My wife had a 20 euro nylon string guitar, the action is high... really high. So i pulled the frets out and now its fretless and so intonation is no longer a problem. I recently decided to do psychedelic watercolors on it. Probably post a vid myself on the topic of it
Sounds cool! I once made an old mini guitar fretless in a *much* less elegant way. I put a ukulele fretboard under the strings upside down, then added a banjo bridge and folded up paper for the nut. I can sort of make it sound like a double bass.
Dude... The Dick Pick is the funniest name ever! I laughed so hard. This is inspiring lunacy. I love how you said "you never know when a surface-level dumb idea will become your legacy"
piezo on slide could be refined and maybe do some cool stuff. like padding inside the slide to reduce noise from finger and find a way to connect it so it really doesn't move. you could maybe get some interesting feedback action by sending the signal into an amp with high gain.
I know it's a meme at this point, but how t.f. do you not have 1 mil subs? This is some of the most original and inspiring musical experimentation I've ever seen.
It’s been imo the best synth/music gadget/pedal/diy channel on here for a longtime. I’ve unsubbed to so many “popular” channels over the years in those categories and magpie remains. Always the best.
with the contact mic on a slide, you could also strum the guitar behind your finger to get the opposite note created from the slide to the nut instead of the note from the slide to the bridge.
Sometimes failed experiments are as interesting as successful ones. And putting them in a compilation video makes it easy to only talk about them as much as you need to without having to pad for time. I look forward to more videos like this one!
4 of your inventions exist. The two you mentioned but the magnet as a guitar pick is basically just a really budget sustainer and the fidget fan is a crude Gizmotron. Also, the solar expression pedal is similar to the proximity sensor wah pedals that ZVEX made.
Maybe it just straight up works? That would mean that the slider could control a pedal for example. Which might be really cool 😆 gonna try that for sure
That sounds like a horrible idea. The problem is that the solar panel emits current, and you'd be forcing that current through the instrument, and i don't necessarily expect keyboards to be built nearly as electrically robustly as guitar pedals he has tried - chances are it goes right into a mixed signal processor, and all the extra current gets burned off on the tiniest of ESD diodes inside, not made to handle actual current at all, ouch. May i suggest an LDR (= light dependent resistor aka photoresistor) and then see how it behaves, and decide what to do about it, whether you need more of them in some kind of serial/parallel arrangement or whether you need a divider. If you're not too unlucky, the instrument documentation says something about the expression input in the spec section.
@@brianthegremlin9300 Those are more smart than "funny" words actually, and she is probably a girl... but on the other hand you are a gremlin on the magpie comment section, so your response it's ultimately appropriate. Good luck with your keyboard!
@@danilocaposeno "I like your funny words magic man" is a reference from a cartoon, my doge PFP friend was merely communicating that the have no knowledge of electronics.
You should put the solar panel expression pedal under a slow moving fan. I've seen similar things done with a photoresistor and a DC motor. You could make all kinds of weird shapes and patterns in the fan blades and use a pot to regulate the fan speed.
Sometimes the coolest stuff comes from the weirdest ideas. The magnet pick made a pretty cool sound, and makes me want to rip my poor bass apart to put like a whammy bar sort of thing but with a magnet being moved closer or farther from the strings, or maybe even running current the opposite direction on a pickup to manipulate the strings. Saw a lot of stuff that could be applied to a hurdy gurdy too, like the fidget spinner. Almost got a Misirlou thing going there!
Another thing I used to do is put an output from the neck pickup and an input in series with the bridge pickup on my guitar. That allows you to do effects only on the neck pickup and then send it back through the clean bridge pickup. Probably the other way around would be a good idea as well.
This also allows you to run other instruments through your guitar or like plug your friend's guitar into your guitar and then have you both play out the same amp.
I feel like the contact mic on a slide is actually a really great idea and I should have done my own one 2 years ago when I first commented on this, but maybe I couldn't find a suitable price of pipe
that solar panel pedal gave me an idea! a solar panel synth pad: different parts of the solar panel represent a sound or effect, and when light hits it, it's muted, and vice versa. so for example you could play it like a piano, but not even having to touch it! or maybe it could act as a theremin of sorts. the main caveats i think would be the direction of the light (fixable by using a lamp directly above) and i'm not sure if the power from the solar panel would be enough to run it...
Paul Gilbert actually made a similar invention to that fan with a fidget spinner. He took an electric drill and put picks on the end of it, I think you'd love the sound he got with it
It's not so much a gadget, exactly, but I used to play with two paperclips attached across the high and low strings of my acoustic guitar at specific locations to do a kind of John Cage treated piano sound on guitar. I used to draw a line on the strings exactly where it should go with a marker.. Also interesting to just kind of hang a few of them on there. You should try it!
I was obsessed with inventing new picks, way back when. I did one that was a stack of two thin picks, separated by a small spacer; it's now an actual product that SG featured in one of his gimmicky guitar gadget videos (although I had nothing to do with making the commercial product). My favorite was using a US quarter, a coin with ridged edges, that I would hold sideways and use to more or less saw the strings, making what I thought was a little like a roughly bowed violin attack. It sounded so good that I took it out on a gig, where in my enthusiasm I proceeded to saw through several of my strings! Oh well, better luck next time...
That quarter trick is how J Greenwood gets that strange oscillating and droney guitar sound in House of Cards on In Rainbows ! Except he uses some British coin, of course.
HEAR ME OUT! you know how there's some RUclipsrs that have made the guitar pickup on a rail system and can move it around up and down with their fingers to get many inbetween tones? you should do the same put at a motor on the rail system connected to an expression pedal so you can change from the neck pick up to the bridge pickup and old towns in between with a Wawa style pedal without having to stop playing!!!! Please do this, its genius, i want money from this idea lol
that magnetic pick may actually degauss your pickups, i'm not entirely sure but it has been reccomended to keep magnets and electric motors away from pickups.
I'm confused on the solar expression pedal. In the video it looks like there is only one input. is there also an output hidden on one of the sides? I cant find anything else like it online. Would love a video on it!
The piezo pick is cool and has the potential to make at least ONE cool song. I highly encourage you to come up with a song that it works super well with. I'd watch that video.
What if you put 3 magnets on the fidget spinner, I think the spinning magnetic fields could induce some electromagnetic sorcery into the strings and mess with the pickups, could create weird sounds maybe ?
You might exchange metal weights in a fidget spinner for a magnets to make them vibrate the strings without touching as in magnet pick! Ah, ah?! Clever?!
When you used the fan without the spinner, I thought you would use it like a hurdy-gurdy wheel. Has anyone attached this kind of wheel to a guitar before? o_O
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the samurai guitarist will be here, give it time.
Place holder
summon
Sammie already has several weird thungs that The Magpie made for him.
Let me use my summoning jutsu
Haven't seen you in a while
You just wait until my new Japanese guitar arrives. Super gadget weirdness.
Magnetic pick was genius.
@@Hainbach and the piezo pick wasn't?
This man was given blueprints by the aliens themselves. It's the dick picks I worry about....
Magnetic pick and slider are crazy! Solar expression pedal is more!
I'm so here for this beef 😆
@Hainbach, you definitely gotta check some of the old Soviet guitars. I swear you'll get a kick out them 😁
Samurai guitarrist after smoking a joint
More like 7 tabs of acid lol
The solar expression pedal would be great at a live gig reacting to whatever the lighting guy is doing.
My wife had a 20 euro nylon string guitar, the action is high... really high. So i pulled the frets out and now its fretless and so intonation is no longer a problem. I recently decided to do psychedelic watercolors on it. Probably post a vid myself on the topic of it
Do it, I wanna see
Sounds cool! I once made an old mini guitar fretless in a *much* less elegant way. I put a ukulele fretboard under the strings upside down, then added a banjo bridge and folded up paper for the nut. I can sort of make it sound like a double bass.
Awesome , sounds interesting to see
Contact microphone slide: for when you want the MOST accurate representation of scuba diving. Including the random inner ear staticky sounds.
Dude... The Dick Pick is the funniest name ever! I laughed so hard. This is inspiring lunacy. I love how you said "you never know when a surface-level dumb idea will become your legacy"
Now sell them all to Samurai so he can make a video spinoff of your video spinoff
piezo on slide could be refined and maybe do some cool stuff. like padding inside the slide to reduce noise from finger and find a way to connect it so it really doesn't move. you could maybe get some interesting feedback action by sending the signal into an amp with high gain.
I know it's a meme at this point, but how t.f. do you not have 1 mil subs? This is some of the most original and inspiring musical experimentation I've ever seen.
It’s been imo the best synth/music gadget/pedal/diy channel on here for a longtime. I’ve unsubbed to so many “popular” channels over the years in those categories and magpie remains. Always the best.
with the contact mic on a slide, you could also strum the guitar behind your finger to get the opposite note created from the slide to the nut instead of the note from the slide to the bridge.
The solar expression pedal should have a reverse polarity switch to change between always open and always closed.
God damn a lot of these are unironically the coolest shit in a while
Sometimes failed experiments are as interesting as successful ones.
And putting them in a compilation video makes it easy to only talk about them as much as you need to without having to pad for time. I look forward to more videos like this one!
the slide and the FM tuner are legit good ideas, also sonic youth would definitely use the fidget spinner/ fan thing
ok but that slider contact microphone thing sounds reallyyyy cool
4 of your inventions exist. The two you mentioned but the magnet as a guitar pick is basically just a really budget sustainer and the fidget fan is a crude Gizmotron. Also, the solar expression pedal is similar to the proximity sensor wah pedals that ZVEX made.
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I really dig the slide idea, ganna try and implement it 🤙🏽
it could be interesting to convert that contact-microphone signal to an Expression-Signal though
Maybe it just straight up works? That would mean that the slider could control a pedal for example. Which might be really cool 😆 gonna try that for sure
Can you do a tutorial on the solar panel petal, cause I really want that for my keyboard
That sounds like a horrible idea. The problem is that the solar panel emits current, and you'd be forcing that current through the instrument, and i don't necessarily expect keyboards to be built nearly as electrically robustly as guitar pedals he has tried - chances are it goes right into a mixed signal processor, and all the extra current gets burned off on the tiniest of ESD diodes inside, not made to handle actual current at all, ouch. May i suggest an LDR (= light dependent resistor aka photoresistor) and then see how it behaves, and decide what to do about it, whether you need more of them in some kind of serial/parallel arrangement or whether you need a divider. If you're not too unlucky, the instrument documentation says something about the expression input in the spec section.
Siana Gearz I like your funny words magic man
@@brianthegremlin9300 Those are more smart than "funny" words actually, and she is probably a girl... but on the other hand you are a gremlin on the magpie comment section, so your response it's ultimately appropriate. Good luck with your keyboard!
@@danilocaposeno "I like your funny words magic man" is a reference from a cartoon, my doge PFP friend was merely communicating that the have no knowledge of electronics.
Go, man, go! You will invent something mind blowing someday and make your mark on guitar history.
Now I see that a lot of the Post Rock music that I listen was made with the spinning pick, by Simon
You should put the solar panel expression pedal under a slow moving fan. I've seen similar things done with a photoresistor and a DC motor. You could make all kinds of weird shapes and patterns in the fan blades and use a pot to regulate the fan speed.
Sometimes the coolest stuff comes from the weirdest ideas. The magnet pick made a pretty cool sound, and makes me want to rip my poor bass apart to put like a whammy bar sort of thing but with a magnet being moved closer or farther from the strings, or maybe even running current the opposite direction on a pickup to manipulate the strings. Saw a lot of stuff that could be applied to a hurdy gurdy too, like the fidget spinner. Almost got a Misirlou thing going there!
Solar panel was good, but you gotta attach it to the guitar some how
do, do, do.... thats the moto
Another thing I used to do is put an output from the neck pickup and an input in series with the bridge pickup on my guitar. That allows you to do effects only on the neck pickup and then send it back through the clean bridge pickup. Probably the other way around would be a good idea as well.
This also allows you to run other instruments through your guitar or like plug your friend's guitar into your guitar and then have you both play out the same amp.
The solar panel expression pedal is a YES! I'm building one for my Mooer GE300. Thank you for the idea.
All these are awesome my dude.
I feel like the contact mic on a slide is actually a really great idea and I should have done my own one 2 years ago when I first commented on this, but maybe I couldn't find a suitable price of pipe
Obviously the FM wireless system needs some kind of test with loads of radios.
11:20 glitched out version of "Welcome to the Machine"
Interesting to see all these creative ideas Simon. Keep doing!
i did the piezo one when i was a teen. looped through a delay pedal and held against my throat. throw in distortion for fun.
that solar panel pedal gave me an idea! a solar panel synth pad: different parts of the solar panel represent a sound or effect, and when light hits it, it's muted, and vice versa. so for example you could play it like a piano, but not even having to touch it! or maybe it could act as a theremin of sorts. the main caveats i think would be the direction of the light (fixable by using a lamp directly above) and i'm not sure if the power from the solar panel would be enough to run it...
Paul Gilbert actually made a similar invention to that fan with a fidget spinner. He took an electric drill and put picks on the end of it, I think you'd love the sound he got with it
the most ambitious crossover is in the works
Hands down...my favorite RUclips channel.
It's not so much a gadget, exactly, but I used to play with two paperclips attached across the high and low strings of my acoustic guitar at specific locations to do a kind of John Cage treated piano sound on guitar. I used to draw a line on the strings exactly where it should go with a marker.. Also interesting to just kind of hang a few of them on there. You should try it!
I was obsessed with inventing new picks, way back when. I did one that was a stack of two thin picks, separated by a small spacer; it's now an actual product that SG featured in one of his gimmicky guitar gadget videos (although I had nothing to do with making the commercial product).
My favorite was using a US quarter, a coin with ridged edges, that I would hold sideways and use to more or less saw the strings, making what I thought was a little like a roughly bowed violin attack. It sounded so good that I took it out on a gig, where in my enthusiasm I proceeded to saw through several of my strings! Oh well, better luck next time...
That quarter trick is how J Greenwood gets that strange oscillating and droney guitar sound in House of Cards on In Rainbows ! Except he uses some British coin, of course.
Didn't Brian May use coins as picks sometimes?
Bruh I did the same thing with a water bottle cap
@@SkatePunkBanana I didn't know that!
the contact mic slide stuff reminds me of the first hylics game
I want your version of guitar as speaker (according to the symmetry principle of speakers and microphones)
One of my favourite techniques is to play a transistor radio into the pick-up.
What if you put a magnet on the fan/spin tip pick? That could be interesting since the magnet alone doesn't quite cut it
I think the contact mic pick is a really cool sound! I wanna try
A fleshlight with contact mics on it. Imagine the (sweaty) expression that might offer.
I don't think I want to. and I don't think anyone else does either
Making the electric slide wireless and mixing it with the regular pickup signal would be awesome!
How about a speaker piezo pick that makes a feedback loop through the strings. It vibrates the strings and self oscillates
Dude the pocket ventilator thing is the best! I'm gonna make one, thanks for the idea!
the guitarist Otomo Yoshihide often uses a magnet with his guitar I believe. He's kind of known for making the weirdest sounds on guitar in general!
Always great to see your stuff thanks for all the inspiration!!!!
10:26〜 ハーマン・リリリリリリリリリリリリ！
6:03 "It's all just toilet sounds."
I really hope Josh Scott from JHS follows this man
Hope he does, he should really send him some pedals to bend.
Josh is a terrible person
BecketThor ?? What makes you say that?
@@paultennyson419 he donates to religious charities that support the killing of gay people
@@becketthor and you learned this where?
11:16 getting really hard godspeed you! black emperor vibes from this
HEAR ME OUT! you know how there's some RUclipsrs that have made the guitar pickup on a rail system and can move it around up and down with their fingers to get many inbetween tones? you should do the same put at a motor on the rail system connected to an expression pedal so you can change from the neck pick up to the bridge pickup and old towns in between with a Wawa style pedal without having to stop playing!!!! Please do this, its genius, i want money from this idea lol
Imagine transitioning from a neck to bridge pickup in a linnear way and fading in both souns, do smooth. I got it already sketched out
@@lukegalvan3093 Kevin from SaidTooMuch Productions?
Dear god... all of these have something...
Nobody tell Radiohead.
i put piezo mic into gloves and makes beats by playing around on my knees, on table etc.
that magnetic pick may actually degauss your pickups, i'm not entirely sure but it has been reccomended to keep magnets and electric motors away from pickups.
the motor pick sounds incredible
Glue a tiny, very strong Neodymium magnet to a regular pick. Or put 3 of them on your fidget spinner pick and use non-contact?
8:44. Excellent.
I'm confused on the solar expression pedal. In the video it looks like there is only one input. is there also an output hidden on one of the sides? I cant find anything else like it online. Would love a video on it!
the automatic fidget spinner gave me the most laughs for some silly reason.
maybe it would be cool if the sound from the contact microphone pick controller the regular guitar sound somehow...
I like the Samurai Guitarist-ish thumbnail
I love the gear you come up with! The microphone guitar pick is rad!! What drugs do you enjoy, and how do they affect your musical ideas?
For a better version of a fan pick check out Paul Gilbert, he used a makita drill waaay back for some mad tremelo and noise!
The piezo pick is cool and has the potential to make at least ONE cool song. I highly encourage you to come up with a song that it works super well with. I'd watch that video.
You should still do a video of the solar panel thing
Magpiiiiie my dude!
10:25 Knights of Cydonia FC when?
Please do a diy on the solar pedal. Great vid!
What if you put 3 magnets on the fidget spinner, I think the spinning magnetic fields could induce some electromagnetic sorcery into the strings and mess with the pickups, could create weird sounds maybe ?
Look mum no computer did this exact thing (although without magnets) and it sounds wild
Dude, you just re-invented the harpy thingy
4:20 Pretty much what an eBow does.
Simon: "It's the Dick Pick"
Deadheads: "which volume?"
Get the guitar to vocode the contact microphone signal ! This could be cool
You might exchange metal weights in a fidget spinner for a magnets to make them vibrate the strings without touching as in magnet pick! Ah, ah?! Clever?!
you could totally put a pickup on the slide I reckon
When you used the fan without the spinner, I thought you would use it like a hurdy-gurdy wheel. Has anyone attached this kind of wheel to a guitar before? o_O
Elvis was a 28th degree Karate Black Belt. That level of mastery made him a registered lethal weapon. FK around & get roundhoused in the face. 💥🦵
What about a slide made out of magnets?
Put the fidget spinner on an electric screwdriver, then put magnets on the fidget spinner.
im going to start calling 'Solder point' --> 'Solderings'
Yea!
Simon, you ever had any problems with RSI/carpal tunnel from playing guitar?
I'm interested too
Ha ha, why play guitar when you can summon the dark Lord Baffamet.
that fm transmitter exists?
Most inspiring, brother Simon.
Yessss this is what I always wanted
U're genius man i'm shocked!!!
His room looks like a highschool bathroom stall
8:39 idk why but I felt that...
Have you got an Ebow?
Simon invented the eBow
I really fucks with the slide
piezo pick on acoustic?
I wonder if you could make an effects pedal out of your voice changer? That would be interesting at the very least.
I did years ago! Called it the “crazynator”. Its a cool one 😁 I should make a new video on it
Wish this guy was my neighbor, this would be the mad scientist of new tones in the group ( I don't have a group anymore..) ya. .