I heard somewhere that if your speaker had holes in it that it would produce a distortion like effect is this true?
LOL if it is the first distortion pedals could have been like drum kicks with spikes on the end to poke holes lol
Dave Davies (Kinks guitarist) is known to have poked holes in his speakers with knitting needles to produce some of the distortion heard on early Kinks' tunes. I believe the ragged distortion of You Really Got Me was created by that method.
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Some of us (not me), sliced the speaker cones with a razor to get them to flap a little.
Knitting needles, pencils, razor blades; "kids, don't try this at home!" :roll:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=61
I've also seen references to Link Wray doing "speaker abuse" for some of his songs, possibly including "Rumble." That was '59 or so, which would've put him a few years ahead of the Kinks.
Yeah, I've done it... years ago I had a Pignose amp with a tear in the speaker cone, and I'd turn that up and mic it through a PA - sounded a bit like a fuzz.
A lot of early people in rock played with damaging speaker cones - but as I recall, the first distortion effect was accidental, and caused by a loose tube. (I'm fuzzy on remembering the details here - was it Link Wray?)
EDIT - my memory fails... it was Paul Burlison
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it works but dont do it.
unless it is a POS amp or speaker.
if the speaker is a Jensen, or Blue Alnico, Weber dont!!
My guitar playerls house got shot up by a drive by and 2 .22 bullets tore through one of the Celestions in his Marshall 1960 cab. I really couldn't tell a difference untill he his a low clean note, then the speaker would just fart real loud.
Same bullets also ripped through his Ibanez fretless bass. Freaky!
