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Re: pedal abuse (was sitar)
hmm...this also looks interesting...
http://www.digitech.com/products/HendrixPedal/Hendrix.htm
--- mwsmart@insightbb.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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
>
>
www.luis-angulo.com
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