One Note Song(s)

Posted: April 29, 2010
Filed under: Words and Expressions

I discovered my new delay/looping pedal can do continuous notes. No gaps! My old pedal (which admittedly wasn’t so hot) couldn’t do this. I didn’t think my new one could do it either, until I accidentally did the following:

  1. Start a loop, but don’t actually play anything
  2. Play a note with the guitar’s volume all the way down
  3. Slowly fade the volume back up
  4. Repeat steps 2–3 as necessary
  5. ????
  6. SPACE ROCK!

At some point I should really make a video of this process, so I can put it on youtube and have everyone say that it’s FAKE. Yeah, about that: see below!

Examples

  1. almost three minutes of building a chord
  2. about one minute of a different chord (already in progress)

Needs work

  • So far my output has been really quiet for some reason
  • And I have really bad line noise coming from somewhere (shitty cables?)
  • Distortion makes the bad line noise even worse, so no bowel-shaking drone metal just yet

 

NOTE, FROM THE FUTURE: Here is a totally FAKE video I made:

 

ANOTHER NOTE, ALSO FROM THE FUTURE: The line noise/quiet output only seems to be a problem with headphone rockin’ (which is a problem in many other ways). I’ve been playing through an amp, really loudly, and the output’s been fine. The line noise is about what you’d expect when you also have a billion other pedals, so no complaints here.