strictly drone pedals? DRONE!

[Jwar]

I hooked the Maximal Drone and Sequencer into the Metasonix, OMG. hahaha. INSANE.

Hook up the Drone Thing and Harmonic Decoder. And post a clip. Please?

Will do!

[RumoRazzi]

The Kinetik Laboratories from Italy create some interesting drone machines:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqaysfW2meg[/youtube]

[futuresailors]

Was looking at drone demos.
and then
wut?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bne9aKFdz2Q[/youtube]


PS metasonix tm1
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Metasonix-Waves ... 3aa125f372

[D.o.S.]

wow, didn't find those anywhere and i googled the net for everything related

They do direct sales, per their website:
http://kinetiklaboratories.blogspot.com ... ts_15.html

[K2000]

I don't wanna take this thread off topic, but what filter pedals (and other pedals) are recommended as effective when placed downstream from a drone box? I have a feedback loop and drone box in my setup, and it's really hard to find any pedals that can make a dent in the sound. Most pedals barely change the signal at all (signal is very loud and noisy/textured to begin with). (One of my units is a standard drone box with oscillators, the other is a feedback loop drone that has been heavily mangled - lots of texture already. I'm asking for both units.)

Sooo many pedals I've tried are not worth the board real estate, expense or carrying weight to include them in my setup. Modulation can work just okay (tremolo seems best) while phasers and flangers are almost unnoticeable or boringly predictable. Ring mods and distortions do almost nothing. Etc.

Filter recommendations would be especially helpful. Most filters seem to work best for signals with repeating attack and release, but we're droning - there is no attack or release on a drone. So normal filters like bassists prefer seem to be worthless here. I would love to be able to do some simple but nasty filter sweeps.

I have a hunch the answer is the big-box Moogs... the Freq Box or Low pass Filter in particular,but they are hella expensive to experiment with, and the size and weight is rather discouraging. Board space is tight!

I also see there is a Waldorf filter pedal, but I have no idea if that would work for me.

[Dark Barn]

You want a static low pass filter with adjustable resonance and cutoff, or one with an LFO to sweep the cutoff. The ones you have tried are envelope filters, where the amplitude of the input moves the cutoff frequency, this doesn't work for drone signals since they have not much attack or decay to trigger the sweep.

[kbit]

Its really astounding to me how so many of these drone boxes don't come with some sort of filter built in. Seriously, it can be a super basic circuit that can add so much more variety.

Unfortunately I dont have an answer for you, except maybe having someone DIY you a simple static resonant filter in a box.

[Deltaphoenix]

The Freq Box is more of an envelope follower/oscillator/crunchy fuzz box.

The Moog Lowpass Filter would be great. It can be static, you can use an expression pedal(s) with it (or turn wiggle knobs), if you have a CV source it can add a lot, it has a mix amount knob so if you just want to tame some ear piercing highs but want to leave a bit or whatever, it does it.

[BoatRich]

This is the maximal drone into an infanem driving notion, pitch pork on detune and RV3 with the ibanez es2 in a feedback loop and the EHX random tone generator running into a supercollider and a carbon copy

[fishtankdork]

when i did drone stuff i noticed my wah probe was a great filter that you can use your hands with

[BoatRich]

Does anyone use a theremin to drone? I have a Moog Theremini and I'm thinking about incorporating it into my next recording somehow.

[UglyCasanova]

wow, didn't find those anywhere and i googled the net for everything related

They do direct sales, per their website:
http://kinetiklaboratories.blogspot.com ... ts_15.html

Those are so damn cool. GAS in large quantities!

[lordgalvar]

Does anyone use a theremin to drone? I have a Moog Theremini and I'm thinking about incorporating it into my next recording somehow.

Use it as a sort of FM for a drone. Or effect the heck out of it with octave down and slow heavy LFOs. Get creative with it.

http://www.lalweb.com/mnp2/mnp2-e.html

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijuSt-OfCA[/youtube]

[BoatRich]

Does anyone use a theremin to drone? I have a Moog Theremini and I'm thinking about incorporating it into my next recording somehow.

Use it as a sort of FM for a drone. Or effect the heck out of it with octave down and slow heavy LFOs. Get creative with it.

http://www.lalweb.com/mnp2/mnp2-e.html

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijuSt-OfCA[/youtube]

That was really cool, I've been playing with the preset editor (it runs animoog) and I think I'm going to try and set up a subtle dubstep style bass wobble patch to run as a low drone into a gated reverb

[futuresailors]

Yeah, that thing is awesome!
This video got me psyched for my LAL
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdKV7sxkI00[/youtube]

Anyone use something like the m9/m13 for teh drones?