The WMD Geiger Counter is an entirely new sound and it will blow your mind. It is basically a loud modern preamp driving a digital wave destroyer, creating sounds which range from nice (light overdrive, added gain, increased harmonic content) to total madness (impossible amounts of gain, multiple octave foldover, terrible digital noise).
Features:
- High gain modern preamp
- Dramatic tone control with disable
- Sample rate from 260hz to 58khz
- 1 to 8 bit depth with mask mode
- 252 wave table modulator
- Key in for expressive control
- Cv or signal key in modes
- Always saves settings
- Hand wired true bypass
- Top quality components
- Super hard epoxy powder finish
- Standard 9v power jack
Controls:
- Gain: Low settings provide clean tones with no distortion at all, while high settings will brickwall
your signal for great sustain. Use the gain control as a coarse setting for getting the desired tone
from the selected wave table.
- Tone: The geiger counter's tone control blends muffled low-mids with chimey and clear upper mids
and highs providing a very large range of sounds in junction with the gain. All the way down and the
sound is muffled and grungy with little upper harmonic content. The middle range is smooth and full
bodied. the top range cuts the lows completely for only upper harmonic content. use the tone to fine
tune the sound of the wave table.
- Tone enable/disable: This switch removes the tone control from the preamp circuit. The tone control
sucks some volume from the gain, and this allows the pure ultra hot signal to go directly into the wave
table. If a very clean tone is desired, set to disable and adjust the gain to get the right amount of breakup.
For most wave tables, disabling the tone will produce completely different sounds by brickwalling to the
extremes of the tables faster.
- Sample rate: Controls the length of the samples your signal is converted into. full up and the geiger
counter samples faster than a cd. Dial it down a little and you'll lower the fidelity and frequency response,
adding overtones and difference frequencies. Down a little produces some very nice chimey clean tones.
Down more and higher notes disappear into difference frequencies, all the way down to 280hz. The
sample rate is sort of like a flange whammy.
- Bit depth: This controls the finer details of the signal. All up and your signal is represented by the full
8 bits. Each step down cuts the resolution in half, adding quantization error distortion, all the way down
to 1 bit making a nasty square wave from a once clean tone. This produces a lo-fi gated distortion sound.
The led by the bit depth knob shows the key input and post/pre wave table modes.
- Bits/mask: This switch controls how the bit depth knob works. in bits mode, the bit depth knob reduces
the resolution of the signal. In mask mode, the signal is filtered through a number (0 to 255). This mode
can be used to reduce noise and add gain. in pre wave table mode, it can turn off small ranges of the wave
table, creating altered harmonic content from the tables. Adjust the knob to taste when in mask mode.
- Wave table: This knob and display select the wave table to run your signal through. The wave table stage
takes your signal and destroys it with math. This produces some incredible sounds. The wave tables are
organized so that a more extreme version is typically found one up from the current one. There are 252 wave
tables in all, each with different harmonic content.
- Key input: The key input on the geiger counter is similar to the key input on the fatman. use any external
signal to modulate the sample rate or bit depth. A slow lfo creates some incredible sweeping difference
frequencies when modulating the sample rate, a faster lfo creates some cool tremolo sounds when modulating
the bit depth.
- Sample rate key in: In normal mode (led not green) the knob controls the sample rate directly. turn it green and
the key input controls the sample rate. Turn the knob all the way up and the key input has direct control. dial it
down to introduce variations and interesting patterns in the sample rate.
- Bit depth key in: In normal mode (led not green) the knob controls the bit depth directly. if green, the key input
controls the bit depth. With the knob all the way up, the key in will have smooth control. dial it down to introduce
graininess and patterns from the key input. Key input works with both bits and mask modes.
