#880

I use stackable banana cables and connect them together, but you can use crocodile clips or your hands to touch nodes depending on what jacks you have used in your build.

Ciat builds are addictive! Glad you got your pcb’s ok :slight_smile:

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#881

Musing over my PB before work—I was thinking I never use the red outs. I’m curious on instances where you would choose to use one?

I understand that red can go back into brown to disturb rollz but anything else?

#882

i’ve been playing my diy paper circuits box extensively over the last few months and performed live with it once, but i realized i never posted any sounds longer than 30 seconds or so. here’s 9.5 minutes of improv tonight that i think went to some cool places. i tried to never stay in one place for longer than a minute and a half or so. played through a pitchfactor to thicken things up a bit, little bit of this and that in ableton. only a little bit of pretty abrasive stuff, tried to get the heck out of those zones asap.

i love how the sounds coming out of this box can turn on a dime… hard to be bored while playing this thing.

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#883

this is shockingly groove oriented and borderline (weird dystopian) house-y at times – you building more? I’m in line(s) :stuck_out_tongue:

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#884

right? i think of it more as primordial than dystopian, the grooves are crazy. i’m just scratching the surface of sampling it via re:mix (just got a grid), which has been VERY fun so far.

i’ve been thinking about making myself another one to expand my range/add more voices but idk if making any to sell is in the cards; the parts are cheap but i think if i priced these boxes to include labor they’d be way too expensive for anyone to be interested lol

thanks for listening!!

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#885

Managed to build Lil Sidrassi (with some ground hum) as well as Rolls 3-6 and Ultrasound Filters now. This has been very enjoyable so far! One question popped to my mind, what’s the difference between Sidrassi strong force and weak force? Less cross modulation?

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#886

New Plumbutter2 owner here- what a crazy machine. Already in love with the ping sounds, and processing stuff through the gong filters is KILLER.

Something I’m trying to figure out though is the Deerhorn- been talking with another lines member about this. After some painstaking fiddling with the little trimmer pot things and the knob below the two white jacks, I’m still getting weird behavior.

I thought it was supposed to work like this: move hand over top part of the instrument- top horn fades in. as you take your hand away, it fades out with more or less equal response to how it faded in. slide hand down to the lower part of the instrument and the two fade in together, and as you get to the bottom, just the bottom fades in and out in the same way as the top, with no triggering of the top.

what I’m getting is this: bottom one behaves in more or less the way I expect- responds to movement within a few inches in a fairly predictable fashion to my hand movements. BUT- I’m finding that just about every time the bottom voice fades out, the top one abrubtly comes on, and stays on for a while despite no motion aimed at the top part of the instrument. I also get pretty much no variance in the volume of the top voice. it’s sort of just either on or not, or in the process of decaying super slowly after I’ve taken my hand away.

the “calibration” knob below the two white jacks is acting up too- it seems to do very little except at a very specific spot where I can sort of balance the two voices, but only with odd popping and erratic triggering of the voices.

Is this typical behavior? in need of more calibration?

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#887

I’m not experienced enough with the pb to answer your question with confidence. But one thing I have noticed is that the dh is very sensitive not only to its own knobs, but also to stray electrical fields. Be sure to keep all kinds of wiring far away from it as you wiggle, before deciding that it’s defective. This includes all patch cords as well as power fields.

#888

I believe it is just in and out (toward and away). Hand moves toward the deerhorn, one side sounds (audio channel left or right), move hand away from deerhorn, the other side sounds. The knob below the whites moves the point in the air above the deerhorn where the change happens. The little calibration screws should not have to be adjusted. If so just set them once and leave them.

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#889

My deerhorn went out of tune completely, I don’t actually have screws in the little holes, they look more like tiny hex bolts (is this what others have?) I opened it up and adjusted the trimmers on the board and tweaked it till it was just right.

I can confirm its one at a time moving your hand in and out which takes some practice I find. Also the hand that moves away tends to leave that dh ringing longer which can be a bit annoying, I almost prefer it as a mono voice…same with Sidrax

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#890

hm ok, thanks, so mines definitely out of whack then. yeah mine are not really screws, i managed to get them to turn with a tiny flathead, albeit with a lot of careful fiddling. how did your trimmers behave exactly? mine don’t seem to do anything other than either completely turn off both voices, or at very very specific spots, sort of restore my deerhorn to its original faulty behavior.

is front panel removal as simple as undoing the screws? mine doesnt seem to budge

#891

ive had good luck contacting peter directly when i had issues with my shnth, if you havent already!

#892

Yea I just took out all the screws and the top lifts off. I found that the trimmers did similar things to what you’re describing. It was easy to get the both voices totally non responsive and I presuming I’d completely broke things, but with some persistence I got the ranges sorted. I just did it a little at a time.

I’m curious, is yours an older PB2? Do the newer ones have actual screws in them

#893

Peter told me the antennae had gone out of range and to adjust the screws as discussed

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#894

Mine is late 2017 and it does have “normal” flathead screws in it, it seems. I was able to get good ranges off the Deerhorn by twiddling them patiently.

#895

“Free jazz drum machine”

(rolls 5, cowboy Callosum, Grackler, cocoquantus going through a trigger to midi translator for talking to the solenoids)

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#896

Next up I’ve got Esoterica Spikering on my plate, so if someone could help me identify these few components I’d be very grateful (didn’t find clues from Master Legend or older posts).

esoterica
esoterica1684×1262 1.08 MB

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#897

Could someone check if their Plumbutter 2 outputs sound from the Deerhorn even when the switch is in middle position. Thx. Mine leaks sound and I have to lower the pitch to make it drown in the mix. (Using Deerhorn as VCA for external gear)

#898

Middle is off. Top and bottom are selecting the pan/direction of each horn if I recall correctly.

#899

I just made this recently too. The x and y resistors were 10k and I used 103 caps for those funny capacitor symbols next to the 064 IC. Also if you want to play around with the values you could just solder sockets in there and choose your own based on the sounds. The double cross symbol is low pass output node from the filter.
Check this bit out from earlier in the thread, also the link to Pugix is very helpful.

And,

I haven’t tried that last mod, just read about it when I was looking at this post