A tribute to small futile projects and general random thinking

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Abandoned Idea #1

This mostly applied to group music where at least one hand is free. The idea is that rather that plugging in to amps; everyone in the group wears a glove that has the "hot" signal from their instrument attached to it. The "ground" is run straight from the instrument to some shared ground. The amps would have large metal plates on them, the "hot" wire from the amp would run to this plate and the ground would run also to the master ground. Maybe there would be cool effects between the amp and the plate. So the idea is that rather than plugging into an amp, you could just touch the plate and have instant connection/disconnection with the amp, and therefore, it would be easy to switch the amp that your sound is running into. It also means that it would be possible to share amps between anyone in the group. The shared ground would eliminate any buzzing that would result from a broken signal. Maybe the members of the group could shake hands and something awesome would happen. Also, if any of the amps were ungrounded, the possibility of getting shocked would increase. I think that this fear/risk of getting seriously hurt would greatly improve many musical projects.

2 comments:

Michael Tolan said...

I am not sure if fear is the best way to induce a groovy vibe, unless we are a band going to war, which we be totally awesome, so ok, i'll do it.

keith f said...

Oh god this sounds terrible