Originally published at: Recreating the Roland TR-808's legendary analog cowbell | Boing Boing
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Not only is it a simple and easy-to-understand circuit, the components are all quite generic and cost pennies.
There’s no reason that you couldn’t build an entirely analog copy of the 808 these days, besides laziness.
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BÖC really did have a discussion about the appropriate deployment of cowbell, unbeknownst to SNL.
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If you‘re lazy and affluent, you can get a cowbell module:
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Sound on, Cow in analogue action.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGgLaLA7TP/
To my ear it sounds less like cowbell and more like the intro to this.
(I do suffer from hearing loss though)
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