I started practicing with Tim o'er here, and we're using this mixer he found in an interesting, useful way....
He plugs in his laptop, I plug in the end and the middle of my pedal chain, then the left out goes to the speaker, the right out goes to the other end of my FeedbacK headset. By panning, we can select what goes out and what goes back in, and equalize it on the way. Adjusting the treble, mid, and bass of the feedback changes the pitch and timbre. That part really comes into its own starting at 5 minutes into this video you might want to have started playing already:
Nice entrance Daby!
Sooo, that starts out with a low delay oscillation, and a higher one at the end of the chain getting eaten in a pattern that belongs to sound waves. Just to be clear, there are no drum machines or synths or any input at all in this one. The consistent pitch changes are coming from a flanger and a tremolo working closely in sync with eachother.
Just after 7 min, I bring the wah in. It does it's job adding to the pitch shifting in a similar but smoother way than the mixer.
At 8:40 I start using the other delay to remix the beat.
At 9:15 I leave that for shifting the in pitch of the first delay.
Then, at 9:30 I bring my head in to do all 3 for a bit.
round it out with some power chords, and you've got yourself a 13 minute drone noise epic! Rather short for that kind of thing, so sit up, relax and enjoy!
My setup is shifted from what i'm used to, with the fuzz getting exiled to the very end of the chain. I switch between the end and the pre-delay/tremolo/fuzz signal being the source for feedback.
