This is one of my personal favorite projects from you! So cool how you documented all of this (including the blow up 😁) and had a lil build up on Patreon and Instagram too! The rats from LRW were really looking forward to this video and you really freaking came through man! 🙌 And yes, It is certainly hard to find these! lol I have the 3014 added to my search list to keep an eye out on! If you get any more of these to bend and sell... LRW wants to be first on the list!! 😎🤘🐀
Thanks man! These were made for the EU market, so they won't be found easily in the US, and run on PAL rather than NTSC, though you can get converter box thingies.
@@StephenMcLeod Yes, I was thinking I'd need a RGB to Composite adapter type thing if I did. I've read that RGB provides better video quality for retro gaming as well, so it's something I've been looking into recently haha
My friend that was so nice. I’ve learned how to bent by my own and that was the worst way since I’ve burned many rare boards… anyway I would appreciate very much if you could share how to make your tester. It was so cool to see
Go for it! Find a cheap one that runs off of a DC power supply (wall wart, etc.) and just follow the advice here about mapping out where the power and ground points are. After that, you can go nuts with resistors, pots, and very small value capacitors. If you roast a 20€£$ video mixer, it barely matters. A unit that is running from a DC supply will likely never hurt you or even blow itself up.
@@KentBuchla Great advice! I've blown up a few £20 mixers. I refuse to pay more than that for them because I know I'll end up destroying them. Plus, most of them are destined to be chucked out anyway unless somebody buys them for cheap on eBay. Though now they are getting more expensive...
Yes, with a maybe, and a but. You can run this into any display device which takes composite input. If you don't have composite input, you would need a convertor box. The other caveat is that circuit bent video devices display best on analogue outputs because they can handle the scrambled signal far better. Digital devices often drop out when the input is outside their expected parameters, which means you need to stabilise the signal somehow, often through the use of something called a time base corrector. These are tricky to find for a good price, and also mean the effects aren't as nice. Finally, CRT TVs or other analogue output devices are part of the FX chain, in that they will display different inputs/glitches in sometimes radically different ways. The results are often waaay better as a result.
Unfortunately not. I've had to scour around the Internet and things to find the bits and pieces and mod them myself. Most of it is consumer gear that folk have lying around in cupboards etc. There will be some cool switchers etc at Universities and things I'd imagine, but they have probably chucked most of it out by now and moved to HDMI.
Nice job. 100% with trying to recreate a magical moments with video. I just buy smaller affordable boxes from stateside folks since I don't want to blow up any old gear :)
I don't unfortunately! That series are slightly different in that they have a slimmed down case, which I don't have any experience with sadly. Let me know if you get it off!
Awesome work here, i am about to jump into my first attempt at modifying a video mixer. Is there anywhere i can go for more info on how to identify the power and ground lines? I am new to working with circuit boards.
Good luck! There's a few ways. Outside of reading the actual schematic, you can take the boards out, identify the chips, look up their data sheets and see what pins correspond to power and ground. You can then trace them back that way. You can also identify the transformer and avoid anything that comes from that. They are fairly easy to find, and the traces on the PCB are usually bigger. Be warned though: Don't do this on anything that's not DC power or above like 12v if you're not experienced! It's wise to look up safety precautions elsewhere as I am no engineer. One thing though is that ground isn't always bad. Sometimes you want to pull things to ground to get crazy effects - it's just that that is a bit more risky when it comes to chips potentially blowing, depending on the circuit... From my understanding.
Hi! Which type of photosensitive resistor did you use for the audio reactive glitching? I tried a 5506, the lowest I could find, and the led still doesn’t get bright enough to resist low enough to show anything.
Hey! I unfortunately can't remember which one I used in this particular bend. I bought a big box of different values and experimented with them to see which one worked, and I think that's the best approach, as each device will be a bit different. Sorry I can't help more!
p.s. pay attention to the colour spectrum of the LDR and the LED, as not all of them react the same to different colours. As in, they may be more sensitive to particular LEDs.
True, thank you so much! I’ve been experimenting a bit and found a spot that glitches the way I want with the resistance I’m able to get, now it’s just trying to figure out how to make the LED get just a tiny bit brighter
You could use a MIDI to CV output module/device which would run into analogue devices like this. If you're talking about software, the closest thing I know of is Lumen, which I've done a video on a while back! But digital glitches are very different to analogue gear.
@@StephenMcLeod thank you for the reply! JUST fell down this rabbit hole as of two days ago 😂 a lot to learn just wanted to see if I could use some gear I already have. I’ll check out your other video too
@@megan8494 Cathodemer is an interesting CRT emulator/digital art thing you can check out. If you want software-esque glitches, check out Waaave Pool from Andrei Jay. I use their stuff a lot when playing live. There's lots of options there - though folks often run them on Raspberry Pis.
@@drinkinouttacups2665 I haven't, but it seems a bit out of my mental league. I don't love getting stuck into the technical weeds of that kind of software much any more. Music is part of my escape from that world!
I haven't bent a Sisma yet, so wouldn't want to take it on and then risk blowing it up. If I do end up making one I might sell it in my shop though - shop.allmyfriendsaresynths.com
