crazy screeching feedback pedal?

ferdi

i'm looking for a pedal which i can use to create stupid insane pointless crazy feedback and other odd delayed looping gutteral sounds with the twist of a knob with guitar and bass. does this pedal exist?

thanks

david

What you need is a delay pedal, set the repeats on max, turn up the level, play a note and mess with the time knob, its called self oscillation.
I incidentally have a modded DS1 that oscillates for sale, look in the FS thread in my sig for sound clips.

david

If you like matt bellamy's (muse) crazy sounds, then you'll like the modded ds1

ferdi

thanks for the offer, how much? but it may just not crazy enough, nearly there though....i dont know what i'm looking for i suppose.

any other suggestions

david

The DS1 makes siren sounds as described in the FS thread and it €50 posted. I really think a cheap delay like the Ibanez tonelok DE-7 might be just what you want. It creates an infinite wall of noise until you click the pedal off.

bombidol

buy yourself the cheapest crappeset distortion pedal you can and just turn it up max. then step on it and walk towards the speaker.

david

Artificial feedback is better . Natural feedback can be difficult to get, you know what youre gonna get with a delay pedal anyway (LOTS of noise)!

ferdi

obviously natural feedback is far sweeter but i'm just looking for crazy noise tbh

david

how much do you want to spend?

For really crazy sounds, ideally you want a distortion pedal, an oscillator, and a delay pedal,

ferdi

well its just for kicks so i'd like to keep my spend to a minimum - i have a distortion pedal already...

Giblet

Feedback control on a delay pedal is probably one of the cheaper ways. So is putting two distortion pedals after each other

david

Delay pedals oscillating through distortion sound like a jackhammer, not like howling feedback from 2 dist pedals. Is the jackhammer sound the one youre looking for

fish-head

A Big Muff gets prettty darn sick pretty fast.

jimi_t

Meh to all of the above.

What you need is a Zvex Fuzz Factory Probe - Psychotic distortion pedal with a theremin built in to control it. Check out the beginning of "Plug in Baby" by Muse and you'll see what I mean.

ferdi

jimi_t wrote:

the beginning of "Plug in Baby"

now yer talkin!
ad a delay to that and you'd be on to something

http://media.zvex.com/fuzzprobe.mov <-

http://www.glovebox.org/videos.html <-

jimi_t

Tis a bit expensive, but I suppose it is a "boutique" pedal and it seems to match your requirements. Zvex make some other pretty amazing pedals, well worth a look at the site.

ferdi

yeah they're great, way out of my price range for something i just want to mess aound with though,,,

punchdrunk

what you need to do is create a feedback loop IN a pedal, basically the distorted signal is set back in a loop and gets reprocessed basically meaning the pedal overloads itself creating howls,moans,bleeps and squeaks depending on which pedal you put in the loop

like this lad here
http://www.effector13.com/pedals/trulybeautifuldisaster/index.html

david

My DS1 does practically the same thing as a fuzz probe by twisting a dist. knob. Take my word for it, i used to own one.

fish-head

Zvex are just amazing.

Doc_Savage

what you want is a ring oscilator!

a la matt bellamy!


not one of his zvex pedals.... which i adore!!

feylya

Doc_Savage wrote:

what you want is a ring oscilator!

Wrong forum there bud...

fish-head

You dirty bastard feylya!

Doc_Savage

he has nothing better to do!
but those things are what you want to **** up a sound!!

c'mon it's called the ring stinger!

david

Ring modulators are just strange! Doesnt sound like a wall of feedback either

HusseinSarhan

Ferdi,

Z. Vex Zexter Fuzz Factory

Or a guy I know from another forum makes these:

http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/effects.html

He used to make one which was completely insane. If you contacted him I'm sure he could up the gain level on any of those pedals for no extra charge.

I'd buy a Z.Vex though. The Zexter edition though... cheaper. You could just buy a bunch of old dirt boxes and strange pedals off eBay and get totally new, fecked up sounds with added flexibility. Things that make pedals expensive like transparency, bypass etc. obviously wouldn't be an issue so you could easily get what you want for pretty cheap.

Also, Zoom do some standalone pedals which are a world apart from their multi-effects units which are worth checking out. They are discontinued though.

Good luck.

david

Google the Zoom ultrafuzz, its like a fuzz factory. Very sought after though and crazy ebay prices

Doc_Savage

freakonaleashx wrote:

Ring modulators are just strange! Doesnt sound like a wall of feedback either

on their own yes, but when you use one to control a seriously overdriven signal then the results are spectacular!

The Boarder Man

Here's something a bit different which I'm throwing into the mix:
http://www.sustainiac.com/
When switched off it works as a normal pickup, when switched on it uses the signal from the bridge pup to oscillate the strings giving you feedback on whatever you play. I think it also has different harmonic settings for the feedback.
Any of you guys ever tried this? I;ve heard good reports from elsewhere.