Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

Geez, I'll have to run all this by someone smarter than me...perhaps the
fellow who helped me build my aforementioned toy-based FX box. But even
though I'm no tech guru, your ideas intrigue me!



> [Original Message]
> From: Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 1/29/2005 2:34:17 PM
> Subject: Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy
>
> mungenast@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > Howdy, Noisemakers!
> > The other day my daughter was recording herself (and snippets of TV 
> > audio) with her little lo-res hand-held sampling toy, which allows her 
> > to record about 4 seconds of whatever the built-in mic can pick up and 
> > then play it back in charmingly mangled low fidelity. Part of this 
> > must be the low resolution of the toy-grade digital circuitry, and a 
> > some of it may be from the 2-inch speaker (and the not-exactly-Class-A 
> > amplifier circuit).
> > The question is this:
> > Is there anything on the market that can cop the sound of a toy 
> > sampler? Anything that can sonically degrade our instruments in a 
> > similar way? It's an entertaining texture and I am beginning to hunger 
> > for it (bwa-ha-ha-ha-hahaaa!!)
> > ~Tim Mungenast
> > www.cdbaby.com/mungenast
> > www.mungenast.com
>
> Build a one or two bit ADC and feed it into a home built DAC of the same 
> bit depth.  A few resistors, comparators, simple logic gates, batteries, 
> micsellaneous stuff is all it should take.
>
> What would happen if you set a VCO to 20kHz (or more), and pulse width 
> modulated it with your audio signal?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>