A friend of mine had a chorus pedal that became a contact mic somehow. This happened just once and i have no Idea how it happened. We had it plugged right into his 8-track cassette. At first we had no idea how it was happening so we unplugged all the microphones but we still heard the room in the headphones. Finally I picked up the pedal and knocked on it. We both heard it in the headphones and he was like "we gotta record a song with that."
Very quickly we wrote some words and recorded a live take followed by a few overdubs through the chorus pedal. It seemed like no matter where you went in the room it picked up sound about the same. It sounded like a really cheap mic that sounded really good.
So my trick is to have weird stuff plugged in at all times and if something out of the ordinary happens be ready to record it.
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