Ugh, feel like I'm spamming the board a bit, but I just want to cross-post my new album to this thread as the 856 ended up being a key compositional tool, so I just wanted to share it here it case it inspires anyone else's workflow (or sparks anyone to share What They Did back) or gives some idea of what this can be as a tool for ambient sounds.
https://heraclitusakimbo.bandcamp.com/a ... ional-parkThe basic process was just recording improvisations and whittling them down after the fact, but the 856 was essential to two of the album's long tracks (#1 + #3), and both times it just came totally by accident, just by catching an interesting sound and playing with that. The "voice" sound in the first track (first comes in at 1:53) is just a part of the synth loop caught in the 856, and then a couple minutes later, a pitch change makes it sound more like a guitar note. That ended up adding a whole layer on top of what I'd being doing that was really interesting.
In track #3, I was at the end of a long noodling session that I thought was running out of steam, so I grabbed a loop on the 856 on a lark, and that ended up being the start of what was the "keeper" portion of the track (it's the little
shunk-ing noise that comes in around 1:25). It sounded a bit like a heart monitor (which was on point for the story I wanted to tell in the track) and with manipulation became a bunch of other semi-rhythmic sounds throughout.
Anyway, maybe this is a little different from what other people are doing with the pedal, so I thought someone might find it interesting to unpack it a little here.