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!
It’s really great that people are sharing this intfnmaoior.