A mix of extreme high voltage and tunes, does a project get any better! Steve Conner has posted his ultra cool visual instrument on 4HV.ORG. Note the second video was listed by EastVoltResearch and can be seen on this site. What I made was an adaptor board that connected the internal tone generators on a Roland JX-8P synth to one or more DRSSTCs. The board converted the volume envelope to burst length, so the harder you pounded the keys, the bigger the sparks got. Hitting a high pitched note hard would blow the fuses, and the MIDI arrangements had to take this into account.” |
July 2nd, 2006
I can so see that sucker do a crazytrain solo!
September 5th, 2006
That was awesome indeed. I like how the discharge color changes as a function of the frequency in the twin coil version.
October 21st, 2006
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October 23rd, 2006
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June 26th, 2007
where can i get a sound sample of this to use with a sequencer?
June 26th, 2007
Go to Steve’s site (in the article) and ask him for it.
July 5th, 2007
This is brilliant!
Do you synchronized the coil at audible frequencies ? Or just change the amount of juice you pump into it?
August 9th, 2007
What is the tune he is playing in that first video?
November 29th, 2007
It’s AC/DC “Thunderstruck”
December 26th, 2007
i would like to know what type of board you actually created and what range of frequencies and wattage your capacitors can withstand.
January 7th, 2008
I was always interested in this since I saw Mario theme played on Tesla coils. That’s very cool, but I don’t get this video: the sound comes from piano as well, not only from Tesla coil, doesn’t it?
February 2nd, 2008
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