Comments on: Throbbing Gristle's Gristleizer audio effects unit http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 20:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Rezpect http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365834 Rezpect Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365834 Awesome post for us oldsters. Thanks! Awesome post for us oldsters. Thanks!

]]> By: arkizzle http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-375836 arkizzle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-375836 Painting199: busted Painting199: busted

]]> By: Bonnie http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-367150 Bonnie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-367150 Best cutting edge band EVAR. Thanks for reminding me to add them to iTunes. Best cutting edge band EVAR. Thanks for reminding me to add them to iTunes.

]]> By: WeightedCompanionCube http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365909 WeightedCompanionCube Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365909 iWood - dirty pots and pans notwithstanding, the TG box is all op-amps and FETs. Very linear until they clip hard. There's not much to drift, saturate, or overdrive creatively. That is such an elegant little box, either the TG or the pedal version, and you can't do a perfect digital simulation of the literally infinite ways to set a couple of analog knobs. Then again, by that logic you can never get them exactly the same way twice when performing either. iWood – dirty pots and pans notwithstanding, the TG box is all op-amps and FETs. Very linear until they clip hard. There’s not much to drift, saturate, or overdrive creatively.

That is such an elegant little box, either the TG or the pedal version, and you can’t do a perfect digital simulation of the literally infinite ways to set a couple of analog knobs. Then again, by that logic you can never get them exactly the same way twice when performing either.

]]> By: ill lich http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-366451 ill lich Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366451 Hamburrrrger Laayyyydyyyy. . . . Hamburrrrger Laayyyydyyyy. . . .

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365943 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365943 A freeware VST effect called Throbber was inspired by the Gristleizer. Freeware download over at the Tiny God page. http://www.tinygod.com/ http://www.tinygod.com/productthrobber.html A freeware VST effect called Throbber was inspired by the Gristleizer.

Freeware download over at the Tiny God page.

http://www.tinygod.com/

http://www.tinygod.com/productthrobber.html

]]> By: superrobot http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365737 superrobot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365737 Bring on the software emulations. Bring on the software emulations.

]]> By: IWood http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365746 IWood Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365746 Nah...for this sort of thing I much prefer the grotty individuality of analog boxes stuffed with bits of hardware connected by wires and blobs of solder over the uniform abstraction of software emulation. A box where you have to clean out the switches and pots to get rid of static. Nah…for this sort of thing I much prefer the grotty individuality of analog boxes stuffed with bits of hardware connected by wires and blobs of solder over the uniform abstraction of software emulation. A box where you have to clean out the switches and pots to get rid of static.

]]> By: jungletek http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365747 jungletek Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365747 Bit of an inconsistency in the spelling of the device between the headline and the article. Bit of an inconsistency in the spelling of the device between the headline and the article.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365749 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365749 There's been a Reaktor emulation of this for a couple of years or so, me likee! Thanks Chris. There’s been a Reaktor emulation of this for a couple of years or so, me likee! Thanks Chris.

]]> By: David Pescovitz http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365753 David Pescovitz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365753 Thanks, JUNGLETEK. Thanks, JUNGLETEK.

]]> By: Stephen http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365755 Stephen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365755 Anyone know who designed it? The link to the original article is broken. Anyone know who designed it? The link to the original article is broken.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365758 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365758 STEPHEN; http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/pdf/gep.pdf at: http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/ from: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007/04/from-which-gristlizer-came.html STEPHEN;

http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/pdf/gep.pdf

at:

http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/

from:

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007/04/from-which-gristlizer-came.html

]]> By: highlyevolved http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365759 highlyevolved Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365759 almighty haxx0rz almighty haxx0rz

]]> By: knowles http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365765 knowles Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365765 schematics. for great justice, schematics. schematics. for great justice, schematics.

]]> By: Stumpadoodle http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365766 Stumpadoodle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365766 eff yeah TG. eff yeah TG.

]]> By: Reverend T http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365775 Reverend T Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365775 Link to PDF is broen, the correct one is: <a href="http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/pdf/gep.pdf">http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/pdf/gep.pdf</a> Link to PDF is broen, the correct one is:

http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/pdf/gep.pdf

]]> By: David Pescovitz http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365796 David Pescovitz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365796 Fixed the PDF link too. Thanks. Fixed the PDF link too. Thanks.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365798 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365798 Okay...I was just in Shanghai telling my friend about Throbbing Gristle, I get back to Japan and this is the first thing I see. My life is weird. Okay…I was just in Shanghai telling my friend about Throbbing Gristle, I get back to Japan and this is the first thing I see. My life is weird.

]]> By: Oren Beck http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365802 Oren Beck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365802 There's something to be said-or sad? about Analog delays such as tape loops or spring reverb+delay being replaced by "most" chips or DSP And yeah- that was a subtly geekenbait pun about the SAD1024 device. I also often pun about psychoacoustic claims being often psycho acoustic more than "real" So? Say what one will about the differences between DSP and Analog. Some deride them as being irrational human artifacts - artifacts affected by "knowing" what's in the black box. I suspect the proof lies in what we like. And the effect of a performer liking the sound in THEIR monitor. Ask for example- Neil Young. There’s something to be said-or sad? about Analog delays such as tape loops or spring reverb+delay being replaced by “most” chips or DSP And yeah- that was a subtly geekenbait pun about the SAD1024 device. I also often pun about psychoacoustic claims being often psycho acoustic more than “real” So? Say what one will about the differences between DSP and Analog. Some deride them as being irrational human artifacts – artifacts affected by “knowing” what’s in the black box. I suspect the proof lies in what we like. And the effect of a performer liking the sound in THEIR monitor. Ask for example- Neil Young.

]]> By: presto http://boingboing.net/2008/12/27/throbbing-gristles-g.html#comment-365805 presto Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-365805 Old live TG is getting harder and harder to find. I just found out they did a reunion thing after I saw this article. I never heard of them until 1984, and I believe Gen was doing Psychic TV then if not already. Somebody I knew had a beta tape of a TG show. There were stacks and stacks of boxes everywhere, and wires covering everything. The entire stage was wires and boxes. I didn't know anything about them. Cosey was very interesting to watch, but the others appeared to be on large amounts of heroin (I'm not saying they were, they just looked it). Within a few months after I saw that tape I had a couple dozen TG bootlegs. There was just nothing like the crazy sound they made when they were "on." A lot of people in New Orleans began imitating Chris's sound techniques. It would totally be safe to say that Carter was not only a pioneer of the hardware of electronic sound, he helped touch off the revolution that became postindustrial dance. And yet so few people know anything about TG. I met Gen in 1988 at the Grand Canyon. He was wearing a large leather overcoat which barely hid his nudity underneath it. There was a 16 penny nail stuck through the end of his penis. When I tried to speak to him he looked at me as if I were a leper or an alien. Orridge is a strange guy. Old live TG is getting harder and harder to find. I just found out they did a reunion thing after I saw this article.

I never heard of them until 1984, and I believe Gen was doing Psychic TV then if not already. Somebody I knew had a beta tape of a TG show. There were stacks and stacks of boxes everywhere, and wires covering everything. The entire stage was wires and boxes. I didn’t know anything about them. Cosey was very interesting to watch, but the others appeared to be on large amounts of heroin (I’m not saying they were, they just looked it).

Within a few months after I saw that tape I had a couple dozen TG bootlegs. There was just nothing like the crazy sound they made when they were “on.” A lot of people in New Orleans began imitating Chris’s sound techniques. It would totally be safe to say that Carter was not only a pioneer of the hardware of electronic sound, he helped touch off the revolution that became postindustrial dance. And yet so few people know anything about TG.

I met Gen in 1988 at the Grand Canyon. He was wearing a large leather overcoat which barely hid his nudity underneath it. There was a 16 penny nail stuck through the end of his penis. When I tried to speak to him he looked at me as if I were a leper or an alien. Orridge is a strange guy.

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