Re: a Little Black Box That Could Change Guitars Forever

[Rob Jellinghaus <rjellinghaus@gmail.com>]

Not sure what Per means by "no electronics needed" -- there is absolutely a big electronics box inside the guitar, and it will stop working when the batteries run out, so no more busking-proof than any other battery-powered apparatus as far as I can tell.

 

Still, an incredible hack, to run the Fourier transform backwards and forwards on the actual strings of the guitar.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

But it is isn't the same thing; this is more like an extension to the
instrument. Compare it to using a different bow with the violin, or
standing inside smaller or bigger acoustic room to play etc. What it
does, when applied to a steel string acoustic guitar (don't know if it
would even work with bowed string instruments) is to add an organ like
timbre behind the regular guitar sound. And all by acoustic means, no
electronics needed; hundred procent busking proof as far as I
understand it.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Chrissie Caulfield
<christine.caulfield@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I did it the hard way, I learned to play violin ;-)
>
> Chrissie
>
> On 11/04/13 17:24, Philip Conway wrote:
>>
>> Yeah that thing looks and sounds amazing (as does the Moog guitar).  The
>> Kickstarter thing says they've got half their target of $50k pledged in
>> just two days.
>>
>>
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/38513516/the-vo-96-acoustic-synthesizer
>>
>> Looks like it'll be happening!  $1050 gets you the raw electronics.
>>
>>
>> On 11 April 2013 17:13, Miles Ward <miles932@gmail.com
>> <mailto:miles932@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Woah. Just need one for my tuba; probably means i need to drill a
>>     tone hole in my face...
>>
>>     -Miles
>>
>>     On Apr 11, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com
>>     <mailto:richard@glasswing.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>     Oh yea.  I saw that.  Incredible!
>>>     Now, if only I had an extra $2K sitting around.
>>>     --
>>>     richard sales
>>>     www.glasswing.com <http://www.glasswing.com>
>>>
>>>     On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Charles Zwicky
>>>     <cazwicky@earthlink.net <mailto:cazwicky@earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Wow...
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gizmodo.com/5994116/__how-inventor-paul-vo-created-__a-little-black-box-that-could-__change-guitars-forever
>>>
>>> <http://gizmodo.com/5994116/how-inventor-paul-vo-created-a-little-black-box-that-could-change-guitars-forever>
>>>         --
>>>
>>>         ...
>>>         http://www.zmix.net
>>>
>>>         http://albumcredits.com/zmix
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Chrissie
>

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