What a guitar sounds like played through 319 pedals

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/02/what-a-guitar-sounds-like-play.html

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Reminds me of the finale of a Sonic Youth show I saw.

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The end was very evocative. Unfortunately it evoked the sound of ‘something has gone horribly wrong on your starship, sorry’

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Equivalent to “what if I mixed all the sodas together at the fountain at Burger King !”

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How (completely not) unexpected that a couple hundred waveform modulators, each of which introduces some noise as well as the ‘desired’ distortions, ends up mostly amplified noise.

Next project: follow each analog pedal with a digitizer + FFT + noise rejector + DAC. I’m not sure I see the point.

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Holy ground loop, Batman!

I’m pretty sure that’s a ground loop, so you won’t get rid of it that way.

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Or make like Chris Carter and ditch the guitar altogether. I mean it’s pretty superfluous.

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Reminds me of the opening to a Sunn O))) concert

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297 of them are completely redundant.

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At that point, you might was well start putting together a modular synth!

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Sounds like a more melodic Merzbow song.

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Or use a modular synth and a direct insert preamplifier module.

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I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Chris refer to it as a guitar pedal modular synth. In this case he is using a sampler as a start point but I’m sure you could start with a pedal with audible oscillation like, say, a resonant filter…

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Now need to hear the software simulation

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Sounds like my first sound station laptop from 2002 catching on fire.

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Well, he’s got serial connections down pat. Now lets try 319 pedals in parallel.

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My brother brought me to a “Sleep” concert. At the end of his gig, the bassist played a chord, set up some kind of feedback loop, turned the amps up to 11 and walked off the stage. The roadies left us with about a minute of ear-splitting bass chord before shutting it down.

I had construction grade earplugs in and it did not even touch the noise level. Was a great concert, but 10/10 would not do again.

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