Bitcrushing and noise using a ring mod and a freqbox

The freqbox by itself is a bit stale to me, but the ring mod is really becoming it’s best friend…

Plug your audio source into the ring mod and send the audio out of it to wherever. Grab some patch cables. 102 carrier out to 107 audio in 107 osc out to 102 carrier in, 102 LFO to 107 Freq in. Turn all of the function knobs on both devices fully clockwise, except for the 102’s drive(set to your volume needs), and the 107 wave to square. Set the rocker switches to square, hi, and sync off. Take a “dummy” patch cable and jimmy it halfway into the 102 rate input, until you see the lfo lamp go static(audio rate). Now make some noise on your input, and turn down the 102 freq knob to hear the sample rate reduction effect. Cool!

The noise is only a step away: do the same dummy trick on the 102’s freq input, you’ll hear the noise come in. The whine of the audio LFO can be helped by changing it to sine, and moving from square to pulse on the 107 makes the noise dark to bright.

Have fun!