Well this started after seeing Dave Hilowitz doing a video where he used an electric guitar pickup to pickup (pardon the pun) the signal created by a small fan with a variety of bits of wire attached.

So I though. I’ve actually got a small fan I bought from Home Bargains for £2.99. Let’s see what I can do with that.

So two options.

1. Just the Fan sampled. Sounds a bit like a really lo-fi organ
2. Bit of fun. I plugged my acoustic DI into my DAW and sat the
fan on top of the strings. Sounds even more lo-fi.

Hope you find it useful.

David

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The fan sound was created using a cheap USB microphone I have straight into my DAW. The Guitar Fan sound was created by balancing the fan on the strings of my Acoustic Guitar which I then DI'd into my Line6 FX100 with no amp/speaker emulation or effects added. Again straight into my DAW.