[BC] Why you wanted to be an engineer...

[Mark W. Croom]

I don't have time to look for it now, but somewhere on YouTube (perhaps
elsewhere on a website someplace) there is a clip with a couple of MIT kind of
dudes showing off how their musical Tesla coil rig works.

I think they were pulse modulating the high voltage at the various musical
frequencies they wanted to use. A sequencer into a synth, with the analog
output hard limited into square waves, ultimately using that to switch the
primary of the coil.

They also demonstrated an electric guitar DI box connected to the analog audio
input. That is the ultimate distorted guitar sound.

There was some kind of fiber optic link in that Tesla rig, also, perhaps
that's how they were getting the square waves they were using to modulate the
primary.

Anyway it's pretty cool.

Mark
MN

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:56:06 -0400
Subject: Re: [BC] Why you wanted to be an engineer...

> That's pretty damned cool!
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Paul B. Walker, Jr.