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Noise/bleedthrough faux pas

2002-10-13 by odyssian

Well, since things are quiet on the list.. ;) 

 I had a weird thing happen when I was working on my submission for 
the Aleatoric duel. As I was going about patching I noticed at one 
point a very strong bleed through. It was a waveform that wasn't even 
patched into the system.

 So there I am, trying to track down where this unwanted signal was 
coming from. It would actually change in volume as I was searching 
for the source.

 Lo and behold, I found that the culprit was ME! I was stepping on a 
patch cable plug that was laying on the floor. It was connected to 
one of the 300 osc outputs! Of course I was holding onto another 
cable that was patched into the 110 ring mod at the time, which then 
went to the monitors eventually. 

 After finding where this signal was coming from (me!), I unplugged 
the CV input to the 300 1v/oct input and grabbed it in my other hand. 
By varying my grip on that CV input plug/cable, I was getting all 
sorts of theremin-type sounds. LOL!

 So.. Does this mean that my body is actually more "noisy" than my 
modular? ;)

 Just thought I'd share,
 Andrew

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