Home Made Electro-Mechanical Tremolo by Uncle Doug
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2013
- Message from Uncle Doug:
The EM Tremolo unit was entirely handmade from scratch in my work shop, with a lathe and mill, primarily from aluminum and copper. The base is oak from Home Depot, as is the motor speed controller. As stated in the video, I found that distilled water works best, rather than Windex, which is generally recommended.
The amplifier, a clone of one of the earliest Fender Princeton circuits, the 5F2-A, was also hand built from scratch from aluminum sheet (scrap), pine board (Home Depot), transformers from Triode Electronics, NOS tubes, and an appropriately-dated mint, original Jensen C10N speaker, rescued from a trash pail.....incredible, but true.
The man that filmed Uncle Doug before he started filming himself. This video is beyond value it is priceless. The tremolo is a complete wonder of engineering and short of the steam engine to drive it nothing will ever surpass its beauty and creativity. Above all of its visually stunning glamour it also creates a fantastic effect.
Thanks for your nice comments. David's theory is that the water is probably contaminated by copper ions and thus gains conductivity. The relatively high resistance of the water is beneficial for smooth peak-to-trough transitions, as opposed to the significantly reduced overall volume and "square-wave" effect you get with more conductive liquids, like the traditional Windex.
This is one of the single most impecable examples, of true human craftsmanship absolutely incredible,
Doug sent me. Sounds great!
Love that home made tremolo unit. It's fantastic! W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee
This reminds me of a projects I had many years ago...I couldn't afford a echo chamber...So I made one with a tape recorder lol, the delay on that thing was amazing..I love projects like yours good job 👏
Thanks, Dan. To be honest, based on the amount of time and effort required to hand-build one, I would have to charge at least $1000 each.....just to make a few dollars an hour. However, if there were a way to mass produce them at a lower cost, retail sale might be a viable concept.
Uncle Doug being Uncle Doug!
GREAT! When you hit those strings, a big smile appeared on my face.
A whole new channel on which I can watch vintage Uncle Doug!
This was pretty awesome to see and hear!
Awesome craftsmanship Uncle Doug! Love it.
Love Uncle Doug!! He's a dadgum genius. This is COOL!!!
You were right. Loved this one too! I am extremely interested in building one of these! Thanks!
Nice build - both visually and tone-wise.
Gorgeous!!! Nice, nice work!!!
I've been waiting for this "crossover" episode. Geebus! That is stunning.
Wow... That... I just don't have words that describe how cool that is. Just the way it looks!!!
Nice work. Easy to reverse engineer the liquid and the chamber from the readings on the Simpson 630 VOM. The resistance varies between 50kΩ and 500kΩ. This is perfect for parallel wiring on the guitar output jack.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video and it was an eye opener.