We already have a music gear topic, but I'd like to center this one on noise-making hardware (no software, please, I'll create a topic !)... What kind of gear are you using, how ? Suggestions ? Questions ?

Crushing Steel with hammer???

more seriously, i use sometime a guitar multieffect or a "metal zone" distortion, on a blue korg! it's make some wonderful noises

(Lucien bought a metal zone clone, but I didn't like it personnaly for guitars).
Sometimes I try my guitar effects on synth: small clone chorus, bf2 flanger, oc3 octaver, proco rat, ds2, fuzz factory, Big muff!
I don't know how we say "cibi" in english, but it was really fun when we try this with Mx!^^

a friend have custom toy! so realy fun, i try to make photo on saturday!

BOSS ME-6 Effects Unit 1993 - 1994

http://uk-electronic.de/onlineshop/product_info.php/cPath/105_193/products_id/869?osCsid=fcd21b9ce21e85616ae6d7233f9176cc
On this site you have some clone effects, like fuzz factory, jcm800 simu, zendrive... you only must know how to weld&electronic, but small prices and it's easy!

http://www.noisefx.com/manufacturer/audible_disease

demo video here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1EgB5OBhYU&feature=related

http://www.onlineshop.stupiddesign.fr/product.php?id_product=13
I hope to do this one day in their workshop! Or an other synth/effect!

with toy synths or bontempi synths plugged in the "death metal" distortion pedal, i've made quite nice things like "I want you sempai" and hours of noisy cheap synth & digital drumings.
Make some industrial music is very similar than playing with toys, indeed

Jack cable - put your fam on it a little overdrive behind and you have the best bass sound you will ever find!

i don't understand, one can make noise or noisy things with anything...

Yeah. That we know. If we focus on just "noise", anything works with some distortion added. So let's try to talk about.. ermmmmm... Quality noise ? really special noise ?
Actually I ain't got much to talk about here, I haven't been using a lot of hardware for years ; but I remember creating a cool noise track using a badly worn CD fed into a "phono in", which caused a kind of very special distortion... That kind of things...
But, talking about hardware :



This can be really interesting, when connected to other FX - the looping feeling can be really turned into something else, especially if you try to slowly build drones... I must admit I use it more in a "frippian" way (guitar loops and e-bow), but I must explore more of the noisier side of this thing...

me, with hardware, I just made some noise with a cheap synth toy connected to plenty of FX... dunno if it's quality noise tho. I'm not a specialist...

(more recently but with a softsynth, I really really enjoyed making noisy drones et blippy things and glitchy bugs and others strange things evoling a chaotic random patch i made by accident with the V Station... but out of topic, sorry...)

who decides what about noise "quality" ?
We've seen Whitehouse live last year and the big deal wasn't about "is this pink or white noise? uh ?"

the interesting point is much about the hardware they used on stage, some kind of "spheres" changing the sound connected to laptops...
they seem to have a lot of fun indeed but the sound was just CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR for an hour nothing exciting is about this, really

I prefer to listen some "GRZZZ" haha

yes, but what about the "ZGIIIIIIIIII" ?

my Sequential Circuits Prophet 600. you can make very dirty noise or some drone noises evolutions.

I strongly agree about this one !!!!!!!!

the waldorf pulse analogic mono-synth .used by a lot off electro-techno artists like david caretta.,nine inch nails.ok the most easy to use but not worse than akai vx90 synth (private joke) and it is midi good for noisy strings-bass, electro-tech bass(with modern sound) , differents blip noisy sound.and for some old school progressivs electronics arpegios . on ebay you can found it for 300euros





go to 1.10mn before it's boring



progressiv sound like

I got my dementia !!!!!!



plus a FANTASTIC fuzz

cool

i'd like to have something like some sort of Atari Punk Console

"The "Atari Punk Console" is a popular circuit that utilizes two 555 timers to create low-fi sound effects that resemble classic Atari console games from the 1980s"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Punk_Console



from noises to... dirty chip (noise?) sounds..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CJ9UpQeeOk

etc, there's hundreds of youtube and versions of the thing as it's DIY.. and possibilties to wire it, bent it...

i already have a little VSTi i bought that have those sounds among others...

interesting noises!!

Our DIY ATARI PUNK CONSOLE with 4bit brain:
http://darksoulband.chez.com/DIYAPCmix2.mp3
Modulation with the LIGHT!!!

hahahahaha

VX for the distortions fx you should take a look at the Ohmforce plugs, usually praised... if you haven't yet

http://www.ohmforce.com/ViewCategory.do?category=Bundles

(and yeah for certain type of sounds, and old sampler could be a good idea for certain colors ... and well a 12bit sound?)

(hmm, answering to your mindphaser topic here..)