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Any pedal recommendations for something to produce static/white noise? Something that's not super harsh and that I can "sculpt" with a little?

Thought of something by Last Gasp Labs like the Sandstorm or Rattle Crow but they seem to be a little too harsh based on what Ive heard. For reference, I mean the scratchings you can hear over this Ulver track.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAiVmy66GBk[/youtube]

Those scratches are more easily made with a vinyl emulator, possibly a ring mod or a bitcrusher I think.
As for good sounding static noise pedals I'd recommend the Copilot FX Arrows, or the Rainger FX Air Space Invader.

This is super nice: http://www.parasitstudio.se/store/p11/S ... r_PCB.html

RMA Crustacean too. But if you are worried about the sandstorm being harsh, I don't know what you'll think of the RMA.

The copilot is probably great (always good stuff from there, just haven't tried it).

The sandstorm really isn't harsh and there is a tone from bright to dark white noise plus separate volumes for dry and noise...so it can be tailored. The envelope isn't that fleshed out though. The rattle crow is more like an auto-wah or env-filter...not a white noise thing at all.

Air-Space Invader is ok...just prefer the rattle crow+sandstorm for that...

Tristan is right that a vinyl emulator or something with artifacts would be better. Maybe blending in a swell-type over saturated fuzz (like octave drone, octavella, 46, etc) could get you by for a while (if done right it is pretty much like popping noise and lo-fi sounding)?

Another idea would be to loop a noise track and then blend it somehow (like an effects loop with a controllable blend and if you are playing guitar probably exp control....then restart/reloop have different sounds for different textures....)...and just run it with your signal into dirt, which would blend it ok.....it would also tone down some of the harshness.

Sonic Reducer always seemed neat...might have to build one one day..

The Crustacean can do smooth easy listening (enriched noise) as well, but it's not natively capable of the envelope swells early in that track. It will do the slight record pop type crackle around the 2 & 8 minute mark, but as a source it's an ON ALL THE TIME thing that would require post processing to get anywhere near that.

In terms of the rivulets of noise on that track, it sounds like samples passing through a low pass filter to me; the percussive element would demand a VCA as well, were this truly synthesized and not tasteful use of a sampler.

I think I was trying to get to what you are talking about crochambeau in the guitar pedal realm haha.

The low pass filter is a good idea though and could give some controls over the swell (esp if it is like the moog one with exp control over multiple things).

Ehzi&Aka noisator might get you part of the way there too.

What about the updated Hexe Melusine? [youtube]http://youtu.be/tfyDAGoZiL4[/youtube]

if you find whitenoise too harsh maybe try pink noise generator like the GLPN
http://www.av-iq.eu/avcat/images/docume ... n_7c15.pdf

You heard the Audible Disease Convulsion??? May do what you're looking for.

Edit: I've heard the album a load of times but for some reason that track really freaked me out tonight. Found it quite terrifying and haunting. Weird!