Music Thing Modular Mini Drive: Incandescent Lamp Overdrive
Everyone’s Eurorack deserves the glowing saturation of a Minimoog incandescent lamp overdrive. As luck would have it Music Thing Modular has just released the Mini Drive.
Mini Drive
This is a lovely simple overdrive module that’ll fatten up any audio signal you want to run through it. It’s inspired by the External Input circuit on the Minimoog which people often used as a feedback loop. You’d take the output of the Minimoog and run it back in through the external input and push it into overload which would make a little incandescent lamp next to the external input knob glow in response.
So, Mini Drive does the same thing. It has both a high and low-level input and two outputs to give you the ability to create another feedback loop and ramp up the saturation. The lamp which glows fabulously in response to the signal is not generating the overdrive, it’s reacting to the increase in voltage.
There’s no CV control or anything flashy going on, just a single knob to push up the drive to taste or get your fingers dirty with some manual modulation.
It’s a DIY thing
As with all Music Thing Modular modules, the Mini Drive comes as a kit and it looks like this could be a really good kit for beginners. Any surface mount components are already on the PCB leaving you with just a handful of decent-sized thru-hole components to arrange and solder. Tom Whitwell, the man behind Music Thing Modular, has narrated a build video to make things super easy. And The Synth DIY Guy has also done a build a video but most of the video features a demo of the Mini Drive and this thing sounds phenomenal.
The Mini Drive is released on the 7th May and the kit will cost you only £46.80 plus half an hour of build time.
More information
- Mini Drive on Thonk.co.uk
- More from Music Thing.
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