I hope this is the right place to put this - the idea is a thread of strange noises that I've made by combining different pedals - not finished songs or demos of one specific pedal, more just ideas for possibilities that will hopefully be of interest and maybe even provoke some ideas for further experimentation. I'll post a photo of the pedal chain with the sounds so if you like certain sounds you can try them at home on your own pedals. Be warned; I am not a great guitar player I will get my son to add some recordings using the same settings when I can; he's much better than I am!
Anyway; here's the first - me on my own for this one.
and the pedal chain
The chain starts off with the Fuzz Moo then is split into Left and right - to my ears neither side works that well on its own, but with both playing at the same time there's some interesting harmonics that don't seem to exist when the channels are separated.
Chankgeez wrote:
We should have a game show à la Name That Tune
Inconuucl: I can shoegaze that tune with 5 pedals.
other contestant: I can shoegaze that tune with 4 pedals.
Inconuucl: I can shoegaze that tune with 3 pedals.
other contestant: OK, shoegaze that tune!
Inconuucl:
Lol, I used to do this back when I was like 15, I figured out how to patch up a bunch of pedals into a noise-loop and bleep-boops and such. So my friend and I are working outside and I say: "Hey, do you want to listen to my noise tape?" Him: Sure! So we put the noise-tape on in my car and open the doors so we can hear it while we are working.
This old dude comes along about 15 minutes later, while the noise-tape is crescendo, and says "Is that your damn car alarm?"
@Tuj - Now there's a new future career avenue for noise music - car alarms Imagine a street of cars, each with it's own noise alarm sounds, all being triggered one by one by someone running down the street kicking the doors of the cars as they run past!
Don't worry about your son being a better guitarist than you. Honestly, I don't think this type of music lends itself to a virtuoso player. That is to say, I think it is more about textures and toans than killer chops. And this sounds great, so you are doing it right.
Thanks very much UglyNora My son's not a virtuoso (yet); he's not even a quarter of my age, but he runs rings around me My excuse is that I'm taking the guitar in a more experimental direction than traditional Western music and all this learning to play it properly is just restricting my creative spirit, man.
Yeah right. I suck at guitar, but with enough pedals I can make cool noises
Anyway, here comes some more maximallist frequency sounds. The next chain came into existence because my son asked me why I never use the Dan Donegan Weapon pedal (aside for using it as part of a strange sitar track I once made) and I said the pedal doesn't have any decent other sounds in it (digital distortion is not that good) and he found the pitch shift on it and this misfires in a most interesting way when set two octaves up, so we added more pedals until I managed to emulate a cheap plastic keyboard sound rather well, so if you've ever wanted to turn your guitar into a rather over the top organ sound without having to buy some expensive EHX pedals, just chain a Mooen Fuzz Moo (Sustain on Maximum) into a Biyang Tri Reverb on very short reverb and with some blend into a Digitech Dan Donegan The Weapon (on mode 5 with CTRL2 set to maximum and CTRL 1 at half way). The Weapon pedal can't pitch shift polyphonically so it adds lots of extra interesting texture when you give it chords - on three and four note chords it sounds quite good (if you enjoy vaguely harmonising extra notes like I do), but for all six strings it tends to get muddy and confused and just sounds a bit urghhh. Or maybe that's your idea of beautiful? Either way there's a reason for keeping this pedal now!
That was too much fun so I then ran the extra output of The Weapon into another chain (EHX Worm for tremelo, then Biyang Baby Boom for delay, then Bi Mode Chorus to warp everything and finally a Caline Booster to lower the volume because this was too loud to record otherwise). The left channel in the recording is the original 3 pedal sound, the right is the extra pedals. My son plays the first minute and a half, the rest is me.
I will get my son to add some recordings using the same settings when I can; he's much better than I am!
