Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:20 am
A year ago i managed to make a mic midi controller. I took an old (very old) microphone, plug it into my peavy guitar amplifier (12 watt) turned on the distortion and by an accident, when the amplifier eq reached some values i suddenly heard a sine wave in the position of the distorted mic sound. The sine wave changed in pitch and as i saw equally in amplitude by the distance my hand had from the microphone. That happened as i had made a circle with the mic's cable and another cable attached in the second input of my nova. As i understood (i don't have any idea on electric signal or fields) i raised with the amplifier the mic´ s electric field and my body become a ground. The distance from the microphone raised or lower the grounding. As u can imagine i connected the audio output to the modular and i made a audio controller but with analog resolution. I once connected it in such a way that i could change the grounding by how i positioned my foot on the ground. I made a invisible pedal!!!! for my music. From the start i concerned about how i could be dangerous to my health, but before anything serious happened, my first nova (synth) input burned... As you can imagine i haven't tried that since but i really like a controller with such a resolution... any ideas, are welcome cause to say the truth it's a way to react with your instrument in a very physical way....
then it's safe.