Shorting cable pedal

[hazelwould]

Could you have a box that is able to have a bypass switch and maybe a momentary switch that jacks with the connection like a shorting cable? Not like a stutter (mute) pedal, but something maybe a bit more random, and where maybe part of your sound is in tact. IDK, I was driving home and the cable for my phone kept shorting out, but when I moved it it fixed itself. But I could wiggle it and get some cool stuff going. And it's a stereo cable so it would short to mono then when I jiggled it it would go back to stereo. You've gotta have that sort of static that occurs from a shortin cable. Hmmmm

[hazelwould]

Maybe a crackly/staticy oscillator where you can change the pitch and the add a clean blend to run your whatever in parallel with it. You could do it like the fuck where you could have a switch for momentary mode or regular bypass mode. But this would be cool to run samples through as well to make it sound like an old transistor radio.

Better yet, why not allow AM radio to process through.

[Jero]

Seems like this could get pretty close

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[eatyourguitar]

I made this thing
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[hazelwould]

Orly? Ware?

[eatyourguitar]

Its a software simulation i designed in about 20 minutes. I tuned the hum to 60hz. Its a filtered square wave with a very short envelope on the oscillator pitch. The white noise gets bandpass filtered and the white noise is mixed back. The vca on the noise is set to random volume. Im also modulating the bandpass filter. This could be made as hardware but it might be more work than just buying some eurorack modules.

[ifeellikeatourist]

This reminds me of one time when my cable was shorting out at practice and my drummer said "that would be really cool if you could get it to do that on purpose." I agreed. I feel like you could make something like a killswitch, but instead of a momentary spst, use a momentary dpdt that would put the signal in contact with something that would cause the desired sound effect...

[Fuzz_Pi]

This reminds me of one time when my cable was shorting out at practice and my drummer said "that would be really cool if you could get it to do that on purpose." I agreed. I feel like you could make something like a killswitch, but instead of a momentary spst, use a momentary dpdt that would put the signal in contact with something that would cause the desired sound effect...

This = great idea

My superfuzz does awesome ring mod-y + octave down shiz whenever
my cable shorts out. Its such a sick sound that I have a fucked up cable
set aside just for this purpose

[oldangelmidnight]

Montreal Assembly built me a thing that's kind of similar. It's a random tremolo kind of thing, no pitch effect. I got it with a latching switch but I'm sure it could be done momentary, too. It's pretty cool.

[Astricii]

You could try and re-make one of these guys... ?

http://thesquarewaveparade.com/bleak-blink.html

[eatyourguitar]

tsp uses a ball bearing tilt switch. You could mount it in the guitar so when you pull up on the neck the ball jumps out of its seat. It would work great for jumping around on stage. It is only two wires. Really easy.

[hazelwould]

Hmm... That's interesting.

[ifeellikeatourist]

tsp uses a ball bearing tilt switch. You could mount it in the guitar so when you pull up on the neck the ball jumps out of its seat. It would work great for jumping around on stage. It is only two wires. Really easy.

This reminds me...if any of you diyers ever would like a mercury tilt switch for a project, I have the hook up. I feel like there's some extra mojo knowing that your circuit is being switched by a hazardous material.