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I'm sure I'm not the only board member who acquires gear with only one or two uses in mind. I was looking at my collection, which is a lot smaller than it used to be, and I have a few.

Ensoniq Mirage sampler: I got this purely to do the crowd noise sample during songs. I am a huge industrial nerd, so sampling crowd noises or power tools so I can randomly insert them into songs is a big thing for me. Previously, I did this with an iPhone into the pickups of my guitar.

Arturia Minilab: Similarly, I use the Minilab to do Vangelis style synth pads. My brain sounds like a mashup of Gary Numan, Nine Inch Nails, and the Bladerunner soundtrack.

Danelectro Cool Cat Fuzz: I never leave it on, I just sort of stomp it on for a second to get blasts of noise. I use it so much for this purpose that I am tempted to have someone build a Peach Fuzz clone with a temporary switch.


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This is what I meant by crowd noise samples:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrEo3hZABU[/youtube]
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I have a metal slide to make SkweeglSkweeggleSkweegle sounds by scrubbing the strings because I can't sweep.

Seems like there's other stuff but I can't think of it now.
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This may come off as blasphemy but I only use the count to five for fucked up sounding fast backward playing samples of my synths. But I use it for this a lot. A lot a lot.
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I know you can do a lot with an E-Bow but I just lay the guitar down and Drooone... Also I mainly just use the CP-251 as a White Noise source and as awesome and capable as they are I really only use one setting on my El Cap and Cloudbuster...

I don't feel bad having stuff for only one use...
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chuckjaywalk wrote:
Danelectro Cool Cat Fuzz: I never leave it on, I just sort of stomp it on for a second to get blasts of noise. I use it so much for this purpose that I am tempted to have someone build a Peach Fuzz clone with a temporary switch.
Now I kinda want one too. :snax:
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^ yes. I think I'm going to build a momentary fuzz with no knob now. Hit me up if you want one too ;-)
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colossus wrote:^ yes. I think I'm going to build a momentary fuzz with no knob now. Hit me up if you want one too ;-)
I totally want one!
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colossus wrote:^ yes. I think I'm going to build a momentary fuzz with no knob now. Hit me up if you want one too ;-)
That is an amazing idea.
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colossus wrote:^ yes. I think I'm going to build a momentary fuzz with no knob now. Hit me up if you want one too ;-)

yoooooooo so down for this
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