LAL - Rattle Crow (Lastgasp Art Laboratories)

[celadine]

IMHO, one of the few 'professional' pedal makers that have the balls to make weird sounding, original pedals.
Here's the Rattle Crow schematic -

http://users.rio.com/senorris/junk/CrowSchematic.gif


Only schematic of theirs I know of.

[DougH]

I built up the Rattle Crow on the breadboard one time. It was interesting for about 5 minutes. But it was an interesting 5 minutes...

I actually modded it into something more, ahem, useful and ended up with something akin to a Seamoon Funk Machine. And that's what the Rattle Crow is, basically- a purposely poorly designed envelope filter. YMMV...

[bumblebee]

thanks for adding the schem , not much talk about these guys on the net.
i plan on buying that oscillo fuzz as its a nice sounding fuzz (IMO)and good looking pedal,the build looks like quality.
i know their stuff aint everyones cup of tea tho hey.lol

its not often i buy expensive effects but some are worth it imo and i like to support certain builders so i have no issue with the cost.

[DougH]

i like the rattle crow for it broken ugly sound, but unfortunately, outta most people who tried it. They often gave me a wtf look instead
on its own, its can be quite bad sounding, best result i gotten was having the rattle crow into a tim escobedo ugly face inspired fuzz.

The bubbling/gurgling sound (due to a poorly filtered env detector) that the Rattle Crow makes is kind of fun. The problem with it IMO is the problem with a lot of these "noise" boxes- there's not really any easy way of controlling it in any kind of expressive way. Anyone can build a box that buzzes, squeaks, pops, and hisses in the corner all by itself. But giving you the ability to control it, other than just stimulating it with a guitar signal to push it into doing its own thing, is something else entirely.

[pathein]

not sure bout the controlling of those noise/signal generator from within circuit itself, but so far when i get to use those in some noise/drone project, i tend to use other things(mixer, effect blender, phrase sampling looper etc) with it, to sorta add colours in between. If not, just by itself and not in the right context, i do agree that its kind of hard to be expressive with those generator, imho

[analogguru]

If the above schematic of the "Rattle Crow" is correct, then it is a big misconstruction cause the input signal would be shortened by the transistor Q1. I assume there is missing a resistor. Have a look at the EH DoctorQ schematic.... the "Rattle Crow" is basically a clone of it.

In any case it is not worth the money charged for it.

analogguru

[Gila_Crisis]

since the link doesn^t work no more here's the Rattle Crow schem and layout!

Check also the Moosapotamus Dirty Bird, which is an evelution of the Rattle Crow
http://moosapotamus.net/dirtybird.html