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One Note Song(s)

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:50:05 +0000

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:

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

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.

This is how I unwind

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:12:31 +0000

The Flight of the Conchords theme song
plus
“Only” by Nine Inch Nails
equals
one of those “mashed up” songs that the kids seem to like

I was working this out in my Mind the whole walk home. Tonight I walked home at 126 beats per minute. The whole process was made infinitely easier thanks to nin.com‘s remix section, which is a cool idea.

I heard that

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:01:36 +0000

Yesterday I was walking downtown, and I heard three sets of church bells go off at once. It sounded a little like this:

church fight!

I only got the last third of it, because of all the fumbling to grab my camera and set it to movie-mode. Lightning reflexes here.

WHY

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:15:15 +0000

COMPUTER (not a summer jam)

This was something I kept forgetting to do.

Better than “Kick it”

admin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:40:41 +0000

I made some effed up sounds to put at the end of one of my songs. I had most of it in place already, but it wasn’t quite right, and I solved that today:

OUCH, MAN (New #1 Summer Jam)

The main bit was this weird “birds” preset off my sequencer (done a couple octaves lower than recommended), and the rest was just single organ notes with mega distortion and chorus added (that’s the part I was talking about earlier in this post, with the solving).

I think you should do what he says

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:06:26 +0000

#1 SUMMER JAM (KICK IT)

Hello, I am the last person on earth who still thinks the Apple speech generator is awesome. OutKast used it to start off Stankonia (O-U-T-K-A-S-T, with the “Bells” voice), but that was back in, like, 2000.

See also: Senor Mortgage (the robot uses “Fred” I think), Everybody to the Limit (the robot uses “Zarvox”).