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Feedback
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Through the years I've spent in recording studios,
I've discovered some cool ways of making feedback none of which involve electric
guitars. My favorite thing to do is to plug a Sure 57 microphone into a
distortion box into a multi FX box into whatever else into a stomp box
compressor into the board or an amp. At any volume this setup is sure to do some
squealing. If you hold the microphone in close proximity to your mouth and
change the shape of your armature (A-E-I O-U) you can control the pitch of
the feedback. you can also use this setup as a method of filtering other tracks
by simply routing them to a speaker (preferably large headphones) in close
proximity to the microphone and your mouth. there's no end to the fun-fun-fun.
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A: Microphone
B: Headphones
C: More
headphones (stretch eyes apart with fingers to view additional headphones)
D:Boom box(yeah,
its missing from the picture too
E:Guitar
amplifier (just pretend that the hammer here is a marshal)
F: Hammer (I
so wish that the hammer had something to do with any of this)
F: Duct Tape
G: Any multi
fx unit
H: Distortion
Box
I: Stomp box
compresser
All of the
Johnny Skilsaw stuff on this site is drenched with feedback made this way. Some
of the time it sounds similar to Theremins, guitars, keyboards, tripped out tape
loops or soundscapes.
As frustrating
as it is to describe, this technique is indeed it's own "instrument"
You can hear
it prominently in the intro's & throughout these tunes
Death Of A
Cynic
Midnight
Dragon
Midnight Hanged Man
Big
Bad Bounce
A
Cornucopia of pain
Mrs.
Mercury
Swollen
Ocean
Carnal
Sleep
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