Babybox

NOISE GATE

The Baby Box Noise Generator is a chaotic noise machine. Use it to make spooky backgrounds or create odd beats or plug in a guitar or other sound source and mix it with BabyBox sounds. The Baby Box is basically a combination of three effects, a Noise oscillator, a Fuzz and a Delay circuit and you can run it in three different modes: Auto, Constant or Trig. In Auto and Constant modes it generates the sound itself and you control parameters such as noise pitch and tempo, delay interval and length with its eleven control knobs and its two noise mode switches. The sound is generated in the BabyBox circuit's oscillators. Their signals are superimposed and a "noise" is present at the output. One of the oscillators has a much lower oscillation frequency than the others. It sets a form of rhythm to the noise (switches between sound-silence-sound...) and the tempo is adjusted with the Sun and Earth knobs, on the left of the panel. Earth sets how long the sound pulses should be and Sun sets how long the silence should be between the pulses. You can therefore set everything from short bursts of sound, to long, brittle tones with short pauses. If both knobs are turned to the max, the pedal ends up in a position that is close to the Constant mode, i.e. a continuous tone without pulses. The Constant mode produces a continuous tone. The oscillators are connected in such a way that it is difficult to predict how they will affect each other. Each setting is unique and "sound kaleidoscope" would be a description of this circuit.