Myristica - Playing with my Dik (Mik) - A tribute for 40 years of love and psychedelic inspiration.

[@kenneththompson8933]

Seen Dik Mik play this instrument live with Hawkind...incredible!!

[@rocketshiptoaltair]

Been trying to do this on a Behringer D Synth. Not even close but my friend I did the track for was impressed. seems I'm going to be hunting down a valve audio generator myself. Amazing. Thanks for sharing :)

[@hawkboy451]

Hi Glad you like it. It is up for sale if you are interested. I could put it on Ebay for you. S

[@craigsurette3438]

I dont think a distortion pedal was necessarily involved. However , you can expect that there was a whole lot of inadvertent saturation, overdrive and distortion happening in the sound simply because they were playing this thing as loud as possible through whatever old probably tube guitar/bass amps they could afford, which would be clipping like crazy as this thing probably puts out a way hotter signal than a guitar . There was no such thing as "clean" at those volumes in those days.The amps, the speakers, and the sound of the mics/room were also a key part of the sound

[@roysummers1026]

I am interested.....where did you get the noise generator?

[@hawkboy451]

Ebay UK . It only produces a sine wave and a square wave, and it is VERY awkward to use., as the main frequency knob is "accuracy geared" so it takes about 3 turns or more, to do the same as the cut-off dial on a synthesizer would do. Very annoying in other words !!! Dik-Mik, or some engineer, obviously altered his to sweep the frequency range at great speed. If you are wanting to make convincing spacey/Hawkwind sounds, get a Moog Mother 32 and a good digital delay pedal, for starters. No keyboard is necessary. The device can easily be set into "drone" mode. I.e a tone will always play, and you can fiddle with the knobs until you get the right sound.

[@hawkboy451]

PS, there is NO NEED to use the Mother 32 patch leads, or sequencer, to get great sounds, I use neither. The Boss DD200 is a great STEREO delay pedal to get. It simulates stereo panning even from a mono signal. The Shimmer Delay setting is particularly brilliant.

[@roysummers1026]

Thanks..... I was wondering about the Mother 32. I have one but never quite saw it as a noise generator. I will give it a go...Cheers!

[@hawkboy451]

@@roysummers1026 Oh great, preaching to the converted then LOL. It is my go-to Hawkwind machine when the mood grabs me. I do not understand patch lead synths, or pins on a VCS3/Synthi A ( nor could I afford one ) so the tiny Mother 32 is ideal . It is a toss up which I like the most, that or the Novation MiniNova.

[@roysummers1026]

@@hawkboy451 I tried out the M32 yesterday.....great it was. I used valhalla delay and shimmer verb. Great knob twiddling. I will post it sometime soon. Thanks for the inspiration!