Unorthodox gain sources

[mr. sound boy king]

Mic input on the Kaoss Pad3 provides awesome gain and lovely dirt.

[Jwar]

Did anyone say compressors? If not, compressors.

[Seance]

The sfx mode in DD-500 can get very fuzzy.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDV6Auko4So[/youtube]

Interesting.

[publicfig]

I've been using my Fairfield Accountant with low to medium compression and boosted with a high pad to act as a sort of boost/low gain that sounds different than pretty much anything else I've tried. At this point, it's replaced always requiring some sort of SHO-style boost at the beginning of my chain to break up my amp at lower levels.

[Dandolin]

Amongst other junk I've used EKG channels, galvanometer amplifiers, old discrete transistor video SEG units, tubed voltmeters, and Tektronix 545 oscilloscopes via the "vertical output" jack for signal amplification, though to be fair my source was rarely a stringed instrument. Synths, drum machines and drones more often.

This is just the shit that delivered satisfactory results, for what I was doing at the time.

Also, everything I mentioned is huge and heavy, but it gained like a motherfucker when needed.

[fever606]

As an unabashed Brad Laner fanboy, have to second the "overdriven cassette 4-track input" that someone else mentioned...

[AZX309]

I used to use a Engineer's Thumb clone with the release all the way down as the key to a chainsaw sound with my longsword.

[friendship]

I used to use a Engineer's Thumb clone with the release all the way down as the key to a chainsaw sound with my longsword.

are all of these things real

[mathias]

I've been using my Fairfield Accountant with low to medium compression and boosted with a high pad to act as a sort of boost/low gain that sounds different than pretty much anything else I've tried. At this point, it's replaced always requiring some sort of SHO-style boost at the beginning of my chain to break up my amp at lower levels.

You said beginning here, but how does the Accountant do as a gain source + compression at the end of the chain, to slam an amp after your modulation? Just curious.

[waltdogg]

jfets man, jfets.

[jrfox92]

jfets man, jfets.

[rustywire]

Cocked-wah
PolyFlange provides a slight volume boost in Flanger mode
High and low capacitance cables to boost/attenuate gain as well as controlling brightness. I also may add a bunch of superfluous adaptors to achieve this.
Sample and/or bitrate reduction
Repeatedly splitting & summing tracks

[waltdogg]

jfets man, jfets.

i just busted out laughing in the waiting room at my eye doctor's office.

[Dandolin]

thread is rapidly approaching sticker-worthy

[waltdogg]

i like how a lot of us though just a bunch of compression was the answer. we were on the right track, but definitely missing the mark lol.