While not specifically synth related, this features a neon lamp multivibrator, ostensibly for the purposes of creating a suboctave signal to mix in with the straight signal. In this device, it more or less just creates a different type of distortion, albeit a cool one.
The housing is from a fried computer power supply.
Youtube clips to follow shortly:
clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9bKLGVM5J8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8xqSQboPyU
Schematics or GTFO
Here you go. I suck at drawing, hope you can read them.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/chrome_dinette/neonpre.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/chrome_dinette/neonpre001.jpg
the first schematic was wrong, so I deleted it.
This is correct:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/chrome_dinette/neonpre002.jpg
great—ps—your photos are great, but please try to post them in a smaller size. I shrank these for you.
(A few people are still on dial-up, and big pics take a long time to load.)
You can also place photos on the page by inserting align=”right” or align=”left” before the alt= tag.
Don’t bother with the left/center/right buttons on the
add-media function–they don’t work in Wordpress properly.
Aha, no problem, will shrink pictures from now on.
Looks great! Thank you for the schematics!