No Input Mixing

Hey, just got into no input mixing and was doing it with my 4 track cassette recorder. I'm achieving some great tones that i'll drop into Ableton's simpler. I'm a little afraid of breaking my recorder, the gain is pretty low and the signal isn't peaking so i guess I'm good.

Anyone have any experience? Tips/tricks? Your own recordings?

here's a vid for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about

neat

obvious thing would be to put some effect pedals or watever else in the feedback path

Yeah that vid was very satisfying

ya mixer feedback can be really cool. Never heard it called no-input mixing.

I really want to someday build a 4x4 matrix mixer for this exact purpose. :)

I have quite a lot of this style of thing over the years. The only tip I can really think of currently is to put a loop pedal in the chain, that is if you have one.

I used a loop pedal in line on this: https://skink.bandcamp.com/track/the-four-two-four towards the end.

I was running it through my guitar pedals and got some interesting tones, could use one of my delays as a loop pedal

  On 4/7/2015 at 1:33 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

I was running it through my guitar pedals and got some interesting tones, could use one of my delays as a loop pedal

That would work. I would be interested to hear what you come up with. :)

Tried this with line input from my soundcard and this came out :

https://soundcloud.com/ded4m/linein-1

Will dig this for sure !

the older yamaha mixers with the knobs and spring reverbs sound fucking *amazing* when doing this type of internal feedback stuff. A friend of mine who has been making drone music for the better part of 20 years used to use one all the time live

like this :

Oh shit, my friend had this EXACT mixer. I wonder if he still has it somewhere? Thing weighs a ton

  On 4/13/2015 at 8:53 PM, Ded4m said:

Tried this with line input from my soundcard and this came out :

https://soundcloud.com/ded4m/linein-1

Will dig this for sure !

Awesome work man, really dig the drums and of course the sound card feedback sounded very digital

EQ for tuning the feedback

bp filter and cassette tape delay in the feedback path (3 head cassette deck)

turn up the gain and volume on an empty channel for noise

spring reverb sounds good, shake the reverb for splashes

looks like fun. i'd like to see a group of people doing this live

  On 4/13/2015 at 8:53 PM, Ded4m said:

Tried this with line input from my soundcard and this came out :

https://soundcloud.com/ded4m/linein-1

Will dig this for sure !

Fckn Decent m8

I've recorded the feedback before generated by my usb box I use to rip vinyl. Gonna have to have a go at processing it live now.

  On 4/14/2015 at 12:28 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Awesome work man, really dig the drums and of course the sound card feedback sounded very digital

 

Thanks ! I'd love to be able to do something similar live with analog gear !

I kept it "analog" in the way the patch is built, ( no midi information have been exploited or harmed during this jam ! ) but I would have to sell the house just to get all the band pass filters used to get the drums sounds...

Ok, f### the house, let's do it ! :D

A friend of mine has an old rack mixer that we use for stuff like this. It's pretty neat to just sit around and fuck about with feedback.