This Gristleizer is Dead - Long Live The Gristlizer

Our only (and as far as we know the last) surviving original Gristleizer died today, it was Cosey's own model from 1977. We were about to start running some LFO test on it for Charles Howes, who is designing and making the new Gristleizer reproductions, when it spluttered and stopped working. No amount of coaxing, fiddling, tweaking, encouragement and new batteries would revive it. Pretty good going for a 32 year old hand-made unit but a sad day nevertheless...
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logickal23 says:

Alas, poor Gristleizer...
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

andrewdalio says:

In nomine Patre, et Filie, et Spiritui Sancti. Dominus vobiscum et con spiritu tuo. Amen. May it rest in peace after so many faithful years of service!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

latex_mole says:

:(

Nothing lasts forever...
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Syd Heresy says:

All good things...
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

buryn says:

I am sorry for your loss... And ours!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

jeffstonehouse2000 says:

about bloody time! that thing freaked me out for decades! :o)
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

crayxax says:

I am going to build something (not half, quarter, 1/100th as good) in its honour!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Structure Destruct says:

:(
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Synthesizers says:

It's a sad day!

Hopefully it can be rescuscitated!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

bdu says:

sad, but not 32 years isn't a bad run for something like this. At least there are new ones coming. I know I've got the stripboard and original parts in a baggy to make a few when I get around to it...
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Rob Cruickshank says:

RIP Gristleizer! I have to give my 30-something-year-old Paia CPR every now and then, so I share your pain.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

RuinElectronics says:

I totally know what it's like to have an electronics thing die on me, very frustrating. Speaking of paia I was trying to fix my 4700 VCF; it died like all my other devices do, by too much fiddling around with the power on, so I thought I had tracked it down to the IC, so i go out and buy one... come home and desolder it and place an IC socket in there... slip the new ic in,and...NOTHING. So a little frustrated I touched around the board a little and heardsomething snap... and its started to work. it appears i broke a germanium diode in half and it worked again?! wtf.

anyways. what have you tried to do to fix it,chris? try replacing the ic's. If you worked closely off the PE guitar effect, they are just LM741's or equivelant. Also, try replacing the germanium diodes...(or breaking them!) If no nasty voltages were applied to it nothing would be dead fromthat... transistors should still be alive... are any of the caps leaking or look bloated?
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

zvnteq7 says:

I'm sorry for your loss, I know you loved that little machine (with a heart).

R.I.P. "G"
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

mark.kothaar says:

Bloody hell....bring it on the USA tour anyway. Deserves a proper salute/farewell.

M
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

jgwr says:

RIP Gristleizer. In this age of planned obsolescence, 32 years is a truly remarkable age for a piece of electronics to live to.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

daveknapik says:

Oh that's so sad. RIP Gristleizer, long have you made throbbing sounds! Is there no amount of soldering and tinkering inside that can resuscitate it?

Tell us more about these Charles Howes reproductions too!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

T()G says:

Words fail me. I should have been a poet. What the saddest of days.
T()G wept !
The CHILDREN OF WRATH cryed their little eyes out !
Its'the way it wanted to go !
THEE END OV AN ERA !
Wretchedly missed.
T()G /|\ + Pro Pagan Dada
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

GEØ! says:

missin' the GRISTLEIZER... :( come back soon
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

xty31 says:

Glass box and museum it asap!!!!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

madame krummel says:

such a lovely noisy piece of art it was...
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

danger.fellini says:

aww, that's a bummer Chris. I'm sad too. My mother passed away suddenly this month and her funeral was on my birthday. Kind of poetic in a way.

Hope the rehearsals are going well.

telepathic regards,
ƒ®ed
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

The_Black_Dog says:

32 :)
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Superbawestside1980 says:

At least it had a nice run............Older then most people on here!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Chris_Carter_ says:

We've had a LOT of really useful advice and some very nice offers to actually fix Cosey's Gristleizer. But she's decided to retire it and use one of Charles Howe's new Gristlizer reproductions instead.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Yangin-Atep says:

"I have to give my 30-something-year-old Paia CPR every now and then, so I share your pain."

Had to replace the VCA on my 4700 a couple months ago.

I'm mostly sad that my stupid Space Echo keeps dying. Needs a new motor I think, which Roland stopped supporting in 2003. So we'll need to use a custom modification.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

=stlkr= says:

one minute of noise for departed...
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

muggerwithknife says:

Thankfully you all had those new ones for last week's show. Sounded fantastic
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

iamtechnomage says:

I’ve got an original working board if you are interested...
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

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