Pedals that make (good) noise

[le lambin]

I do a lot of looping- and one of my fave things is looping “artifacts” that certain pedals create rather than the actual guitar sound. Example: a crusty delay put into a compressor, and looping just the gnarly tails after regenerating for a few moments on its own.

I also like when you run gain into a phaser and you just hear the whooshing of the noise floor of the gain pedal.

Stuff like that!

I’m looking into this more and wondering what ya’ll have come across that produces fun little artifacts? Here is what I’m aware of:

Dwarfcraft Great Destroyer
Catalinbread Antichthon
Maybe something along the lines of Fuzz Factory?
Last Gasp stuff
CBA MOOD MK1 with the clock way down

Clicks, beeps, pops, whirrs, hiss, etc. I guess a feedback loop is in order? What else? Oscillating fuzzes? Spring reverb?

[Blackened Soul]

Hmmm..

Weird gated fuzzes are fun, the more “broken” the gate the better, feedback loops are fun, I recommend finding one with as many switches and knobs as possible, a power starve unit might be cool for getting into dying battery sounds, cheap compressors and preamps you can overload easily. Also combinations and orders are huge.. also learning a setup once you have it up, once you come up with a combination live with it for a bit, really see what you can do.. change up instruments and implements

[echorec]

If you're wanting to loop tails/trails/edge-of-destruction crispy artifacts, then I'd recommend things like:

Fairfield Circuitry Roger That
Catalinbread Adineko
Catalinbread Csidman
EQD Disaster Transport
Hungry Robot Kármán Line
Dreadbox DISORDER
Intensive Care Audio FIDELEATER
Intensive Care Audio Death Drive

[Ghost Hip]

Boss PS-2. Mode 3 looping.
Catalinbread CSIDMAN, seconded
MOOD v1 with the clock low is yes so good, seconding
Holowon Furr Fuzz. Capable of a beautiful bed of hiss that your fuzz guitar fades into.
Gamechanger Audio Light Pedal - gain up!
Devi Ever Spectacular Aenima. Ugh, beautiful artifacts and does a really satisfying lurking dark and hissy oscillation
Count to 5. Well, duh.
Dwarfcraft Super Wizard was amazing for this
Infanem Improbability Drive. note-oscillation bleed thru-note-gated decay.
Death by Audio Space Bender
Mask Audio Maybe?

Add my own secondary category, make good noise better:

DBA Evil Filter->Fairfield Shallow Water

[le lambin]

Hmmm..

Weird gated fuzzes are fun, the more “broken” the gate the better, feedback loops are fun, I recommend finding one with as many switches and knobs as possible, a power starve unit might be cool for getting into dying battery sounds, cheap compressors and preamps you can overload easily. Also combinations and orders are huge.. also learning a setup once you have it up, once you come up with a combination live with it for a bit, really see what you can do.. change up instruments and implements

Power starve is a great idea! I agree with learning a chain and not just giving it up if it doesn’t give up the goods immediately. Cheap compressors and preamps sound good- I have a music go round nearby maybe I can scrounge over there for cheapies.

[le lambin]

If you're wanting to loop tails/trails/edge-of-destruction crispy artifacts, then I'd recommend things like:

Fairfield Circuitry Roger That
Catalinbread Adineko
Catalinbread Csidman
EQD Disaster Transport
Hungry Robot Kármán Line
Dreadbox DISORDER
Intensive Care Audio FIDELEATER
Intensive Care Audio Death Drive

The Roger that intimidates me a bit- but maybe it’s worth rummaging through the harshness.

I used to have a Csidman, maybe I didn’t plumb the depths enough? Worth a look if I can find one cheapish.

I’ve always listed after the karman line- do you have one? What’s it like?

Massive Dreadbox fan- just remembered they have a phaser that can probably get weird too.

[le lambin]

Boss PS-2. Mode 3 looping.
Catalinbread CSIDMAN, seconded
MOOD v1 with the clock low is yes so good, seconding
Holowon Furr Fuzz. Capable of a beautiful bed of hiss that your fuzz guitar fades into.
Gamechanger Audio Light Pedal - gain up!
Devi Ever Spectacular Aenima. Ugh, beautiful artifacts and does a really satisfying lurking dark and hissy oscillation
Count to 5. Well, duh.
Dwarfcraft Super Wizard was amazing for this
Infanem Improbability Drive. note-oscillation bleed thru-note-gated decay.
Death by Audio Space Bender
Mask Audio Maybe?

Add my own secondary category, make good noise better:

DBA Evil Filter->Fairfield Shallow Water

Ps-2 is a bucket list pedal- if I can ever find one for decent price.

Light pedal looks so cool- maybe a Black Friday snag because that shit is next level expensive.

I am forever regretting not picking up more Dwarfcraft. The super wizard and ghost fax are like dream pedals to me- I hope to experience them one day.

Space bender also looks very cool, esp with those short delay high feedback sounds.

Never heard of holowon- I’ll look it up.

I was actually watching one of your videos on YouTube recently- you make good use of the evil filter! Cool pedal.

[UglyCasanova]

Seppuku stuff, for sure. Especially Memory Loss.

RM-1N has a lovely warm constant noise when nothing is happening.

[Tall Walls]

Mattoverse Air Trash is unwieldy but definitely makes noise. I feel like it has some overlap with the Antichthon in certain settings, where it'll give you a dirty dynamic tremolo. And in slightly cleaner settings it has some overlap with the Roger That, adding "Pfft!" noises to your attack. Both Air Trash and Roger That feature plenty of hiss when they're doing nothing, as well.

I wasn't sure about the Chase Bliss Lossy when it was announced, but I decided to go for it and I've been happy with it as an all-purpose crappifier. And it can sit and make its own little twinkly noises if you want it to.

The clock noise in the MOOD Mk2's "classic" mode isn't as nice as the Mk1's noise.

DOD Rubberneck gets into some aliasing noises when at its extreme long delay settings, and you can make things noisier with a noisy pedal in the effects loop.

[K2000]

Malekko Charlie Foxtrot adds a little/a lot of cascading bells and whistles

I like pedals that add instability (bad tracking) like Mid Fi Glitch Computer. And the Mid Fi Clarinot and Pitch Pirate.

[gila_crisis]

My 2 cents on the topic:
Lastgasp pedals
MASF pedals
Bananana pedals
EHX Superego
CBA Onward
Pladask Bakfram
Gehirn Enterprises Noiswasp (4ms Noise swash clone)
Digitech Whammy (especially harmonizer modes played in odds in between positions)

These are more "mainstream multi effects", but have also some cool stuff inside:
Line6 HX Stomp
Zoom MS70CDR(+) Multistomp

[MechaGodzilla]

Mattoverse Air Trash is unwieldy but definitely makes noise. I feel like it has some overlap with the Antichthon in certain settings, where it'll give you a dirty dynamic tremolo. And in slightly cleaner settings it has some overlap with the Roger That, adding "Pfft!" noises to your attack. Both Air Trash and Roger That feature plenty of hiss when they're doing nothing, as well.

was gonna say airtrash. lovely textures. i don't use mine enough.

[Gone Fission]

Trying to separate noise artifacts from extreme (e.g. flanger whale song), DOD Rubberneck, Dr. Sci. ILF-DD, Zoom UF-1, Dropping Acid #RIP, and Gen Loss come to my mind. The Zoom was the first fuzz I loved and part of it was the subtlety it has to put just the right touches of edge on note decays—having tunable gating is probably an advantage over most fuzzes that gate by nature.

[alexsga]

CBA MOOD MK1 with the clock way down

MOOD v1 with the clock low is yes so good, seconding

do you guys have clips of this sound?

[Phosphene Audio]

One thing that can generate such noises from any other pedal is to build a feedback loop box with a pot in it to vary how much one is sending from the output back to the input.

I used to make ones that also had power in/out and a pot to vary voltage, since starving a lot of pedals does weird things.

It's cheap, you just need an enclosure, 2 1/4" jacks, 2 dc jacks, 2 pots. You can footswitch the features if you like.




Some other great circuits for weird noise artifacts are the Uglyface, from the old circuit snippets schematics. I have one someone built for me, and I've built them for friends.






I also can vouch for these circuits, oddly forgotten, but very useful, IMO (EDIT, images not displaying but it's the PWM and Thing Modulator, both very easy to build):






all are here: http://www.jiggawoo.eclipse.co.uk/guita ... ppets.html