Learn About Circuit Bending Output

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LORIN EDWIN PARKER: We're talking about circuit bending. We now reached the point at which we found some bends, we found some controls, we've hooked them up, but now we need to actually get some high quality sound coming out. Most of these toys and consumer electronics have a built-in speaker. The problem with fidelity is not that the toy is poorly created and the sounds are bad but that the speaker just doesn't convey a great sound. So what we want to do is be able to hook this up to our own speaker system or an amplifier or something like that. I'm going to show you how to do it. The easiest way is you just find the speaker. All I had to do is just--it was down like this, I just tugged on it and it comes out. You can see there are two wires, two yellow wires leading to the speaker. So what I can do is just take that electrical output that's going to the speaker and I put one alligator clip on one side and one alligator clip on the other side and with these sorts of speakers it really doesn't matter what the polarity is unlike hooking up your stereo system that has red lead and a black lead, it doesn't matter. What matters is what I connect these up to. So now what 'm going to do is I'm going to start with my main say which is a battery-powered amplifier. This is just a Radio Shack battery-powered amp. And what I do is it has this little 8-inch plug like a pair of headphones. It has these two bands. The sleeve right here, the base of it is always going to the ground, and the tip of it is always going to be the signal. So I hook up. It doesn't matter which one, but I hook one up to the ground, hook one up to the sleeve, one up to the tip, and now, I can start off my circuit bent device. If I turn off the amplifier, notice the difference in sound. It's not very good. But now it added a whole new richness. The reason I start with a battery-powered amplifier is that there is a chance that your speakers if you hook it directly into a nice pair of studio speakers, they're not going to like it too much. Probably won't break them but I wouldn't suggest it on the first try. The second way, which I'm going to get it into my studio monitors now is use a telephone tap. These are available for about $1.75 on-line from electronic suppliers. You just take that, plug it into your speaker or your mixer, your amplifier and hold it up to the speaker and it takes that sound out and into your high-quality speakers.

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