Yes, Mr. Belew...
...your ways are known to me now.
Years ago I remember reading an interview with Adrian Belew about his effects rig. He said that he had an EQ running into his Big Muff because if you hit the input of a Big Muff with enough gain at a certain frequency it would freak out and do cool things.
So today I built this Harmonic Energizer clone in one of the enclosures I powder coated this morning. It's a pedal that Frank Zappa made famous, but it's really just a parametric EQ. So I cranked the gain and made the Q as narrow as possible and swept the frequency. You can hear when it hits the frequency that the Big Muff can't handle. Yeah, there's the Belew infinite sustain thing. Exactly right there.
I should have tried this decades ago. Well, better late than never.
Yes, Mr. Belew...
...your ways are known to me now.
Years ago I remember reading an interview with Adrian Belew about his effects rig. He said that he had an EQ running into his Big Muff because if you hit the input of a Big Muff with enough gain at a certain frequency it would freak out and do cool things.
So today I built this Harmonic Energizer clone in one of the enclosures I powder coated this morning. It's a pedal that Frank Zappa made famous, but it's really just a parametric EQ. So I cranked the gain and made the Q as narrow as possible and swept the frequency. You can hear when it hits the frequency that the Big Muff can't handle. Yeah, there's the Belew infinite sustain thing. Exactly right there.
I should have tried this decades ago. Well, better late than never.