Things that are “wrong” but sound “right”

[Danny G]

This could be anything, from musical notes that shouldn't fit but do to malfunctioning gear but it sounds cool.

I'll start.

My first fuzz was a Creepy Fingers Harakiri fuzz.

By some quirk of the wiring in my signal chain, my modded Crybaby greatly confuses the Harakiri.

Rocked forward it sounds like a ring modulator. Rocked back it's a feedback/tone generator.

It's probably not supposed to do that, but I think it sounds awesome.

Moving the pedal stops this effect. The Germanium Fuzz Face I built doesn't really do that when in the Harakiri's spot.

In theory I should be able to adjust the bias pot inside the Harakiri to "tune" the feedback note to a certain pitch, but whatever pitch it is now works just fine and I'm not brave enough to dick with it.

I'll dig up an audio clip so you can hear what I'm talking about.


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[Lumpy]

I like this topic, although I'm not thinking of anything right away...

[Muffin Man]

hahha, /errk

[Pissy]

With my old Garnet amps there's something about how my pedal board that utilizes for one particular song a Boss Slicer and the big muff to get a consistent triplet interacts with the amp and the sound blossoms and contracts with the melange.  No idea what it is but it sounded cool. 


https://watchhuskyburn.bandcamp.com/track/wheels

Lordfinesse also had a small stone that colored the sound when it was off.  It was cool, but not supposed to do that. 

[Dylan Thomas]

Ghost notes a good example, when you intend to play one note, though through some fluke of fretting or strumming, you get a partially articulated second note which adds cool overtones and variations.  There's a lot of that in Hendrix's playing, I do it a lot too.  It's a perk of being deliberately sloppy ;-)

[Danny G]

The best recorded bass tone I have ever achieved on my own is the chassis of my crappy epiphone valve standard 15w combo pushing a budget model Ampeg 4x10

Too quiet for gigs but sounded amazeballs.

Alas the Epiphone hasn't worked in years (I would have thrown it out but my storage place informed me of their No Dumping policy so I had to keep it), and I had to trade the Ampeg as partial rent


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[bbottom]

The best recorded bass tone I have ever achieved on my own is the chassis of my crappy epiphone valve standard 15w combo pushing a budget model Ampeg 4x10

Too quiet for gigs but sounded amazeballs.

Alas the Epiphone hasn't worked in years (I would have thrown it out but my storage place informed me of their No Dumping policy so I had to keep it), and I had to trade the Ampeg as partial rent


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Those epiphone amps were killer with bass and you could mod the shit out of them.

My best bass tone was through a late 60's early 70's traynor YBA-1. Like the epi it wasn't loud enough in a rock band setting, but man that shit sounded awesome recorded

[RAGER]

Thought about posting in the what you're doing thread but it mostly belongs here.

I EVH'd my Strat. Mildly hot PAF style pickup wired straight to a 250k audio taper pot. Mounted to the cavity. These don't have long legs so I had to put little rubber spacers under.

I'm liking it. I haven't played this guitar on the reg for probably 15 years. Been playing the shit out of it.

Have a GFS VEH p/u coming. I also have 2 early 80's SD Invaders to try out.

[mortlock]

i love hotrodded guitars. looks awesome.