The signal goes into Syntona's pitch detector, but the only thing I'm taking from the pitch detector is the 'confidence' value. Signals with high noise content (like pick attacks) results in low confidence, while signal with a clear pitch results in high confidence values. The 0..1 confidence value is scaled up to -1..1 and sent through a lag to smooth out the abrupt transitions between rapidly changing confidence values, finally sent to a pan unit which puts -1 hard left and +1 hard right and all other values somewhere in between.
I ran a guitar solo through it, and the noisy pick attacks get autopanned hard left, and as the pitch comes in, the guitar track shoots off to the right. Pretty cool. As you can imagine, there's a lot of stereo movement, and it's fun to hear it correlated to the noise content of the guitar.
Syntona is created by Phil Burk.  You can get it at http://www.softsynth.com/syntona/

autopanning guitar using Syntona

Les Paul 50's Standard with Bare Knuckles Pig 90, through Taylor Levine's fuzz, into one-watt Bumbox Lead One , into Kolbe 1x12. SM 57

Les Paul, Bare Knuckles Pig 90, Taylor Levine Fuzz, Bumbox Lead One

A/B switch flipping between blue channel on EVH 5150 III (left) and Marshall Valvestate 8100 (right)

First sound is EVH, then I switch back a forth a few times, playing a few seconds of both at the end.

Les Paul Custom in dropped D

EVH 5150 III (Left) vs Marshall Valvestate 8100 (Right)

Vactor vacuum at 82nd St and 3rd ave nyc

1986 Gibson Sg Standard '61 reissue
Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive
EVH 5150 iii
Feedback on 5ht fret low E string, pivoting body to get different overtones

SG Feedback

Laura Weber Folk Guitar Lessons1-26

1986 Gibson Les Paul
"Flying Fuzz" fuzzbox by Taylor Levine
1972 Marshall Super Bass
Kolbe 1x12 cab

All the shuddering is created by difference tones; no other pedals were used.

(c) 2019 Nick Didkovsky

Les Paul + Flying Fuzz + Marshall Super Bass

RockyWings

Kitten purring up close to a Zoom H2 recorder

Kitten purring 2012-09-20

Häßliche Luftmasken is:
Nick Didkovsky - guitar and composition
Josh Lopes - guitar
John Roulat - drums
Samuel Smith - bass
www.facebook.com/luftmasken/

Häßliche Luftmasken how to say our band's name

Folk Guitar with Laura Weber Lessons 27-39

From the record "CHORD II"
https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/chord-ii
Nick Didkovsky - guitar
Tom Marsan - guitar

Signal

Paul Reed Smith Custom 24
Jule Potter modded Vox Night Train
Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive (recently serviced by John Landgraff)
Kolbe 1x12 cab 

Occasional hiccough is a recording hardware issue, was not heard live.

Guitar feedback at apartment-friendly levels

This is a bonus track from the new Doctor Nerve record "LOUD".

Doctor Nerve is a rock band led by Nick Didkovsky, that has been annihilating the boundaries between rock, metal, improvisation, jazz, and experimental music since 1983. 

After finishing the mix, Nick invited some of his favorite guitarists to record alternative solos in place of his, and offer them as bonus tracks.

Here's Mike Keneally ripping it up on the track"Painting With Bullets"
His solo starts at 1:40

Get Doctor Nerve "LOUD" here:
http://www.punosmusic.com/doctornerve/loud/

Doctor Nerve with Mike Keneally: "Painting With Bullets"

"martyrs" is the first track from the third release by the free metal guitar duo CHORD (Nick Didkovsky and Tom Marsan on guitars). CHORD III draws the listener further into the expansive chasms of sound that were excavated by their first two releases.
Physical: http://www.punosmusic.com/chord/
Digital: https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/chord-iii

"martyrs" from CHORD III

Keith Rowe, Hans Tammen, Nick Didkovsky, Erhard Hirt, Berlin 2002-09-25

First riff is Marshall JCM 800 2205 (50 watt split channel), recorded LOUD in a rehearsal space with Zoom H2. I liked that sound because it reminded me of a Motorhead bootleg or something like that...

Second riff is Bumbox Lead One  (same settings as my "Dark Grind" sound file), recorded quiet in my apartment

Same Les Paul used for both.

Took a while to dial it in and place the mic just right but I think I got the quiet Bumbox in my apartment to sound pretty close to the loud JCM 800 in my studio.

Riff inspired by Horna

JCM800 followed by Bumbox Lead One

The Sin Eater treble boost is Taylor Levine's clone of a Covington Sheermaster which is itself a clone of a Dallas Rangemaster.  Taylor added a six position switch which lets you choose a cutoff frequency (position 1 is traditional Rangemaster, position 6 turns this treble boost into more of a bass boost).  In this improv I used the darkest #6 position setting on the Sin Eater

The chain:  1972 Les Paul Standard with Lollar P-90s, into Sin Eater, into Jule Potter modded Vox Night Train (settings as shown in photo), into Harry Kolbe 1x12 ported cab.  SM57 mic

Improvisation by Nick Didkovsky 2021-02-17
Artwork on the pedal is "Sin Eater V" by Karlynn Holland

Nick Didkovsky

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