[b]Ring Modulator[/b]
A small and slightly menacing metal box came in the post today, from Jake Rothman - see previous post. It's an active ring modulator with no internal oscillator, just two inputs. I have plenty of ways of providing two audio sources - the first being... two theremins, arranged so that the volume loops are close together so I can play them with my hips, whist reaching out to the pitch rods with my arms. (No interference problems as the Moog Etherwave and the Kees Enkelaar operate on different base frequencies.) Or I have an echo box that provides a ping-pong stereo delay from a mono source, and a pitch shifter that sends the original and the pitch shifted sounds to two outputs. So effects chains can become effects networks, with lots of interesting variations. At the moment I am feeding it the stereo output of my reverb box, on the faux reverse reverb setting and with a one second delay with lots of repeats chained on one of the channels.
As for the general range of sounds it produces, well, screaming, tortured, rending sheets of corroded, rusting steel is a start. In Round, PiL asked "How many of you have seen a factory? There's a boss held high, and the children die" but not before Throbbing Gristle announced, on the back of their Second Annual Report, "Music From The Death Factory." If I were to paint it, it would be black and red with the TG lightning bolt. Anarchic, aggressive and direct.
[img]http://mobilization.com/images/artists/tg/TG_Lightning_Bolt.gif[/img]
I am thinking of calling it The Annihilist, or Ann for short.
On Monday I'll be talking to Jake about a couple of things I previously suspected it might benefit from to increase its functionality - a wet/dry mix - at the moment very little of the unmodulated sound bleeds through; I'd like the option of having more of it, and a low pass filter; to take out some of the screechier aspects of the sound if I want.
A small and slightly menacing metal box came in the post today, from Jake Rothman - see previous post. It's an active ring modulator with no internal oscillator, just two inputs. I have plenty of ways of providing two audio sources - the first being... two theremins, arranged so that the volume loops are close together so I can play them with my hips, whist reaching out to the pitch rods with my arms. (No interference problems as the Moog Etherwave and the Kees Enkelaar operate on different base frequencies.) Or I have an echo box that provides a ping-pong stereo delay from a mono source, and a pitch shifter that sends the original and the pitch shifted sounds to two outputs. So effects chains can become effects networks, with lots of interesting variations. At the moment I am feeding it the stereo output of my reverb box, on the faux reverse reverb setting and with a one second delay with lots of repeats chained on one of the channels.
As for the general range of sounds it produces, well, screaming, tortured, rending sheets of corroded, rusting steel is a start. In Round, PiL asked "How many of you have seen a factory? There's a boss held high, and the children die" but not before Throbbing Gristle announced, on the back of their Second Annual Report, "Music From The Death Factory." If I were to paint it, it would be black and red with the TG lightning bolt. Anarchic, aggressive and direct.
[img]http://mobilization.com/images/artists/tg/TG_Lightning_Bolt.gif[/img]
I am thinking of calling it The Annihilist, or Ann for short.
On Monday I'll be talking to Jake about a couple of things I previously suspected it might benefit from to increase its functionality - a wet/dry mix - at the moment very little of the unmodulated sound bleeds through; I'd like the option of having more of it, and a low pass filter; to take out some of the screechier aspects of the sound if I want.
