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I. Noise Charts
II. Noise Tools
III. Noise Shares

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I. Noise Charts
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Harsh Noise Essentials - http://cl.ly/XegT

Noise Essentials - http://cl.ly/Xels/

Power Electronics/Death Industrial Essentials - http://cl.ly/Xh97
--Dedicated PE Essentials - http://cl.ly/eATr

Power Noise Essentials - http://cl.ly/XgOA

Noisecore Essentials - To Be Made

Ambient/White Noise Essentials - http://cl.ly/YSlK

Black Noise Essentials - http://cl.ly/ZkWG

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II. Noise Tools
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How to make noise, abridged - http://cl.ly/XgBN

Basics (taken from Anonymous >>50083036)
"I think that the "generally agreed on basic noise setup" consists of a mixing board, pedals, inputs (microphones, guitar, mountain dulcimer, what-have-you), with other stuff added for flavor, if you will. Plus an amp or speakers or whatever.
If you're wondering if there's anything really specific to get or avoid, I wouldn't say so; about any mixing board will do by merit of how they all work (and how feedback works, y'know), so spending $40 vs. $400 isn't the biggest difference in the word.
I guess pedals are where more specific things can be recommended, so I'll do that...
Personally, I'm a big fan of the Behringer pedals, because they're really cheap ($20 to $40), but they all offer a pretty good *punch*, y'know. This one's a personal favorite: >>50064004 (UM300 Ultra Metal Pedal)
A note: a lot of people see pictures of people's set-ups where they have, like, ninety pedals in a chain and think "Oh, you need ninety pedals in a chain to make noise," but that's not really true; you can get a lot out of just one or two pedals.
As for inputs, if you don't want to buy a guitar or anything Appalachian, some cheap things I can think of are:
>Those weird guitar tuners that are basically tone generators (Juntaro used one of these to record None Friendly)
>Cheap Korg synths (Monotrons are, what, ~$50? And the really nice Volca series land around $150, which is pretty good)
>Casio-type keyboards from Goodwill (you can circuit bend them for fun times if you want to get industrious)
>Homemade instruments (a long, thin piece of wood with a bass string on it, with the body wrapped in copper wire was one of the first things I ever used, and it was fun/10)
>Walkmans, presumably from Goodwill (tape loops, etc)
But you can use about anything."


DAWS recommended by /noise/
-- Audacity
-- FL Studio
-- Renoise
--SuperCollider
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Pedals recommended by /noise/
--DOD Death Metal FX86
--Behringer Ultra Metal UM300
--EHX Super Ego (improved EHX Freeze, make a synth/drone out of everything)
--BOSS Me50 (cheap multi fx, two outputs for feedback loop, plenty of knobs for live tweaking)
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Other suggested tools
--Contact Microphone
----http://home.earthlink.net/~erinys/contactmic.html
--Portable Radios
-- Traditional instruments (guitar, banjo, saxophone, etc.)
--Tape loops
----http://cementimental.com/tapeloop.html
"Ok so first for doing tape loops you will need cassette with screwed shells, not welded. For starting with a simple loop you can use the two designs explained here (link above).
The key is to find the right tension, which is quite loose actually. The loop should not be tensed when you mount it in the shell, as the read head pushing against the tape will add more tension and prevent the tape from moving. When you have made a handful of simple design, you can move to custom design like the one shown here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUAGXv4AxCU ). The additional rollers are just salvaged from other cassettes, mostly welded as they can't be used for much else. In this video this custom design is about 450mm, maybe less. The good thing about custom design is that you can adjust the roller placement on the fly, which is really easier to adjust than the loop length.
About assembling the loop itself : Just cut a strip of tape at the right length (235mm or 372mm for simple designs), cut a VERY small strip of adhesive tape (something like 2mm x 4mm) and apply it to one end of the tape, then carefully apply the other end of the tape to close the loop. The two ends of the loop could overlap a bit, maybe 1-2mm. Don't make the adhesive strip too big or it will make the tape too rigid to properly curl around the rollers.
About the audio : You can obviously use prerecorded audio, or record sounds yourself before cutting the tape (for info, players read tape at about 5cm/second IIRC). If you want to record sound AFTER having assembled your loop, you will necessarily have an audio gap, as the erase head is always spaced from the record head. Or you can find a record player on which you can disable the erase. I did this on my Tascam Player, pretty interesting results although now I prefer to record sounds on a "master" tape, then cut strips from it and assemble the tape after."


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III. Noise Shares (Last Update: 4/14/2017)
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I have removed the shares permanently. At this point in time, I know of no host that will host the shares without giving me trouble down the road of re-hosting the links, so I find it not to be worth the bother. Until something better comes along, the shares section will remain empty.

In the meantime, please check out three alternatives.

MU ARCHIVE
http://rbt.asia/mu
--Search "Album name mega|mediafire" or "artist name mega|mediafire" and go wild

SOULSEEK
http://www.soulseekqt.net/news/
--A great resource if you have patience, search broadly and sooner or later, you're bound to find what you're looking for. The best practice is to share your collection, so you can give back while trying to find rare gems.

Private Trackers
--Another good resource to use, private trackers require that you give back to the community in exchange for downloading music in the best quality that you can get. Many of them host rare finds in FLAC. Be sure to seed, upload and fill requests, and you'll do fine. Examples would be Waffles.ch, and Apollo.rip.