Tilde Elektriske Fjaerlett

TomWhitwell · 2024-04-10T16:46:11.501Z

These epic waiting lists must be very stressful for the creators - I spoke to someone who knew Rob Hordijk well, they said that the waiting list for modular and Blippoo was a big weight on his mind - he felt he was constantly letting people down

bphenix · 2024-04-10T17:01:22.877Z

Someone interested in this type of instrument could also look towards the Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer and be very happy. Granted the Knas isn’t as pretty and it is a different with the 10-band eq rather than a SVF filter but adding a 10 band via a feedback loop would be easy enough and you get quite a lot more with the Knas device.

Thhhh · 2024-04-11T06:49:02.085Z

bobbcorr:

And the nice person who is number 1604? Congratulations! Your instrument will be ready on Tuesday, December 18, 2085 … over 61 years from now.

Thanks for doing the math. I need something to look forward to for my ~100th birthday.

illumina · 2024-04-12T06:42:29.896Z

Nobody’s preordering anything, geez.

comma · 2024-04-13T12:04:30.000Z

i wasn’t on the waitlist & was fortunate to pick up one used in my area. it is a totally fine instrument, it is exactly what is described, spring reverb with 10-band eq in the feedback loop. there is no special sauce besides it looking pretty, the demo video clearly has digital reverb added to it as demonstrated later in the demo video itself.

i highly recommend checking out the knas moisterizer (modded even better as you can put the filter after the reverb) if you want to explore deeper these sounds in a single device - you can automate these sounds a bit since it comes with LFO that can control the filter’s frequency, etc. or find whatever cheap spring reverb & eq exists on your system of choice - you can even improve on it with envelope follower + cv-controlled filter/eq to automate the feedback control etc etc. just remember to add some digital reverb afterward.

i think the demo video does a disservice by having the opening/main intro sequence going through another digital reverb, may give people a mistaken sense of its sound. no reason to burn GAS on this folks.

KHAGE · 2024-04-13T12:25:44.742Z

Thank you very much for sharing your experience @comma !

PS. Now I wonder if I could find a way to fake it with a Gamechanger Light pedal, by adding a 10 band EQ and a feedbacker…

forrest · 2024-04-14T14:41:16.575Z

Get any spring reverb and a serge resonant eq and you’re gtg. I don’t understand people getting upset because he’s not turning this into an industry, come back to reality, no one owes you anything.

Mattb · 2024-04-14T17:58:18.115Z

Owned a Moisturize for many years, and got to play with a Fjaerlette a few times and I found the sound palette being a little bit different.
However in regards with the 10 bands EQ and feedbacker, I have been using a Serge Resonant EQ Mk. II and a Low-Gain Electronics Submix Mixer.

marcus_fischer · 2024-04-14T20:31:39.896Z

There is not a world of difference between what is shown in the videos and what you get.
While waiting for mine to arrive I did various experiments with an Intellijel springray and different eq’s. It approximated what you can get with the fjerlett but was not as playable as a purpose built instrument. Also the eq bands are tuned specifically to the springs in each individual unit which is not going to be the case with a serge eq which has fixed bands.
Maybe a 4MS SMR would get you there?

comma · 2024-04-14T23:28:32.102Z

here are the approximate bands of the eq on mine for anyone interested: 117, 152, 223, 295, 368, 439, 528, 767, 1123, 1700hz.

forrest · 2024-04-15T00:02:54.021Z

I see in the documentation they mention it is tuned to the feedback spring, but it doesn’t sound like they do that with every unit. Unless someone has one and wants to open it up and report back if it has a bunch of trimmer pots inside, I would guess he picked a single range for all units.

marcus_fischer · 2024-04-15T02:16:39.444Z

There are trim pots inside and the maker told me each one is adjusted per unit.

chmjacques · 2024-04-15T19:52:44.998Z

To the point of the units being individually tuned, these are the frequencies of my EQ, according to Kristoffer:

95hz, 138hz, 220hz, 305hz, 432hz, 543hz, 652hz, 904hz, 1.12khz, 1.33khz

(Which is fairly divergent)

comma · 2024-04-16T10:42:41.096Z

nice!

you can test it to confirm, do one band at a time self-oscillation, use free audio spectrum analyzer (this one is FOSS on android: Audio Spectrum Analyzer | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository) and note the peak frequency

KHAGE · 2024-05-22T08:43:31.927Z

Roveska, a track I made with a lot of Fjærlett sampling (among others)…

bereenondo · 2024-07-11T13:33:31.940Z

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Four years later, it arrives. A gift of unremembering made the wait easier in this case, as I had no recollection of the instrument until I received an email regarding my unit.

St0rMl0rD · 2024-07-11T16:00:14.928Z

Congrats! Two more years of wait for me then lol

TanaBarbier · 2024-07-11T16:40:31.575Z

With this device I expect non-linearities everywhere, including the waiting list.

Zedkah · 2024-07-11T17:34:49.334Z

Does it have an input?

As i recall the initial ones didn’t.

robbie · 2024-07-11T17:41:16.987Z

Zedkah:

Does it have an input?

All units made since the start of 2023 are the new revision, and include an audio input. Previously it was an optional extra.