Walkman into a distortion pedal?

[andrewnitch]

I found this online the other day where a guy used a walkman to  create distortion.  Has anyone else tried this or something similiar and did it work?  Here's the link:  http://www.larsby.com/johan/tokhuedist/

[Jonathon Stevens]

I tried this once and wasn't particularly impressed, however i didn't experiment much beyond the basic replacing of the record head with an audio input so perhaps you'll get more usable results.  I'm saving the rest of my walkmans to make a melloman.

[petemoore]

  What's a 'melloman' ?

[jonathan perez]

  What's a 'melloman' ?

this guy

[mail_man]

the melloman is a homemade version of the mellotron. http://www.mysterycircuits.com/melloman/melloman.html

[darron]

oh my god. that tutorial was so technical. where does that guy find the digital tapes for his walkman by the way?
don't forget to put the biggie plugs in! hehe


i read a tutorial once about converting a walkman etc. into a distortion by sending the signal in to the magnetic head and it get's picket up distorted. can't recal how that was done though. sounds like that would be a more interesting effect to me...

any one tried anything like this?

[nelson]

the melloman is a homemade version of the mellotron. http://www.mysterycircuits.com/melloman/melloman.html

That is pretty damn cool.

[Steve Newton]

I did something similar back in the 80s with an old boom box. the idea was to make a practice amp that I could use to  play along to tapes.

I simply wired a jack socket to the play head. You plugged in the guitar and played. BIG FAT distortion that sounded much better than the POS practice amp I was already using. One trick pony but a pretty good trick.