Talk Box Build
For a musically inclined friend's birthday, I decided to make him a talk box since it was an instrument that he did not yet own and a concept I was interested in. It also turned out to be cheaper to build than buying one outright and allows me to leave a little room for customization since this friend likes making his own electronics for altering audio signals. If you don't know what a talk box is, it is a musical instrument consisting of a speaker that projects sound into one's mouth by way of flexible tube. That sound then exits the mouth into a microphone which serves as the next amplifying stage. Here is a very impressive demonstration of perhaps the upper bounds of what the instrument can achieve. Most people just make wah wah sounds. I started out with an off the shelf compression driver, which is a compact speaker that outputs its sound through a small diameter. The idea was to replace the large ...