4922
  • Looks like it doesn’t have strap buttons?

Nope, I used an acoustic guitar-style thing with a shoestring at the headstock and another one “through” the bottom brass string stop. Not ideal, but I didn’t want to screw straps buttons into it. I did do this for my namasitar and it works well, but the shtar body is tiny in comparison, the balance would be all off.

  • I’ve been looking around to see what the tunings are for the open strings. There are a few suggestions in blog posts and in the shbobo repo? Have you explored any literature/repertoire that uses 17ET tuning?

Not too deeply. I went with 4ths, maybe down to a low C, don’t remember. I found this let me play “normal”-ish stuff too as there’s loads of intervals adjacent to 17ET in there, not that that’s super important. Just helps with muscle memory a bit for playing/improvising.

  • Is there any info on what kinds of strings to use and what gauge/size?

The scale length, and lack of trussrod really limits your options here. I don’t remember what gauge I have on there (9s or 10s most likely), but it’s one wound string and three plains. The strings are super floppy. I’d like to experiment with seeing how far heavy I could push it, but again, I worry about the neck flexing under the tension. I think a tar is supposed to be floppy though.

  • The two inputs are for modulating parameters in the shnth side? What are all the options for control (2 piezos?)

The two piezos (and knobs/cv) just show up in the code to do whatever. The way the piezos are located implies having one as the “audio in” from the strings (as it’s under the bridge) and the other for control/flex gestures, as it’s in the top part of the heart and you can readily press it like the tetrrazi/barre-type paradigms.

  • Is the output a mono or stereo mini jack?

Stereo, with an inline stereo (analog) ring mod. There’s a toggle for having the audio parallel or series with the ring mod (if I remember right). The analog ring mod was one of my fav things in the old one as you can get some really organic textures with it.

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4923

I’ve been enjoying the tuning and gauge strings Peter suggested in this video.

These soft cases fit great too, the Bass Narrow

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4926

Looks like CONTROL brought IFM back! Maybe they will retail others sooooon?

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4927

i have! seemingly no matter which stereo signal I feed it there’ll be the dry signal very quietly sitting dead in the centre. completely baffling - has anyone else experienced this ?

4928

Thanks for the heads up on this. Due to the brutal shipping costs from Patch Point, I’ve been dragging my feet on swooping up a Sprott (as well as a second Denum) for quite a while. I’d pretty much given up on the idea that any of Peter’s work would be available directly from the States again. Problem solved… wait over. And, with a 10% off holiday promo to boot!

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4929

Their stock went pretty quickly lol. let’s hope they get moar!! I need another Denum and Swoop… lol… I only have 3 of each and require 4… lololol

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4930

Pleased to announce a new Hoan Kiem Chess Team album “I Feel Fine” - as a digital only, free download on bandcamp.

I Feel Fine is the sound of the Fyrall. All tracks are live improvisations using a Fyrall and recorded to a stereo track. There is no multi tracking.

The Fyrall is a relabi circuit - John Berndt discussed relabi here - ÒRelabiÓ: Patterns of the Self-Erasing Pulse

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4931

may I ask what is the value of the big capacitor between Vcc and and at the mouning dove circuit?

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4932

SOLAR SOUNDER CAP GUIDE
SOLAR SOUNDER CAP GUIDE837×680 20.8 KB

:slight_smile:

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4933

can I replace the “CALL” cap 1800pF(1.8nF) to 2200pF(2.2nF) ? will it make the pitch of the Dove higher?

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4934

the smaller the cap, the higher the pitch, the bigger the cap, the more mountainous :slight_smile:

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4935

2.2nF is bigger than 1.8nF, right? In that case - lower pitch?

edit: what do you think on bigger cap such as 4.7nF ?

Can I use regular ceramic cap or it is better to but film cap?

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4936

on any of the hairies (which are any that have text versus like a distinguished value) you can use whatever you want! Experimenting is the fun of building these ones!! :smiley:
2.2nF is bigger yeah!
This conversion table is a great resource!
https://www.newark.com/uf-nf-pf-capacitor-conversion-table

as well as this site
https://kiloohm.info/3-digit-capacitor/103

Since Peter uses SMD code for a lot of things :slight_smile:

Yeah, Ceramic vs Film is negligible in this circuit!

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4937

Thanks for helping. I can assume that 4.4nF cap will result in an octave lower than if using 2.2nF cap?

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4938

I would say 4.7n, just to follow the e3 series of preferred numbers lol.

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4939

I got bored/tired of trying to remember what all of the symbols on various paper circuits and boards meant so I cobbled together a spreadsheet with all the ones I could find, mostly thanks to @crucFX having all the boards/docs shared. Also has some other random notes and info, hope it can be helpful! I can add contributors if anyone is interested, as well as make corrections.

(Ciat Lonbarde Stuff.xlsx - Google Sheets)

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4940

that is beautiful :smiley:

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4941

i’m on a quest for slower things to add to my coco and pb setup - i’ve got some rolz strip boards that i’ve considered making extremely slow, and i keep crossing fingers for new labrolz - what paper circuits should i be looking into for some non-pulse spike slowness? or, what could i do to make existing paper circuits slower?

i love the ciat lonbarde chaos. i just want to work at a more glacial pace! it can be tough to tell what many of these circuits do, which i know is by design. what should i be looking at?

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4942

make some really slow swoop spokes, and a bunch of swoops also slow :smiley:
some really slow rolz toooo

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4943

How about an NLC sloth(s)?

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