so i stumbled across a fun little thing for laptop users with built in mics and especially ibook users. doesn't have much usability live as far as i can tell, but if your all stoned or bored one night, i assure you things is fun.
disconnect your machine from your external speakers and just run the audio out of the built-in's. open up a live set and arm a track for monitoring using the built in mic on your laptop. adjust the levels a bit so you don't feedback too much and start messing around. i've found that on the ibook, if you run a fingernail around the plastic by the little mic hole, you can get really neato sounding stuff coming out of your machine. you just need to touch it ever so lightly to make a loud ass racket. gently tap it for a kick sound. add a ton of effects for even more silly fun. i personaly like using the grain delay and some heavy chorus.
guaranteed to keep you from accomplishing anything for quite a while! give it a little tap to see what type of latency you get out of your built in system, that will justify the hours spent doing nothing with this.
k
really pointless fun for laptop/ibook users!
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It is so instantly gratifying/liberating to just completely unplug, put my laptop on the bed and record. For lo-fi, heavily effected vocals, it is completely satisfying and acceptable, especially for whispering or recording interesting voicemails. I guess Bjork is a touchy subject or whatever, but she says she does a lot of her demos and finds lots of inspiration this way. The tibook fan comes on in about ten minutes, blowing everything to hell, so I have to do a bit of lid closing, but this is the epitome of the computer as an "instrument". Maybe if more people did this, someone (apple?) would see fit to build a "musicians edition" laptop with a tube mic, and a wafer-thin sub on the bottom!
steve
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dirty
damn dirty! u discovered my trick! hehehe
i've been really diggin this technique as of late. try this:
hold up a telephone dialtone to the mic and record a little of it. loop it and then automate transpose sweeps to effect the pitch...add a stereo delay...WOW!!!
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i've been really diggin this technique as of late. try this:
hold up a telephone dialtone to the mic and record a little of it. loop it and then automate transpose sweeps to effect the pitch...add a stereo delay...WOW!!!
+()Dd
nyquist theorem and nyquil...
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AUDIOVIDEO feedback
okok, so i'll tell you my trick:
(yeahyeah i know it's like the alvanoto's telefunken project)
apart from a computer (i do this with a g4 but everything with full duplex can work as well)
all you need is a tv with audio and video in and
a stereo cable with minijack and rca:
first of all TURN OFF THE TV VOLUME, then
1) set your computer to get the audio from the internal mic,
2) connect the computer stereo audio out this way:
1 chan to the tv audio-in, 1 chan to the tv video-in
3) turn on the volume, sloowly man sloowly
the shit is gonna start going feedback and the tv will display gray stripes moving vertically,
the fun is when you have something like audio hijack or something that allows you to realtime-effect the audio, Live too: try working on the phase and on the frequencies... you can have a certain amount of control on the video.
you can even use the stripes to modulate another video you superimpose, you have a synched modulation, or you can shoot the stripes in the face of your crowd with a video projector causing mass epilessia...
or you can find better ways of using this...
you'll have a synth powered by tv feedback with epylectic mindisturbing visuals... not bad, no?
that's all!
have a nice day
blu
[email protected]
(yeahyeah i know it's like the alvanoto's telefunken project)
apart from a computer (i do this with a g4 but everything with full duplex can work as well)
all you need is a tv with audio and video in and
a stereo cable with minijack and rca:
first of all TURN OFF THE TV VOLUME, then
1) set your computer to get the audio from the internal mic,
2) connect the computer stereo audio out this way:
1 chan to the tv audio-in, 1 chan to the tv video-in
3) turn on the volume, sloowly man sloowly
the shit is gonna start going feedback and the tv will display gray stripes moving vertically,
the fun is when you have something like audio hijack or something that allows you to realtime-effect the audio, Live too: try working on the phase and on the frequencies... you can have a certain amount of control on the video.
you can even use the stripes to modulate another video you superimpose, you have a synched modulation, or you can shoot the stripes in the face of your crowd with a video projector causing mass epilessia...
or you can find better ways of using this...
you'll have a synth powered by tv feedback with epylectic mindisturbing visuals... not bad, no?
that's all!
have a nice day
blu
[email protected]
Here's an idea for creating really brutal sounds. you have to watch the volume before hitting play! Create a simple (fairly dark) picture in something like photoshop, save the file as .RAW, then open the file as .RAW audio in a good audio editor. It depends on the picture you start with but you end up with crazy abrasive noises that take filters and fx well. You can end up with some pretty mad rythms too. You just have to be careful with your speakers to begin with until you tame the sample a bit.