Re: EICO 315 Signal Generator-useful? -guess not :(

[Steve Uccello <stevebassbird@yahoo.com>]

Yeah, prob just too old, I even tried beating on it and that didn't seem 
to help ;) -I'll hold on to though, may be leave it turned on for a few 
days and see what happens-

--- On Mon, 4/5/10, Toby G <carpet8@mac.com> wrote:

> From: Toby G <carpet8@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: EICO 315 Signal Generator-useful? -guess not :(
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Monday, April 5, 2010, 4:55 PM
> Signals are tones.
> I assume it's a sine wave generator and it looks like it
> has audio range. But, it may not be functional.
> 
> t
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Uccello" 
><stevebassbird@yahoo.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: EICO 315 Signal Generator-useful? -guess not
> :(
> 
> 
> Cool piece Mark! I dig the subtle changes and I can hear
> the pitch changing in there-nice
> 
>    As far as this Signal generator: you know
> when you spend a certain amount of time on something, and
> it's not panning out, so you spend even more time to make it
> all worth it, then you decide to just cut your losses? ...So
> I went to our local electronics store and got a bnc (British
> naval connector-I didn't know that's what it stood for!) to
> rca and hurriedly plugged it all in, there was pretty much
> no tone, I'm starting to think that since it's a 'signal',
> not a 'tone', generator, that I'm not gonna get much sound
> out of it, I took it apart and fiddled around, there's a LOT
> of copper in it, but nothing obviously wrong, oh well, I do
> remember seeing an actual Sine Wave generator in my uncles
> shop, plus a huge box of about 200 old tubes, I may try to
> mess w/ the Sine wave generator, it would be fun to mix its'
> sounds w/ the bowed upright bass and hear what happens, you
> guys will be the 1st to hear about it, till then, I'm gonna
> dive in to my LP 1 that
> I finally got into using (I LOVE it!) and see what comes
> out of it-Thanks for all the tips and input! Steve
> 
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> --- On Mon, 4/5/10, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>
> wrote:
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> From: mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>
> Subject: Re: EICO 315 Signal Generator-useful?
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Monday, April 5, 2010, 2:38 PM
> 
> He is assuming there is a VC or voltage control input. It
> COULD be that these things had something like that, but I
> doubt it. Even so the signal from a guitar unaccected is a
> bit.. ok very weak.. it would normally need to be amplified
> to about 5 to 15 volts... but it can be done. This is
> typical Modular synth application of an oscillator.
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> But I would use it for what a tone generator has
> traditionally been used for (outside of its normal use that
> is) and that IS as a drone machine. The echo thing is
> very... er... 1970s... think hawkwind or gong.. use of
> pictshifter with the original sig mixed in can be
> interesting if you barely detune, or have the possibility to
> detune on the fly in cents, not semis... then you will get
> beats and sub waves intermodulating.. which as HIGH volume
> can be extremely disorienting and effective.
> 
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> What I like to do (in fact i have one track that is based
> purely on it) is to do the hippy thing with lots of delay..
> but then sweep extremely slowely, infact ONE complete sweep
> from bottom to top during a whole song... Well ok not the
> whole song, but the second half...
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> Second half of THIS infact...
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> http://tinyurl.com/ye5d2rp
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> Tone generators rule... after all.. its all the Stockhausen
> era guys EVER had!!!
> 
> Mark
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> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Steve Uccello <stevebassbird@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> 
> Thanks for the tips! I'm anxious to hook up my delay pedal
> and sweep the freq around. I'll have to look around for the
> right cable today. I do have a question, Toby wrote <you
> could play guitar through it...> -it only has two outputs
> on the front (RF & audio) to play guit through it, would
> I need to somehow put an input? I might be misunderstanding
> you though
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> --- On Mon, 4/5/10, Toby G <carpet8@mac.com>
> wrote:
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> From: Toby G <carpet8@mac.com>
> 
> Subject: Re: EICO 315 Signal Generator-useful?
> 
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

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> Date: Monday, April 5, 2010, 2:31 AM
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> If you can modulate the frequency you could play guitar
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> into it or something and get really messed up sounds.
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>  Gareth Whittock
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>  Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 2:09
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>  Subject: RE: EICO 315 Signal
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>  Generator-useful?
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> We had one in college that had a square wave on it as well
> as a
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>  sine. Yes, sweeping the frequencies through a delay sounds
> very cool.
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> The
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>  frequency on these is, (or should be) very stable so I'm
> thinking some sort of
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>  chorus/flanging sort of effect would prevent it from
> drilling its way deep
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>  into your skull..
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> peace
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> g
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> > Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010
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>  09:59:51 +0100
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> > From: akbutler@tiscali.co.uk
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> > To:
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>  Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
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> > Subject: Re: EICO 315 Signal
> 
>  Generator-useful?
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> > The "classic" use is to put it through echo
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>  and sweep the frequency.
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> > I guess it makes sine waves, which
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>  would be unusual for drones.
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> > (could always run it through distortion
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>  if unusual isn't desired)
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> > andy
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> > Steve Uccello
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>  wrote:
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> > > Hello all, My uncle, who used to own a TV repair
> shop in
> 
>  the 70's gave me this 'EICO 315 Signal Generator' today,
> 
> > >here's a
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>  pic of it: http://twitpic.com/1dbiao I need to get
> the appropriate cable to
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>  plug it in
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> > > and find out how it sounds, but I immediately
> thought
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>  about LD and figured you guys might get a
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> > >kick out of it and may
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>  be even let me know if these are considered useful or not,
> my usual tone
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> 
> > >generator (upright bass) is always great for
> kicking out the
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>  drones but I'm curious to mess
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> > >around with this thing. If anyone
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>  knows about 'em it would be cool to get some tips-Thanks
> all-be well! Steve
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