[sdiy] preamp or other secret weapons for lo-fi ness a la Basic Channel/Deep Chord... broken filter like Pole?

[jays at aracnet.com]

Danjel,

One technique that some people use is run the sound source though a bandpass filter, run a noise source though a bandpass and then mix them together. I've heard it used quit a bit on voice. Good for robot voices, old time radio or phonograph (add some wow and flutter with a LFO in there somewhere). Sort of a simple vocoder.

If you can take seperate high pass and low pass filters to make your band pass filter. That gives you lots of options to control the width and Q of each filter.

Jay S.

Danjel van Tijn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am a big fan of Rhythm and SOund/Basic Channel and Deep Chord. Those guys
> make use old analog synths (like Prophet V),t ape delays, perhaps resonators
> to create warm and fuzzy minimal dub techno.
> 
> I don't have a space echo (but I am lookign for one). What are some other
> good tricks for developing noisy, random sound sources?
> I have thought of building purposely noisy and glitchy tube preamps... or
> perhaps a home made tape echo... room is a consideration (e.g. I am avoiding
> using reel-to-reels as tape echos).  Any other ideas??
> 
> I know that Pole (Stefan Betke) had a broken waldorf filter that he used to
> generate static and glitches beautifully.
> 
> cheers,
>     Danjel