Video: Tesla guitar amp sparks the Great Radio Controversy

If you haven't already, Tesla Guitar is a must see video. It features a lethal Scopeboy modification of a Tesla coil for guitar amplification. Click on through for 250,000 volts of axe slinging distortion. Huzzah!

[stantla @ Feb 12th 2008 4:22AM]

looks cool 2 bad it doesnt sound so great

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Feb 13th 2008 12:34AM]

Only Jimmy Hendrix could make a Tesla Coil sound good. That man could turn distortion in to music.

[roflercopterer @ Feb 12th 2008 4:22AM]

GEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

[Spiderman_00 @ Feb 12th 2008 4:41AM]

http://rockweb.dreamers.com/Imagenes/teslad02.jpg

[Thomas Ricker @ Feb 12th 2008 4:55AM]

ding ding ding ding ding... we have a winner.

Thomas

[tropmug @ Feb 12th 2008 4:46AM]

that's unbelievable.

[Owen @ Feb 12th 2008 5:14AM]

All I can think of "Danger High Voltage!" by Electric Six

[monGoose @ Feb 14th 2008 6:17AM]

HELL YEAH!!! great way to execute someone... listen and burn lol

[Blaktornado @ Feb 12th 2008 7:07AM]

Wow. That's cool.

[TZK @ Feb 12th 2008 7:19AM]

WOW LOOK AT THAT THING!

[Sol @ Feb 12th 2008 7:11AM]

bets on when KISS will adopt this into their shows?

[tony @ Feb 12th 2008 12:11PM]

and you can be almost certain that muse will use this setup on their next album...

[Galley @ Feb 12th 2008 7:21AM]

Now, that was an electrifying experience!

[nonstatic @ Feb 12th 2008 7:33AM]

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.

[RichardBronosky @ Feb 12th 2008 10:03AM]

Amen!

[guy-montag @ Feb 12th 2008 7:40AM]

NICE :D :D

Needs a bit of work on the 'making it sound better' front, but it's a hell of a start.

[blacjet @ Feb 12th 2008 9:17AM]

i saw one of these somewhere...
way bigger and it sounded good also....
oh yeah http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/63317/detail/

[theEsco @ Feb 12th 2008 9:18AM]

Just watch out for feedback.

[Shockingly Offcourse @ Feb 12th 2008 9:37AM]

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]

[Dean @ Feb 12th 2008 9:44AM]

BAD ASS that is pretty sweet, wish it sounded better, but the idea is really cool

[Fruition @ Feb 12th 2008 11:12AM]

For some reason that reminded me of Animusic:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ine1etqrBMo

[muyiwa @ Feb 12th 2008 12:00PM]

That was mad cool!!

[Grant @ Feb 12th 2008 12:00PM]

if you click the link and watch the super mario duet, you'll be about 20x more impressed than the embedded video.

[Chris @ Feb 12th 2008 12:44PM]

Why does everyone think it needs to sound better? Am I the only one who thought that sounded amazing?

[Deed @ Feb 12th 2008 1:00PM]

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.

[Jordan @ Feb 12th 2008 1:36PM]

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.

[Jacobo @ Feb 12th 2008 9:10PM]

I totally agree--it sounds awesome. It's like some big, electrified version of Death from Above 1979.

[Gregg G @ Feb 12th 2008 1:23PM]

Finally found the mad scientist behind all this weather modification and global warming!

[slackadocious @ Feb 12th 2008 1:59PM]

this tesla coil is neat, but this one here is way more awsomer

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ff_AXVlo9U

[Leo @ Feb 12th 2008 2:27PM]

I would like to see it played in the rain like so many music videos

[Will H. @ Feb 12th 2008 3:03PM]

It's cool, but this is old news...

[Gabe McGuinness @ Feb 12th 2008 9:08PM]

Was he playing, "Ride The Lightning"???

[Louis Fattorusso @ Feb 12th 2008 9:22PM]

Now we have all been to Electric Ladyland