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Teaspoon - Stutter Feedback Loop Unit
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THE TEASPOON
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the teaspoon is a lo-fi instant playback looping sampler designed to achieve the classic glitching / stuttering / skipping effect by pushing a single button. this version is a limited run of fifteen designed with the AUDIOBULB RECORDS logo and trademark orange and black.
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gain: this is the control for the pre amp that is in front of the sampler which is strong enough to allow you to plug a guitar directly into it and get a line level output. at lower settings it works as a buffer for line level inputs as usual and it can obviously be used to overdrive the input or with smaller adjustments you can control the over all dynamics if thats your thing.
time: this is the sample length / pitch adjustment. setting it to any given location sets the length of time it will sample, adjusting it just prior to pushing the button will allow you to alter the pitch/speed of the incoming audio that is sampled. as well adjusting it after pressing the button will allow you to alter the pitch/speed of the playback.
out: this is the output volume control
push button: this is a nice heavy duty switchcraft momentary pushbutton that triggers playback of the sampler, which is constantly sampling the input even after the button is pressed. this means that every single playback cycle is a rerecording of the output and each one will gradually degenerate especially at the lower sample rate of the slower speeds. as soon as you release it its immediately sampling the incoming audio again and the previous sample is being over-written ( but if you quickly switch back to playback you can then interrupt the recording and hear bits of the old that have yet to be overwritten now cut together with the new ). also if you sweep the time control far up or down during playback it will then be re-sampling the higher/ lower pitched sound and when returning to the original speed the sound will be different, you can do this over and over creating staticy grain clouds. please note there is no "bypass" switch. just not having this button pushed is the bypass ( not true bypass)
power switch : just a power toggle switch indicated but the led on top. note: i had to do some unusual things to get more pitch range out of this design so if you try to power it up with the time set to the highest possible setting it will not boot correctly. just turn the time down a couple notches and reboot to remedy this. just a minor inconvenience
9v dc jack : standard DC power supply here. anything from 9v to around 30v is fine. there is an internal regulator to keep things safe
in / out jacks : mono in and out marked with arrows on the top | |
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07/18/08
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audiobulb
Sorry about the false start > as you can see The Teaspoon is to be sold for the TSP shop.
Brilliant unit > fantastic for live and studio improvisations.
Due to sell out soon!
07/18/08
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bodo
Wow, that looks like a great box with tons of possibilities 
07/18/08
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timmo
holy crap! Already sold out?
07/18/08
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audiobulb
yep - that is some product
07/18/08
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KidQuaalude
grabbed one
07/18/08
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KidQuaalude
was messing with the demo of the nord modular g2 software earlier and knocked up a stereo 'teaspoon' stutter effect, thought i'd share.
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as i was using the demo you'll need to replace the oscillator with two imputs to feed the stutter effect. stutter is triggered by midi note and mod wheel controls delay time/pitch.
07/19/08
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lilt
this is the sort of thing i always wanted back when i made music with hardware
oh well
07/19/08
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Ochre
That sounds like fun, and not the kind of thing you see very often in little hardware boxes.
07/19/08
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prugelknaben
i was on holiday. too late. bugger.
07/19/08
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Fognozzle
get on the tsp mailing list. he'll have more. plus he makes a bunch of other amazing hardware.
07/19/08
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cloudscapes
I want one so badly, god...
*signs up to mailinglist*
07/20/08
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room
Yes more are coming - they just won't have the audiobulb logo on.
07/20/08
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cloudscapes
thanks for confirming!
I really gotta pay more attention, I know audiobulb release things like this every so often.
I went through all the samples and videos, it's completelly epic! puts the crazyness of my own effects to shame, royally (not that it's terribly difficult). if I manage to get my hands on one, it'll be hard not to want to mod it for expression control and trigger input
07/20/08
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Fredo
dude, that thing sold out in, what, 15 minutes???
07/21/08
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mlbot
at that rate, you could become millionaires in 12 days
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