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P M i o a y $2 50 ELECTRONICS-MUSIC-HOME RECORDING A p ril 1983 i m m m HH MOTION FILTER B & iA STOMP BOX EFFECTS An envelope follower/filter combination translates the normal dynamic properties of your axe into modulated timbral AT LOWER THAN 1980 PRICES changes as well, the effect is like a wah-wah pedal being used These new stomp boxes from PAIA are designed to give elec­ by someone with magic feet. The first time you get your tronic guitarists the highest quality effect at the lowest possible MOTION FILTER working you won’t believe that so much funk price. Cases are formed of heavy steel and covered with the and soul can be squeezed into such a tiny box. most scuff-resistant baked-on finish available. All feature Independent Initial Frequency and Sensitivity knobs give heavy duty switches for long life and electronic effect switching you the control you need to realize a wide range of effects for pop-free punch-in and punch-out. All are high input and allow the MOTION FILTER to be used with either electric impedance, low output impedance, non-inverting, low noise bass or guitar. No. 5720 MOTION Filter Kit.. $29.95 (3 lbs.) devices designed to meet all proposed FX standards. Each provides hour after hour of operation from a single 9 volt GATOR™ Noise Gate/Envelope Controller battery and provide automatic power switching; you'll never The almost un-noticeable “hiss or swish" that each unit have to worry about forgetting to turn them off. in a multiple-effects system adds to your music can sum to annoyingly noticeable background noise just when things HOT LYX SUSTAIN are supposed to be quiet. GATOR listens while you play, and when you stop, electronically isolates your effects from your Probably the most used effect by any electronic guitarist, amplifier, zapping noise completely. a sustain unit is essentially an amplifier that automatically And despite its low cost, GATOR has added features that increases its gain to compensate for a guitar’s normal decay let you do more than just make other effects sound good. characteristics. The result is the ability to hold notes and chords It's an important effect in its own right. much longer than would otherwise be possible. The ATTACK control lets you re-shape the normal percussive Hot Lyx gives you all the control you need, continuously envelope of your guitar for bowed string and organ effects variable sustain from just enough to make your Silvertone with attack times up to 1.5 sec. and an AUXILIARY TRIGGER sound like a Les Paul to “pedal to the metal” controlled feed-back settings that give rock-guitar its “all-out” quality. SIGNAL INPUT allows the dynamics of one instrument to be gated by another (drums, for example) to impart unique Level control allows for either lower or higher volume levels “synchro sonic” rhythmic characteristics to your sound. when you’re punched into the effect and can also be used as Other features include High Impedance In/Low Impedance an over-drive control to give you the sweetest fuzz/sustain Out, Electronic Footswitch for quiet punch in/out, wide range sounds you’ve ever heard. Threshold Control, Single 9v. battery supply (not included). No. 5710 HOT LYX Sustain..................................... $34.95 (3 lbs.) GATOR (tm) Cat. No. 5730................... $34.95.................... 3 lbs. MIDRANGER™ Midrange Equalizer Sure, your amp has bass and treble controls — but what about the all important midrange? When you need more sound from your axe than most amps can give, but don't have the bucks for a fancy equalizer, the MID-RANGER is for you. Featured in Craig Anderton's June 1982 Guitar Player column, this special purpose equalizer gives more presence and “punch” by providing continuously variable boosts of up to 12 db. at switch selectable frequencies of 90, 200, 1000, 2000 or 4000 Hz. Designed for guitars, voice, rhythm boxes and keyboards, the MIDRANGER features High Input/Low Output Impedance, quiet electronic switching and single 9v. battery supply (not included). MIDRANGER (tm) Cat. No. 5740.............................. $32.95................ 3 lbs. 5750 — AXE GRINDER(tm) A classic fuzz to FX standards. The AXE GRINDER might be a pretty routine fuzz if it weren't for a couple of subtle but significant features. Like a Distortion Intensity Knob that provides smooth control of clipping from just a hint when you really get it on to pure square waves when you even think of picking. And the Distortion Tone, Distortion Level, and Clean Level controls are like having a built in mixer and E.Q., letting you precisely set the amount of distortion and its tone as well as the mix of clean and distorted signal. You probably never realized you could get so many sounds from a “simple” fuzz. The AXE-GRINDER also features totally pop-free electronic switching and adherence to uniform FX standards that allow any Effect to work with any other without concern for mismatch noises or phase incoherence. 9 volt battery power (not supplied). 5750 Axe Grinder(tm) Kit. $29.95.........3 lbs. 5760 ROCKTAVE DIVIDER(tm) Whereas most effects that alter the harmonic content of a signal can only produce or accentuate frequencies higher than the fundamental frequency produced by the instrument, the ROCKTAVE DIVIDER fills out your sound by adding in wave­ forms that are sub-harmonics of those produced by your axe. Compandor stages are used to stabilize input for reliable triggering of the divider circuitry and to impress the original dynamics of your playing onto the newly created subharmonics. Independent level controls on the extracted fundamental and first and second sub-octaves allow you to produce just the mix you're after and master tone control lets you round the square wave sub-octaves off to near-sinusoidal purity. QUALITY The ROCKTAVE DIVIDER also features automatic power switching when in use, pop-free electronic cancel function EFFECTS and single 9 volt battery power source (battery not supplied). 5760 Rocktave Divider(tm).............................$39.95.......... 3 lbs. AFFORDABLE ORDER TOLL FREE WITH VISA OR MASTERCARD PRICES 1- 8 0 0 - 654-8657 DIRECT MAIL ORDERS & INQUIRIES TO: IB iA E lectronics, Inc. 1020 W. W ilshire , Oklahoma City, OK 73116 - (405)843-9626 STAFF ISSN: 0163-4534 PUBLISHER Polyphony John S. Simonton, Jr. VOLUME 8, NUMBER 3 EDITOR APRIL, 1983 Craig Anderton MANAGING EDITOR Linda Kay Brumfield TECHNICAL ILLLUSTRATOR Caroline Wood Build A Bass Pedal System ....................... 17 CIRCULATION By: Stefan Hawk Ramona French Peggy Walker Dr. Rhythm Modification .......................... 29 By: Craig Anderton BOOKEEPING Cathi Boggs Meet SID Sound Interface Device .................. 33 PRINT PRODUCTION By: James Lisowski Phuong Nguyen SEMCO Color Press Switched Capacitance/Transversal Filters ......... 12 By: George Quiroga POLYPHONY (ISSN 0163-4534) is published bimonthly at 1020 W. Wilshire Blvd., The Rockman Cometh! ............................... 10 Oklahoma City, OK 73116, by Polyphony By: Kirk Austin Publishing Co. Entire contents copyright (c) 1982 by Polyphony Publishing Co. All rights reserved. No portion of this Voltage Controlled LFO ........................... 36 publication may be reproduced in any By: Craig Anderton , manner without written permission frpm the publisher. Second Class postage is paid at Oklahoma City, OK 73125. Voyetra Eight Review .............................. 8 „ By: Mark Styles ADVERTISING rate card and deadline schedule is available upon request. Contact Linda Brumfield at (405) Sources in Acoustics ............................. 30 842-5480. By: David Doty DEALERS & DISTRIBUTORS bulk prices are available upon request. Contact Linda Brumfield at (405) 842-5480. SUBSCRIPTION rates: American 1 year $12.00 2 years $22.00 Foreign 1 year $14.00 2 years $26.00 DETAILS: The Audio Connection We now accept MasterCharge and Visa by: Dennis Bohn .............................. 16 payment for subscriptions, back issues, and PolyMart items. 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Polyphony is not responsible for replacement of lost or returned issues when we have not been Equipment Exchange ............................... 38 supplied with change of address information. Letters ........................................... 4 TO POSTMASTER, send address changes to: POLYPHONY PO Box 20305 Oklahoma City, OK 73156 COVER PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Vesta Copestakes, CAVE Grafix HE Ph. (405) 842-5480 Polyphony A p ril 1983 3 WIND PLAYERS You can use your own instrument or voice to control any standard synthesizer, with more expressiveness than a keyboard. modular synthesizer is an extreme- ly cost-effective system which CALLING ALL SYNTHS v5 <3 O O O ° allows experimenters to make <30 0 0 0 ® sounds they would never be able to I have been evaluating vari­ otherwise afford. It is also a V s M A M k I 1 ous synthesizer kits for about two quite versatile system (see David THE GENTLgELECTRIC years, and finally decided on the Vosh's letter below). I use PAIA PITCH AND ENVELOPE:, RMS ARIES. I estimate it will keyboards myself, but overall I FOLtm/ER take me two to three years and would say the 4700 series equip­ about $4,000 to complete the sys­ 1 n r - ment is not quite as sophisticated p A Y tem.
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