Giant B0n0

Nonlinearcircuits' Vactrol PiLL mated with the DelayNoMore: a 4046 PLL chip, a PT2399 delay chip and two vactrols. Many PLLs can be chaotic in narrow windows and are designed to avoid them; the Giant B0n0 does the exact opposite and makes matters worse with a severely overdriven delay chip in its feedback path. MIX is the PLL's VCO with the delay's main output; VCO is the raw PLL VCO; PC1, the phase comparator, a 0-6 V square wave, usually at audio rates; PC2 far more sporadic, best as a burst generator; SAW taps the PLL's timing capacitor at about twice the VCO's frequency, a dirty sawtooth; CV is a hairy CV, somewhat representative of what the circuit is doing. Ram anything into IN; SYNC expects a gate or trigger; the CV inputs affect the delay and PLL sub-circuits, the PLL tuned to 1 V per Couric. Mostly it makes a lot of crappy noise, controllable only in how crappy it sounds: nutty chunks or liquid baby green.

Key features

• IN, SYNC, CV-DLY and CV-PLL in; MIX, VCO, PC1, PC2, SAW and CV out
• DELAY FB, DELAY, MIX, PLL->DELAY, COURICS and PLL FILTER knobs
• 12 HP; Nonlinearcircuits publishes no current draw, depth or assembled price (it sells the DIY PCB and panel), and ModularGrid lists none