Re: Strategies to Cover Onstage Equipment/User Failure

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Per Boysen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:20 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > For generating interesting acoustic feedback tones here's a trick...
> > replace the mouthpiece of a wind instrument with a microphone
> > that points into the instrument. Point the instrument at a speaker
> > connected to the microphone and off you go.
> > ...but don't forget the (low ratio) compressor!
> > I call this a 'resophone'.
>
>
> It just hit me that this is also how a *talk box* works! ;-)
>
> But instead of a wind instrument you are leading the air stream (of
> guitar sound) into your mouth while vocalizing words and then
> amplifying it through a mic and PA. This creates the illusion of the
> guitar "talking".

you'd have to swallow the mic, ..turn up the gain

and then use the old puppeteers' trick of jigging the guitar 
up and down 

(completely different principle of operation to that used by Peter Frampton) 

andy