Re: sound processing ideas

[Randy Jones <ranjones@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

Ck out the June Issue of Electronic Musician. It
has recipes (including software recommendations)
for 12 personal studios. One setup is devoted to
creating sounds.

Randy Jones

--- "earthblind, starbound"
<leper@mindspring.com> wrote:
> OK, I'm stuck.  I've got experimental
> musicians' block.
> 
> I was able to make a decent amount of
> synth-type sounds out of flute to
> loop--using mostly reverb, echo, and various
> delay effects.  I still have
> the song I used them for up on the web because
> I've been too unenergetic
> to update my page with the new one, which I
> should have uploaded half
> a month ago.  Anyway, that's neither here nor
> there.
> 
> Here's the crux of the biscuit. Though my past
> experiment was successful, 
> I could not develop enough sounds to
> continually use for a whole album (or
> half an album, which is what I have to fill). 
> I did some attempts at
> vocoding, but all the software based vocoders
> are essentially pure crap.
> So that's out.
> 
> And now I'm out of ideas.
> 
> What ways are there to completely mangle a
> sound, to make them sound
> completely different (without ruining them to
> the point that the pitch
> or timing is ruined), by unfairly abusing
> fairly run of the mill
> effects?  I throw this out to the list, all you
> people who make wacky
> sounds.  What are your favorite experiments,
> not in sound sources to
> loop this time, but in modifying sound sources?
> -- 
> Listen to Grendel (ambient/signal music) at
> http://listen.to/grendel
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> 

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