Post by ashcatlt on May 8, 2012 23:50:55 GMT -5
My mother is a gadget nut. She sees all these silly little contraptions that nobody really needs and says "Oh, that sure is nifty!" Then she buys them.
Recently she just randomly gave me a Boombox, thinking id get a kick out of it, and maybe find a use for it.
This video is not me:
Anyway, I did find a use for it: a ghetto sustainer! I only just tried it out once, but it shows promise. For my initial experiment I ran it from the headphone out on my PodStudio UX1. Plugged into the instrument input and dialed up a couple different amp sounds in PodFarm2.
I tried a couple different positions on my Xavier SG. I found that placing it pretty much anywhere near the front of the body seems to lead to that high-pitched feedback which was obviously not coming from any strings, but from some kind of interaction between the driver and the pickups. Not sure if its electromagnetic or acoustic interaction, though ive never had any indication that these pickups are particularly microphonic.
I didn't try the rear of the guitar, but stuck it on the headstock and away it went! It did want some volume, but the strings started shaking like mad before I had it turned halfway up. It definitely wants some compression or overdrive. I didn't mess with it much, and expect that much could be done with tone shaping of the signal to tailor the response. It really only wanted to sustain one string at a time, and seemed to "prefer" the lower strings. It will sustain fretted notes, but this particular guitar seemed to have one or two notes where it really wanted to resonate, and seemed to have more trouble driving notes which had complex mathematical relationships to those notes. Honestly, these are all things I expect from real amp feedback.
Its not an EBow, Sustainiac, or one of 4real's contraptions. For me, though, recording so much through amp Sims in places where I cant make a whole lot of noise, I think it'll turn out to be a good enough way to simulate the interaction between the guitar and an amp. With PodFarm I don't necessarily have to use the same sound in the final mix as whatever I do to make it drive the way I want. I will need to evaluate my options to see if I can find a way to hear a different sound from whats going to the driver, though.
Speaking of hearing, the guitar does not amplify the signal the way you see the other objects in the video doing. Its actually just a quiet tinny buzz, unheard by anyone outside the room, and would be masked by headphones or even moderate monitor speakers.
Recently she just randomly gave me a Boombox, thinking id get a kick out of it, and maybe find a use for it.
This video is not me:
Anyway, I did find a use for it: a ghetto sustainer! I only just tried it out once, but it shows promise. For my initial experiment I ran it from the headphone out on my PodStudio UX1. Plugged into the instrument input and dialed up a couple different amp sounds in PodFarm2.
I tried a couple different positions on my Xavier SG. I found that placing it pretty much anywhere near the front of the body seems to lead to that high-pitched feedback which was obviously not coming from any strings, but from some kind of interaction between the driver and the pickups. Not sure if its electromagnetic or acoustic interaction, though ive never had any indication that these pickups are particularly microphonic.
I didn't try the rear of the guitar, but stuck it on the headstock and away it went! It did want some volume, but the strings started shaking like mad before I had it turned halfway up. It definitely wants some compression or overdrive. I didn't mess with it much, and expect that much could be done with tone shaping of the signal to tailor the response. It really only wanted to sustain one string at a time, and seemed to "prefer" the lower strings. It will sustain fretted notes, but this particular guitar seemed to have one or two notes where it really wanted to resonate, and seemed to have more trouble driving notes which had complex mathematical relationships to those notes. Honestly, these are all things I expect from real amp feedback.
Its not an EBow, Sustainiac, or one of 4real's contraptions. For me, though, recording so much through amp Sims in places where I cant make a whole lot of noise, I think it'll turn out to be a good enough way to simulate the interaction between the guitar and an amp. With PodFarm I don't necessarily have to use the same sound in the final mix as whatever I do to make it drive the way I want. I will need to evaluate my options to see if I can find a way to hear a different sound from whats going to the driver, though.
Speaking of hearing, the guitar does not amplify the signal the way you see the other objects in the video doing. Its actually just a quiet tinny buzz, unheard by anyone outside the room, and would be masked by headphones or even moderate monitor speakers.
