My pal Jeff Cross from Apple sent me a brief email:
please tell me you’ve seen these…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSsl1h8RhqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7bsX2qNWQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC170m-Hcyg
No, I had not. And they’re soooo good. All three are from YouTube user MotorGoblin. I don’t know anything about him, beyond the fact that he’s clever, funny, and very musical.
Anyone have any similar techniques to share? (I’ve been meaning to do a post on my “plastic tube Leslie”…)
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Hmmm I’m gonna commandeer one of those rotating things at the playground and try to get a univibe thing going with 8 mics! Seriously though, there is a plastic swing at the local playground that does a nice flange with your voice when the swing comes back.
Love the fan flanger. I was interested in hearing the faster oscillation rates but maybe that’s part deux.
Seem to recall reading that John Lennon had wanted to be hung by his feet and spun around a mic to get the flangie vocal effect he imagined for Tomorrow Never Knows. Cooler heads prevailed and the signal was run through a Leslie instead.
I have no idea whether that story is true, but I really, really, really, really hope it is.
Ah yes, that little story was from Geoff Emerick’s autobio about recording The Beatles… so probably true. yay
That’s the coolest thing I’ve seen since Bruce Zinky’s ‘Stupid Smoky Tricks’ vids. That MotorGoblin is one clever boots.
Hadn’t seen these before. They are cool, still smiling 🙂
Thanks for bringing to my attention.
When my brother and I were young we plugged a passive computer speaker into his crate practice amp and then dropped the speaker in a long tube sock. We then took turns spinning the sock while the other guy played. Pretty awesome.
That would sound frickin’ awesome! But now I want to see you do it onstage…
Yeah, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers no less!
These are so cool. Chris Duarte does the “wah” sound with the switch in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T53CjFfEfKw pretty amazing. I’ve played around with this technique and if you do it right you can make it sound like a reversed tape. I love the flanger video.
Cool. You can vary the effect a lot using different tone control pot and cap values, though I must confess I’ve never really dialed in the perfect “fake wah” recipe. Wonder what Duarte uses…
The vibrato thing was done with built in motors in guitars back in the 40’s & 50’s. i saw a guy playing guitar on stage while using an old school weight loss machine with a belt running off a motor and looped around his waist it gave a sort of jerky vibrato.
https://www.google.com/search?q=50s+weight+loss+machine&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=osdzUeiZMJDa2wX11IDgCA&ved=0CEAQsAQ&biw=768&bih=928&sei=v8dzUcOEF6qF2AXfoICICQ#biv=i%7C0%3Bd%7CvYImTfEBTVsmlM%3A
The flanger thing was pretty cool tho’.
Just the hammered harmonics made the Auto-Vibrato video cool.
I dig it when people think outside the box like this!!!!!
MotorGoblin has a very interesting mind this way.
Thanks, Joe!