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Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:12 pm
by untilshewokeme
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/ERD.html
ERD/ERD (Earth Return Distortion) is the first and most extreme expression of the ERD philosophy, seeking to literally put the earth back into circuit with technology. All world electricity travels through the earth and nearly all electronic circuitry and devices are extracted and refined from the earth. ERD/ERD puts a small block of forest earth into the Eurorack circuit, allowing control and audio signals to be distorted and amplified as they pass through the earth block. It can be viewed in conventional terms as an earth conditioned VCA (amplification factor by knob control or CV) and distortion. Local electrical and atmospheric signals can condition and distort the earth signal. Two jack connections are also included, optionally switching out the local earth block in favour of routing through local earth piles and forest sites. Discounts are available in return for earth samples (eg. Edgar Allen Poe earth from Baltimore, vampire earth from Transylvania or Whitby).
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:45 pm
by spacelordmother
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:59 pm
by D.o.S.
Valnut goes Modular?
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 5:48 pm
by zeravla
Fucking hippies.
(just kidding, that's actually pretty awesome.)
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 10:06 pm
by SoaringTortoise
It would be cooler if it had little chia plants or something growing in it.
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:07 pm
by HeavyXIII
Isn't shipping foreign soil overseas illegal? I'd totally send Cthulu cult soil from just outside New Orleans..
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:15 pm
by DRodriguez
HeavyXIII wrote:Isn't shipping foreign soil overseas illegal? I'd totally send Cthulu cult soil from just outside New Orleans..
Aye, pretty illegal in most places for good reason. No need to ruin an entire ecosystem for tone.
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:13 am
by KaosCill8r
Is that some kind of a joke? Gimmick perhaps?
I think they need to post a demo of it with and without dirt in the box for some kind of comparison.
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:24 am
by untilshewokeme
HeavyXIII wrote:Isn't shipping foreign soil overseas illegal? I'd totally send Cthulu cult soil from just outside New Orleans..
Next time I visit my dad I could get some of that Three Mile Island dirt.
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:26 am
by ChannelingHemingway
Just spitballing here, but maybe part of the circuit is in the smaller enclosure and hidden by the dirt? I can't think of any possible way this could work as it's being pitched.
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:35 am
by KaosCill8r
untilshewokeme wrote:HeavyXIII wrote:Isn't shipping foreign soil overseas illegal? I'd totally send Cthulu cult soil from just outside New Orleans..
Next time I visit my dad I could get some of that Three Mile Island dirt.
That would actually probably do something.
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:37 am
by Strange Tales
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:43 am
by KaosCill8r
Yeah but you still have to supply it with 12v power, so I'm guessing no to the earth battery. Is it using the dirt as a form of random diode clipping? That would be the only thing I could think it's doing.
Creating random shorts to ground.
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:52 am
by skullservant
Hmmmn
Re: Looking to add a little dirt to your sound?
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 8:02 am
by Strange Tales
KaosCill8r wrote:
Yeah but you still have to supply it with 12v power, so I'm guessing no to the earth battery. Is it using the dirt as a form of random diode clipping? That would be the only thing I could think it's doing.
Creating random shorts to ground.
Well the 12v power would be going to everything else on the board right? I don't know, this stuff really isn't my domain but I am interested in how this is working.