neil gravander

it's not exactly necessary for any one thing over any other though. pretty much everything I do is with magnetic tape, audio and video, see:

ursa--major.blogspot.com
myspace.com/luckyb0ne
phonedniltrio.bandcamp.com/

it's my medium of choice and with it I get distinct effects, control qualities, as well as boundaries, in which tape players (both audio and video) are necessary in order to achieve.

the simple answer is: Im pulling the tension on the tape alot harder than vcr's normally have, that added pressure of the tape against the audio heads amplify and distort the audio track on the tape.

but there are quite a few more things involved as well.

I don't really use video effects. I don't have any TO USE. all I have are boxes and boxes of vcr's! ha ha. I generally like to keep things simple, keep them as they are, it feels more tangible and natural to me then. there's a few more things involved here too.

oh yeah, that's totally fine. Whats your blog address? I'd like to check it out!

It's a blue screen signal from a vcr going into one modified distribution amplifier, then that signal is going through another modified distribution amp. The audio heard here is coming from the video out of the second distribution amp---the same split signal as the video signals sent to the TV's. Without any volume on the TV, you can still hear the same sounds if you put your ear up to the TV tube---the sounds of the electrical beams bouncing around inside the tube and hitting the phosphors on the screen.