Re: Strategies to Cover Onstage Equipment/User Failure

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:20 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> For generating interesting acoustic feedback tones here's a trick...
> replace the mouthpiece of a wind instrument with a microphone
> that points into the instrument. Point the instrument at a speaker
> connected to the microphone and off you go.
> ...but don't forget the (low ratio) compressor!
> I call this a 'resophone'.


It just hit me that this is also how a *talk box* works! ;-)

But instead of a wind instrument you are leading the air stream (of
guitar sound) into your mouth while vocalizing words and then
amplifying it through a mic and PA. This creates the illusion of the
guitar "talking".

Per