It's amazing what you can do with some modulated noise pumped through a gong amp.

Seriously though, there really isn't much to this. I just used a bunch of LFOs to modulate parameters in Denise's Noise Retro VST and pumped the result through Hainbach's Gong Amp plugin and then some compression to calm it down a little. It feels like a fitting way to ring in the new year though.

Ringing In

More playing with the electric kalimba through a Behringer UV300 Ultra Vibrato pedal, DigiTech DigiDelay pedal and DigiTech Polara pedal. I managed to get a loop of me tapping the kalimba going on the delay pedal and used it as a backbone for the track. Most of the other pedal settings are similar to how they were on A Noodle In Time. I think I figured out how to at least get the volume level recorded correctly this time though, so there is that, hehe.

When Giants Cry

I figured out how to get the audio level correct on this track so I've decided to give it a fresh upload that is more easily listened to and heard than before.

Original Description: This is just me playing around with an electric kalimba run through a Berhinger UV300 Ultra Vibrato pedal, DigiTech DigiDelay pedal set to reverse delay and DigiTech Polara pedal set to halo reverb. It's a bit crude in recording, as I really need to learn how to properly record and EQ tracks, but that will come with time. For now, this is just for my own fun and pleasure, and to share with others who might listen to if they want.

A Noodle In Time

A Noodle In Time (6- 1-2019) [Fixed Volume Level Version]

This is honestly just me playing around with two new toys. The drums are a Rhythm Ace FR-7L set to Western and Mambo at the same time (hence the title of the track) run through a Red Panda Particle guitar pedal (the rest of the name now makes sense, right?). I won't call this an outright song, but it's some fun messing about and I imagine I can use it later for something, even if it's just making loops out of it.

2019

Western Mambo Particles

I've been messing about lately with the speed and pitch of cassette tapes and ended up picking up several random cassettes while on a trip last week. I didn't think much of it at the time, thinking it was going to be some Native American music that would be interesting to dub over other things. Well, it ended up being Koljademo, which I guess is a one-off new age album from 20 years ago. Interesting stuff to be sure, but I decided to shift the speed and stuff around to see what I'd get that was inspiring. Thus we have this bit of a guitar solo that slowed down stretches to about 5 minutes. Add some drums from the trusty Rhythm Ace (ballad button alone this time), a heavily messed up filter ping thing from a Moog Mother 32 and a synth drone I put on tape and forgot about a couple months ago to add a little bass and more tape his fun in the background, and you have a track I'm not totally sure on the legality of. I enjoyed making it though, and I'm nobody so hopefully this isn't going to get me in trouble anywhere. Credit for their bit of the track is definitely due to Koljademo though, wherever they are now.

6/29/2019

Koljademo Spirits

It's been a while since I've bothered to record anything, but today felt like a day to at least get an audio record of this little experiment. I bought a Mooer Ocean Machine a while back and I've been wondering, what would happen if I ran a drum machine through it. And I just so happen to have the old Rhythm Ace, so what more interesting thing could I use than that, right? So yeah, it's been an amusing afternoon just tweaking stuff and seeing what happens. I did end up adding a Boss PS-2 Pitch Shifter/Delay before the Ocean Machine to allow me to shift things around a bit and a Behringer UT-300 Ultra Tremolo after it all for some added effect, especially at the end of the track.

I won't call this a finished piece by any means, but I did find it really amusing, and a great way to just let loose without having to think too hard. Experimentation is fun, so I totally recommend trying it.

Rhythm Ace FX

I'm really not sure how I got into the idea exactly, but I've been fascinated with noise, feedback looping and just generally experimenting with sound lately. This piece is really more of a jam to see what I could learn about feedback loops, and specifically doing them with this 4x4 matrix mixer. I think the big takeaway here was figuring out that putting an EQ pedal in the mix makes the whole loop really playable, which was loads of fun and probably why this track is nearly 15 minutes long.

For those curious, the loop involves the following pedals.

Danelectro Fab Distortion
Digitech Digidelay
Digitech Turbo Flange
Behringer UV300 Ultra Vibrato
Caline 10 Band EQ

All of these are looped together through the matrix mixer with the UV300 branching off the second output of the Turbo Flange to fill the last line of the mixer. The mix runs into a cheap ass Behringer U-Phoria UM2 audio interface (it's a garbage interface, but considering this is noise music I doubt that it matters all that much).

The name is something I think I'm going to keep for these noise/feedback jams because it feels a bit clever and saves me from having to name each new one in some unique way.

Also, because I really don't care much, if anyone wants to sample out of this, I really don't care. Just give credit where credit is due, and shoot me a line so I can hear what you did. I'd be curious to see what you did with the noises.

Feedback Preserves 0001

I found the wonders of nature inside my new dbx 31-band Graphic Equalizer today.

Seriously though, this is a bit of an expansion on my last experiment with feedback. The difference this time is that I cut back on the number of pedals and outputs looping into each other by having a single chain of effects (listed below), and by upgrading to an equalizer with more bands so I had some room to explore the individual frequencies of sound in the loop.

It was a pretty garbled mess when I started, but as soon as I found the birds hiding in the equalizer I had a direction I wanted to go in and really did all I could to pull nature out of a mess of electronic sounds. This was the second take, as the first one had a huge mess of crackling in the later half of the song. I presume this is because I had some conflicting frequencies trying to play at the same time. Oh well.

I'm still annoyed that there is a layer of noise floating at the bottom of the mix, but I'm not skilled enough to properly mix it all out, though I was able to EQ a little bit of it out in Ableton with my limited knowledge of how to fix it. But yeah, I think that's about all I have to say on this one.

Feedback Loop...

Danelectro FAB Distortion > EHX Pulsar > Digitech DigiDelay (set to reverse) > dbx 31 band Graphic EQ

The loop output was run through a Digitech Polara (set to Halo) and recorded into a Motu M2 audio interface and into Ableton.

Fee The Bunny