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RE: WIERD SOUND DESIGN for looping



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
>