Anyways, for a while now I've been going to industrial music forums on the net. Something that is kind of popular in experimental industrial is circuit bending. Has anyone ever heard of this? You use electronic games and other toys that make electronic noises (Speak and Spells, etc) and bend the sound circuit in them. All kinds of odd noises will occur when you press the buttons. I've gotten a few toys to try this out on. I have my stupid Furby doll and a cheap musical keyboard. I haven't started yet.
Now, what I was wonder is whether this would work on guitar equipment. Cheap distortion pedals. Things like that. The only problem is that websites say that you should never circuit bend things that are connected to an outlet. It should always be something that is using batteries. Something that isn't going to shock you to death.
I've seen pedals that use batteries and I was interested in doing this but I'm sort of afraid of it messing up my guitar and amp since those are plugged into the wall. I'm thinking of getting one of those portable tape recorders and recording my guitar and then sending it through the circuit bent pedal to see what happens. Too bad I don't have any money to buy one now. I saw a few pedals over at the music store for about $10 and that's prbably what I'll use for this.
BTW, here are some sites about circuit bending if you want to try it:
http://www.oddmusic.com/illogic/
http://www.cementimental.com/
