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08-30-2005, 08:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Hickory NC | | | Intersting sound with a sock...
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Well, tonight I was fooling around with the thought of making a mute for my squier P/J to see what it sounded like, so I stuck a sock in between the p and j pup and turned the mid and treble all the way down, but turned both pups all the way up. I played a jazzy riff and it sounded awesome, slapping also sounded really cool, it was like slap with a hint of tone but mostly the muted thump sound with an awesome pop that didn't really pop, but had a nice sound. Just a cool thing I thought I would try.
Anyone else ever try this?
I'll try and see if I can record it tomorrow after school.
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08-30-2005, 08:33 PM
| | Guest | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Toronto ON | | I've gotten similar results while fooling around with a sock on my todger.  |
08-30-2005, 08:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Albany, NY | | | I've never tried the sock thing, but i've tried jamming corks under the strings right in front of the bridge. It works quite well actually. The only problem is that it messes with the intonation, just because it acts as a new saddle.
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08-30-2005, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Ostinato I've gotten similar results while fooling around with a sock on my todger. |
That's not a sound I want to hear amplified... |
08-30-2005, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by FunkSlap89 I've never tried the sock thing, but i've tried jamming corks under the strings right in front of the bridge. It works quite well actually. The only problem is that it messes with the intonation, just because it acts as a new saddle. | Has anyone tried taping the sock to the top of the strings or wrapping it around the strings?
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08-30-2005, 09:31 PM
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08-30-2005, 09:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Bel Air Maryland | | | Anytime I see Flea and Sock together I get a bad, bad, mental picture...
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08-30-2005, 10:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bridgeport, CT | | Tony Levin did something similar on the recording of Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up" (most easily found on the greatest hits album "Shaking the Tree" which is a terrific recording).
In a 1996 interview for Making Music magazine, he said the following: http://www.elephant-talk.com/intervws/levin-mm.htm
TL: [Don't Give Up] was recorded in 1985, when my daughter was two months old. I had brought her to England and had her in the studio with me. On some tracks I was wearing her in a brace on my tummy and the bass was on the other side of her. I didn't trust there would be nappies in England -I had packed my bass case full of Pampers, which I then used as string dampeners. I put a whole Pamper under the strings -an extraordinary sound. In the second half of the song where it gets really bassy it's called 'the super wonder nappy sound.'
BTW, in case you didn't pick it up from context, "nappies" is British English for "diapers."
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08-30-2005, 11:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Bellingham, WA | | Woohoo! I use a sock on my Trogdor too. Give a whole new meaning to "The burninator"! 
(Yeah I had to google Todger too. Regretting it now. Don't do image search.)
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08-31-2005, 01:14 AM
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08-31-2005, 07:57 PM
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