MOTM

Kinda interesting ideas from everyone along these OT lines here. Maybe Larry 
can take out a hole saw and mount a speaker in his wife's cello while she's 
out of the house and tell us how it sounds -- also how it sounds when she 
hits him over the head with it!

One thought I had along these lines is to build a box of "roughly" similar 
dimensions as a cello for similar frequency response, and mount a speaker (or 
a mic) inside that box to get the resonance characteristics desired.

A couple of more "acoustic synth" ideas which I've stolen are:

1) I read something from Pete Townshend which he had experimented with 
setting up a stereo pair of mics in a room. He then ran a bunch of different 
synth voices through separate amp/spaeker systems which were distributed 
throughout the room in a similar fashion as an orchestra is set up. This adds 
the room ambiance to a purely electronic medium. I fully intend to do this 
when I get an extra room and about ten times as much electronic music 
equipment as I currently have.

2) There was a self titled record released in 1975 from a band called 
Armageddon on which there is a song "Last Stand Before" which has a guitar 
solo played using the following effect: 
a) Mic a piano and put a telephone book on the sustain pedal. 
b) Run the prerecorded guitar solo through a speaker set near the piano sound 
board (probably pretty loud). 
c) At certain strategic points in the solo, turn up the mic (and maybe turn 
down the send to the speaker too) for weird haunting sustained notes. 

I believe this can be done with an autoharp in another room and a dual VCA 
and an envelope follower to control the sustaining notes.


What would be really nice for the autoharp idea is to use some sort of cheap 
but good contact PU. this would also be good for adding outputs to those 
garage sale guitars, cheap sitars, home built log drums, and the other 
similar instruments which many of us have a garage full, and cost less than 
your typical Barcus Berry PU.


More ideas anyone?
JB

In a message dated 12/27/2000 8:55:21 PM, elhardt@... writes:

>jlarryh@... writes:
>
>>>There might be something to say for this.  The best brass sounds I ever
>
>heard were produced by a driver with a horn attached  that looked just
>like 
>the bell of a trumpet.<<
>
>I'm pretty sure it could be very useful.  I base this on the fact then
>when I 
>got my first synthesizer in 1979 I had to play it through my families hammond
>
>organ with Leslie speaker.  I was able to get better cello and violin sounds
>
>through the Leslie than when moving to speakers that didn't color the sound
>
>so much.  So using a real Cello body might work well.
>
>>>My wife has a Cello.  Do know how much those damn things cost?<<
>
>Actually they can be bought new for between $250 and $350.  I'm sure the
>sky 
>is the limit on the high end.
>