Part one here.
Now that the presents have been unwrapped and all bets are off, I can finally post these medallions that I made on the laser cutter, from old vinyl records.
My brothers and sisters together form the names Duus, Olsen & Lysgaard, and the medallions are kinda faux-lawfirm-looking, with each of our creative fields cut into them.
Happy holidays folks, hope everyone got proper stuffed!
I have been teaching myself some soldering over the last year, to make and augment some musical instruments, and some other, more strange projects. My biggest project by far was this; building a dub siren from scratch. Here I have documented my process and made a guide for anyone who dares to follow in my footsteps.
This dub siren is far from the most simple design. If you want an easy way out, you can find an old birthday card that plays a song or one of those “Mr T in your pocket” gizmos, and just poke’em with a soldering iron and you’re done(like this one). When I started out this project I had no soldering skills at all, but I had some time on my hands and thus I managed to teach myself the basics in a couple of weeks. It was my Christmas holiday, okay? You make it sound like I was unemployed or something.See the full rubdown after the jump.
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Yeehaw! I finished soldering together my first dub siren some time ago, so now it’s time to share! I made a quick video with me playing it, and took some pictures while I made it. A heapload(nice word, no?) of thanks to Dave from superset sounds for helping me out with it, i built it based on his original schematics.
The box is an old shaving box from the early 1900’s, and yes, i soldered the whole thing myself from scratch. Thankyouverymuch.
I’m planning on streamlining the production a bit (this one took me ages to make) and making some more, with custom built wooden casings, hopefully laser engraved. Give me a holler in the comments of what you think, or if the new ones i’m making sounds worth bying. I’ll post about them too of course, when i get them made that is.
Dub siren v1.1 from Jacob Fantastisk on Vimeo.
EDIT: the complete rubdown of my dub siren project is now live, check it out here!
I’m starting a brand new project, involving skills i do not have at all. Exiting.
Basically, I’m building a dub siren. If you haven’t heard the word, its a box that makes a sound. Specifically, a sine wave (or sawtooth) thats feeds to a line output, with some knobs along the way to adjust frequency, volume and whatnot.
I got the Schematic from Unity gain aka Dave from Superset, after some nagging. His scematic (and his finished model) was the best i had seen so far, so i figured let’s go for it.
I’ll post more pictures as i progress, currently I’m just getting my head around the schematics and getting all the parts ready.
