New sound clip contest idea!

Cliff Schecht · February 05, 2009, 04:52:01 PM

I had an idea last night for a new type of contest. Essentially, a forum member posts a sound clip using a certain effect (or effects). The person who guesses what effect(s) are being used in the soundclip wins. It would be required that any submitters provide information about all equipment being used to record the clip (aside from effects, of course

). We could work out some sort of reward system as well, maybe I'll send out an RC4558 to the winner. What do you guys think?

Xelent · February 05, 2009, 04:55:11 PM

Sounds good to me! Bonus points if you can guess the settings

Mark Hammer · February 05, 2009, 04:58:03 PM

When I was an undergrad, my room-mate and I used to play something we called "the baby food game". We'd go to the supermarket aisle where they kept the baby food. One guy would turn around or hide his eyes, and the other one would select two jars of babyfood. The first guy had to guess what they were while the second guy covered up the label, showing only the bottomof the jar.

Sometimes strained peaches looks just like turkey and carrots. Sometimes that rice pudding turned out to be lamb and potatoes. Sometimes unusual sounds can be made by the most familiar of pedals, and the most outlandish things can sound surprisingly normal.

Sure, I'll bite.

slacker · February 05, 2009, 05:05:45 PM

Sounds like fun to me.

Captainobvious99 · February 05, 2009, 07:04:29 PM

Interesting. I'm in.

suprleed · February 05, 2009, 08:00:23 PM

Free to try and comes with a prize? Count me in!

kurtlives · February 05, 2009, 08:04:08 PM

Sounds fun, Id love to play!

Gives me something to do with all these damn little boxes.

liddokun · February 05, 2009, 09:46:33 PM

I'm in too! Sounds fun!

earthtonesaudio · February 05, 2009, 09:57:04 PM

Quote from: Mark Hammer on February 05, 2009, 04:58:03 PM
When I was an undergrad, my room-mate and I used to play something we called "the baby food game". We'd go to the supermarket aisle where they kept the baby food. One guy would turn around or hide his eyes, and the other one would select two jars of babyfood. The first guy had to guess what they were while the second guy covered up the label, showing only the bottomof the jar.

Sometimes strained peaches looks just like turkey and carrots. Sometimes that rice pudding turned out to be lamb and potatoes. Sometimes unusual sounds can be made by the most familiar of pedals, and the most outlandish things can sound surprisingly normal.

Sure, I'll bite.

Hoodlums.

frank_p · February 05, 2009, 09:59:02 PM

Effect or effects... Man, it's gonna be difficult and funny.
I am reinstalling my soundcard !

Cliff Schecht · February 05, 2009, 10:58:07 PM

Alright, I'll post the first. This is a soundclip that's been sitting on my desktop forever so that's pretty convenient! First you'll hear a clean sound, then the "secret" effect kick in. This one is pretty easy IMO.

Setup is as follows:
Guitar: Japanese Pan Les Paul copy (except bolt on neck), setup for slide playing (brass slide here). Pickups are from a Charvel Fusion Deluxe and, if I recall correctly, it's using both the neck and the bridge pickup. There is a JFET pre built into the guitar as well.
Amp: 1954 Silvertone 6 Watt beast, Model 1331

There are no mastering effects aside from some slight compression and as I remember, the mic's were an AKG C3000B, SM57 and a Behringer set a good deal away (ambient mic).

Here is the clip:
http://www.aronnelson.com/DIYFiles/up/clip1.mp3

Good luck!

earthtonesaudio · February 06, 2009, 07:30:33 AM

Hm... pretty raunchy. A bit of amp distortion also. Big Muff?

Ice-9 · February 06, 2009, 10:50:52 AM

Very nice playing, to me it sounds something like a fuzz face / big muff transistor type distortion.

Mark Hammer · February 06, 2009, 11:00:37 AM

It is a high-gain "clean" boost of some type. I say this because there is an unfocussed aspect to the sound. I don't say "unfocussed" in a disparaging sense. Rather, the tone is not aiming for any sonic signature in particular, the way that an "effect" pedal would. As a result, the sound you hear is the sound of an amp going "Jeez!! I can't handle this!", and doing a bunch of different things in response. Moreover, a straight clean boost would also contain a fair amount of treble content, simply by virtue of the buffering effect it provides. Part of what you hear is the fizz produced by pushing the amp too hard with treble.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

newfish · February 06, 2009, 11:01:58 AM

Fuzz face is my guess.

Let me see.... input cap was roughly .1uF.

Settings were roughly 1 o'clock for the 'Gain', volume was about 10 o'clock.

...and you were wearing ablue shirt when you recorded this.

Am I right?

The French connection · February 06, 2009, 11:45:42 AM

Quote from: newfish on February 06, 2009, 11:01:58 AM
Fuzz face is my guess.

Let me see.... input cap was roughly .1uF.

Settings were roughly 1 o'clock for the 'Gain', volume was about 10 o'clock.

...and you were wearing ablue shirt when you recorded this.

Am I right?

That's my guess too with gain at 3 o'clock. I'm not sure for the blue shirt...giving the rift, i think he was n*ked...and the pop we ear is not coming from the switch...well you know!

Sorry!

Dan

nelson · February 06, 2009, 12:10:49 PM

I think it's a dist+ type circuit boosting the front end of a tube amp/

frank_p · February 06, 2009, 12:29:37 PM

Dist +

GREEN FUZ · February 06, 2009, 12:41:33 PM

First thought = Big Muff
Second = Rat

Cliff Schecht · February 06, 2009, 01:43:39 PM

Quote from: newfish on February 06, 2009, 11:01:58 AM
Fuzz face is my guess.

Let me see.... input cap was roughly .1uF.

Settings were roughly 1 o'clock for the 'Gain', volume was about 10 o'clock.

...and you were wearing ablue shirt when you recorded this.

Am I right?

Add another transistor to that circuit

.

Mark: While there is some amp distortion, there isn't as much as you are thinking..

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