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01-27-2009, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Birmingham, England | | | Is self-ocsilation harmful
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I got my first delay pedal today and I managed to get some strange sounds out of it and I was wondering how harmful this will be to my amp.
Also what delays do you use for self oscilation??
Dan
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01-27-2009, 01:05 PM
|  | OVNIFX
EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | At higher volumes, feedback (which is what self-oscillation is, technically) can rip up speakers. Watch your levels. |
01-27-2009, 01:08 PM
| | | | I turn down the gain somewhere in my signal chain before doing it. No problems.
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01-27-2009, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Denver, CO | | Am I the only one who has always thought the the term "self oscillation" sounds like like something you do while watching Cinemax late at night.  |
01-27-2009, 01:25 PM
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Builder for FUZZROCIOUS PEDALS | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mount Laurel, NJ | | | The feedback from the oscillations on my walking delay makes the attenuator light up like a mofo. I really have to watch my levels b/c I can't afford to blow speakers/attenuators/tweeters/etc. I tend to keep my repeats at about 2:00PM and my delay time on the slower side to keep the oscillation tamed. If I turn the delay time up to simulate a verby sound, I have to roll back the repeats for sure. |
01-27-2009, 01:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Austin, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Martinez  Am I the only one who has always thought the the term "self oscillation" sounds like like something you do while watching Cinemax late at night. | Just be sure to put a sock over the gain knob. 
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01-27-2009, 01:35 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Is there any safer way to get self oscillation like a delay without the added chance of insanity to your speakers that a delay will do? |
01-27-2009, 01:47 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New York, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Martinez Am I the only one who has always thought the the term "self oscillation" sounds like like something you do while watching Skinemax late at night. | Fixed that for you.  |
01-27-2009, 01:54 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Martinez Am I the only one who has always thought the the term "self oscillation" sounds like like something you do while watching Cinemax late at night. | Yes, now stop it or you'll go blind.
Plus it's harder to twiddle knobs with hairy palms. Quote:
Originally Posted by joeinsprings Is there any safer way to get self oscillation like a delay without the added chance of insanity to your speakers that a delay will do? | Compressor with good peak limiting? |
01-27-2009, 01:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | I hope it's not harmful. I do that every morning. |
01-27-2009, 01:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBigO Compressor with good peak limiting? | I know what you mean, but dangit I just can't get this compressor to self-oscillate!  |
01-27-2009, 02:01 PM
|  | Modulus, Ampeg, and Boss oh my! | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Birmingham, AL | | | Practice safe oscillation! |
01-27-2009, 02:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Vista, CA | | | If you have a Carbon Copy, you can go into crazy oscillation but control the volume by turning down the mix knob. |
01-27-2009, 02:13 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New York, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBigO Yes, now stop it or you'll go blind.
Plus it's harder to twiddle knobs with hairy palms. |
A father walks in on his son "doing the deed" and yells "Son, STOP OR YOU'LL GO BLIND!!"
The son says "Dad I'm over here!!!"
I couldn't resist.
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01-27-2009, 03:07 PM
| | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rcubed If you have a Carbon Copy, you can go into crazy oscillation but control the volume by turning down the mix knob. | I have nearly killed my ears many times using that thing for oscillation. It takes a very quick hand to control it. |
01-27-2009, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | | Malekko 600s have the expression-controlled regen with allows for some nice control of self-O |
01-27-2009, 03:08 PM
| | Modulus, Ampeg, and Boss oh my! | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Birmingham, AL | | | Couldn't they make a compressed oscillation pedal that wouldn't get so loud? Or is the point of oscillation to be out of control? |
01-27-2009, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | How about a Boss LMB-3 at the end of the chain, and just stomp on it when things get a little crazy? Or maybe even a volume pedal, then you can back it off as you need to. |
01-27-2009, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Martinez Am I the only one who has always thought the the term "self oscillation" sounds like like something you do while watching Cinemax late at night. | Yes.. Indeed, that same thought crossed my mind as well.. something a bit pedestrian perhaps.. such as "Girls Gone..Wi....errrr... "Basses Gone Wild" kinda thing late-night-waste-of-time thingie on "Spike" and other channels..  |
01-27-2009, 03:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Birmingham, England | | | I'm using a delay I only got today, it's a subdecay echobox proto, the way I can get it to S.O is by maximg the time and the repeat knob, the only problem is, if I turn it off and then back on they oscillation is still there, the only way to stop it is to turn the repeats knob all the way down, is this the same with other delays?? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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