The common-or-garden piezo issue is often used as little better than a buzzer in a lot of duties. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to do additional with them, as [Something Physical] demonstrates with their nifty piezo noise subject. Attempt the video (and audio) below.
The event is simple ample, partaking in its private means, with a rugged junk-assembly type of sort. The video begins out by demonstrating utilizing a piezo issue hooked up as a simple contact microphone, sooner than creating it into one factor additional eclectic.
The basic concept: Mount the piezo issue to a metallic subject fitted with numerous oddball implements. What kind of implements? Spiralled copper wires, a spring, and parts of a whisk. When struck, plucked, or twanged, they conduct vibrations by the sector, the microphone picks them up, and the sector passes the sound on to totally different audio gear.
It might seem frivolous, nonetheless it’s acquired some precise value for avant-garde musical experimentation. Particularly, when you occur to’re in the hunt for weird indicators to feed into your outcomes rack or modular synth setup, this could be a glorious place to begin out.
We’ve seen piezos put to totally different percussive makes use of sooner than, too.
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