circuit bent instruments...

boywithpez007 wrote:i bent a speak and spell, speak and read and an sk-1... was good fun, but for some reason my sk and speak and read dont work now... have to open em up and have a look at whats kicking..got some good lo-fi samples off the speak n spell the other night tho, real glitchy stuff...

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your batteries may be dead. i thought i fried my speak & read. then i read that dead batteries will make it seem like it's fried. so i put the dead batteries in my unbent speaks and they acted all weird too. as soon as i replaced the batteries, i was good to go, and added 3 more bends to my speak & read.

btw, i definitely recommend http://www.anti-theory.com as well. reed ghazala is the man!

hahahabro if I can work out how to bend I can work out how to change the batteries!!!!! just had a quick look then, the solder join on my reset switch is fkt so theres no power goinng to em....
I've got one of the very first speak n spells sitting there untouched and they are supposed to be the best to bend so I might have to get into it again

the radio shack reset switches (NC) suck. so avoid them if you can.

btw, i read about the old pushbutton speak & spells. supposedly they sound different from the later models. i have a link somewhere with all the different versions of the speaks.

dont forget to use mics,.makes wonders with sounds