Sawari (さわり) is the buzzing sound of a stringed instrument.
It is produced by the first string on the Shamisen, it is produced by the first string purposely set lower than the others to give the instrument his characteristic tone.
Yes, its another take on the Music Thing Modular’s Microphonie and Mutable’s Ears, but there’s more!
This module started as a one off custom build for A Shamisen Orchestra, who needed a way to connect acoustic instruments to rack, and to shape their sound on the go, so adding a 3-band EQ was the easy decision.
The initial module had a fixed +/-6dB EQ range, but then a button was added to boost each band up to 12dB to expand the capabilities.
Each band can be isolated and routed to various FX, use them to play with feedback or even get different noise flavours by feeding white noise source on the input.
The output features a diode clipping limiter, overdrive any instrument (or eurorack level sources as well) to get nasty hard clipping tones.
Lots of features were kept (and amplified) from Ears (and Microphonie), like the contact microphone under the panel and the envelope follower, that can be controlled with the attack and release potentiometers on the panel.
Specs:
- 8HP
- High impedance (1M) preamplifier, up to 40dB gain
- Built-in contact microphone
- 3-band EQ, with tunable low and high shelf frequencies
- Selectable gain range, +/-6dB or +/-12dB
- Separate outs for each band
- Envelope follower with attack and release time control
- Pre or post EQ is selectable by a jumper on the back
Video: https://youtu.be/Xnk17UeDqfc
Product Specs
- Item Number: 25851
- Make: Unknown Devices
- Model: Sawari (さわり)
- Condition: Brand New
- Finish: Black
- Categories: keyboards-and-synths ⇒ eurorack
- Function: Envelope Follower Equalizer External Mixer PreAmp
- Made In: Italy
- MPN: UNWN01A
- Modular Grid: Eurorack ⓘ ＋
- Dimensions*: 8 HP 25 mm deep
- Power*: 35 mA +12V 35 mA -12V 0 mA 5V
* User contributed details