Bricksnbeatles
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Classic, super janky ring mod (here are shots from the original schematic. I could email it as a pdf though)
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DOD Gonkulator
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Bricksnbeatles
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I always thought that was Deaner’s microsynth with the upper octave dimed and the envelope’s start and stop frequencies being swept by Andrew while Dean played or something. Listening back it does sound like it could be the big box Frequency Analyzer thats visible in some of the studio shots from the La Cucaracha sessions (coincidentally I also ‘wished’ for the frequency analyzer a while ago too).
I think there may also be some ring mod stuff lightly blended into the mix bus on the solo in Captain.
Bricksnbeatles
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RIP. A sweet summer child, gone before the Dawn
I petition to have the inevitable gonkulator PCB that arises from the ZERO VOTES in this thread be named the “It’s All In Gonk Fun” in tribute to that magnificence that, as such, we have lost, lest we forget.
Harry Klippton
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@PedalPCB this is also a petition to change @Bricksnbeatles title to Starter of the Threads
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Betty Wont
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“We did that at the studio. My guitar tech built me this ring modulator kit, like a Radio Shack kit. I’ve always been really proud of the solo on that song. It broke, and it was only used on that one song. It’s got that crazy wah-wah sound on it, where you can’t even tell it’s a guitar.”
-Deaner, in a 20th anniversary oral history of The Mollusk with Stereogum
Bricksnbeatles
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That’s wild! Thanks for sharing—somehow I missed that entire article when it came out. I now know what I’ll be reading tonight!
dawson
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Aw- biggest faux in the biz..
However, just because I forgot there's a button now doesn't mean I don't want a Gonkulator..I'm pressing the button now.
Bricksnbeatles
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That’s what I would guess. It’s also possible that at one point radioshack had a simple 2-transformer, 4-diode passive ring modulator, and then a synth or something was used for the carrier frequency
dawson
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You slam the input of the ring modulator with a feedbacking phaser and send that into reverse delay while you're down on your knees turning knobs for a minute and a half while the keys and bass do a drivey walk-up and the cymbals are going wild. Drunk people like it almost as much as I do.I'm all for doing it... I started on it a while back but I think it slipped my mind, or maybe I had doubts about the schematic....
Does anyone really need a ring modulator though?
What in the world are you going to do with it?
Betty Wont
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The Mold Spore is one of only two pedals I regret selling. 20 years ago they couldn't give them away.
Popnfreshbass
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I would build it, play Glass by Incubus all day until I drove my wife nuts. Then sell it someone else who wants to play Glass by Incubus.
DAJE
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No thanks, I already have one.
I did have concrete plans to use it in a musical context, and then Covid happened and everyone's plans got shelved.
EDIT: It's been a while since I fired it up, but as I recall it the distortion is pretty harsh and not very usable, so I just zeroed it and used something else for that.
I did have concrete plans to use it in a musical context, and then Covid happened and everyone's plans got shelved.
EDIT: It's been a while since I fired it up, but as I recall it the distortion is pretty harsh and not very usable, so I just zeroed it and used something else for that.
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Paint it like this & add a few Knobbies:
Harry Klippton
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Still. Not. A. Single. Vote.
Big Monk
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dawson
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You know..I poked the button but nothing happened with the votes.
Not sure what Big Brother is up to but from the text I've been reading it looks like the Gonkulator's a "go" anyhow.
Maybe somebody turns off the voting function when they decide they're moving forward so their phone stops buzzing every time somebody redundantly decides they want "X" new doo-dad?
