Carlin Ring Modulator KIT

Description

Carlin is a Swedish guitar pedal brand from the 70's. Carlin made three different pedals. Most famous are the phaser in wah-style enclosure and the compressor/fuzz. He also made a few of the pedal that is listed here: a ring modulator.
I (who run the company moodysounds) met Nils Olof Carlin and he encouraged me to reissue his pedals. So here you have it: the rare and nice-sounding Carlin Ring modulator DIY kit!
Dec 16, we added mix controls, buffered in and outputs!
This effect is underrated when it comes to blues and rock. It pierces the "soundmess" from other instruments and lets your solo come through when other are competing with frequencies. Most recommended for lead guitar of course but it will also do well for rough rhythm guitar sound.
You can use the Ring modulator as a “regular” pedal, guitar in injack A and amp in outjack A. You will find a sound that is both special and useful. On top of this you can explore totally unique and odd sounds by connecting other sound sources to the pedal’s
second input jack
, IN B, while you are playing guitar in IN A.
A combination of the input signals is produced at the outputs.
This Ringmodulator is different from many other designs, where the effect is coming from the combination of the guitar and an internal oscillator. With Carlin's pedal you are much freer in a way, as you can use it with any
(external) oscillator.
Connect a keyboard with a high pitch note constantly pressed and see what the combined sound is like. Connect a patch cable and
grab it
and let the ground hum modulate the guitar! If nothing is connected to IN B (only guitar is used in IN A) the signal modulates itself.
Nils Olof Carlin's reply to a customer that wanted to know more about doing modifications to the pedal
"A "ring modulator" is a device that will multiply any two signals, thereby creating sum and difference frequencies, originally often used in telecommunications, but also useful in music. When I designed my version decades ago, I intended my circuit for experimenting, allowing the user to combine any musical sound signals to find musically interesting combinations, with total flexibility as to where the signals come from. It can let you combine guitars, keyboards, organ pedals, microphones, or whatever, playing in polyphony (such as octaves) to get meaningful more or less harmonious sum and difference tones. Also, you can conect an instrument to both inputs at the same time, getting a frequency doubling!
There are "ring modulators" today that include a variable oscillator to supply one of the two signals, letting the user play an instrument for the other one. I understand you expect all "ring modulators" - including my design - to include such an oscillator. Sorry, by purpose, mine does not, so there is no resistor to vary."
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A manual in English is included in the kit. All parts you need for assembling the kit are also included. PCB, components, jacks, switches... You need a soldering iron and some other common tools such a flat nose pliers to build it. The box has drilled holes and you can use the included sticker decal to put on top of it .
This kit is above medium difficulty, we rate it 4 out of 5, as compared to our other diy kits.
The Price includes international shipping!