gear lust.

[solipsistnation]

There’s just no explaining it. It’s not a damn fuzzbox, it’s not a tube-amp simulator, and it’s not the slightest bit like anything else you’ve ever seen / heard. Think of the TX-1 Agonizer as a magical 1965-era industrial-music sonic reducer. It screws everything down to a nice, crunchy sonic pureè with aluminum shavings and broken glass mixed in. Yum.

[...much snipped.]

The TX-1 uses an obscure TV tube from the 1960s which nobody has ever used for audio before. (I can hear the doofus questions already.... "Is that sorta like a 12AX7, man? Which brand, man? Does it sound like a Mullard, man? Got any weed, man?" Arrrgh!!)

This bizarre tube defines poor fidelity and does various horrible things, especially in this circuit. A neon lamp in the feedback loop plus some other special features causes all kinds of non-stability, plus loads of screeching, gagging awfulness. It's not stable under all regimes, it sometimes oscillates at ultrasonic frequencies, and as a special bonus, it puts out such a "hot" signal that there is a real danger of the Agonizer damaging some types of solid-state equipment. Isn't that CUTE?? So go ahead and plug it into your computer's soundcard input, dumbass. Ha ha ha.

I want one.

Comments

[brainiac69.livejournal.com]

the artwork is really nice.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

"As a presumably-clear-enough warning, The Agonizer bears cartoons of naked women torturing animals, okay?"

hee.

I'll have to give the artist's site a more thorough checking-out when I'm not, um, at work.

this is the sort of pedantry up with which i shall not put!

[saintnobody.livejournal.com]

sounds like it would have been great to use against the asshole upstairs neighbor that you moved out because of.

i know the sentence construction there sucks, but it's clearer than if i had spoken properly.