Green Dream Drone Machine

[SineHacker]

Mini drone project, not complete just yet, I built a prototype and forgot to add 4 resistors to the oscillators which allowed them to modulate each other, the finished version will work the way I intended. There is a blog post on this on my site with more info: http://soundofginko.com/the-monthly-drone/

This is how it is supposed to sound:

green machine revision

this is the first finished prototype that doesn't modulate even though I say it does in vid!!:

Green Dream Machine drone box demo

[SineHacker]

How do I insert pictures and make them not massive?

I would post pictures but when I try, they are like A3 size on my 13" monitor so here is a link to the finished boxes, awaiting art and green knobs (my partner is going to ink on a design, better than my nasty permanent marker graffiti)

http://soundofginko.com/junes-monthly-drone/

and this:

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/aidantaylor/green-dream-drone-machine[/soundcloud]

[dislocations]

Sweet! Is this based on the 40106?
I never get tired of playing with this stuff!!!!

[Gordonjcp]

That sounds bloody horrible.  Keep up the good work.

[SineHacker]

That sounds bloody horrible.  Keep up the good work.

thanks  it's actually very useable, i'm kinda sweeping through sounds in the demo, it's really easy to focus on something you liek the sound of, and with a bit of delay and/or reverb it sounds great! I use drone boxes like this in my live stuff all the time now

yeah this one is 40106 based, 4 oscillators mixed with diodes, they go into a 4049 for distortion (like they need it) the whole thing has a voltage drain activated by the LDR

[SineHacker]

[volg4]

hey, nice builds! also had a listen to your liveset video on your site, fantastic stuff mate!!! totally enjoyed that, really atmospheric, was that all done on self built machines?

[SineHacker]

Thanks! I use a couple of homemade mics and drones and some circuitbent bits - mainly my pss790 which was one of my first bends (although I use an updated version now - thats what kicks out the nicer melodic drones) and I use two pedals, a boss reverb (RV3 maybe?) and a digitech DL-8 - I tend to use the reverb so my vocals don't sound too dry and the DL-8 to create loops with its infinite feedback. I'm playing at Supernormal in a couple of weeks and bricking it!

[volg4]

cool, stuff sounds great man, how did you get on at supernormal?