{"id":2999,"date":"2010-11-26T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2010-11-26T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T19:09:21","slug":"somewhat-fixing-a-gristleizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/somewhat-fixing-a-gristleizer\/","title":{"rendered":"(Somewhat?) Fixing a Gristleizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/IMG_5741.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/95623-2\/IMG_5741.jpg\" height= width= border=0 title=\"\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I recently did a bit of work on <a href=\"http:\/\/smashingguitarsasheville.com\/products\/gristleizer-kit-pcb-version-2\">the original version of this kit<\/a>, a clone of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Carter_(musician)\">Chris Carter<\/a>&#8216;s original <a href=\"http:\/\/thegristleizer.blogspot.com\/\">Gristlizer<\/a>; an analogue effects unit used by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Throbbing_Gristle\">Throbbing Gristle<\/a>. This one seemed to have the wrong type of LED on it (a blinking one), fitted backward so it wouldn&#8217;t illuminate.<\/p>\n<p>After replacing the LED I hooked it up to my <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/x0xb0x\">x0xb0x<\/a> and ran some audio through it. It definitely seemed to be doing something to the sound, but I&#8217;m not completely sure what. I&#8217;m also not sure how it&#8217;s supposed to sound, so I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s working quite right or not. Since it&#8217;s analog and a lot of the pots and switches ground through their chassis, it&#8217;s hard to say what it&#8217;s supposed to do until it&#8217;s all buttoned up in a case. I have a feeling that some (or all) of the op-amps on the board might be cooked, but I don&#8217;t know enough to tell right now. At <$1\/ea it's also easiest to test them out by just replacing them.\n\n(After looking over this PCB and photos of the v2, I can't help but want to pull an <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/SDrive_NUXX\">SDrive NUXX<\/a> with it and release a much-improved, CC-licensed PCB \/ BOM \/ end panel set. I think I could do a much cleaner job on the board design and incorporate very useful connector footprints that allow flying wires to be terminated at headers, direct-mount pots, etc. I&#8217;d also like to do an end panel set that fits right into a nicely solid off the shelf enclosure. This would make assembly easier for kit-builders easier resulting in far more elegant devices with less room for assembly mistakes. Maybe this will be a winter project.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently did a bit of work on the original version of this kit, a clone of Chris Carter&#8216;s original Gristlizer; an analogue effects unit&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/somewhat-fixing-a-gristleizer\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Somewhat?) Fixing a Gristleizer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}