farwest1
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The Magnetron works well and sounds amazing. But it seems like something's not quite right. Maybe I got a component or resistor wrong?
I have to max out the Level pot for the wet repeats to be loud enough, and even then they're slightly quieter than the dry guitar signal. If I set the level around 12 o'clock, the wet repeats are really quiet, almost just a texture. It sounds good, ambient, but not quite what I expected. I guess I expected a stronger "wet" signal.
Any thoughts? Did I get something wrong in the circuit?
I madse two mods to the circuit: #1 I put the gain trimmer on the face, which was a good move. It's super warm and decaying—very Boards of Canada like. #2 I changed the Feedback pot from logarithmic to linear, also good, but self-oscillation happens now at around 3 o'clock rather than at max.
(If you're interested, the name comes from a weird short story called "Academy Leader" by cyberpunk writer William Gibson. I was thinking about some sort of glitchy animal that keeps reappearing in lower and lower fidelity—and a line from that story kept coming back to me:
"in the hour of the halogen wolves, in radio silence.")
I have to max out the Level pot for the wet repeats to be loud enough, and even then they're slightly quieter than the dry guitar signal. If I set the level around 12 o'clock, the wet repeats are really quiet, almost just a texture. It sounds good, ambient, but not quite what I expected. I guess I expected a stronger "wet" signal.
Any thoughts? Did I get something wrong in the circuit?
I madse two mods to the circuit: #1 I put the gain trimmer on the face, which was a good move. It's super warm and decaying—very Boards of Canada like. #2 I changed the Feedback pot from logarithmic to linear, also good, but self-oscillation happens now at around 3 o'clock rather than at max.
(If you're interested, the name comes from a weird short story called "Academy Leader" by cyberpunk writer William Gibson. I was thinking about some sort of glitchy animal that keeps reappearing in lower and lower fidelity—and a line from that story kept coming back to me:
"in the hour of the halogen wolves, in radio silence.")
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