Hank Dussen
Well-known member
I finally finished my quad version of Sound Skulptors Tape Simulator:
I had some problems when powering up because I switched the BC139 and BC140 transistors. Aside from that, no problems.
It’s nice to, now and then, build a kit and not having to search for all the parts.
Everything works as it should but there's one weird thing:
When turning the ground level way up there’s a 50Hz hum. I guess this is normal but what’s weird is that this hum is perfectly out of phase on channel 2 and 4.
Thus when panning 2 channels (1 and 2 or 3 and 4) center the hum is cancelled out.
Anyone any thoughts on this?
About the sound: like some have mentioned before the effect is somewhat subtle, especially with the input before 5, but then again so is a going trough a good taperecorder.
When pushing the input further you get a nice fat sound. A subtle combination of saturation, compression and EQ.
I don’t have a lot of experience with tape but this machine seems to do what others say tape does. It reminds me a bit of the tape control on the Crane Song Hedd.
A friend of mine has the Neve Portico, I’ll try to compare the two some day.
I know some of you want some soundclips. I’ll post some files one of these days.
Pieter
I had some problems when powering up because I switched the BC139 and BC140 transistors. Aside from that, no problems.
It’s nice to, now and then, build a kit and not having to search for all the parts.
Everything works as it should but there's one weird thing:
When turning the ground level way up there’s a 50Hz hum. I guess this is normal but what’s weird is that this hum is perfectly out of phase on channel 2 and 4.
Thus when panning 2 channels (1 and 2 or 3 and 4) center the hum is cancelled out.
Anyone any thoughts on this?
About the sound: like some have mentioned before the effect is somewhat subtle, especially with the input before 5, but then again so is a going trough a good taperecorder.
When pushing the input further you get a nice fat sound. A subtle combination of saturation, compression and EQ.
I don’t have a lot of experience with tape but this machine seems to do what others say tape does. It reminds me a bit of the tape control on the Crane Song Hedd.
A friend of mine has the Neve Portico, I’ll try to compare the two some day.
I know some of you want some soundclips. I’ll post some files one of these days.
Pieter