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YAY! my first foray into the world of Circuit Bending... After reading about it on Anti Theory and on the EM411.com site i thought i would give it a burl. I actually had the idea a while ago without even knowing what circuit bending was, but didn't expect the results to be as cool as i got.
I purchased the Chicken Drum from a cheap shop up the road for $6.99 AUD. It had 5 buttons, 4 which had pre-set drum sounds and one which played a demo. When playing the demo if you hit the any of the other four buttons again it would trigger a different demo.
I fooled around inside without knowing what i was doing but using the two screwdriver technique from Anti Theory, which produced some pretty crazy sounds. I soldered on some wires and then the switches so i could move between the modes ( and gave me some more )..
I ended up with the normal sounds when both switches were turned off, when left switch was turned on the samples seemed to slow right down, while the number 3 sample was in super fast forward. When the right switch was turned on i got some nasty ( but chunky ) fuzz which sounded great with the tunes. When both switches were turned on the sounds got completely fucked over, for some reason pressing the number 3 button gave me this great distorted scream that was pressure sensitive, ( press it harder and the pitch went higher ).