Chris Carter's original GRISTLEIZER 'Industrial' audio effect unit

throbbing-gristle.com - 12/28/2008

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My original Gristleizer units were based around the Roy Gwinn 'GEP' design published in Practical Electronic and sold in kit form (just the PCB & components) by Phonosonics in the UK in 1977. This LINK takes you to the current location of the schematic (look under Effects\PE Stuff\Guitar ...

boingboing.net - 12/29/2008

Throbbing Gristle's Gristleizer audio effects unit

— boingboing.net — Seen above is an original Gristleizer, the custom audio effects unit that helped define the industrial sound... of Throbbing Gristle (TG) in the late 1970s. TG co-founder Chris Carter made the device in 1977 based on a design printed in Practical ... (more) Throbbing Gristle's Gristleizer audio effects unit

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