odd question, please help me

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hello everyone, here's what I do. I record a hum noise while messing it up with my guitar pedal effects. I use the mic input of my cheap soundblaster card in my computer and it creates a very distorted sound (which you get from recording anything thru the mic input that is not a mic). I don't get that messy distorted sound with a simple guitar/bass amp. does anyone know: how can I simulate that while using an amp? .....the messy, the better. thanks.


I want to do that live without the computer and still get the same sound as when I record.
 
Not sure but the mic input of your Sound Blaster imight not instrument/line-level requiring you to connect your git to a preamp then to the mic input of the card.
 
Maybe this will help.
Think of How you can have distortion.
It can 'follow' and be 'carried' if you will, as a constant along with the signal.
It can get stronger as the signal gets louder.
It can get so over driven that the whole signal can seem to modulate or even shut down as part of the result. Or be modulated by another source. And of course any combination.
A few sick examples...(:D
When we were very young and trying to find what we were calling at the time (for our guitars) "Clean Distortion" -The Holy Grail. What the hell did we know?:) Later I found out if you mix a good clean channel with a crunch channel...you get close...to type 1.
Screem like hell into a c-3000 w/o the pad on, and the whole thing shuts down for a while.
Or, there's a cut on ZZ Top's 'Rhythmeen' where the guitar is not only raunched, but is also literally cutting out entirely -as if the whole system is tearing apart. Type 3?
This is sick shit.
And my disclaimer: Completely Subjective. OK?
I love it.
:D
Are we having fun yet?
Is one enough?

Is two too many?
:D
 
you want a distorted hum sound onstage???

is it music your making or just a hum sound?

60 cycle hum???

:confused:

it sounds like what you need is a soundblaster card made into a pedal. it would be the last pedal in your chain before the amp.

:)
 
thanks

jeap said:
you want a distorted hum sound onstage???

is it music your making or just a hum sound?

60 cycle hum???

:confused:

it sounds like what you need is a soundblaster card made into a pedal. it would be the last pedal in your chain before the amp.

:)
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hey, thank you all for your replies. the 'messing up' of a hum sound is the music I try to make. or any sound I can mess up with my pedals until some noisy loops turn out.

turning a soundblaster card into a pedal would be an excelent idea. a pedal with just a gain knob.....would be great. but that is maybe impossible. do you have an idea how can I make that? I would love to take this card and fuck it up until it looks like a pedal ;).....
 
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