Psychedelic/unique effects

[DanielWong]

Yeah name some effects that contribute to creating new, out worldy sounds...

[Gila_Crisis]

The RAttle Crow /Brty Bird!!!!! really a freaky effect!!!! kind of a broken/fuzzy enveloppe filter 

http://moosapotamus.net/THINGS/dirtybird.htm

[boogietube]

Lots of stuff at commonsound- Beware - They're fairly complicated to build.
http://www.commonsound.com/kits/doku.php

You can find some sound samples of those projects here:
http://www.4mspedals.com/

[soulsonic]

A commonsound/4MS "Noiseswash" was the second or third pedal I ever built. It worked good, but not exactly something you can expect to get a "killer tone" from. I actually enjoy just using it as a noisemaker with no guitar plugged in - it really freaks out! In retrospect, most of the parts listed in the original commonsound bill of materials are pretty dodgy - it'd probably sound better with nicer parts - but then again, it might not freak out in the same way, so maybe it's a tradeoff? Whatever, they're fun, and not that hard to do on a perfboard. I called my Noiseswash the "Tokyo Times Ten", in honor of one of my favorite Merzbow "songs". Sometime I want to do a "Triwave Picogenerator" - I want to build it in a rackmount cabinet my friend found in an abandoned factory. It was part of some kind of industrial automation control and it's full of buttons and stuff.

[petemoore]

  Noise makers can be pretty easy, misbiased transistor can sound really cool before or in a Fuzz.
  often enough, conventional circuitry [fuzz phase octave echo reverb etc.] can sound 'other worldly' if it is implemented in an interesting way.
  such as echo length sliding combined with phase.
  Or phase which has it's LFO LFO'd...or jumps between fast and med fast or med.
  Something I've contemplated lightly [because it'd be a heavy load to make it work/ would probably be 'complicated-dedicated'], is a 'multi-auto-panner'..something that has say three channels or five channels, each with 'something' on them [pick effect types], and it pans from one to the next...put a speed control on that and find your space...lol.
  Random multi auto panner [ie...13542541243512, instead of a repeating order.
  Talll order..would be cool though.

[soulsonic]

You could modify the Vanishing Point circuit to do a panner like that.

[Zero the hero]

You asked for it:
http://www.tonefrenzy.com/effects/electra_psychedelic_machine.html
Unfortunately, I have no schem, but I would be very glad to do a PCB / article for this effect.
Anyone hearing?

[Toney]

Zero...that would make a lote of people very happy

It's a fuzz into a Resley machine (pre unvibe)

Ah...Resley... 60's Japanese..................... I'm fleaking out.

[Tuemmueh]

You asked for it:
http://www.tonefrenzy.com/effects/electra_psychedelic_machine.html
Unfortunately, I have no schem, but I would be very glad to do a PCB / article for this effect.
Anyone hearing?

*raise hand*

[snufkin]

  waht is it

well whatever it is i want to build it to hear it

[blanik]

i will sound lame here but a simple stereo rebote (set on infinite repeats) with effect only channel into any other effect (whammy, wah, octave...etc...) is bound to be totally psychedelic 

R.
(the + point for that is that you don't loose pedalboard real estate for an effect that you'll be using very rarely, since the delay and any other "standard" effect can be used independently...)


my 2 pesos...

[oldrocker]

That isn't lame at all Blanik,  I just recently did the infinite repeat change to my Rebote 2.5 and all I can say is WOW!!!  Crazy sh$%# going on there.  Combined with your other suggestions I'm sure it would be psychedelically wild.

[soulsonic]

In one band I was in I used the Danelectro Sitar Swami and Reverse Delay on probably a third of the songs.  That makes for some weird-ass sounds, especially since I used it mostly on bass!

[Dan N]

Zero...that would make a lote of people very happy

It's a fuzz into a Resley machine (pre unvibe)

Ah...Resley... 60's Japanese..................... I'm fleaking out.

Superfuzz and Resleytone.

http://tix.gozaru.jp/shin-ei/psychedelicmachine.html

Fleaking would be more of a Thai mispronunciation. How I miss flied lice!

[mongo]

You asked for it:
http://www.tonefrenzy.com/effects/electra_psychedelic_machine.html
Unfortunately, I have no schem, but I would be very glad to do a PCB / article for this effect.
Anyone hearing?

I'm Hearing!!!   

[ambulancevoice]

In one band I was in I used the Danelectro Sitar Swami

you actually found a use for such a crap pedal?!

[Mark Hammer]

"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!

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Good point, Mark!
And here is a review of the first psychedelic record:
http://www.lysergia.com/LamaReviews/lamaAlanWattsThisIsIt.htm

[petemoore]

  Tha'd do it too, it's alot of cabling to set up.
  New pedalboard has two dirtboxes, two boosters, octave, phase and a couple comps, and a wah right now.
  Ah...I just figured it out...simply lift the A output to B input connection to get normal stereo echo, connect it for Phycha-Echo...this is cool...I have a gig where this might just come in handy...Ah...might take some knob tweeking, might not work so good just using the EP's bypass stomp [-real-hard] switch.
  I was thinking about a loop box, it's a bit overhead how I could get 'normal Echo and Psycho echo switch to work well.

[DanielWong]

the electra thing looks beastly. how are you going to make an article about it?