Re: pedal abuse

["Mark Smart" <mwsmart@insightbb.com>]

I did a couple of the intended mods to Dano pedals yesterday and posted 
some
basic descriptions and a couple of mp3s:

<http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/feedbackgen/feedbackgen.html#PB>

Mark Smart
http://www.marksmart.net/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mwsmart@insightbb.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: pedal abuse (was sitar)


>
>
>
> > What other pedals are you guys using for purposes
> > other than their manufacturers intended? (Musical
> > purposes, I mean...)
> >
> > -t-
>
> I've been playing around with feedback generating devices again in the
> last couple of weeks. Years ago I built a system to generate feedback 
>which
> was very similar to the Sustainiac:
>
> <http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/feedbackgen/feedbackgen.html>
>
> A few weeks ago I was making an mp3 for my sister for her birthday 
>("Happy
> Birthday" as played by Hendrix at Woodstock) and that got me interested 
>in
> this again. So now I'm buying some of those cheap Danelectro mini pedals
> so I can hack them up and combine them into an improved feedback system.
>
> When I was playing around with the stuff recently, I tried running the
> guitar sound through Reaktor before it went back to the feedback 
>transducer.
> I figured out that if you add a short time delay to the signal, you can
> get the feedback to jump to a different note. It's like what happens when
> you use a phase reverse switch on the guitar pickups, except you can 
>control
> it better. Reaktor is the best way to do it, but since I don't currently
> have a way to use Reaktor live, I'm thinking of making a little 
>pedalboard
> with Dano pedals. For the short delay I plan on hacking a Hash Browns 
>Flanger
> so that it only outputs delayed signal and the delay can be controlled 
>with
> a pedal (instead of the normal LFO). I'm hoping I can mount the guts of
> the flanger inside a Dunlop volume pedal and have a pedal-controlled 
>delay.
>
> I think that classifies as not using it the way it was intended...also
> I bought one of their micro-amp pedals which I plan to hack so that the
> signal output is actually an external speaker output. This will drive
> the feedback transducer. I'm adding a regular echo pedal (PB&J delay)
> so that I can get the wonderful screeching sound that results from 
>running
> the feedbacking signal through a delay BEFORE the distortion in the 
>audible
> signal chain. This sounds wonderfully psychotic. The whole system will
> look something like this:
>
> Guitar---->Compressor --+--->Echo-->Distortion->other FX--> Audible 
>output
>                         |
>                         v
>                      Distortion
>                         |
>                         v
>                      Pedal-controlled short delay
>                         |
>                         v
>                         EQ (low end rolled off to prevent wolfing)
>                         |
>                         v
>                      Micro amp
>                         |
>         Transducer<-----+
>
> I'll let you know how it turns out.
>
> Mark Smart
> http://www.marksmart.net
>