Video: Tesla guitar amp sparks the Great Radio Controversy
By Thomas Ricker 
posted February 12th 2008 4:12AM
posted February 12th 2008 4:12AM
posted February 12th 2008 4:12AM
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looks cool 2 bad it doesnt sound so great
Only Jimmy Hendrix could make a Tesla Coil sound good. That man could turn distortion in to music.
GEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!
http://rockweb.dreamers.com/Imagenes/teslad02.jpg
ding ding ding ding ding... we have a winner.
Thomas
that's unbelievable.
All I can think of "Danger High Voltage!" by Electric Six
HELL YEAH!!! great way to execute someone... listen and burn lol
Wow. That's cool.
WOW LOOK AT THAT THING!
bets on when KISS will adopt this into their shows?
and you can be almost certain that muse will use this setup on their next album...
Now, that was an electrifying experience!
thomas: i think your album reference was a little too obscure for most of your readers to get it, but it totally made my day.
Amen!
NICE :D :D
Needs a bit of work on the 'making it sound better' front, but it's a hell of a start.
i saw one of these somewhere...
way bigger and it sounded good also....
oh yeah http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/63317/detail/
Just watch out for feedback.
The RFI put off by that must be fairly...interesting.
Living near the Dulles landing/takeoff pattern I can just imagine how the various radio-based devices on the over-flying planes would appreciate this! Especially the AM-based ones.
[synapses just fired - a long time ago I saw a couple books published back during the 19-teens or 1920s-1940s or something that had such interesting projects as "Build your own X-ray machine!". I vaguely remember a caveat in that particular one about radio interference...something like "will interfere with radio transmission for an X radius" for some large radius. Yeah, probably all AM at the time]
BAD ASS that is pretty sweet, wish it sounded better, but the idea is really cool
For some reason that reminded me of Animusic:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ine1etqrBMo
That was mad cool!!
if you click the link and watch the super mario duet, you'll be about 20x more impressed than the embedded video.
Why does everyone think it needs to sound better? Am I the only one who thought that sounded amazing?
Well, while the sound given from it doesn't sound particularly clear, it still makes for a pretty interesting audio effect. Plus it might yield a really technical playing style, used in combination with harmonics and modulation.
Maybe it could be used for some new type of rock-techno or something. Done properly, that should be awesome.
It sounds good as an effect for maybe parts of songs, or backups for songs. but I wouldn't listen to a song if it was just this.
I totally agree--it sounds awesome. It's like some big, electrified version of Death from Above 1979.
Finally found the mad scientist behind all this weather modification and global warming!
this tesla coil is neat, but this one here is way more awsomer
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ff_AXVlo9U
I would like to see it played in the rain like so many music videos
It's cool, but this is old news...
Was he playing, "Ride The Lightning"???
Now we have all been to Electric Ladyland