A Great Many

Experimentation using Source Audio's Bass Envelope Filter with these instruments:
- ESP B-208FM
- G&L L-2000
- Charvel/Jackson B2
- Rickenbacker 360/12
- National New Yorker (1927)
- Samick itty-bitty scale bass

This is an exclusive production for the Hot Hand 3 Video Contest! Why? Because the HH3VC contest rules say Source Audio owns the results of this experiment.

Possible alternative names for this experiment:
- Electronic Accelerometer Psychedelic Blues, (Part 1)

Thanks to Preston for the extended loan of the 1927 National New Yorker lap steel guitar which is a joy to play and listen to and look at.

I built this clip-on device which uses the guitar's output to produce physical feedback. Feedback is a very subtle, elusive, curious, delicate, angry and beautiful animal.

This clip lets met separate concerns like power transfer of the amp to the guitar from the fraction of total power the amp is producing. Typically feedback is associated with high gain and distortion, but this clip lets me get feedback at other power levels on the amp, independently of how loud the feedback is to the guitar.

Acoustically coupled feedback has a natural phase/delay component resulting from the distance of the player to the amp. The delay to the clip can be controlled independently from the sound of the instrument. Acoustically coupled feedback also affects the whole body of the instrument, the clip is more like a focused beam than wave.

If you have a big room and pretty sounding tube amps, I highly recommend using those. This clip is a much better choice than boring DI-sound.

If you're interested in this clip, please contact us at: Feed backer@rotang.com (without the space in Feedback).

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ROTANG Records presents wobble bassist Spillage on this remix of the original "Friday the 13th" movie.

The True Story of How ROTANG Records Discovered Spillage

I finished a lunch meeting with a music publisher regarding important hit ROTANG records, and on the way back to the lab we found a smoldering UFO (LFO?) wreck in a crater, it was just like the beginning of Superman, but instead of an infant it was this guy and all his gear in a tangled mess. He introduced himself as Spillage and explained he was on a mission from WFMU at which point we helped pull him from the wreck. He went on to explain (for varying definitions of explain) that Kurt Gottschalk needed him to do a jam with Jason Voorhees and Harry Manfredini and he heard my previous work with A Great Many for Irwin Chusid's show and thought I could help.

We came back to the lab and he didn't say much, he just set up and started wobbling. I immediately ran to get some microphones and set up some cameras.

Soon we worked out the Friday the 13th song, which you see him performing in this video. We tricked him into signing an exploitative long-term contract with ROTANG so we're looking forward to more Spillage hit wobbles soon!

Jungle beat drummers who can play skip and swing beats are encouraged to contact us: A Great Many@rotang.com (without the spaces).

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One of the lost Friday the 13th WFMU tapes.

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One of the lost Friday the 13th WFMU tapes.

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I love the way this came out, I later ruined it by expanding it and re-recording it and it just didn't sound this good. This is my only case of "demoitis".

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The video is mimed -- the song was recorded by Park Lane in 2009.