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By onezero on April 20, 2014 3:48 am

Prompted by my no-input work being used in this promo spot (aired during this season of Mad Men in the Hawaii market), I decided to do a no-input piece this week.  I did this one all in the box in Live, with a return channel of EQ8, filter delay, ping-pong delay, frequency shift, resonator, flanger (the essential ingredient) and granular delay all in there before a brick-wall limiter.  All of it went into a hall reverb, and some went into additional looper return channels. The initial impetus was a single closed-hat hit, but otherwise all the sound was feedback in the system.  I did four improvs with these, and stitched them together for this week's track.

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awesome. I've been meaning to get into some no input stuff but never thought to do it ITB....

7506 wrote:

awesome. I've been meaning to get into some no input stuff but never thought to do it ITB....


Thanks!  The classic Death Pig rig is discrete effects boxes, but I like ITB for relative painlessness of editing later, since rather than recording clips or input, I'm recording knob throws. 

ohh. cool concept, cool outcome. thanks for the inspiration!

input is definitely overrated cool Would have sworn this was modular stuff if i didn't know better...lovely

Superb sound design

Inspirational

I'm impressed.  What an amazing diversity of wonderful bubbly squelchy goodness.  I've never experimented with this technique, but it's now on my list!

Amazing! Thanks for sharing the procedure!

minaret_kid wrote:

ohh. cool concept, cool outcome. thanks for the inspiration!

sinewave wrote:

input is definitely overrated cool Would have sworn this was modular stuff if i didn't know better...lovely

encym wrote:

Superb sound design

rorzle wrote:

Inspirational

mispel wrote:

I'm impressed.  What an amazing diversity of wonderful bubbly squelchy goodness.  I've never experimented with this technique, but it's now on my list!

Ipaghost wrote:

RawTicks wrote:

Amazing! Thanks for sharing the procedure!

Thank you all!  I'm especially happy to hear that I've been able to pass along a fun method for experimentation.  Works great in the real-world as well as in the box.  Enjoy!

Super fun experiment!  Thanks for the inspiration.  Here's what I did with it this week:

http://weeklybeats.com/#/mispel/music/boxy--but-good

mispel wrote:

Super fun experiment!  Thanks for the inspiration.  Here's what I did with it this week:

http://weeklybeats.com/#/mispel/music/boxy--but-good


This is great--excellent stuff!  Glad to see people taking the technique and running with it!  I was first introduced to it by David Lee Myers's work as Arcane Device--it's brilliant in its simplicity and inherent possibility for variation. 

Bizarre, taken on a spooky journey.

great atmosphere ... have to check more ... so you also managed all weeks so far smile

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