Take your creations beyond the workshop and onto the stage with diy music instruments! Let us show you how these creations range from simple, basic setups that produce beautiful sounds to more complex projects that require a greater level of engineering knowledge. With these tutorials and examples, we’ll guide you on this journey to make your own musical instrument for experimental, artistic or everyday use – so whether you’re starting out new or a seasoned sound creator, come explore the wonderful world of making your own music.
A cool Phil Collins style drum roll, coming to a mousepad near you! This selfmade drum trigger pad I made in about 15 minutes for testing Alesis D4 drum module. It consist of synthetic leather (better use mousepad) glued on one side of tin sheet and piezo glued on the other. All this is glued […]
I like that these come in a little zip lock baggy. I wonder if the cardboard boxes actually enhance the sound and work as a bass box or just make them more stackable? [Via] – Link
Tim Escobedo says, “Simple AND playable DIY musical instruments in PVC, plastic and anything else that’s cheap.” Pictured here on the left is the $12 Uke and at right is the Plastic Fantastic Sax. Link.
Neptune is a band that plays rough musical instruments roughly. If you live in Seattle and you’re into dirty DIY music action, you probably already have tickets for tomorrow night’s show. Check out some photos of their instruments. – Link
Here are some cool circuit bending projects! I love the case for this less than $20 audio looper! We had an article on circuit bending in Make Volume 4 and you can learn more at the author’s anti-theory circuit bending website. – Link
Rybitski took a broken car stereo and (re)made a home version that uses a computer monitor that lights up, he writes – “My friend, Jeremy came to me with a car stereo and an idea. He wanted to use the car stereo as a normal stereo because motorized faceplate no longer worked. We settled on […]
Here you go, control Winamp with a Nintendo DS over Wi-Fi (source code included) – [via] – Link. Related: Tons of Winamp projects and articles- Link. DS projects, hacks, mods and homebrew – Link.
