creating a fucked up guitar

atsonicpark · 07.09.2006, 07:01 PM

Okay, I have a $50 first act black electric guitar, and I'm doing everything I can to fuck it up. besides sticking a wire coathanger around the strings so that everything makes a clanging noise, I stuck a pen near the pickups to make a chimey noise and wrapped aluminum foil around certain strings. also, the metal part that screws in (where the hole is that the strings come out of) are at weird angles so the strings sound a bit deadened (yet still playable). i hit my whammy bar and when the metal piece rose up, i stuck a piece of wood underneath it so it would constantly be up in that position. i also tuned a few strings to slack and a few strings to really high pitches and i moved the bottom string over to the second-to-last string and the two are now sharing the same position, and when you hit that it makes intense clanging noises.

i want to do more stuff to make it the ultimate in impossible-to-play-without-it-sounding-completely-fucked-up guitary.

acousticrock87 · 07.09.2006, 07:09 PM

Drill a hole in the fret-board.

Though I have no idea what that will do, and can't guarantee that it won't implode.

Alex's Trip · 07.09.2006, 07:11 PM

I always wanted to try this. When you are stringing it, and you but the low E string through the hole at the bottom, instead of putting it through the Low E at the head, put it in a different one. Mix them all up, and see what it is like.

atsonicpark · 07.09.2006, 07:12 PM

I was also wondering... I'm looking to get the lowest possible sound with just my guitar and a decent sized amp. Obviously, tuning down the guitar strings is one thing, but are there are pedals I need to specifically look for? I want to make the lowest-frequency sounds possible... without blowing up the amp. Would hooking a bunch of pitch shifter pedals (turned down to the lowest octave) work?

Alex's Trip · 07.09.2006, 07:16 PM

Tuning down, and using a pitch shifter I guess. Other than that, maybe you can record and use whatever program to pitch shift. Or recording it, and play that playing it through a pitch shifter again.

acousticrock87 · 07.09.2006, 07:17 PM

I have some whammy effects that bring it down a couple octaves, but I can't remember if there's also normal undertones in it.

EDIT: Ya, my modeler has a whammy setting decreases it two octaves.

golden child · 07.09.2006, 07:24 PM

get a bass EQ

acousticrock87 · 07.09.2006, 07:46 PM

Fuck. I just broke strings on my two remaining guitars in a matter of minutes, and have no extras for the ones I broke. And my thumb is bleeding from trying to get a tiny piece of the e-string out of the peg. And somehow it's all because of this thread. Now what do I do all day?

Alex's Trip · 07.09.2006, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

Fuck. I just broke strings on my two remaining guitars in a matter of minutes, and have no extras for the ones I broke. And my thumb is bleeding from trying to get a tiny piece of the e-string out of the peg. And somehow it's all because of this thread. Now what do I do all day?

I hate it when I poke one of my fingers from trying to get a string out. It sucks!

Sheriff Rhys Chatham · 07.09.2006, 08:35 PM

to get a metallic sound I weave 3 1/2 in. nails between the strings (under, over, under, over)

Style · 07.09.2006, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

Now what do I do all day?

drill a hole in the fret-board.

Cantankerous · 07.09.2006, 10:04 PM

throw it against a wall, that might fuck it up decently.

Sheriff Rhys Chatham · 07.09.2006, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

throw it against a wall, that might fuck it up decently.

or the wall

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 07.09.2006, 10:28 PM

Ring mods (especially the frequency analyzer) and octave down pedals (like a chili dog or OC-3)

Sheriff Rhys Chatham · 07.09.2006, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

Ring mods (especially the frequency analyzer) and octave down pedals (like a chili dog or OC-3)

I want the frequency analyzer bad!

holy-reverb!! · 07.10.2006, 03:41 PM

Pull Some Frets Out!!!

holy-reverb!! · 07.10.2006, 03:41 PM

or even better take some frets out and put them in different positions.

finding nobody · 07.10.2006, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by holy-reverb!!

or even better take some frets out and put them in different positions.

yeeeeah. that's cool

holy-reverb!! · 07.10.2006, 04:00 PM

check this out.

or this. no thats not a pic glitch around the fretboard. the frets actually break of into smaller pieces.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 07.10.2006, 04:04 PM

Wow that is really cool. I want a microtonal guitar. Can you tune that to the 43 tone scale?

07.09.2006, 07:01 PM	#1
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Okay, I have a $50 first act black electric guitar, and I'm doing everything I can to fuck it up. besides sticking a wire coathanger around the strings so that everything makes a clanging noise, I stuck a pen near the pickups to make a chimey noise and wrapped aluminum foil around certain strings. also, the metal part that screws in (where the hole is that the strings come out of) are at weird angles so the strings sound a bit deadened (yet still playable). i hit my whammy bar and when the metal piece rose up, i stuck a piece of wood underneath it so it would constantly be up in that position. i also tuned a few strings to slack and a few strings to really high pitches and i moved the bottom string over to the second-to-last string and the two are now sharing the same position, and when you hit that it makes intense clanging noises. i want to do more stuff to make it the ultimate in impossible-to-play-without-it-sounding-completely-fucked-up guitary. __________________
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07.09.2006, 07:09 PM	#2
acousticrock87 invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,515	Drill a hole in the fret-board. Though I have no idea what that will do, and can't guarantee that it won't implode.
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07.09.2006, 07:11 PM	#3
Alex's Trip invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Southern California Posts: 5,608	I always wanted to try this. When you are stringing it, and you but the low E string through the hole at the bottom, instead of putting it through the Low E at the head, put it in a different one. Mix them all up, and see what it is like. __________________ KALOPSIA
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07.09.2006, 07:12 PM	#4
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	I was also wondering... I'm looking to get the lowest possible sound with just my guitar and a decent sized amp. Obviously, tuning down the guitar strings is one thing, but are there are pedals I need to specifically look for? I want to make the lowest-frequency sounds possible... without blowing up the amp. Would hooking a bunch of pitch shifter pedals (turned down to the lowest octave) work? __________________
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07.09.2006, 07:16 PM	#5
Alex's Trip invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Southern California Posts: 5,608	Tuning down, and using a pitch shifter I guess. Other than that, maybe you can record and use whatever program to pitch shift. Or recording it, and play that playing it through a pitch shifter again. __________________ KALOPSIA
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07.09.2006, 07:17 PM	#6
acousticrock87 invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,515	I have some whammy effects that bring it down a couple octaves, but I can't remember if there's also normal undertones in it. EDIT: Ya, my modeler has a whammy setting decreases it two octaves.
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07.09.2006, 07:24 PM	#7
golden child expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,672	get a bass EQ __________________ blind
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07.09.2006, 07:46 PM	#8
acousticrock87 invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,515	Fuck. I just broke strings on my two remaining guitars in a matter of minutes, and have no extras for the ones I broke. And my thumb is bleeding from trying to get a tiny piece of the e-string out of the peg. And somehow it's all because of this thread. Now what do I do all day?
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07.09.2006, 08:35 PM	#10
Sheriff Rhys Chatham invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New England. Posts: 4,027	to get a metallic sound I weave 3 1/2 in. nails between the strings (under, over, under, over) __________________ My Music(grunge rock) A part of this blue shit since June 24th, 2004
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07.09.2006, 10:04 PM	#12
Cantankerous invito al cielo Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A RETIREMENT HOME Posts: 18,499	throw it against a wall, that might fuck it up decently. __________________ RETIRED
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07.09.2006, 10:28 PM	#14
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	Ring mods (especially the frequency analyzer) and octave down pedals (like a chili dog or OC-3)
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07.10.2006, 03:41 PM	#16
holy-reverb!! children of satan Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: toronto Posts: 270	Pull Some Frets Out!!! __________________
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07.10.2006, 04:00 PM	#19
holy-reverb!! children of satan Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: toronto Posts: 270	check this out. or this. no thats not a pic glitch around the fretboard. the frets actually break of into smaller pieces. __________________
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07.10.2006, 04:04 PM	#20
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	Wow that is really cool. I want a microtonal guitar. Can you tune that to the 43 tone scale?
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