Let's see your EXPERIMENTAL TABLETOP GEAR

[JM Charcot]

I alternate with various inputs, Guitar, Microphonic Soundbox, Field Kit with contact mics and feedbacks, but the Effects chain is quite stabilized at the moment.
First row of direct effects below, and two loops above, Loop 1 El Capistan -> Avalanche Run, Loop 2 Whammy -> Echorec.
I don't know if it has been mentioned here, but the Alto Mixer is the only one I found with this small footprint having 2 sends.

If I knew what I know now when I bought my mixer I woulda held out for one with 2 effects sends. On the other hand, I'm hooked on having full-sized faders to slide up and down, so I'm willing to live with a larger one.

Also: dig the secret weapon notepad in the pic.

A mixer with full-sized faders is also great, it lets you manipulate several faders simultaneously, and ideally, somewhere in the chain, an active matrix mixer would help for the feedbacks, I'm still looking fort one.

The Notepad is always here, drawing my configs as it changes from day to day.

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Here's my glitch/weirdifying unit as currently set up. This is all in the fx loop of my mixer, so I can send any of my inputs to this.

Except for the looper pedal in the top right, everything goes through the patchulator, so the order can be whatever I want... and I have 5 options to choose from to put in the superego's loop. (most often right now the cheapie delay on top.)

Regarding that stereo looper on the top right more below:

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I dunno if this is a common idea, but I had a cool brainwave with this. The two channels are fully isolated from each other, so instead of thinking of them as left/right, I have this in line with the input/output from the patchulator, so one channel has the "dry" audio as it comes from the mixer, the other has the modulated sounds on their way back out. There's a separate volume for each, but also one of the toggles has a channel-switching function, which means that I can send a loop recorded from the patchulator input back into it for another round.

(This can also combine in a cool way with that other nano looper on the top left... the stereo looper has a speed control, so you can slow the loop down a bunch. So with that channel-switching function, I can record a loop of the weirdness from these pedals, slow that loop down and send it back in and record that into the other looper. Then I can repeat the process as many times as I want, slowing the loop down again each time. It gets weird and artifact-y pretty quickly. It's a pretty laborious process, so I haven't done much with the idea yet, but I have tried it enough to prove it works.)

Sorry for the verbiage... I dunno if all of that is an obvious idea to everyone but me.

[JM Charcot]

Thanks for the picture and explanation, I never heard of the Patchulator, it looks like a great solution !

[JM Charcot]

Here's the table pedalboard at the moment, still the same idea of various sources, and a mix of Chinese + Boutique pedals.
Regarding the mixer, since last post I found a 2nd hand K-Mix, it has a lot of sends, absolutely perfect for my needs, I use it with my old Evolution UC-33 MIDI controller to route everything easier.

I'm playing an ambient live on sunday, this should be the setup.

[spacelordmother]

I have such bad Organelle gas.

[JM Charcot]

I have such bad Organelle gas.

I love mine, it can be a synth, a noisebox, an FX, anything.

[spacelordmother]

I have such bad Organelle gas.

I love mine, it can be a synth, a noisebox, an FX, anything.

That's what I love about my Axolotis, too. Nice thing about the Organelle is that it has developed hardware, so all community-created patches are already tailored to work without having to recreate, adapt, or update. They would (will ) make a great team.

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

New toys arrived today: Electro Faustus Black Fly, Gakken SX-150 mkII + Korg Monotron Delay. (Go team Gakken!)



I have the Duo Monotron, and I'd heard from peeps that the Delay one is better, but I was still surprised when I sat with it for about 15 minutes right off the bat listening to it self-oscillate.

It also sounds cool being piped into the Gakken. I recorded some noodlings, then appropriated some footage to set it to. After the fact, I'm enjoying my lo-fi video mixing more than I probably should. It came out sorta like Vladimir and Estragon's Office Space:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XC-Sa6rsF0[/youtube]

[Achtane]

[BetterOffShred]

The black fly see me like a great example of what you can do with a piezo and $2.79 in hardware from ACE.. I got some 35mm piezos for just such a thing.. looks really fun man

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

The Blackfly is absolutely something that anyone could whip up on their own. But It's really nice to have something that feels as solid as fuck, and in a pedal enclosure with a properly-mounted output jack. (I certainly wouldn't be able to add a volume pot/momentary switch on my own.) The ruggedness is worth some dough, and frankly, although I stick contact mics to things all the time, I'm never gonna make something this good.

[coldbrightsunlight]

The black fly see me like a great example of what you can do with a piezo and $2.79 in hardware from ACE.. I got some 35mm piezos for just such a thing.. looks really fun man

I have some lying around and I want to do one of these too. When I get round to it. Which is the advantage of buying things someone else made nicely.

[BetterOffShred]

Yeah I wasn't trying to sound high and mighty, I realized my comment sounded douchey. It really is a good design and fun and a great idea. I mean look at the harmonic percolator. It's like 10$ in parts including a box and it's one of the best effects ever.

I have an XX box with 2x35mm piezos in parallel I've been messing with. Tabletop noise is a new adventure for me

Edit: I should add, UC's modded black fly was my original inspiration.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Don't worry I didn't take it like that! Saw what you were getting at.

Yeah UC's is awesome.

[fuzzonaut]

New toys arrived today: Electro Faustus Black Fly, Gakken SX-150 mkII + Korg Monotron Delay. (Go team Gakken!)



I have the Duo Monotron, and I'd heard from peeps that the Delay one is better, but I was still surprised when I sat with it for about 15 minutes right off the bat listening to it self-oscillate.

It also sounds cool being piped into the Gakken. I recorded some noodlings, then appropriated some footage to set it to. After the fact, I'm enjoying my lo-fi video mixing more than I probably should. It came out sorta like Vladimir and Estragon's Office Space:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XC-Sa6rsF0[/youtube]

Nice table and that video is great ... ... as is the Monotron Delay.

Here's my current setup. The Taishogoto into the Ct5 makes Joe Satriani sound like a turtle on valium.