MOTM

I use feedback in my modular all the time, usually done with a mult or
a mixer. The Evolver also makes clever use of feedback for very
strange and powerful sounds. Feedback is cool!

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Geoff <overand@...> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
> >
>