This video, via Jeremy Bell, demonstrates his ‘Bipolar Guitar’ system, which takes a DIY rocker switch – originally created for his ScrubBoard tape scratching system – an applies it to effects switching.
Check out the results and let us know what you think!
nice, have you tried a dj mixer yet?
Nice effect… is the delay time set at the start or is it based on something a bit trickier.
Is it a switch between a pitch-shifted version going through one distortion/amp-sim and a non-pitched version with a contrasting distortion/amp-sim?
It is totally impressive that this is being done in realtime!!
You could and should watch the video, he explains what the switch is doing, and it’s not what you think.
You could springload this thing so it always quickly returned to the “present” setting, then you could easily make a foot pedal out of it. You could also add additional FX to one signal, obviously. For synths, I could totally see going clean/dirty with this by adding to one side a distortion or amp-sim like a Line 6 pod xt which I use.
FANTASTIC!
He still couldn’t tap as rapidly as he can with fingers. Foot is just too large and cumbersome in design.
Better yet install the switch on the guitar itself. Then playing the strings and the switch would be more practical. I’m sure that’s what he’d eventually aim for though so this really isn’t a critique
that is a fantastic application of your scrub-board thingy!
smallerise it & mount it on the guitar?
see my interruptulator (or tornipulator) maybe.
great job!
Love It! I absolutely hate guitar and especially keyboard shredding, but this is great. New, unique. It just sounds great.
Well Done. What a cool piece of technology with an inspiring demonstration. Too often people just sit in front of their new music widget and try to explain it to you. Jeremy has clearly invested the time practicing so he could deliver a compelling performance. Amongst the many skills he displayed, those double and triple finger taps are pretty cool. Kudos on the technology and the demonstration.