Analog delay virtual oscillator trick...

["Jesse Ray Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net>]

Sometimes instead of taking a conventional solo, I will do my
I-wish-I-was-a-DJ-or-at-least-playing-a-Minimoog-instead-of-electric-bass
bit.

Play a high note (e.g. a 12th fret G, 24th fret G harmonic, or something),
turn on your analog delay and let the note ring while the delay feeds back
on itself.  Because of the lo-fi analog nature of the thing after a few
repeats the note loses most of its attack and it's almost like a tone from
an oscillator.  Then I will kick on the Electro-Harmonix Bass Microsynth
(could use any kind of filter though) and I will use the delay time knob to
tweak the pitch around, and add/remove the pitch shifted voices, and sweep
the filter up and down manually on the Microsynth.

Unless you have really spent some time practicing this and can make it
rhythmic, it could be just a bunch of noise.  But, if there's a wicked drum
beat going on behind you, no one is going to care.  :)  Hence my usage of 
an
accompanying loop in this demo MP3.  Yes, this is tasteless, but I wanted 
to
illustrate as many wankage options as I could for you all.

http://www.neoprimitive.net/jlucas/tmp/analogdelaywank.mp3

Signal chain is:  Instrument (bass) --> Analog Delay (Moogerfooger
MF-104) --> Filter/Pitchshifter (Electro-Harmonix Bass Microsynth)

If you're not careful, at least on my unit, if you turn the delay time down
too far you can lose the signal entirely, which is what happened to me at
1:04 in this .MP3 file.  Thankfully, the Moogerfooger delay is so ruthless
that if you turn the feedback up it can grab the last tiny smidgeon of
whatever is left and bring it all the way back as something nasty -- kind 
of
like the rotting corpses from Return of the Living Dead.

I'm sure I'm not the first one to do something like this, but I thought I
would share.

My most loop-related post in days...

-Jesse