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.
Fstedie writes – “If you’re like me, you’ve noticed that the sound and fit of your Apple ear bud headphones is not the greatest. Here’s an easy way to improve both their sound and fit: Find or buy an old Jabra cell phone head set. Ditch the headset and keep the ear gels (I found […]
Peter has a review of NAMM 2007 for you music makers out there, he writes – “Hi There! I just got back from the NAMM show which is the largest trade show in the world for musical instruments. I’m in the process of putting up a ton of posts about odd musical instruments. A lot […]
Ok, who’s going to be the first to make an orchestra out of six second sections of that Hall and Oats song private eyes? I double dog dare you to do it! – Link
All you need for this is the bit out of a piezo, an 1/8 inch jack and a tin can. You got a simple way to make a mic? Drop a note in the comments! – Link
Artist Ola Pehrson turns data from the stock market into sheets of music for a choir to sing… ” A vast amount of information in the shape of index graphs is constantly being created at the different stock markets of the world. In the project “NASDAQ vocal index” the graphs of companies listed on the […]
Derek writes in with this awesome ribbon controller that could be hiding in your wallet… – “Using the magnetic strip on the back of my driver’s license to make a ribbon controller which then controls Autofilter in Live 6 via MIDI. 5v is connected to one side of the license’s mag strip, ground to the […]
Speaker built into lid of a large cookie tin. Sitting on the speaker (6 inch, 8ohm), the bottom of the can is free to vibrate. Using reverb, overdrive and a compressor, the can hyper-resonates making extended metallic wails. – Link
