benjolin.html are mods possible?
Lowering the resistor R36 in the filter section in this schematic from 150k to 30k will do the trick. It is the resistor right after the opamp that takes the input of the filter (not the external input). The easiest way is to solder a 39k resistor in parallel.

I don't have the Epoch version, but I'd imagine the circuit is largely identical.

Thank you! I'm totally trying this. I'll report back

huffnPuff · Post by **huffnPuff** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 6:05 pm

Please do!

maaaks · Post by **maaaks** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 4:04 am

It works! I found 30k was still noticeably quieter than the triangle outs so I dropped it down to ~20k by using a 22k in parallel (hopefully, it won't go up in flames)

The PWM clean out is still much louder!

Pic in case it helps anyone:

pieter · Post by **pieter** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:06 am

Cool!

The Grump · Post by **The Grump** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:16 am

Nothing but love for mine!

SB-SIX · Post by **SB-SIX** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:54 pm

Ok this is the weirdest sh#t I've ever made

Benjolin is great fun indeed, what a world of sound. This is just benjolin and magneto and a bunch of lfo's

https://soundcloud.com/steeboo/kutnummer/s-6IDuh
https://soundcloud.com/steeboo/kutnummer/s-6IDuh

pieter · Post by **pieter** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:55 pm

lekker kutnummer

SB-SIX · Post by **SB-SIX** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 4:32 pm

pieter wrote:lekker kutnummer

So people from the UK understand dutch?

pieter · Post by **pieter** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 4:41 pm

the dutch ones do... ;-)

jwise · Post by **jwise** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:10 pm

maaaks wrote:It works! I found 30k was still noticeably quieter than the triangle outs so I dropped it down to ~20k by using a 22k in parallel (hopefully, it won't go up in flames)

Now that it's two months later what are your thoughts on the mod?

Is there someone here in the U.S. that can perform this mod for me?

PLNB · Post by **PLNB** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:53 pm

Love me some rungler, except I went with the standalone banana box from Mr. Holzer. Grackler, Macumbista, and DoubleKnot are all buddies.

maaaks · Post by **maaaks** » Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:45 am

jwise wrote:
maaaks wrote:It works! I found 30k was still noticeably quieter than the triangle outs so I dropped it down to ~20k by using a 22k in parallel (hopefully, it won't go up in flames)
y

Now that it's two months later what are your thoughts on the mod?

Is there someone here in the U.S. that can perform this mod for me?

No problems at all. You can do it yourself! It is really the easiest mod possible

knifey · Post by **knifey** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:59 am

Just got the Benjo in a trade. Put it in a little skiff with my Pittsburgh Generator as modulation. Wow.

lud · Post by **lud** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 9:32 am

Wonder why Epoch didn't implement this mod?

Inju · Post by **Inju** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 9:45 am

I believe the original was created to be a standalone instrument so Eurorack levels would have been to hot. I'll be building one of these at Synthplex in a few days so will see if this module hack will also work. I however was more interested in how to add an audio input to the filter so I can put additional sound sources through the filter. I also want to figure out a way to have the oscillators track 1V/octave for more than one octave. Those two functions would make the Benjolin incredibly versatile.

hermbot · Post by **hermbot** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:23 pm

maaaks wrote:

It works! I found 30k was still noticeably quieter than the triangle outs so I dropped it down to ~20k by using a 22k in parallel (hopefully, it won't go up in flames)

The PWM clean out is still much louder!

Pic in case it helps anyone:

Just wanted to quote this for being a hero as it totally worked.

touyube · Post by **sduck** » Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:42 pm

I read about that mod a few times while building my latest benjolin, and some research led to a quote from Rob Hordjik about it - paraphrasing, he said that increasing the level of signal into the filter like this leads to a lot more distortion of the signal, and causes the filter to work differently than he intended. So I didn't implement this mod, but it certainly might have it's uses, depending on what you want to achieve. Adding a switch to turn it on and off would be trivially easy, if you can find room for one.

Speaking of which, here it is...

Pighood · Post by **Pighood** » Sat Apr 06, 2019 4:49 pm

esquilofreniko · Post by **esquilofreniko** » Sat Apr 06, 2019 4:53 pm

SB-SIX wrote:Ok this is the weirdest sh#t I've ever made Benjolin is great fun indeed, what a world of sound. This is just benjolin and magneto and a bunch of lfo's

https://soundcloud.com/steeboo/kutnummer/s-6IDuh
https://soundcloud.com/steeboo/kutnummer/s-6IDuh

sounds great ^^

SlothIncantation · Post by **SlothIncantation** » Mon Nov 18, 2019 4:26 pm

I’ve been drooling over every video I see using the Benjolin and it seems like Epoch’s was a good one to get but they aren’t making them right now... does anyone know of another company making them at the moment? Or does anyone know of someone selling one? Thanks for any input here

motorhead412 · Post by **motorhead412** » Mon Nov 18, 2019 4:57 pm

SlothIncantation wrote:I’ve been drooling over every video I see using the Benjolin and it seems like Epoch’s was a good one to get but they aren’t making them right now... does anyone know of another company making them at the moment? Or does anyone know of someone selling one? Thanks for any input here

https://afterlateraudio.com/product/jug ... -benjolin/

Their site is out of stock but there's this on Reverb: https://reverb.com/item/29753810-juggle ... ater-audio

Patchwerks also seems to have a used one: https://patchwerks.com/collections/used ... io-juggler

VM · Post by VM » Mon Nov 18, 2019 6:18 pm

SlothIncantation wrote:I’ve been drooling over every video I see using the Benjolin and it seems like Epoch’s was a good one to get but they aren’t making them right now... does anyone know of another company making them at the moment? Or does anyone know of someone selling one? Thanks for any input here

Not strictly what you're after, but a modded Benjolin for sale on lines:
https://llllllll.co/t/ft-fs-uk-macumbis ... olin/25422

SlothIncantation · Post by **SlothIncantation** » Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:01 pm

motorhead412 wrote:
SlothIncantation wrote:I’ve been drooling over every video I see using the Benjolin and it seems like Epoch’s was a good one to get but they aren’t making them right now... does anyone know of another company making them at the moment? Or does anyone know of someone selling one? Thanks for any input here
https://afterlateraudio.com/product/jug ... -benjolin/

Their site is out of stock but there's this on Reverb: https://reverb.com/item/29753810-juggle ... ater-audio

Patchwerks also seems to have a used one: https://patchwerks.com/collections/used ... io-juggler

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MUFF WIGGLER

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