More M-9 PHUN

[William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

  I  have been putting together a bank of presets today on my M-9 that  
are more abstract in nature, an outside bank,  so to speak. In edition  
to obvious choices like a ring modulator which the M-9 does a decent  
job of , I was playing around with reverse delay and happened upon an  
interesting application. Rather than set the reverse delay like i  
usually do, set to whole note value, as defined by my tap tempo, I set  
the delay time at 20 milliseconds. I increased the depth of  
modulation   and feedback and used the expression pedal to control  
delay mix and speed of the modulation, slow to fast. The ensuing sound  
had a quality similar to a ring modulator ,  with some of the same  
comb filtering , and weird harmonic artifacts. Combined with a ring  
modulator things got really crazy. I  owned an EH frequency analyzer  
back in the day and really dig that I can occasionally have access to  
that sound, for those South Park theme moments :-) I also like how  
much extra control a multi tasking expression pedal can give to an  
effect like this. Used to control the mix, it is great to be able to  
go from Pretty to Pretty Creepy and back again as one rocks the pedal.
Bill