This is Colossal continues to be an endless resource of completely bonkers instruments. Fine, and electric hurdy gurdy is no Yabahar, but I’m still kind of amazed by the sounds coming out of this thing. Looper aside (wait for it: the real looping insanity doesn’t begin until about 2 minutes in or so), it seems like there’s some distortion and filter effects applied. But that’s the cool thing about instruments that you’ve never heard before: it’s hard to be positive about what’s the natural sound of the hurdy gurdy and what’s post-processing without any context.
Thoughts? I think I kind of really want one of these. What do you think the odds are that I can get one cheap in a last minute Sweetwater sale?
Cyradis / January 25, 2015 10:31 am
Just one comment: this is an acoustic hurdy gurdy,not an electric one. The sound of the resonance box is electrically amplified and distorted (just like if you would hook up a regular violin to an amplifier). An electric hurdy gurdy does not have a resonance box.
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