MOTM

It's just a mixer.  It's really  profoundly strange thing, he patches
outputs of the mixer (mains, aux sends, etc) to inputs of the mixer
(channels, aux returns, etc), and applys different EQ, etc on the
channels.  It's a really ugly feedback loop, but the variety of sounds
he manages to produce is actually somewhat frustrating for me!  After he
played the thing for 20 minutes, he looked at me, and said "I can't
believe you spend ($X,XXX) on your modular!

Of course, his thing is unpredictable, and can't be 'played' like a
regular instrument, but for pure glorping, it's surprisingly good.  Go
figure!  I'll probably get some recordings up at some point, for those
of you who might be interested.

-Geoff

Matthew Hiscock wrote:

> How does he do that? Does he use outboard effects on a send/return or
> is it just a mixer?
>
> Genius idea, in any event.
>
> On 17-Mar-06, at 8:02 PM, Geoff wrote:
>
>     Hey, I have a 'safety' question about my MOTM rig. I have a friend
>     who
>     plays "Feedback Mixer." That is, he takes a cheap behringer mixer,
>     and
>     patches it into itself. The array of sounds it produces is actually
>     quite amazing, with pseudo-hard sync and incredibly strange
>     effects in
>     general. Very interesting- but he wants to cross-patch into my
>     modular. Seems like it's *probably* an OK idea- but I have NO idea
>     what
>     voltage ranges this thing could be producing. I could probably
>     hook up
>     a meter to it in AC mode, but I'm not sure that would be accurate.
>
>     The question is, what modules, if any, would be at risk from this
>     kind
>     of potentially grossly out-of-spec experimentation?
>
>