Re: The Big(ish) Idea

[Adrian Bartholomew <adrian@bartholomusic.com>]

omg dude. uve stumbled across a great tool. now uve got ME thinkin Phil!

so the box has 3 buttons. BYPASS, STUTTER, POLARITY.

i play a really fast tremolo on one note on my gtr. i have the box in neg polarity. so im hearing what i play. i hit rec on the edp and start stuttering. when i hit the stutter switch my playing is silenced (neg polarity, remember?). so the rhythm is created with spaces. i hit rec on the edp. it starts playing back.
good.
i toggle the polarity switch. its now positive(silence except when i depress). i hit the stutter switch (this latches off the bypass switch automatically effectively rendering my gtr silent until i depress the stutter switch). i hit overdub on the edp. i tremolo another note far from the 1st one. i play the exact rhythm on the stutter switch only this time my note plays in all the previous spaces!. i hit rec on the edp.

VOILA! an impossible technique to play live.

im DEFINITELY building one.

PS: thanks for ur polarity idea Rainer
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Adrian Bartholomew
Leawood KS
On Sep 19, 2005, at 11:35 AM, phill wilson wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Ok, so I have been hinting at building a pedal for a while now, for reasons that I won't go into, my Ego kind of wanted to keep the design some sort of secret,however this has led to nowhere for me so it is time to REVEAL ALL!!!
>
> Basically I want to make a foot operated device that allows a signal to pass only when  the button is pressed. Kind of a Poor-Mans-Morse-Glitch Pedal.
>
> I envisaged building it as follows.
>
> two buttons button one simply being on / off
> In off position the signal is bypassed directly to the output jack
> in the On position it passes to the next momentary button.
>
> Button Two is the activation button,
>
> it is a push to make type switch so initially the signal is dead, however, when the button is pressed the sound is allowed to pass to the output.
>
> I can therefore strum a chord while it is off then tap the button rythmically to let small  stabs of sound through.
>
> I came up with this when playing through a broken amp that you had to hold the jack in place in the input, i found that tapping the jack let me do dda-da-da type noises.
>
> anyways basically I know NOTHING about how to do this, I did what seemed reasonable to me but all I got was nasty hiss and buzzing. I would appreciate ANY help or comments on how I may impliment this pedal.
>
> I had once dreamed about making money off this idea, however, it will never be built if I cant get some advice!
>
> By the way I intend to LOOP with it so its not totally OT!!
>
> Thanks Y'all
>
> Phill Wilson (a.k.a. Blackface)
>
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