Dying tape/fucked up record/warped vibrato

[zoooombiex]

Another vote for either envelope-based or random pitch modulation. Clarinot comes to mind for the former. Generation Loss does the latter very well.

[the raytownian]

I am no good for booty'q pedal recommendations. I try not to torture myself very much with gear that's beyond my budget, so I am pretty out of the loop on these things.

As such, this is perhaps not a very exciting suggestion: I have a pink label (square chip) Boss DD-3. It's one of my favorite pedals for sound-mangling. The only catch is that getting the most out of it requires some simple modifications. Nothing more than a few external components soldered to the board for additional control options, which aren't even really essential, they just open up more possibilities. I mention the label/chip variation because it's the only one I've owned/tried, and because it's fairly dirty/dark-sounding, which is a good thing here.

I used to have a photo resistor wired into mine, but it was not a suitable value for wacky warbles, so I removed it. Regardless, it's a quick and easy way to achieve warbling effects. I am still slowly figuring my way through a couple of Forrest Mims workbooks, so I'm pretty clueless about CV generation and modulating parameters (such as delay time) with an external LFO, but it can't be that difficult to integrate for a more automated solution.

Anyway, if you're okay with using feet/hands, you can get some nice jump/judder effects out of it, just by tweaking the delay time on a stock DD-3.

Here's a quick fuck-about I recorded a week or so ago while testing out a looper pedal I'd purchased. The loop is being "wobbled" manually via the DD-3's stock delay time knob, with the dry signal taken out, and the repeats all the way down, such that you only hear a single iteration of the delayed signal:

(if that doesn't work, I can't figure it out. Here's a DL: https://soundcloud.com/jon-ingram/dd-3-sample )
Some of the jumps are a bit extreme. It only takes very slow, slight adjustments to get fairly dramatic results.

[rfurtkamp]

Would a worn out tape in a Space Echo get in the ballpark?

A worn-out tape in a Space Echo...just doesn't have many repeats and is *slightly* darker (and I do mean *slightly*). There's no warble based on tape age in practice, and very little to begin with - short of saturation (which you don't *have* to have on it) and the preamp, it's very, very close to early digital delays.

The preamp + delay combo is what makes the thing, not the fake warble that all the "look, it's a 'tape delay' emulators" seem to think it has.

[Teej212]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQNwn_cfcqs[/youtube]

[rfurtkamp]

The motor control is fried.

[nogodsnobedtimes]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQNwn_cfcqs[/youtube]

Yeah that's bad ass.

[comesect2.0]

just gave zvex instant lofi junky pedal a listen for first time, and was surprised.. now dreaming of that, paired with a generation loss.. going into a roland sp 404 sx vinyl simulator effect, which is simple and sounds perfect, for a raw dusty aged tape filter sound, "random'' clicks & pops with warble intensity. ...on the hunt for vinyl simulators that isnt chase bliss or hexe...

[Scruffie]

just gave zvex instant lofi junky pedal a listen for first time, and was surprised.. now dreaming of that, paired with a generation loss.. going into a roland sp 404 sx vinyl simulator effect, which is simple and sounds perfect, for a raw dusty aged tape filter sound, "random'' clicks & pops with warble intensity. ...on the hunt for vinyl simulators that isnt chase bliss or hexe...

[tabcantab]

Was recently looking for something similar; ended up with a CE-5 based on this video (especially the last section). Gets close to the sounds I wanted out of a Lofi Junky/Warped Vinyl and saved some $$.
[youtube][/youtube]

[weebles]

OP link sounds to me like the notch filter setting on a bitquest into a clean stereo delay set to slapback and a little longer repeat time with a lo-fi reverb to end it. Like a bitquest reverb with the "Shhhh" settings set up.


Also, these are essentially unobtainable, but if you ever come across one:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfyDAGoZiL4[/youtube]

[Addy Bart]

The vibrato on the Line 6 M5 is good for wow and flutter. It’s not a fashionable bit of kit but it’s cheap as chips and offers higher fidelity than any PT2399 based effect.

I’d also suggest a Walkman or dictaphone and give it a good ol’ shake if processing is your thing. Happy wobbling!

[tremolo3]

Yeah, it sounds like just a simple vibrato with slapback delay and some kind of shitty distortion + reverb, I can't see him using anything other than Line 6 and Roland stuff.


But since everyone s posting their faves:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXvqvSmO7zQ[/youtube]

[zoooombiex]

FWIW, I have had both the Melusine II and III. They are both excellent. The II was already very good - nice pops and great filtering. The III is a pretty impressive improvement even over that. Sounds like more filtering on the pops and dust - very realistic sounding.

The II can maybe get more exaggerated - the pops/dust maxed can get sort of weird nasty, and the speed can get almost a more traditional vibrato sound. The III seems to reign those in a bit, so even at extremes they are a bit more faithful to a vinyl sound.

I could totally see someone preferring the II who wanted to use its extremes more.

But if you want realism I'd go III. (Oh, and the III has the needle scrape sound, which is a bit too loud and idiosyncratic to get much use for me.)

[weebles]

Ran across a Retroactive Pedals Dot Chaser on instagram today. Think the builder has just recently gotten started, but I liked what I heard

[repoman]

The Recovery Cutting Room Floor can do the dying tape thing really well, and its cool because its dependent on picking dynamics, so you can set it so if you pick softly not much happens, but if you pick harder it can get all wacky.