Clever Hack Makes a Guitar Sound Just Like a Video Game

Whenceforth cometh that unusual guitar shred ? What is this strange twist that makes a guitar sound like the budget sexual conquest to a 80s TV biz ? Let me explain .

I ’ve written aboutJeremy Bell ’s experimentswith trying to cut rapidly between audio feeds before . With his most recent plug , Bell created a little rocker that set aside him to abbreviate between a bouncy signal from his guitar , and a slightly delay signal from that same guitar . It ’s like the auditory sensation is meter go at Bell ’s command .

The rocker is cheap and resourceful . Here ’s the verbal description Bell give me by e-mail :

The rocker itself is a small , two-dimensional strip of woodwind instrument . For the fulcrum , I secured an old chopstick to the center of the woods strip with condom bands , and then channel - taped the closing of the chopstick to the base . For the contacts , I file the paint off of four metal thumbtacks and bond them to the rocking chair and the base . I soldered audio transmission line to the tacks so that one audio sign pass through one pair of tacks when they touch , and the other signal pass through the other pair when they touch .

When Bell ’s rocking rhythmically in sync with the pulsation , the effect sounds like a manual adaptation of your even old delay , which slaps back the same tone at a even interval . The more interesting phone happen when Bell vary the rhythm method of his oscillation between subsist and delayed provender . That dual tap tactics in particular makes the signal strait like something programme for an honest-to-god platform fighting biz .

The sounds this hack facilitates are awe-inspiring , but I would love to see a feed divider like this progress into a foot pedal point perchance ? The mode it ’s designed now , you may only play guitar with one hand . Which is possible ! But , uh , guitar is meant for two hands .

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