TubularCorporation Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 That looks lovely RSP! I've thought about getting into making stringed instruments, but considering I have 10 guitars already, it probably wouldn't be a good idea.. That just means you have to invent your own stringed instruments, that way it won't be redundant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Ha, true. I have always wanted to make a kind of resonant stringed instrument that has a bunch of tuned strings in front of a speaker, with the speaker playing whatever audio you like, with electric guitar pickup(s), so it just picks up the strings resonating.. for nice ambient shimmery stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Ha, true. I have always wanted to make a kind of resonant stringed instrument that has a bunch of tuned strings in front of a speaker, with the speaker playing whatever audio you like, with electric guitar pickup(s), so it just picks up the strings resonating.. for nice ambient shimmery stuff. I've been working on more or less literally that, actually, but I'm playing with surface drivers/bone-conductive transducers instead of a speaker. Got sidetracked from it finishing that guitar up but I I've got the parts together for a second prototype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Wow nice! Be sure to post video/audio when you make something! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chesney Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 nice. I have planned to build a stringed instrument for years. made detailed plans and everything, well, sort of. It's basically a manual tempo acoustic string sequencer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 I'm wondering if maybe we need a new "homemade instruments" type thread. Modey, for the kind of thing you're talking about I've had the most luck with one of these transducers to excite the strings mechanically (I scraped off the little rubber pad and superglued it straight to the wood near one end of the strings, the opposite end from the pickup. If you can find one of these (I swapped an Alesis HR16 for one a few years ago) it's basically the same thing; it's designed for feeding back a guitar's output into the neck but you can use it to feed pretty much any sound into anything you can clamp it on, and sometimes it sounds great. Chesney, that sounds like a really cool project, I hope you make it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brendyman Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 My pride and joy: http://imgur.com/a/1iAwJ I know this isn't a homemade instruments thread, but was cheap (came out to about $130 for the parts) and it's definitely added to my work. You can get some pretty fun sounds out of this thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entorwellian Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 That is hilarious. Absolutely love the art on the interface like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Top shelf knob choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b born droid Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 That is honestly the best design on a hardware device I have ever seen. Great work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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