Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 2:21 pm
Mic input on the Kaoss Pad3 provides awesome gain and lovely dirt.
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Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:51 pm
Did anyone say compressors? If not, compressors.
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 5:45 pm
Interesting.tremolo3 wrote:The sfx mode in DD-500 can get very fuzzy.
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Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:26 am
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.
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 12:11 pm
crochambeau wrote: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.
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 1:12 pm
As an unabashed Brad Laner fanboy, have to second the "overdriven cassette 4-track input" that someone else mentioned...
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:34 pm
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.
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:14 pm
are all of these things realAZX309 wrote: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.
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 12:32 am
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.publicfig wrote: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.
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 1:36 am
jfets man, jfets.
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:56 am
waltdogg wrote:jfets man, jfets.
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 1:53 pm
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
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
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 2:29 pm
i just busted out laughing in the waiting room at my eye doctor's office.jrfox92 wrote:waltdogg wrote:jfets man, jfets.
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 2:31 pm
thread is rapidly approaching sticker-worthy
Re: Unorthodox gain sources
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:02 pm
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.