Harmonic Hum

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This was just a happy accident I came across today. I was getting ready to do another video and I engaged the Pigtronix Attack Sustain pedal with the volume and harmonics knobs turned up. My guitar wasn't plugged in so I got this loud hum...made even louder by the Attack Sustain's massive compression. I engaged the HOG and it generated perfect harmonies relative to the hum. Instant drone. Pretty cool. I fed that into the Echolution and messed with the HOG's lowpass filter.

If you don't have the expression pedal plugged into the HOG then you can use the Expression Button which will alter a parameter depending on which expression mode you are in. I did all this before my wife got home from work. She has not yet discovered the zen-like quality of drones. Oscar, however, admits his very feline being has been immesurably enriched by the noise. I gotta go with Oscar on this one.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Pigtronix
• Attack
• Sustain
• Echolution
• Electro-Harmonix
• HOG
• synth
• analog
• electronic
• experimental
• drone
• noise
• moog
• arp

[themcnasty]

Try plugging a wah in backwards and then feed it into the HOG. I'm sure that would make some cool shit too.

[Analogger]

I'll try it. I recorded the sound of a Sunbeam Juicer and fed it into the HOG.  The HOG pooped for two days straight.

[Sachseguy07]

ok well not to sound like a douche, but most noises if not all, have some kind of pitch to them.

So getting a buzz from a quarter inch un plugged and running it through a harmonizer machine would make a chord.

you could even do it to the buzz from a guitar's pickups

that would work too

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[Analogger]

Yes, that was the whole purpose of posting the video - to show how noise has an element that can be pitched relative to its fundamental.  I have done it with the buzz from an electric razor as well. Pretty cool.

[Ardbug]

Very creative :)

[masshred]

Whats the name of this song?

[curioman]

Very cool.

[Queuex]

If you did a song which included this, I would listen to it all day long :D

[pulsev2]

okay so throw the giutar in the trash already

[Anight7mareX]

That's awesome. I love drones.

Have you heard the choral song "past life melodies"?

There is a sick drone in that song.

[Wanderlustus]

Thanks for that. Surrealist shit never dies.

[bluesrocker14]

This is absolute genius. Having watched a couple other of your videos and checked out your myspace, as soon as you said "and I heard a lot of noise" I went "uh, oh..." but I still had no idea where it was going. Killer vid!

[Bitsforboats]

Utterly.... whoaaa!

[rexmundi6]

the magic of music making!