khonnor's 'Handwriting' was recorded on a borked mic from a teach yourself Japanese kit. Cue loads of records of that time trying to mimic its sound.

Christopher wrote:Thymme Jones posted this little anecdote about the recording session for Dumb Ask in December's Cheer-Accident subscription email:We were about a third of the way through our first take of Everyone's Ugly Up Close, when we all stopped playing, because Jeff's guitar had suddenly turned into a dying raccoon. After it had become apparent that we had given up on that take, we all heard Albini's voice in our headphones, ecstatically proclaiming, Gentlemen, I'm now of the opinion that that is the greatest guitar sound I have ever heard. Needless to say, we elected to not change the batteries in Jeff's distortion pedal, and that's the sound you hear on the recording.https://cheer-accident.bandcamp.com/tra ... y-up-closeYou can really hear it shine around 30 seconds in. What a beautifully gross guitar sound.This rules. Thanks. I was previously unaware of this album.

I thought I heard that Geezer Butler was playing bass through some borken-ass speakers on the debut Black Sabbath album, which sounds great to me.

Snowblinder, I think the legends state that it was a guitar 4x12 with one working speaker, and at least one missing and at least one present but broken.

Tommy wrote:William Reid's Shin-ei fuzz wah pedal used on Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy and others is supposedly "borken".I built a copy of the Shin-Ei Companion FY-2--not a wah, just a super gnarly fuzz. It was also manufactured under other names, including Jax. The Mentally Ill used their Jax on guitar basically 100% of the time. We fell in love with the sound, and I made one so Andy could use it on this tune.The one I put together had a bit more gain--the original dropped in volume when you kicked it on, IIRC. I used whatever I had laying around, as well, for transistors, so it's hardly an exact copy. But there was also some kind of totally fucked-up, backwards thing where the "fuzz" control was totally pointless and just wrecked the sound if you set it the "wrong" way. I think it was in the circuit, but I probably used something wack on the component side as well. Anyway, the "wrecked" setting was the best one. The Penalty Box, edition of 1. Floating around downstairs someplace, well borken.I just got a Magnatone combo amp I wrote about elsewhere here. Super heavily modded in some kind of crazy way. The amp guy I had look at it said it was crazily done and made no sense to him, but it sounds terrific.

tallchris wrote:Adam P wrote:FM Ben Adrian s Kowloon Walled Bunny pedal was begotten of a borken Distortion+, yes?Came here to post just that! It was FM Scott Evans pedal that was the borken one that inspired the KWB:https://benadrianaudio.wordpress.com/20 ... led-bunny/My accidental legacy is refining and briefly producing Scott's borked dist+. I still get 2-3 requests a month for that pedal and I try to send them to the PRF thread where I explain the mods. I think I might just send them to Balls. Hey Balls, wanna put the KWB in your lineup? Just give like a buck or two of each to a cancer research charity.My favorite borken story is a Vox AC30 here at work that sounded weird and cool, but wasn't behaving as the circuit would lead one to believe. Someone noticed that part of the electronics looked smooshed. They bent a capacitor back into place, and the frequency response changed. There was some kind of accidental electromagnetic negative feedback going on. That's not even all that borken, but I think it counts.

tmidgett wrote:It was also manufactured under other names, including Jax. The Mentally Ill used their Jax on guitar basically 100% of the time. We fell in love with the sound, and I made one so Andy could use it on this tune.Thank you so much for this info! I've been listening to the Gacy's Place 7" every day for at least the last year and often wondered what fuzz pedal was used. I've been using a PLL and a Percolator when I should have been using the Superfuzz clone. Can't wait for tomorrow's practice.I've read that the percussive wobbly sound in the B-52's "Give Me Back My Man" comes from a spring reverb unit flopping around while Ricky was recording bass. Not sure if it was borken or happy accident or both.

The original Mentally Ill Gacy's Place 45 is worth as much as a vintage Jax FY 2 fuzz now..

yard barf wrote:I've always heard that part of the wonderful sound of Marshall amps came from a miscalculation for the appropriate output transformer and that the wrong transformer was used. I don't know if this is just lore or the real story.It's my understanding that this is part of the fun of the Silvertone 1484 - the output transformer is weird and little.Also, the reverb on the 1484 is useless if you want normal reverb but is GREAT if you want, say, uncontrollable ambient shrieking.

benadrian wrote:Hey Balls, wanna put the KWB in your lineup? Just give like a buck or two of each to a cancer research charity.This is a great idea! Would the name stay the same, or would it be something like Bunny Balls or Kowloon Balled Bunny?