you know the kind of things that make your guitar no longer sound like a guitar. Pedals that sound like........well controled chaos. I have a dl4, digitech digidelay (my mind much better than every boss digital delay except rv3) phase 90 (feedback-spin knob, sounds great) and a quite a few others, those are just my favorite noise machines. I'm considering a few others, just want to get some opinions. I've bean looking at a few lately and the top three are
ehx-frequency ananlyzer
mooger fooger-ring mod
effector 13-truly beautiful disastor

"this isn't nam smokey it's bowling, there are rules."

I don't play a lot of "noise" guitar per se but I am into the special effect thing. My faves are the Mooger fooger ring mod, EH microsynth, and any delay pedal. ZVEX fuzz factory, a looper, vol.pdl, tremelo, and an E-Bow. The effector 13 thing sounds pretty cool. You may also want to check out the "total sonic anihilation" page here at "Toyz" - they have some pretty wacky boxes. Envelope filters and arpegiators are also good for the toolbox. "Exotic's" Robotalk does both - also here at 'Toys'.

Check out a Line 6 Filter Modeler FM4 or the rack version Filter Pro.
It has tons of wacky, psychotic, weird, and useful sounds.

Lotsa fuzz, reverb, and delay... And controled FEEEEDBACK.... in that order... there you go...

Alex

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Anyone tried the Bennett Music Labs Lowball?

This looks interesting , I hear it can be a very heavy sounding pedal and like the low tuned stuff. anyone?

i have a EH frequencey analyzer....its awesome...really fun pedal. like most ring mods of course...but if you drone on one string, and twist the shift knob a bit...you can kinda "talk" with it...or mabye sound a lil like R2D2 or something.....a fun time though, and guaranteed to trip someone out..

All good ring mods have a certain vocal quality to them, my blue ringer does a great job at this... Slides show this off wonderfully.

Alex

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Originally posted by esoteric pete:
if you drone on one string, and twist the shift knob a bit...you can kinda "talk" with it...

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There's a $100 price difference between the EH Frequncy Analyzer and the Mooger Fooger Ring Mod... With the MF though you can add expression pedals to change the sounds on the fly, which to me would be worth the extra $100.. If you play table-top, then the EH would probably do the job just fine since you have a little more freedom with your hands to f with the pedal.. But if you're playing standard, then the MF probably has more whacked-out possibilies..

You might try looking into the 4ms pedals.. They can get pretty expensive but you can get a customized pedal that's been altered to get the best 'noise' possibilites out of it.

The rig I use for our avante-noise band (which is fun, but I wouldn't want it to be my main gig) has a 4ms Noise Swash at its heart. I love that thing... I've seen it bashed on forums and used as a basis of comparison for pedals that want to one-up the old brute ("like a Noise Swash for adults," one review read) but all that does is cement the swash's place as the pedal by which all other "extreme" distortions are measured. I love it to death.

I use a ring mod, too. Everyone seems to recommend the Moog one, but I've been using a Frostwave. They're about half the price. I do use a Moog filter, though.

The ZVex Machine is nasty in a way I've never heard before. If you dime the gain and run volume swells into it, it gets very synthy. Play chords with it and the sound becomes a crackling, buzzing mess. The downside of this one is: it's really, really expensive.

The MXR Bluebox is fantastic. My new one tracks better than my friend's vintage version, so buy the cheaper one. If you play up high, you can get something that sounds like old Atari noises, and if you couple it with a lowpass filter, you can pass for a Minimoog. I'm not fond of the bypass on this one, though.

I recommend running a "twistable" delay at the end of your chain (ie, an echo box that will change the pitch of already occurring repeats as you change the delay time). In noise situations, this can be a lot of fun, especially if you have one that will feed back. Nothing sounds better than analog delays in the feedback/pitch shifting department, but some digital delays (the Guyatone MD3 is my favorite digital delay) function pretty well, too.

Last-- and I know this tends to be heresy around here-- if you want to be truly horrible, nothing is more hateful than the digital aliasing of a Whammy Pedal set an octave up. Play a complex chord through that thing (especially into something like the ZVex Machine) and you will terrify an audience. Hell... listen to it try to track a tritone. The Whammy has lousy bypass, but if you're doing the noise thing, you're not trying to be pretty anyway, so-- why not?

Well, that's the basics of my noise rig. Hope it's helpful.