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Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:03 am

Instead of getting some piezo pickups, make a stack of them for peanuts, and stick'em everywhere!

Anything that vibrates should be piezo'd, and in different spots. <grin>

I know there are other tutorials around, but this one is a good start. Piezo elements don't care what they're attached to, so even though it's "for" a double-bass, it'll still work on other things.

[edit] Oh, and good work on that plugin, Rockstar! I'd like to hear how this develops as a deeper plugin.

Keep us posted! [/edit]

Greg

MacButch · Post by **MacButch** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:59 pm

tee boy wrote:Yeh that would be great! Time to get the oven mitts out it think

Sorry for the delay guys: http://sushi.gotdns.org/music/dryice

tee boy · Post by **tee boy** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:56 pm

MacButch wrote:
tee boy wrote:Yeh that would be great! Time to get the oven mitts out it think
Sorry for the delay guys: http://sushi.gotdns.org/music/dryice

MacButch,
When i started this thread, THAT is exactly the type of thing i was after! Dude that is f**king crazy

. Sounds like this wacky bird of prey i recorded a few weeks back for an fx project. Where can i get hold of this stuff, cuz i have a knackered old Ibanez which asking for some sub zero beats!

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:24 pm

Since I dont actually play guitar much at all, weird ways of playing mine is something Ive spent some time thinking about

Ive seen this interesting plectrum called a 'jellyfish' I wanna get, but the thing Ive tried is uses a SoundBug... the SoundBug is basically a driver that turns any flat surface (window, table et.c.) into a speaker... if you take a feed out of your mixer or soundcard or whatever, then stick the SoundBug on your guitar you can get some nice feedback - especially if you play around with what you send back. In fact you dont need to play the guitar you can just use it process other sounds. Alternately you can clamp the Soundbug to something resonant (like storage heaters

and then mic the sound off that. Or perhaps make up a frame with drone strings on it, and use that.

rok · Post by **rok** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:26 pm

The movie "Step across the border" with Fred Frith is full of strange ways to get sounds out of a guitar.
You can watch Fred Frith come home from the supermarket and apply the things he bought to his guitar and much more. It was always a big inspiration to watch this film.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:34 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:
Ive seen this interesting plectrum called a 'jellyfish' .

any links for info,sounds interesting?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:37 pm

its ok i found it

http://www.jellifish.com/index.html

and indeed does sound interesting

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:55 pm

vurt wrote:its ok i found it

http://www.jellifish.com/index.html

and indeed does sound interesting

whoa..did you listen to the MP3's?

Here's an old school Insta-Fuzz-Overload trick that I don't recommed doing on your 4x12 cabinet.

Take a razor & slice the cone up. That was pioneered by The Kinks, and was the first time distortion was heard. That's more or less common knowledge, but the older I get I wonder how many newer musicians know about that bit of guitar/amp history.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:57 pm

This was the guy I saw selling them on ebay.co.uk

Hey also sells some interesting guitar slides (Jetslide, Flipslide), and Im gonna have a go at making some 'variants' of these up when I get access to the jewellery workshops at work

Aha; here's the main site... http://www.reallyusefulmusicco.co.uk/

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:11 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:This was the guy I saw selling them on ebay.co.uk

Hey also sells some interesting guitar slides (Jetslide, Flipslide), and Im gonna have a go at making some 'variants' of these up when I get access to the jewellery workshops at work

Aha; here's the main site... http://www.reallyusefulmusicco.co.uk/

That's a wicked looking capo:

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:44 pm

That capo had a bit of a paragraph written about it in the latest Guitar Player. It's one of those things that makes you think, "Why hasn't this been done before?" because it's such an obvious and elegant capo solution.

Now if only they'd lower the price.

Greg

digitaldoom · Post by **digitaldoom** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:59 pm

Another weird guitar trick could be to use Nuton Musiciendoz to convert your guitar track from audio to MIDI. This will allow you to feed your guitar to your favorite VSTi(s). The only drawback is that this tool has a ton of latency so it couldn't be used for realtime recording. But hey, if you wanted to add a warped out track to your guitar playing after it has already been recorded... this could be a nice trippy effect...

http://www.nuton.ca/?id=musiciendoz

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:07 am

Or you could try feeding your guitar to Alien Solo

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:25 pm

Or Kantos or Magenta..

did I already suggest that?

tee boy · Post by **tee boy** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:47 pm

digitaldoom wrote:Another weird guitar trick could be to use Nuton Musiciendoz to convert your guitar track from audio to MIDI. This will allow you to feed your guitar to your favorite VSTi(s). The only drawback is that this tool has a ton of latency so it couldn't be used for realtime recording. But hey, if you wanted to add a warped out track to your guitar playing after it has already been recorded... this could be a nice trippy effect...

http://www.nuton.ca/?id=musiciendoz

Yeh, i used to have one of those, well a Roland GR30 to be precise. Was good, but i could never get the pick up set up good enough to really work. It was ok for slower, more precise licks, but i couldnt handle the faster legato shit. Pity, cuz i used to love shreading out through the Waldorf!

Sickle, is Kantos any good? I have Magneta, but never really got into it. Not really sure what that one is good for.

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