Broken Cable Simulator Pedal? (Yes, I'm serious).

[Crontox102098]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcv-em1kQx4
maybe something like this, but I cant find any schem of this funny device

My contribution:
Easy... i think   a little ring modulator and a FET or LDR that is controlled by a variable speed random lfo...  

A broken cable necessarily has a humm or psst or both... so i've seen some effects that make this with a simple opamp and some resistors.

[facon]

A couple years ago I purchased an old Valco from the late 50's as a project amp. It had a bad solder joint that would cut in and out occasionally depending on how the note resonated the amps cabinet. We used it like that in the studio for a cool effect. The closest I could get it it is the sputtering/gating effect of an under biased fuzz face. It still isn't the same.

I wonder what would happen if you ran the signal to two pieces of foil that were folded and then pressed together. And even better, if you split the signal to a small headphone amplifier and put an earbud right on the foil. I don't know why my mind always goes to weird unreliable places.

[Vallhagen]

I think the Farmers Mill is exactly the box or sound you look for? Not a DIY project afaik though. but looks and sounds damn cool. I havent tried it myself, but there was someone here who bought one. Sadly i dont remember who.

http://www.crushsound.com/pages/view/Farmers-Mill/

Cheers.
/Bengt

Edit: Just checked that posted ^^ "anti-effect" link as well. Pretty close too.

[teemuk]

Duct tape a mercury switch to your speaker cabinet so that speaker rattle will randomly open or close the switch....?

[Jdansti]

Duct tape a mercury switch to your speaker cabinet so that speaker rattle will randomly open or close the switch....?

Or attached to your dog's tail. 

[Tony Forestiere]

Or attached to your dog's tail. 

Yeah, but then you have to pick him up for the gig, and pay his bar tab.

[teemuk]

^ Well that would probably the most awesome and "rock-n-roll" -thing to do on a stage so what's wrong with that? A beer drinking dog wagging its tail to distort the tone of a guitar. Even Jimi Hendrix's stage moves weren't that cool.   

[gasmask]

I thought about fuzz factory (zombii in diy - check madbeanpedals). When you have comp turned to 3-5 (clock) it sounds like some kind of a faulty cable. But the sound is still distorted. I suppose that it could be a simple buffer with some additional pots or resistors to create that sound....

[AJDbass]

Not a diy project, but there is the Chaosound Anti-Effect pedal

[gasmask]

wow. Its cool. I think it has ne555 chip which controlls LED/LDR or vtl. It is probably some kind of a choppy tremolo. Its my suggestion, I may be wrong.