Crazy techniques. LET ME HAVE 'EM!!!

[lumbago]

I replaced all my tubes with Fallopians.








Now I have a studio with a 9 month waiting period.

 

[grn]

can you explain how he made a digeridoo out of a cardboard tube and some wood... I want to make one

 

[notbradsohner]

vocals through a distortion pedal

drums through a distortion pedal

put a side adress mic hanging in front of an amp, and let is swing back and forth

run a track thru your worst a/d/a converter several times for a lo-fi sound

put a condom over your mic and stick it partially underwater, put a speaker right up to the tank holding the water

record an amp in your car

record an acoustic guitar in your car

use a camcorder and extract the audio

find a cheap radio, get one of those wireless transmitters designed for ipods, and record yourself tuning into a pre recorded track

 

[Anthrax]

get someone to sing about 2 inches away from a wall(so they are facing it), and make the mic face the wall.

 

[Anthrax]

yep, speakers are basically backwards mics. you could plug a pair of headphones into a mic input and get audio. you could plug a dynamic mic into a speaker output and it just might make noise for about half a second before blowing out!

we did that to record the kick drum. got a pair of sony dj headphones and put them in the kick drum, and plugged it into a mic input, worked everywell

 

[thediscoking]

Mellotron!

Make a poor man's mellotron.

Record one continuous note for a few minutes (from vocals, guitar, whatever). Do the same with other notes on separate tracks. Using fader automation, bring the faders up and down as desired and record/bounce everything onto a single track.

You'll be making the next "Strawberry Fields" in no time at all.

Jacob

 

[surfmaster]

so this one time i was really bored and decided to record some drum tracks with a friend.we wanted to get some freaky sounds so we ended up duct taping wireless small condensers to the drum sticks as overheads and tom/snare mics. and then micing the bass drum as usual. its some freaky shit but its had to get the levels right for the hits on the toms. i think next time ill put a hard limiter or compressor on it. buut yeah its pretty crazy try it out sometime.

 

[tubesrawsom]

I have been using a 1x12 guitar cab a couple feet in front of the kick drum as an extra mic to catch the big low stuff. Kicks ass.

Did that two but with a 5-1\2 inch radioshack speaker wired to 1\4 then i plugged it into a di box came out really nice

 

[Todzilla]

Best lo-fi mic ever:

Yanked a microphone from an old telephone. Soldered wires on to it. Cranked it up in a preamp. EQ notched out the hum. Glorious lo-fi, so much better than EQing a decent mic.

I used it on the 3rd verse of this song:

 

[Alexbt]

There's a song my band does that I want to record as if it sounds like I'm singing into a walkie talkie... So I think I will. My scanner has a 1/8" output.

 

[Psybinisis]

In highschool I recorded my bass player and drummer choking themselves in a headlock until they both passed out. It sounded awesome, but I lost the tape.
I would to love to find it!

 

[getupkid0717]

i once saw a band play live who ran their acoustic drumset through a delay pedal. it sounded awesome. check it out at www.mutemath.com on their live video if interested.

another band i listen to recorded a drum track twice and panned one L and the other R. the tracks were pretty different with fills that would alternate from left to right in the speakers. this is a really fun thing to work with.

The Snake The Cross The Crown did a folk song where instead of drums they recorded their toes tapping and hands patting their legs for a very cool background to the song.

another band recorded their drumtrack first and then to get a snare echo they simply put a guitar on the lap, ran it through a delay pedal and slapped it every time the drummer hit his snare. when played back it sounds amazing on their cd.

 

[Monkey Allen]

I filled a trophey up with water and tapped it with a lighter while I emptied it into a glass. It went poing poing poing poing poing and recorded pretty good. To hear it, click on my sig and listen to the first 10 seconds of 'watery'

 

[7string]

Years ago I found an old transistor radio laying around. I popped the little speaker out of it and plugged it into an old Gibson 30 watt amp that I had laying around. Put an SM 58 on it cuz that's all I had at the time, cranked it to 10 and recorded it with just a touch of verb. Then reversed it and put it into one of my songs. AWESOME sounding distortion! And believe it or not that sucker lasted me over two hours before dying! And it didn't blow the speaker. The heat fried the wires that run from the terminals to the speaker! Wish I still had that recording!!!!

 

[Purge]

One time, I recorded something.

 

[bardo]

I took the plastic cover off of those floresence lights and sang some vocals thru it while holding it up(lenght wise)across my pick-ups of my guitar.
WILD SoundZ

 

[iwantmypie]

I'm not 100% sure but I think Pink Floyd recorded a song twice and took the two takes and panned them out so each performance was on one side of the stereo field.

 

[thediscoking]

I'm not 100% sure but I think Pink Floyd recorded a song twice and took the two takes and panned them out so each performance was on one side of the stereo field.

I know, also, that The Clash played "Lost In The Supermarket" on London Calling twice.... although it doesn't sound panned. Cool effect, nonetheless. You have to be very tight band to pull that off!

 

[thane1200]

yep, speakers are basically backwards mics. you could plug a pair of headphones into a mic input and get audio. you could plug a dynamic mic into a speaker output and it just might make noise for about half a second before blowing out!

A buddy of mine (a DJ) once played a show when his headphones broke and noone else had any, so he took the PA mic and plugged it into the headphone jack on the mixer and monitored that way the rest of the night.