The No-Input Mixing Board: Creating Stable Oscillators

Video Description

Stable oscillators provide one of the fundamental building blocks for how I approach the no-input mixing board. This video demonstrates several approaches for constructing these pitch-stable subloops as well as several techniques that become available on the mixing board using this approach to feedback patching. This is a follow-up to my overview of the no-input mixing board as a standalone instrument. You can watch all the videos in this series here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1O9YU425v0&list=PLq7PoMfE8VHrxxxnuc-WeOvV7hCbAtezc As is always the case with feedback instruments, please be careful to protect your ears and equipment if you're going to try experimenting with the NIMB. Don't plug your headphones or speakers directly into the mixing board, and it's best to use something like a limiter in order to set a maximum possible loudness for the output. 0:00 Introduction 0:24 Channel Inserts 1:44 Pre-Fader Aux Sends 3:07 Panning as Level Control 3:54 Unison Effect 5:01 Chords 6:15 Sub-Audio Pulses and Rhythms Several times throughout the video, I say "insert channels" when I mean "channel inserts". Talking is hard. I'm currently finishing up an album of experimental improvisations with the no-input mixing board, as well as selecting sounds for a NIMB sample pack. Both of these will be on my Bandcamp page: https://phonets.bandcamp.com