Psychedelic/unique effects

[Ge_Whiz]

Cheap psychedelia? Green Ringer into Phuncgnosis.

[Processaurus]

"Psychedelic" tones are generally things that change over time.  I've been impressed with the manner in which pedals like the Tone Core Echo Park (soon to be available in Behringer form) can be used for their dual inputs/outputs to produce some evolving sounds.  The EP has an odd system that lets the dry inputs reach their respective outputs independently, without interaction, but the two inputs get pooled then redistributed with respect to delay processing.  What this means is that if you plug into A, some of the wet version of A gets sent to B, and whatever you fed into B goes to A as well.

One experiment I've done is to plug into A, take the A output and run it through some external processing, and take that output and feed it to B.  The B output gets sent to the amp.  Since some wet A shows up at the B output, and B at the A output, the B output consists of stuff that is about to be processed after the A output, plus already processed stuff and...well, you get it.  A little bit of change inserted into the loop and you get an echo that just keeps changing and changing and changing.  Now that's psychedelic!

Nice idea, I always thought of the mono processing of those Tonecore pedals as being a silly limitation, that's a neat way to take advantage of it.  I'll have to try that with the reverb pedal too, some rainy day. 

With a DD-3 modded with an effects loop for the regeneration, it's similar fun, those are some tripped out sounds (ring mod in the loop, envelope filter in the loop, wah, graphic EQ, whammy pedal).  Good observation too, I agree, changing over time is a helpful guideline to reproducing the psychedelic experience with music, things that slowly warp the realistic sound of your instrument, or slowly pulse, or zoooom offff, mannnnn.  Thinking about it, I suppose psychedelic culture has been a decisive influence on the effects pedal market, in fact, pedals are basically drugs you offer to your guitar.  Distortion, the gateway pedal.

[DanielWong]

yeah maybe i should just do some drugs and not have to worry with effect pedals.

I liked the idea with the delay pedal. is there a way to modify an  Ibanez Analog Delay to have two inputs?