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First of the Squawk Box series. Basically take a toy cassette deck and wire up a bunch of bend points on the amplifier circuit. Control can either be by body contact points (my current favorite), photo resisters or potentiometers. Noises that result range from buzzes, squawks, drones, tics, hisses what have you. These can also be added during tape play (and to some degree during recording).
Squawk Box I has a row of contact points on both front and back of the handle for noise initiation and a potentiometer (small knob on side) for this as well. The main contact point is on the front right. There is another potentiometer (big knob on side) that changes the speed of the tape motor. You can slow down playback and by recording at a slower speed either slow down or speed up playback.
Output by way of a headphone jack and it came with a second mic input jack.
Sound sample is "playing" the contact points. Play button is pushed down but no tape in.
In this sample I recorded an Elmo MiniGuitar while varying the recording speed and playing a bit with the contact points.
Playback of above with more tape speed control varying and more playing with contact points.
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