Home wrecker – DIY music articles and schematics
Home wrecker has a huge collection of DIY music articles and schematics… Pictured here, the Electro-Harmonix Bad Stone phase shifter – Link.
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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.
Circuit bent toy piano
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Farnea writes – “My first circuit bending stuff. I got a cheap toy piano and added some components and touch contact to make the sound weird.” – Link & video. Related: Circuit-Bending: External Controllers – Link. Circuit-Bending: Build an Incantor – Link. Circuit bent Furby – Link. HOW TO – […]
HOW TO – Mic stereo / little amp in a pencil box
llaven writes – “Mic stereo with little amp in a pencil box, i build this for my project http://www.archivosonoro.org is a non-profit project about the Soundscapes and Field recordings. This box use with a MD-510n Minidisc recorder with Analogical IN. Happy build!!!” – Link. Related: Bownie’s DIY Guide to Recording – Link. Build a Telephone […]
A Clockwork guitar
Jake writes – “I have a Fender US Highway One series Stratocaster, which is a half decent guitar, but looks just like a million other Strats. I had been planning to replace the pick guard with a black mother of pearl guard but my experiments in electrolytic etching made me think I’d like to try […]
6-pack – Arduino-based controller for live audio/video performances
Here’s an arduino-based controller for live audio/video performances. Cheap to build and amazingly small… “6-pack is an open-ended, highly customisable, and ultra-portable physical controller based on the Arduino board. 6-pack is an Arduino shield consisting of 6 linear potentiometer sliders that can be assigned to different variables in the user’s preferred software. It can be […]
HOW TO – Copy data off a Microsoft Zune (use as a hard drive)
If you have a Zune, or know someone who does, you’re likely disappointed that it’s pretty much the only music player that doesn’t let you access the hard drive on it, all 30 GB are hidden because it’s “confusing” and we’re all “pirates” or something – but Dan seems to have figured out a way […]
HOW TO – Use a Zune with Windows Vista
Paul posted up a patch to run a Zune on Vista (see previous – Use a Zune with Vista) he writes – “As many of you will know, I recently purchased a Microsoft Zune player (to replace my lost iPod, which never surfaced no thanks to crappy Iberia!). Unfortunately, days before the arrival of my […]