#48

All of the T Putnam Hill/Travis P. Hill (me) albums here (https://lomaeditions.bandcamp.com/) at least attempt for un-guitar territory. Granular delay and/or synthesis is almost always involved, as are all sorts of reverbs, amplitude modulations, and in the older pieces, a very handy 4MS Nocto Loco, which I regrettably parted with several years ago.

“Quaver_C” was composed of some very junky acoustic guitar recordings I thought I had no use for. But then I ran them through Ableton and some M4L devices and got that little ditty. The other three albums are all live “playthroughs” (as KFW might call them)—no overdubs, using the aforementioned techniques.

Another useful tool in my un-guitar adventures—and which I also regrettably parted with—was the Lightfoot Labs Goatkeeper (https://lightfootlabs.com/gk3/), which was a great way to remove the attack from my playing, among other uses.

As a side note, I got rid of the Goatkeeper awhile back because it just took up too much space on my pedalboard. In my search for a link to share in this post, I was super surprised and happy to find out that Malekko has overhauled it into a smaller format (https://malekkoheavyindustry.com/product/malekko-goatkeeper/). I might have to grab one after my next paycheck.

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#49

Thought this would be a good place to post a bit of @Justmat’s Bounds working some magic on a very simple guitar lick.

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#50
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#51

thank you so much for sharing this!! i read your post a while back and tried the drumstick between the strings trick. turns out it functions as a weird bouncing whammy bar as well. one of the resulting experiments made it onto my new “guitars only” e.p. based on dante’s inferno. track #9 is the most explicit example of “the drumstick guitar” (still not sure if i’m playing it “right”… is there a right way here?!) constructive criticism and any other ideas would be more than welcome…

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#52

I think the rules are:

  1. Sound cool.
  2. Don’t break anything.
  3. If Rule 2 isn’t followed, @merlatte is not liable.

So, yep, seems all correct. Nice track! :slightly_smiling_face:

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#53

Recorded my guitar yesterday while it was windy

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#54

A couple months ago I did this little ditty on a nylon string guitar using a pencil as a third bridge, similar to what a lot of you in this thread have done with drum sticks. Since it’s thinner, it’s less firmly attached and causes all of this buzzing and rattling.

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#55

that was gorgeous, thank you for sharing - especially liked the rattle on the lower strings

I’ll definitely be raiding my son’s pot of pencils at some point in the near future!!

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#56

anyone know where to get a partial capo with individual ’ ’ fingers ’ ’ that depress any chosen strings

saw one in an instagram ad once and now im like … I want one …

seems like a useful tool for those folks (me) who only ever play open strings and harmonics (me) & hit the stings w/ household items (m e) so it sounds “ambient” ( ( me ))

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#57

could you be thinking of the Spider Capo?

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#58

yes that is the thing !

jokes aside it actually looks like a really smart and creatively useful

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#59

Just came across this.

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#60

A heads up that the heads for the spidercapo that let you capo harmonics are sold separately.

#61

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#62

I’d love to hear some sounds from this

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#63

I should record some, will post here if I do :slight_smile: not actually used this thing much since I built it :-/

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#64

Does the trem do anything on it?

#65

the tension on the springs doesn’t affect the sound all that much but it does kind of bend a bit and rattle them about :slight_smile:

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#66

I’ve been playing guitar for almost 30 years, and spent a good deal of it trying to make my guitar not sound like a guitar. Did the prepared stuff for a long time, with a lot of looping, volume pedal work, putting through all sorts of pedals. The standouts for me have been the Moog Ring Modulator and the EHX Super Ego. They transform it into something totally different.

A few years ago when I got into eurorack, that has been the most un-guitar thing I’ve done, as I’ve not been playing guitar as much. Ha. I’ve really been trying to combine guitar with euro, but I’ve not been totally stoked by it, probably because I’m liking the sounds I’m getting from the synths more than the guitar itself. I have been playing lap steel and I’m finding that it blends with the euro stuff better and is easier to do prepared things because its sitting upright and there’s no frets. Also timbrally, I really dig the way it blends.

With Euro I have had some nice results with Morphagene and Mimeophone. I also like doing the thing where you run the guitar through a preamp with a gate trigger, like the Doepfer A-119, and depending on its threshold, it fires a gate when you play. You can use that information for so many things, but I like using it to clock a sample and hold going into a quantizer, then you can get ramdon notes to play in a scale along with waht you play on the guitar, .

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#67

Has anyone tried stringing a guitar with things other than music strings to achieve a different sound? I’ve thought about stringing a bass with sheet metal strips but am kind of stumped on how to do it without modifying the instrument too destructively.