{"id":343,"date":"2009-07-31T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-10-02T19:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T02:04:48","slug":"thunderbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/thunderbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbow!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Remo Thunder Tube: Fun and hackneyed, but aggressive and unusual when played with an eBow!<\/p><\/div>\n

My girlfriend bought be a Remo Thunder Tube<\/a> as a gift, just as I was getting more comfortable with live microphone techniques and collecting acoustic noisemakers. It’s a spring going into a stretched material, like a drum head, which is surrounded by a high-density fiberboard tube. You shake it, the spring vibrates, and is amplified by the tube. And those lightning graphics? Sweet<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But then, as discussed earlier<\/a>, the EBow<\/a> came into my life. \u00c2\u00a0I took one look at that spring and figured there might be EBow possibilities: it looked like a gigantic, loosely-wound guitar string. The results were pretty wild! The position of the microphone relative to the tube itself had a huge impact on the end result, but I wound up preferring the tone of the mic capsule being right at the lip of the open tube.<\/p>\n

Listen below to the unprocessed original. (I did pitch shift this down 2 octaves, having tracked it at 192kHz, and it was wicked<\/em>. Maybe more on that in a future post…)<\/p>\n

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\n[OktavaMod MK012 mic w\/ omni capsule into a Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My girlfriend bought be a Remo Thunder Tube as a gift, just as I was getting more comfortable with live microphone techniques and collecting acoustic noisemakers. It’s a spring going into a stretched material, like a drum head, which is surrounded by a high-density fiberboard tube. You shake it, the spring vibrates, and is amplified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[56,58,321,57,11,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}