Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

For authentic old-timey analog "futzing" or "worldizing", a common 
film-sound tool is a coffin-sized heavy box lined with foam or 
insulation containing a torn radio speaker (or whatever) and a mic. If 
DSP simulations leave you wanting it might be fun to try building a 
stomp-box sized version of this idea...

On Jan 31, 2005, at 10:24 AM, mungenast@earthlink.net wrote:

> Very cool. I just now realized that my late father's microcassette 
> recorder makes my guitar (or anything else) sound like an ole-timey 
> Library o' Congress  field recording, which is cool for home-studio 
> experiments but does not help me in concert.
> I need something I can play through that will get that sound and other 
> related sounds in real time, in front of "the paying customers."
> In the meantime, it's time to access Krispen's sonic links and learn 
> something ;-)
> ~Tim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>
> Sent: Jan 30, 2005 5:42 AM
> To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Subject: Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy
>
> I just bought a XONIX watch at Fry's.   It was $139 dollars with a $30
> rebate.
>
> It has a cheap microphone onboard and 256 megs of RAM.    It will 
> record
> anything you record
> (with a ton of onboard noise to go with your sample) and play it back 
> with
> stereo headphones (yes, it has
> a mini-mini stereo jack on it).
>
> It also (get this) has a USB connector underneath the watch band and 
> you can
> upload or download files, mp3,
> .wmv files and the aforementioned recordings to your PC (sorry Mac
> folks........another wierd assed program that only
> works on the dark side of the computer world).
>
> What a wonderful world we live in, eh?
>
> I bought it to start recording lyric ideas for my next record, but I've
> found myself recording all kinds of wierd
> 'found' and industrial sounds.       One sound I got recorded was of a
> sliding glass door that sounded as if it was
> some banshee screaming from hell on another 
> planet..................such a
> cool and musical sound.
>
>