Ears Kit

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This is a "finish-it-yourself" kit. The surface mount parts are all pre-soldered. The panel and all other parts for the circuit are included. You can swap our panel for another manufacturer's panel too!

View the assembly instructions and bill of materials here.

Ears is a microphone preamp module with a built-in contact mic for finger drumming, scratching, and more, and will send gates and envelopes with each tap! It’s a perfect match for physical synthesis modules like Rings or Elements, but it can also be the gateway between external audio sources and your modular system.

Features

Built-in contact microphone soldered right under the front panel, turning the panel and your entire case into a microphone.
Increasingly spaced ridges on the panel, generating sonically interesting pulses or impulse combs when rubbed. Strike, pick or scratch digital resonators like Rings, Elements or the 4ms SMR.
High-quality amplification stage suitable for external contact microphones, electro-acoustic instruments like guitars, or plain line-level signals.
Envelope follower, translating the decaying amplitude profile of a tap into an envelope CV.
Gate detector, translating taps into gate signals.
Envelope follower and gate detector can process external signals.

Specifications

Audio amplifier with 1M input impedance, up to 40dB of gain.
External input bypassing the built-in contact microphone.
Envelope follower with 3 preset attack and release times (adjustable by jumper).
Gate detector with 3 preset sensitivity levels (adjustable by jumper) and +8V gate output.
Three indicator LEDs: amplifier clipping (red), envelope follower level (white), gate detector activity (orange).

Technical characteristics

Width: 4HP
Depth: 25mm
Current draw:

+12V: 5mA
-12V: 5mA

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