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I once setup an fx patch that had a 4-pole phaser circuit which fedback into a delay line which fed back into the phaser circuit. I took a phone off the hook and held the speaker up to mic, turning the handset side to side and moving it nearer/farther from the mic. Sounded very interesting to me ... fwiw. But watch the feedback levels ... > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Walker/Loop.pooL [mailto:GLOBAL@cruzio.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 10:45 PM > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: WIERD SOUND DESIGN for looping > > > Hi gang, > I'm in love with sound design, from manipulating found sounds to using > computers and > effects processors and stomp boxes to mangle sounds. > Whenever there are > those > 100 tips for sound design articles in Electronic Musician or > Future Music or > Keyboard magazine I just eat that shit up (by the way, the excellent > british mag, Future Music just had it's 10th anniversary > issue with a whole > bunch of best of lists in it........go check it out). > > Would anyone be into contributing some of their favorite idiosyncratic > techniques for > looping sounds and designing sounds to loop? I'd personally > love such a > thread. > > > In that spirit I just discovered some cool shit today and > thought I'd like > to share it > with you all: > > > I just bought the coolest thing today.......it is a little > dayglo green > plastic > 'rock star' headset mic and plastic speak amplifier that I bought at > CLAIRE's which is > a young teen age girls accesorie shop in the local mall (I > seem to get half > of my > plastic found sound musical stuff at shops like > these............making very > sure that > I make eye contact with no young pubescesnt girls lest they think this > purple haired > middled aged man is a freak....................LMAO). All > the young women > who work in these stores know me by now and actually save > stuff for me that > they think I will like. > It's pretty cool. > > Anyway, this little plastic toy amplifier with a tiny headset > mic cost $10 > (US) and is surprisingly loud and, of course, really low fi. > It is also > really prone to feedback. > > It is so prone to feedback that I started singing through > it, covering the > teeny > 2" speaker with my hand and systematically (and rhythmically) > taking it off > partially. > In this way I could control (like a human noise gate) a > couple of bands of > feedback (hand completely covering the speaker will cut the feedback > instantly). > > I then sang a little falsetto ditty in 7/8 into it and > recorded it into > Sound Forge. > > I then opened up KANTOS as a plugin (which is this incredible > new soft synth > made by > Antares---they of Autotune fame----which is controlled by > audio tracks NOT > midi. > > It analyses the sound coming in (in this case my wierd little > feedbacked 7/8 > vocal thing) > and then you can control resultant synthesizer's pitch with > the waveform. > > I love 'what's wrong with this picture' sounds so I chose > voice simulation > synth patches > to drive with this vocal thingee and the results sound like > Psychedelic > Pygmies. > > Wow, If I only had KANTOS as a real time processor, I'd never > take another > keyboard to a gig again.........with the wind synth control > of the Repeater > loops and the ability to control a synth with your singing or melodic > playing............woooohooooo. > > Okee dokee, that's my WIERD SOUND DESIGN for looping tip of the > day......... > > ..........who's into following suit? > > yours, Rick Walker (loop.pool) > www.looppool.info >