Have u ever used a weird recording technique

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Just recently I moved everything that I ever recorded into one mono track .... It played for about 3 seconds then disappeared into a very small singular> I think it may have been a black hole!
Needless to say I now need a new recording computer. :D







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Wanted a super lo-fi vocal sound (a la Yellow Submarine 3rd verse) and wasn't happy with harsh narrow bump EQ solutions.

Ripped a carbon microphone out of a broken phone, soldered a cable to it, soldered a 1/4" jack on the end, plugged it into a preamp, juiced it, notched out the hideous hum and recorded vocals with it.

It's the third verse of this song:


Also, all the distorted guitars on that song are a strat copy into a Rat pedal directly into the back of a tape machine. The Rat pedal is set with minimal low pass filtering, then the impedance mismatch hitting the line in of the tape machine interact to produce a creamy distortion.
 
That's great stuff Tod! When did you put that song together?







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If I had a pet parrot, I could try to 'record' some vocals into it, then from the parrot into a mic, onto tape. But Alas, I have no parrot.
 
I have a pet parrot and everyone is trying to tell me that it's dead!







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Okay, forget the nonexistant parrot. I accidentally stumbled upon something really stupid the other day. I was transferring an LP onto my hard drive, and while it was playing I was also playing an electric guitar fairly loudly. At the end of one LP side (the few seconds of nothing after the last song), I can hear a very muffled recording of my guitar. It sounded very crappy, but I might like to do something like that on purpose one of these days. Maybe I'll leave the turntable's lid open to see how differently it'll pick up the sound that way.
 
Before I had a drum set and mics, I put a drum machine through little practice guitar amp once. Mic up the amp. sounds less like a drum machine and more like a lo fi recording of a mic drum set.

Oh yeah, lately I ran my guitar into a tascam MFP-01 old 4 track. I took the line out L into an amp sim, the line out R into a different amp sim, the headphones out through a Y cable with one to my amp which I mic, and one to a little amp modelling amp I used just for the effect, with a line out of the head. 3 outputs to a line mixer plus one actual mic means 1 guitar through 4 different tones, all blended together and back into 2 stereo tracks. I learned that a Digitech version of a 5150 is nothing like the Zoom version of a 5150, or a line 6 model version either. I also learned that I can get really nutty using 4 different delays and swooshy background modulations at once and should probably stray away from doing so because I might go insane and never recover.

edit: Mario paint was awesome. we used to make music videos with it in the days before youtube, wish I could have had a way to record them back then.
 
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Okay, forget the nonexistant parrot. I accidentally stumbled upon something really stupid the other day. I was transferring an LP onto my hard drive, and while it was playing I was also playing an electric guitar fairly loudly. At the end of one LP side (the few seconds of nothing after the last song), I can hear a very muffled recording of my guitar. It sounded very crappy, but I might like to do something like that on purpose one of these days. Maybe I'll leave the turntable's lid open to see how differently it'll pick up the sound that way.
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you could set the needle on the record without turning on the 'table. Then the guitar wouldn't be drowned out by the record.
 
I recently wanted to mic my colon so I :eek: ......... well you get teh picture.
 
It's not a picture you'd want to get, Lt. But it's one you'd never forget if you did. It would haunt any good man for a lifetime and a bad one for three.......
 
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It's not a picture you'd want to get, Lt. But it's one you'd never forget if you did. It would haunt any good man for a lifetime and a bad one for three.......
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when I had my colonoscopy they didn't knock me out for some reason even though that's what they typically do and they didn't give me that amnesia drug either which they also routinely do nowadays. I don't know why ....... but they laid me on my side and put a monitor in front of my face and said, "You can watch the whole procedure on this" .... :eek:.
I said, "I ain't watching shit" ........ but they did pop some kinda party drug in me to get me relaxed and I watched the whole thing in a party frame of mind.
I was inviting everyone out to my gigs and asking, "what's that green thing there ?" ......

Finally the doctor says .... "please be quiet and let us do our work". :D


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anyway ..... I have a passable picture in my head.
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Impromptu recording session on the road. Classical guitar...no mics handy, but I did have a Peavey lavalier mic I was about to install in my accordion. I taped that lav to a pencil and taped that pencil onto a mic stand and pointed it midbody between the fret board and bridge @ about 2 ft.

That little mic gave me a kick ass recording of that guit.
 
This is a technique I've used multiple times with good results. I was recording electric guitar with a POD Pro, and wasn't impressed at all. I wanted to move air, so I jacked it into a power amp, and then a Marshall cab and mic'd it up in live mode (cab sim disabled). It was better, but still not what I wanted. Then I switched to a Fender wedge monitor (looking for a flatter, broader-spectrum speaker), and enabled the cab sim. Better- not perfect. Then I got to thinking- what I need is a matched combo with a wicked clean amp and a broad spectrum speaker array that won't mess with the amp and cab simulation. No way-insufficient funds. Then I looked across the room and realized I already had it! I jacked the line out of the POD into an M-Audio SBX subwoofer and a pair of SP5B monitors. Bingo!- but I had some phase issues. So- I disconnected one of the satellites, and adjusted the sub's gain to compensate. Then I asked myself, "After all of this, why am I using a cheap dynamic with a high-mid vocal boost?" I switched to a B.L.U.E. Kiwi in omni (a C414 works pretty well, also), which eliminated the proximity effect of the sub, tweaked the sub's gain to balance the tone, and it was *there*. I got the sound of the modeled amp and cab with moving air, at a volume level *far* below what would be required with a cranked up tube amp. Along with mic'ing real amps, which I also do, I've used this technique with success for several years.-Richie
 
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