I messed around with my tape recorder, and I found that when blasting the inputs, the fuzz that comes out is really tasty. I made a video of it, and thought I'd share it here.
So, does this sound like the mid-fi demo tape fuzz? In that case I'm definitely getting one.
Cydonia wrote: Too bad no one here is interested in talking about "gear"
BossMann73 wrote:I didn't insult it......I "curated" a "different aesthetic.".
John wrote:I love how this forum has the GDP of Switzerland in pedals but the collective value of everyone's patch cables is less than the change in my couch cushions. And I don't have a couch.
Oh, I can imagine an EQ would be a very nice addition to using a tape recorder as distortion. Tomorrow I'll try different boosts and distortion for different results. And also I'll definitely try to get my hands on a demo tape fuzz
Cydonia wrote: Too bad no one here is interested in talking about "gear"
BossMann73 wrote:I didn't insult it......I "curated" a "different aesthetic.".
John wrote:I love how this forum has the GDP of Switzerland in pedals but the collective value of everyone's patch cables is less than the change in my couch cushions. And I don't have a couch.
I use an old Bell and Howell ex-elementary school tape deck for these sounds sometimes. Unending trashy sustain. It's not applicable in every situation, but when it works it works great.
The first part of this demo is Medicine... Brad Laner used to play through a VCR...
Brad played through a Yamaha cassette four track.
(Back in the day, some home demo folk would use "hi-fi" variety VCRs running at highest speed as the mixdown/master deck since you could get better fidelity than a cassete deck and it was cheaper than a reel to reel. I don't recall people overdriving them, but who knows?)
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D.o.S. wrote:Broadly speaking, if we at ILF are dropping 300 bucks on a pedal it probably sounds like an SNES holocaust.
friendship wrote:death to false bleep-blop
UglyCasanova wrote:brb gonna slap my dick on my stomp boxes
I swear he had one in his rack when I saw the Buried Life tour... He's real nice and a member so maybe I'll just ask... Also I was on a lot of mescaline so maybe it was a 4 track...
