11th December 2012
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#1 | | Gear interested
Joined: Dec 2011
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Thread Starter | best pedal setup for noise & experimental music?
I'm looking to spend less time manipulating sounds in my DAW & plugins, and more time manipulating real pedals and knobs to get noisy effects.
Ideally, I'd like to send a guitar signal through my delay pedal with the feedback set to max, get a persistent tone, and then use various pedals to affect the signal in weird ways.
I'm looking for recommendations for pedals that are unpredictable, weird, spacey or scary sounding. Non-guitar sounding.
My songwriting lately has been instrumentals with clean, minimal, twangy electric guitar parts in the foreground and layers of off kilter noise in the background. It kinds of sounds like a spooky soundtrack.
For the more "straight" guitar parts, I'm using a 70s Telecaster and 70s Fender Twin. For the noisy stuff, I've mostly just been using an old rewired delay pedal and/or an Alesis Bitrman.
Some stuff I'd like to add in:
-Electro Harmonix Freeze Pedal
-Fairfield Circuitry Feedback Pedal
-Wampler Faux Tape Echo
-Any of the Pigtronix stuff
-WMD Geiger Counter
-Murf Pedal
Any particular pedal chains you use to make similar music, or any other suggestions? What I'm ultimately trying to do is record an album that is strictly guitar, but hearing it, you'd think there were all kinds of other instruments and noises in there.
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12th December 2012
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#2 | | Gear addict
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Eventide PitchFactor
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12th December 2012
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#3 | | Gear Head
Joined: May 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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You probably want some crazy reverb stuff, too. Eventide Space!
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13th December 2012
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#4 | | Gear interested
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Damn those are pricy, but nice!
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13th December 2012
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#5 | | Gear addict
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Ehx Superego. It's basicly a Freeze+ with a loop to further enhance the drones. Putting a Ehx pog2 in the loop is great thing. Watch the superego effectology on ehx.com if you havent yet. These are great as well:
Moog Ring modulator.
Subdecay Prometheus dlx
Pigtronix philosofers King and Mothership
Eventide pitchfactor, modfactor, timefactor and Space are great pedals and very usefull for what your looking to do. They are expensive, though.
Btw having a looper or a hold delay will be easier than the full feedback delay.
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13th December 2012
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#6 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2008 Location: PNW
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I've had stellar results with a WMD civilian issue, a few ODs, some other stuff, and most importantly a Randy's Revenge ring mod.
This pedal is F*&king amazing.
I think I can do everything from "Death and Transfiguration" to "As We Used To Sing", "Spiritual Unity", And throw in some Nels for good measure.
In fact everything I've played by Fairfield has been sick.
Guillaume is a mad scientist.
His fuzz pedal is sick. I was very torn between that and the WMD when I bought the latter, but I will eventually have both on my board.
Also...I should point out that I have a Z Vex Lofi Loop Junky, which is a one trick pony of sorts, but wow, is it a great trick.
But really: a few ODs, a delay, the ZVex, the Fairfield...wow.
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13th December 2012
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#7 | | Gear interested
Joined: Dec 2011
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Thread Starter |
Cheapest WMD pedal I've found is $200, but hoping it's still worth it. It does some sounds I really can't find anywhere else, non-plugin-wise.
Loop Junky seems cool too, just surprised it's up there at $350!
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14th December 2012
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#8 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jan 2009 Location: Brooklyn |
Zvex fuzz probe or fuzz factory or most pedals by zvex are unpredictable and great. Death by Audio makes some great noise pedals.
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14th December 2012
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#9 | | Gear interested
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you are right, You probably want some crazy reverb stuff, too. Eventide Space!,thank you  | |
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14th December 2012
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#10 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2010 Location: Brisbane
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devi ever eye of god. that's a crazy pedal.
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14th December 2012
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#11 | | Gear interested
Joined: Dec 2011
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Thread Starter |
Yeah, the Eye of God is on my list. Also the feedback loop pedals from Saturnworks and Fairfield. Still not entirely sure how to put the feedback pedals to use. Just add them to the chain and send signals in and out?
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14th December 2012
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#12 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2010 Location: Brisbane
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have only used the eye of god,
you use it like an effects loop in an amp. so you hook all of your desired pedals up to the ins/outs. then the light sensitive thingy controls the feedback loop. you could build somehting similar for $20. the eye of god schematic is available online.
it's an intense pedal, can quickly get out of control volume wise but a lot of fun.
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15th December 2012
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#13 | | Would-Be-Teaboy
Joined: Oct 2011 Location: Ireland
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Ringmodular, octave fuzz. Try out a Bluebox if you haven't got the chance.
Feedbacker Looper pedals are a great idea. They can be made pretty easy for pretty cheap, too. All of a sudden those 20 euro pedals you see in pawnstores wont seem so mundane!
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15th December 2012
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#14 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Oct 2012 Location: UK
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A gate might not be an awful idea to help tame the beast when you need to, or a least an off button
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16th December 2012
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#15 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jan 2009 Location: Brooklyn |
Or a volume pedal at the end of the chain to adjust the "noise" level.
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17th December 2012
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#17 | | Lives for gear
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pigtronix does some wild analog stuff. the mothership is pretty incredible. all sounds are tweekable with expression pedals.
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14th January 2013
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#18 | | Gear interested
Joined: Sep 2011
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late to the party...
check out the gristleizer by endangered audio research...
their analog delay is no slouch either....
4ms has a lot pretty out there stuff too...
theyve been mentioned here, but fairfields ring modulator is pretty amazing...
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14th January 2013
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#19 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Apr 2010
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HEXE Effects
EHX Flanger Hoax
Line6 M9/M13
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