{"id":1682,"date":"2010-07-14T21:08:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T04:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2010-07-14T21:08:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T04:08:46","slug":"satans-violin-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/satans-violin-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Satan’s Violin Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noise Jockey: Taking the "E" out of "e-bow."<\/p><\/div>\n

Almost exactly one year ago, I played a steel cable on a gate with an eBow<\/a>\"\", recorded with contact microphones<\/a>. I decided to give it a go with a regular bow when I realized that this gate was basically a one-stringed guitar.<\/p>\n

Think about it: Wound metal string under tension, wooden resonator. That’s all a guitar really is. What a wooden gate lacks is thickness, like a guitar, but at more than a meter in width and height, that’s a broad-enough surface to send air molecules running for cover.<\/p>\n

I had to rosin the hell out of the bow to make it tacky enough to grip this oversized “string.”\u00c2\u00a0I found that also spreading rosin on the wrapped steel cable was helpful. I tuned the cable, as much as one can, by adjusting a turnbuckle.<\/p>\n

I recorded in mid-side stereo. Today’s sample features is comprised of one mono track totally dry, one mono track run through Michael Norris’ Spectral Blurring<\/a> effect, one mono track pitch-shifted down by 1.5 octaves, and the one stereo track pitch-shifted down by three octaves. Recording at 192Hz helps for such tomfoolery.<\/p>\n

I apologize to my neighbhors for the unholy racket that I’m sure they thought was a demonic violin 101 class.<\/p>\n

[soundcloud url=”http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/noisejockey\/satans-violin-lesson” params=”show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=dd0000″ width=”100%” height=”81″ ][Sennheiser MKH 50 and MKH 30 recorded as mid-side stereo into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost exactly one year ago, I played a steel cable on a gate with an eBow, recorded with contact microphones. I decided to give it a go with a regular bow when I realized that this gate was basically a one-stringed guitar. Think about it: Wound metal string under tension, wooden resonator. That’s all a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,63,4],"tags":[9,147,249,10,62,75,22,250,251,321,18,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}