Dear god... I want a pedal to do exactly this

barboom · #1 05-31-2009, 10:47 PM

So it's kinda late, and I felt like jammin a bit and couldn't use an amp. After searching for something to play through for a while, I came across a cheap old radio shack preamp for, you guessed it, radios. I ran my bass through this and into garage band and as it turns out, i have accidentally created an amazingly synthy sounding fuzz. I just wish i could have this sound in my rig...

Here it is... http://www.supload.com/listen?s=L7vzOK
p.s.: excuse the poor playing. It didn't handle hammer-ons very well

superbassman2000 · #2 05-31-2009, 10:56 PM

why not put it in pedal enclosure and put it in your rig?

barboom · #3 05-31-2009, 11:15 PM

It's horribly noisy and after looking into it some more, I think it may be partly the preamp, partly the poor cables and maybe a bit of overloading on my soundcard

SlappyMcLardfat · #4 05-31-2009, 11:22 PM

grab a true bypass looper and throw it in the loop. that's a crazy sounding pre-amp! you might also wanna give the mid-fi glitch computer a looky, although it's particularly hard to find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wCFEkYhyMo

barboom · #5 05-31-2009, 11:31 PM

Wow. That glitch computer is excellent. How much do they go for (if they can be found)?

EDIT: It kinda reminds me of a really gated fuzzy ringmod someone on here made a while ago. Anyone remember what it was called? All i can remember was the total domination it created.

Soverntear · #6 05-31-2009, 11:37 PM

wow now thats synth

+10000000000000000000000 on that glitch

fightthepower · #7 05-31-2009, 11:56 PM

Wow that's pretty wild! It almost sounds like some phasing/panning going on as well. Would you mind posting a picture of the radio shack preamp? Was this purchased at radio shack, or found on craigslist or something along those lines?

I don't remember if the pedal you were referring to had a name, but im pretty sure you talking about username "speak onion" who made that ringmoddy fuzz pedal and posted the extremely loud (and sweet) clips of it- it was in a small silver enclosure.

If they're cheap and easy to find Im going to grab one myself and give it a whirl. In a blend loop that could be pretty damn cool. It could also make for a cool pedal project with a friend of mine who just graduated with a degree in electrical engineering.

I think the WMD Geiger Counter would be your best bet to recreate that sound. On many of the wavetables you can gate the signal with the gain knob and get all kinds of wild distortions- Using the tone knob you can control the frequencies passing through and get it to do the same type of glitchy distortion. You can also reduce the sample rate and bit rate for ringmod like effects and more.

Gashaponcito · #8 06-01-2009, 09:50 AM

Yeah Speak Onion made that pedal it was a really small, I wanted to buy one but I think he isn't selling them

kevteop · #9 06-01-2009, 09:53 AM

That thing sounds ace. Nice find.

6jase5 · #10 06-01-2009, 01:05 PM

Very cool. Unique sound finds are great.

René_Julien · #11 06-01-2009, 01:09 PM

Hehe, cool discovery.

Now package that sound.

warwick.hoy · #12 06-01-2009, 01:16 PM

That sounds so Gnar Gnar...good job.

Floridabwoy · #13 06-01-2009, 01:21 PM

haha... my oc-2 sounds like that.

lobey · #14 06-01-2009, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fightthepower

Wow that's pretty wild! It almost sounds like some phasing/panning going on as well. Would you mind posting a picture of the radio shack preamp? Was this purchased at radio shack, or found on craigslist or something along those lines?

I don't remember if the pedal you were referring to had a name, but im pretty sure you talking about username "speak onion" who made that ringmoddy fuzz pedal and posted the extremely loud (and sweet) clips of it- it was in a small silver enclosure.

If they're cheap and easy to find Im going to grab one myself and give it a whirl. In a blend loop that could be pretty damn cool. It could also make for a cool pedal project with a friend of mine who just graduated with a degree in electrical engineering.

I think the WMD Geiger Counter would be your best bet to recreate that sound. On many of the wavetables you can gate the signal with the gain knob and get all kinds of wild distortions- Using the tone knob you can control the frequencies passing through and get it to do the same type of glitchy distortion. You can also reduce the sample rate and bit rate for ringmod like effects and more.

The one speak onion made was pretty sweet. I think he said he'd email anyone the plans...did anyone build one?

Jared Lash · #15 06-01-2009, 01:24 PM

Wow, sweet sound.

Would be very cool to see that built into a pedal with a clean blend.

HogieWan · #16 06-01-2009, 01:37 PM

that's not sound card overload (digital distortion sounds a LOT different - very scratchy).

In high school, I didn't have a guitar amp to produce guitar distortion, but one day, while trying to record something into my dad's old tape deck, I realized that overloading it's preamp had an incredible tone. I used it into my stereo for a guitar amp and I loved that tone.

barboom · #17 06-01-2009, 02:36 PM

After jamming around on this a bit, I think I'll definitely be putting this in a bypass loop and adding a blend on it sometime. Here's the preamp if anyone else wants one

HogieWan · #18 06-01-2009, 02:49 PM

You've got 2 channels! run the bass into the L channel. Output from the L to the in of the R. Use the R out to your amp. This way you'll be distorting the distortion. If anything, it'll be interesting.

JohnDavisNYC · #19 06-01-2009, 02:57 PM

that sounds awesome. i love random gear being totally used 'wrong'... sounds cool.

john

fightthepower · #20 06-01-2009, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by barboom

After jamming around on this a bit, I think I'll definitely be putting this in a bypass loop and adding a blend on it sometime. Here's the preamp if anyone else wants one

Sweet thanks, after a quick look they can be found for about $40 online