Atari Punk Console

Kaustic's take on the great Forrest Mimms Stepped Tone Generator. A dual timer 556 modulates one frequency with another. A fun build and a great noise generator. Youll notice that there is no input, only an ouptut. Thats because this circuit generates tones on its own. I added a volume control to the end of the circuit to make it a bit more adaptable to running through a pedalboard. The original circuit uses B500K pots for VR1 and VR2, I chose B100K pots for a bit more controllability.
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100nF

VR1 B100K (freq 1)

VR2 B100K (freq 2)

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C2 10uF VR3 A100K (volume) Output

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C3 100nF

B100K Freq 1

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Mods!
By adding effects after this circuit, you can get great textural/synth sounds. Delay and chorus add some great variations. Another thing to try is driving fuzz or distortion effects with this. With a little practice with the two frequency knobs, you can play this in real-time as a bizarre instrument. Check out the following site for some interesting mods to the standard design: http://thesquarewaveparade.com/brdlayot.html

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B100K Freq 2

A100K Volume out

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revision: 1.1 20 februrary 2009 2009 beavis audio research

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