What is your drone / Noise setup like?

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What is your drone / Noise setup like?

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I haven't put together a board since the last time I played live, but it looked a little like this:

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Contact mic-> Black Big Muff -> Noise Swash -> DOD Death Metal -> DOD DFX9 (added external pots for repeats and delay time)-> Malekko 616-> Meatbox

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for noise, its usually a contact mic'd piece of metal or a shaker box attached to something i can smash and hit plugged into fuzz and/or distortion.

usually have one or two noise synths or samples playing in the background of that.

ive tried drone, but im not a big fan of making it. for me, it doesnt feel as involved or physically satisfying for me. i need to hit shit i guess.
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No pictures, but if I remember rightly it was Whammy>Blue Box> Supercollider>DOD Flanger (Stereo out) A)Bassballs B)TR-2.

I could never get my Whammy's dry out to properly do stereo, but I always wanted to run the SC and the Blue Box parallel, with the SC being effected and the Blue Box being the Blue Box (blend set to like 9:00).
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delaydecay wrote:ive tried drone, but im not a big fan of making it. for me, it doesnt feel as involved or physically satisfying for me. i need to hit shit i guess.


:lol: :lol: That's awesome!

I use the same board for everything!

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I think the key components for me are:
-Crazy Delay
-Feedback Loops
-Fuzz (obviously!)
-Starve Knobs :love:
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-Oscillation

Then I just sprinkle in other things and tweak knobs as I see fit!
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last time I set it up mine was Theramin/Kaossilator (into an A/B switch) -> utter stutter -> TB loop -> squarewave pollen -> back to the loop -> lofi 616 -> utter stutter ->amp
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Fuzz Factory running into a Peavey mixer with built-in reverb mixed in. I add in different guitar pedals as I see fit, usually a Boss MT-2, Ibanez PH-5, Swollen Pickle and one of my delays (my DOD is glitchier than my Nova Repeater, but I don't have a power supply for it).

I can also run a drum track out from my computer, into the mixer and then back so I have a dry drum track, and one with guitar effects layered over it.
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Re: What is your drone / Noise setup like?

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Usually like this: Contact Mic > Robot Devil > TGD > Memory Boy > Blue Box > Various Fuzzes and Metal Distortions

Only constant pedals are my 2 Dwarfcraft pedals and Memory Boy.

For drone I usually use my Buddha Box or Alesis Micron and run it into my Memory Boy and some fuzzes.
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I have 2 noise posibilities I use..
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And sometimes I use my PS-2 as an oscillator, cause the tuner out is actually a tonegenerator.. That into the rest of the board is a pretty heavy synth..
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2525 as an oscillator->Blowing Up (for crippling volume)->Pitch Pirate->M9

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My standard noise/experimental/wierd setup is a little excessive, but I could get worse if I dragged the other couple dozen units out.

The "simplified" regular use rig, where I have to hit turbine to power, engine to speed, tape echo to power and tubes to speed, push the plugs into the battery powered fuzz setup, and call it good.

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for me, i primarily use feedback loops to generate my noise... and i use as much od/fuzz as i can to generate tones that i can manipulate...

one of the fuzzes i use is a strictly white-noise based fuzz... so i can get quite a few loverly things...

i like using modulation and filters in loops because they tend to fall behind on the knob-turning, making for some really cool sweeps of sound.

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Wes Mantooth wrote:
delaydecay wrote:ive tried drone, but im not a big fan of making it. for me, it doesnt feel as involved or physically satisfying for me. i need to hit shit i guess.


:lol: :lol: That's awesome!

I use the same board for everything!

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I think the key components for me are:
-Crazy Delay
-Feedback Loops
-Fuzz (obviously!)
-Starve Knobs :love:
and
-Oscillation

Then I just sprinkle in other things and tweak knobs as I see fit!


WOW! Nice set up.
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channel 1: trogotronic 666>bluebeard or a rat>dod fx90>mxr phase 100
channel 2: phase 90>malekko ekko 616>malekko ekko 616 lofi>dod meatbox

probably gonna take out the phase 100 and get a holy grail.
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it changes slightly for every show but this was the last one:

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and this was the one before that:

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which is being used in this video here:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/wypKEIBkh3A[/youtube]


I limit myself to whatever can fit in the box so I can just show up with one thing, plug into the PA and be ready to go. Getting to the point where I wanna be able to slim it down even more to a couple pedals so I can ride my bike to shows hah.
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