consonant vs. dissonant signal chains: a fantasy thread

[backwardsvoyager]

It's always much easier for me to get nasty sounds than nice ones.

yeah, I know what you mean. I think, for me maybe, 'nice' sounds are generally characterised by clarity and gentle playing dynamics which is most effective with just a clean signal, maybe adding chorus/detune/flanger type effects to enhance spatial atmosphere or reverb/delays for temporal effects. I'm curious as to whether other people have much different approaches to that, though.

[Hyphen Nation]

Sweet: Sparkle Motion > MF 101 > MF102 [set like a trem] AD4096> Disaster Transport SR > RV5

Nasty: Mini> Prescription Experience > TAFM> Rainbow Machine [more chorus like setting] > [maybe MF102 with expression pedal on mix to bring in a really short steppy ring mod] Lunar Echo > Raptio > RV5

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

for dissonant, u need that sitar swamiiiiiiiii1

[coldbrightsunlight]

Interesting subject for a thread!

Nice:

Fuck -> Particle -> RRR

Naughty:

Hall of Fame -> Upper -> Algal Bloom -> TAFM



Although to unlock TRUE nastiness I'd have to have the particle doing something disgusting on 100% wet.

[skullservant]

Calm: Rangemaster -> Holy Grail -> Fuck -> El Cap
Angry: Hof Mini -> Harmonic Percolator -> Fat Sandwich
Angry Bass: Big Spider -> Tall Font

[01010111]

Soothing: philosopher's tone> pog2> cosmichorus> volume pedal> big sky> mini> ghost echo> capistan
Painful: supersonic fuzz gun> deluxe bass octave> ring thing> gristleizer> randy's revenge> mini> dd3

I run something similar to the painful one and I feel like it could kill dinosaurs.

[Chankgeez]

Randy's + Gristleizer = yeah, extinct dinosaurs.

[rfurtkamp]

Consonant/harmonious: Space Echo, single head mode, Boss FRV-1 verb, EHX Frequency Analyzer (which always brings out the nice harmony guy in me for some reason now), Basic Audio Lucky Number into a Jazz Chorus/Fender 6L6 amp of one stripe or another in stereo. Patch in the faux Leslie in the venerable Quadraverb if I need that extra choir. If I want harmonious, normal stuff, that's exactly what I go for.

Dissonant/disharmonious: Devi Test Pattern, Ampeg Scrambler, Fender Blender, Idiotbox Mad Doc Stutter, my custom NoisekickFX Guano Loco (stutter trem, analog delay with warp, very mean octve fuzz) split into the Space Echo + Jazz Chorus/Deluxe combo as above, and the rack of doom running into the Fender Mustang V halfstack. Rack of doom for that purpose includes the incredibly dissonant ART SGE Mk2 (a staple of industrial hell through the 90s for its nasty gated verbs and unpleasant distortions), Alesis Quadraverb (for the nasty, nasty, nasty routing possibilities and spitting ringmodulated delay among other things), Midiverb 2 (just for the reverse reverb from hell), and the Boss GL-100 preamp that makes anything spit and snarl break.

I have other stuff in the line that works for either but those are my daily go to drivers.