Zauner Elektronik

New Home

2010-04-21T23:35:00.002+02:00

Zauner Elektronik now resides here: http://www.zaunerelektronik.net
Thanks for visiting!!

Pimp his Guitar

2010-03-15T14:46:00.003+01:00

Small modification of an active acoustic guitar of a friend of mine: I made the built-in preamp switchable with a nice big toggle switch in Les Paul style. In addition to that I built in one of those small blue blinkies we geeks like so much. Looks nice!

Pseudo Crackle Box "Mimi"

2010-02-12T00:26:00.005+01:00

Another nice present for a friend of mine. It's a pseudo crackle box made up with just three components: 2 capacitors and the LM386. Each leg of the LM386 is connected to one of the electrodes.

The housing is - which can easily be seen - made of a reciever of an old telephone. I guess everyone had one of those in their hands for at least one time in their life. Playing it gives you somehow the same feeling like writing a SMS on your mobile phone so it feels quite familiar to touch and use this neat instrument although the audible outcome of your operation might be most unfamiliar.

This piece will be exhibited as part of the exhibition "Technological Singularity" from March 25 to April 23 at PlanetArt, Amsterdam. Come and try it!

Some sounds and noises played with Mimi by Phillip Tesner.

Pressure Controller "Hubert"

2010-01-21T15:07:00.004+01:00

This is a small but powerful device to use with your modular synthesizer. On each hand side there is one force sensing resistor turning applied pressure into a steady CV output.

Each channel has three outputs: CV Out, Inverted CV Out and Gate out. Each side is capable of holding the current voltage on CV Out, whereas the inverted CV appears on Inverted CV Out. If a CV is held in the CV Out you still can use the inverted out, even switching from positive to negative voltage as often as you want without disturbing the held CV output.

In addition each of the two channels fires a gate signal every time pressure is applied to the pressure pad. The CV can go from 0V to +/- 8V and can be controlled in sensitivity.

The device seen below is the prototype. The actual layout of the finished controller will be slightly different and of course much more neat. 100% analog power.

Right channel controlling the cutoff frequency of a Doepfer Lowpass Gate, left channel plugged into Wavetable CV input of the WMD Geiger Counter.

Therrormin

2009-12-24T17:36:00.003+01:00

Yesterday night I was helping my friend to make a nice Christmas present for her boyfriend. It's a kind of six channel opto-theremin controlled by six LDRs with your hands and fingers. run off a 9V battery. Design by Borelia Borschtsch, a Zauner-Borschtsch Kopro. Fotos by Georg Oberlechner.

Short, gentle and smooth piece played on the Therrormin at midnight sun by Georg Oberlechner.

Pia

2009-12-22T12:45:00.004+01:00

Just finished the Christmas present for my flat mate. The tripple-eyed, double-tailed, coin-expelling and in every other way not less interesting noise-musica(n)t Pia.

Chaos circuit with 4 electrodes, 2 antennas and 1 LDR.

Some sounds and noise played with Pia.

Light Amp

2009-09-05T01:59:00.004+02:00

Built a small amp into an old broken desktop lamp run off by a 9V battery. Output is 0,5W with a switchable gain factor between 20/200. Ideal for testing coil instruments with low output level but also very suitable as a small guitar amp. 0,5W is more than you think!

Some free guitar improvisation played on the Light Amp with different gain settings.

Ancellique

2009-08-30T13:55:00.007+02:00

Horray!! Finished my DIY electro-acoustic-feedback-string-drone instrument Ancellique today. Most of the work was done at the Sommercamp Workstation in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in a workshop supervised by Halldor Ulfarsson.

The strings are recorded through four self-wound coils. The signals of the strings can be separately controlled by four potentiometers attached to the side of the body. The speaker at the back of the instrument is connected through a 40W power amplifier - also inside the body - with the mixer of the coil/string signals.

So basically all the sound that is recorded on top of the body is played back immediately through the speaker at the back of the body, creating a nice electro-acoustic feedback. Mostly you don't even need to "play" the instrument, it's enough to just turn up and down the pots of the string volumes.

The body is from an old broken guitar, the tailpiece from an old electric violin, the bridge selfmade, nut selfmade, tuners are piano tuners, the fretboard is made out of on of those sanitary tubes and all the way through the instrument there's this curtain pole running for stability.

Some drones played with Ancellique

Zauner Ultratight

2009-03-14T13:48:00.003+01:00

Here's my SSL Clone, the Zauner Ultratight. Schemos can be found at Gyraf's webpage. Mine has the Turbo Board installed which makes it switchable between stereosum and dual-mono ("true stereo") compression.

Zauner Ultrageil 4

2009-02-23T01:25:00.001+01:00

Finished my diy 4-way mixer today. Active mixing of four channels with gain and a small level control LED and some nice big knobs from an old broken echo/delay machine. The name is a side blow to all the shitty Behringer products starting with "Ultra...".

2009-01-29T06:21:00.000+01:00

Finished my power supply today. It provides stabilized symmetrical voltages at +/-12V and +/- 15V. Artwork by Borelia Borschtsch, a Zauner-Borschtsch Kopro.