Convoluted setups

[El Duderino]

Jeebus's thread got me to thinking about some of the interesting ways that people have created certain sounds, and these unique setups have always fascinated me. I have an old toy Yamaha keyboard that I got when I was about five that if I set it on the "accourdian" setting, and I mic the speaker up close with a rotating speaker model on my TonePort, it sounds like a quite convincing Rhodes.

What are some of your unique setups?

[Seethroughsouls]

Tone ports are the shit!

[Low Tone]

I plug my bass into an amp, pluck the strings with my thumb and push down on the different strings in different places along the neck. When I get the right patterns, it sounds almost like real music sometimes.

[El Duderino]

Tone ports are the shit!
Yes they are. My only gripe is that mine is a little finnicky when I use it with my laptop; I have to turn off my wireless receiver or I get glitches in the audio.

[BassMaster General]

For a recording session once I bi-amped my bass between and SWR WM 15 and an old stereo amplifier for a very nice lo-fi sound. Both blended together right in the mix sounded sick:cool:

[MBIYF]

What are some of your unique setups?

Sound destruction!!! I use one of these for everything. Bass, geet, vocals, drums...

http://www.woodbrass.com/images/woodbrass/2550300551006.JPG

I used this one on almost every song in the 2005 Ebassist song-a-day challenge. Usually through a bunch of plug in effects to make it sound cool.

http://users.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/~windle_c/TableHooters/picts/Casio_SA-1.jpeg

And I have some old Philips mic from the 50's. Weird sounds for that one.

I'm also looking for a good tape deck for more digital sound destruction. :)

[lug]

I defer to Amy (who is almost as cute as I) on this subject.