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Number of Reviews: 6

	Pitch control - variable samplerate	05/13/2008
	Reviewer: ZLP   from NYC, USA
	On the PCB, find SMD resistor R4, very close to the edge of the black goo covering the IC. That's the clock resistor (default 120k). Replace it with a 250k pot and you've got massively variable pitch. (It will only record successfully within a window around 120k, but playback is reliable at any pitch.) It's easy to bypass the 1-transistor amp and get a line-out. Haven't tried line-in but it seems quite doable. No idea how the previous reviewer got looping at all, but I'll give it a try. For anybody wondering about the button logic: Hold REC button to record. Tap PLAY to play. Tap again during playback to stop and reset to the beginning. Message is retained without power. If power is removed during playback, it RESUMES gracefully when power returns, so you can stutter it.
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	for the benders	05/12/2008
	Reviewer: tsp - para   from there
	for the benders out there, this thing is very very difficult to get to loop. then once you finally get it to by using a multiturn pot it will never loop perfectly. randomly ever few loops it will restart wherever it feels like it, and not really in a good way. also you can not re-trigger it while the loop is playing, you have to let it play out if you don't mind just having an ultra cheap one shot sampler then grab a bunch at $2 it can't be beat. there are only a couple so so bends other then that, nothing too exciting. just thought i'd save people some heartache. but with all that said, i only played with my 2 for a little while and ran out of ideas so who knows maybe you will get lucky. and to the person asking about the chip. its just a black blob
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	Buy Ahead For Halloween...	05/07/2008
	Reviewer: RKREJ   from NYC
	At least so I thought. It turns out that after receiving the 1st 10, everyone who SAW & Heard it wanted one. So I just ordered another 20. I hope at least 10 make it to Halloween. Also, there should be no trouble removing the plastic figure - It'll come right off with a CHAIN-SAW.
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	I took one a part...	05/06/2008
	Reviewer: Harvey Hazelett   from SAINT CLOUD, FL US
	The circuit is a small board. TH IC portion is a COB (circuit-on-board), which is the black colored blob in the middle. The first reviewer left out electret microphone and the tiny speaker. Yes, speaker, not a piezo element (plastic cone/magnet. Not particularly loud, but for 2 AAA, and only $2 what would you expect. I bought 10, with all this in mind, and definitely not disappointed. Will eventually get around to programming an AVR MCU to control it, thinking IR proximity to start with. Need to test it on higher voltage, hope it works of 5 volts, save me from having to add another power section. With any luck, I'll be able stuff everything into the existing case, cut the bottom off the battery compartment, and a 9 volt battery should fit in place of the AAAs.
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	Potted???	05/01/2008
	Reviewer: A viewer   from Upstate, NY
	Hello Timothy! Are you "saying" that the circuit is potted in epoxy? Is there any way to get to the switch leads and connections to the peizo or speaker? Thanks, JS_
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	Weird object but great value	04/29/2008
	Reviewer: Timothy Weber   from ITHACA, NY US
	Decent sound quality for a $2 item - the kind of roll-off you'd expect in the high frequencies, but intelligible for speech in context. "Think, fink, sink" are indistinguishable. The good news is the figurine is held on by screws, so you don't even need to get out the Dremel to remove it. The bad news is they're kind of buried, and very tiny, so reassembling is not quick - but it's also not impossible either. For this price, you can't even buy the Winbond ISD chip that's probably behind the epoxy, let alone the four electrolytic caps, two tactile switches, battery holder, piezo element, and two AAA cells.
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