Contact Mics advise for experimentation

stevrossthepipe

Hi,

I will be sending the signal through a pedal board For mangles experimentation . Will be attaching it to the fridge/ washing machine even seen a great video of someone attaching to a piece of paper that they then drew on for some experiments and fun . I have boost pedals and fuzz/ drive that I can use to boost the signal and noise etc is not a problem.  I have seen a few videos where Nick Reinhardt has been using them on the body of the guitar to great effect. 

There are plenty of cheap ones on amazon etc  Just wanted some advise if anyone had any experience with them. They seem to go from a few pounds to 20 - 30. Definitely  easier than using larger mics and should be able to get some insteresting textures 

Thanks,

Steve 

octatonic

Buy some and experiment.

I use them with my modular synth- you can get 5 for £15 or so on Amazon.

stevrossthepipe

Ha yes the best route for sure @octatonic ;
I did see the multi pack one seems extremely  good value - good to
know they work well  . Thanks. 

octatonic

stevrossthepipe said:

Ha yes the best route for sure @octatonic ;
I did see the multi pack one seems extremely  good value - good to
know they work well  . Thanks. 

They work in interesting ways.
They aren't always that sensitive but that can be a feature rather than a bug depending on what you are doing.

stevrossthepipe

They are on their way. 

Thanks for the information @octatonic ;