The ScottG Abstract Collection

Seven tones nobody asked for • You're welcome

These are the sounds that live in the gaps between genres. The Fuzz Factory oscillating into the Timeline's Ice mode sounds. The Mobius Destroyer mangling a clean chord sounds. The tones you'd use for the soundtrack to a Death Star toilet malfunction incident report, or the ambient backdrop to a CMDB that's never been updated. Every pedal you own is being abused. The Badger manual didn't anticipate this. Susumu Tamura would weep.

SG-ABS-001

Frozen Architecture

Shimmer delay with pitch-shifted repeats cascading upward into crystalline infinity. Play a single chord and walk away. It builds itself. Think the sound design for a film about sentient glaciers. Clean amp, no drive — the Timeline's Ice machine does everything.

Ambient / Shimmer

Badger 30

Power10

Drive8

Gain2

Bass5

Middle4

Treble6

Guitar: Neck. Vol 6. Tone 6. All pedals OFF except AC+ Ch A at minimum gain for buffer warmth. You want a very clean, slightly dark signal hitting the Timeline.

Timeline — Ice

TypeIce

Time800ms

Repeats3 o'clock (~75%)

Mix2 o'clock (~50%)

Filter12:00 (analog curve)

GritMin

Interval+1 Octave

SliceSmall

Blend70% Ice

SmearMax

The trick: Smear at max softens every repeat into a wash. Interval at +1 octave means each repeat is an octave higher. High repeats = cascading upward pitch spiral that eventually dissolves. Small slice keeps it musical. Hold A or B footswitch for infinite repeats, play one chord, release.

Mobius — Off or Chorus

Option ABypassed

Option BChorus (Digital mode)

SpeedVery slow

DepthLow

Mix20%

Optional subtle chorus before the Ice adds width. Don't overdo it — the Ice is already complex.

SG-ABS-002

Thermal Exhaust Port

Fuzz Factory self-oscillating into the Mobius Destroyer into the Timeline Lo-Fi with vinyl noise. The sound of a proton torpedo entering a 2-metre thermal exhaust port. Risk 189 in audio form. Pull Stab below 9 o'clock and the Fuzz Factory becomes a synth. The Destroyer bit-crushes it. The Lo-Fi adds vinyl crackle. It's horrifying and beautiful.

Noise / Synth

Fuzz Factory — Oscillation Mode

Gate7 o'clock (min)

Comp3 o'clock

Drive3 o'clock

Stab8–9 o'clock (!)

Volume10 o'clock (tame it)

Stab below 9 = chaos. The Fuzz Factory starts self-oscillating — generating its own pitch independent of your guitar. Guitar notes interact with the oscillation to create intervallic mayhem. Gate at minimum lets the oscillation ring freely. Comp and Drive high for maximum harmonic content. Play single notes, let them interact with the oscillation, manipulate pitch with guitar volume.

Mobius — Destroyer

TypeDestroyer

Speed11 o'clock (vinyl rotation)

Depth1 o'clock

Level12:00

Bit DepthLow (crushed)

Sample RateMedium-low

Mobius manual: Destroyer "combines bit-crushing, sample-rate reduction, and filtering alongside vinyl scratches and warps." Speed knob controls vinyl rotation speed. This turns your fuzz oscillation into something that sounds like a broken radio receiving transmissions from hell.

Timeline — Lo-Fi

TypeLo-Fi

Time600ms

Repeats2 o'clock

Mix1 o'clock (~35%)

VinylHigh

Sample RateLow

Bit DepthMedium

Lo-Fi FilterTelephone

Badger: clean platform. SD-9: off. AC+: off. Let the Fuzz Factory → Destroyer → Lo-Fi chain do everything. The amp is just amplifying the carnage transparently.

SG-ABS-003

Barber Pole Descent

An infinitely falling phaser that never arrives, like a Shepard tone for guitar. Play sustained chords and they melt downward forever. Paired with the Timeline's Reverse delay, your notes come back to haunt you backwards while the phaser spirals into the abyss. The audio equivalent of an Escher staircase.

Psychoacoustic

Mobius — Barber Pole Phaser

TypePhaser

ModeBARBER

Speed10 o'clock (slow fall)

DepthMax

Level12:00

LFO WaveshapeSAW (falling)

Regen1 o'clock

Mobius manual: "For infinitely falling barber pole phaser, set MODE to BARBER, WAVSHP to SAW, and set the Depth control to maximum." RAMP = infinitely rising. SAW = infinitely falling. This is a real psychoacoustic illusion — the phase sweep sounds like it's descending forever but it never actually goes anywhere.

Timeline — Reverse

TypeReverse

Time500ms

Repeats11 o'clock

Mix1 o'clock (~35%)

Filter1 o'clock (dark)

Grit10 o'clock

SmearHigh

Pedals: All drive OFF. AC+ Ch A on for warmth. Guitar: Neck, vol 7, tone 5 (dark). Play slow sustained chords. The falling phaser + reverse delay creates a disorienting sensation where nothing is moving in the direction you expect.

SG-ABS-004

The Interrogation

SD-9 cranked through the Mobius Filter with envelope following, into the Timeline's Pattern delay. Every note triggers a synth-like filter sweep. The pattern delay turns your phrases into rhythmic cells that multiply and interlock. Like playing through a modular synth that's been wired by someone with a grudge. Very Tribal Tech late-period.

Synth / Fusion

Maxon SD-9

Distortion2 o'clock

Tone12:00 (!) — brighter

LevelDimed

Tone at noon, not 8 o'clock. Breaking the Landau rules deliberately — the higher tone setting feeds more harmonic content to the Mobius filter, giving it more frequencies to sweep through. This is SD-9 as synth driver, not SD-9 as lead tone.

Mobius — Filter (Envelope)

TypeFilter

ModeLP (lowpass)

WaveshapeENV (envelope)

SpeedControls sensitivity

Depth2 o'clock

Level12:00

Resonance1–2 o'clock

Frequency Mid12:00

Envelope mode = the filter responds to your pick dynamics. Hit hard = filter opens. Resonance adds that squelchy synth peak. The SD-9's distortion gives the filter plenty of harmonics to work with.

Timeline — Pattern

TypePattern

Time300ms

Repeats12:00

Mix12:00 (~30%)

Filter11 o'clock

Grit10 o'clock

PatternExperiment (cycle through)

Guitar: Bridge pickup, vol 10, tone 6. Dig in hard — the envelope filter rewards aggressive picking. Pattern delay turns single-note lines into polyrhythmic sequences. Play staccato funk lines and let the pattern do the rest.

SG-ABS-005

Quadrature Sickness

The Mobius Quadrature machine doing ring modulation with the Fuzz Factory feeding it. AM ring mod turns your guitar into a Dalek being tortured. Add the Timeline's Trem delay with a square wave LFO and you get rhythmic stuttered ring mod fuzz. Completely unusable in any normal context. Absolutely essential.

Ring Mod / Industrial

Fuzz Factory — Controlled Chaos

Gate10 o'clock

Comp1 o'clock

Drive2 o'clock

Stab2 o'clock (just stable)

Volume12:00

Mobius — Quadrature (AM)

TypeQuadrature

ModeAM (ring mod)

Speedvaries — tune to taste

Depth2 o'clock

Level12:00

LFO WaveshapeSine

Mobius manual: "Quadrature handles signal corruption featuring AM, FM, or Frequency Shifting." AM mode = classic ring modulation. Speed controls the carrier frequency — tune it to find intervals that are musically interesting (or deliberately atonal). Fuzz before ring mod = maximum harmonic density for the ring mod to work with.

Timeline — Trem

TypeTrem

Time400ms

Repeats11 o'clock

Mix12:00

LFOSquare

Trem SpeedSync to tempo

Trem DepthMax

Square wave trem on the delay repeats = choppy rhythmic stutter. The ring-modded fuzz signal gets delayed and then chopped. Play power chords. Accept that this sounds like industrial music. That's the point.

SG-ABS-006

Formant Choir

The Mobius Formant machine makes your guitar talk. Literally. It emulates vowel sounds — blending between two selectable vowels via the LFO. Run clean single notes through it and it sounds like a choir of ghosts trying to tell you something. Add Swell delay and the ghosts appear from nowhere.

Vocal / Ethereal

Mobius — Formant

TypeFormant

Speed9 o'clock (slow morph)

Depth2 o'clock

Level12:00

Vowel 1AH

Vowel 2OO

LFOSine

Mobius manual: "Filter type that emulates the human vocal tract." Speed controls how fast it morphs between the two vowels. Slow speed + AH→OO = eerie choir that breathes. Try with expression pedal — set WAVSHP to EXPR and blend between vowels manually for a vocal wah effect.

Timeline — Swell

TypeSwell

Time700ms

Repeats11 o'clock

Mix2 o'clock (~45%)

Filter1 o'clock (dark)

Rise Time0.7s

SmearHigh

Guitar: Neck, vol 6, tone 5 (dark). All drive off. AC+ Ch A on. Play slow arpeggios — each note swells in through the formant filter, creating the illusion of voices appearing from silence. Rise time matched roughly to delay time per Strymon's recommendation.

SG-ABS-007

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

The full stack. Every pedal on. Fuzz Factory (stable) → SD-9 (low gain, tone up) → AC+ (both channels, A→B) → Badger (Henderson mode, gain 5, boost ON) → Mobius (Rotary, fast) → Timeline (Dual, long + short). Maximum density. You are now a one-person wall of sound. Play a single low E and listen to what comes back. This is either the best tone you've ever heard or a war crime. There is no in-between.

Maximum Everything

Gain Stack — All On

Fuzz FactoryStab 3 o'clock, Drive noon

SD-9 Dist10 o'clock (low)

SD-9 Tone10 o'clock

SD-9 Level1 o'clock

AC+ Ch AGain min, Vol noon

AC+ Ch BGain 10, Vol 1 o'clock

AC+ FlowA → B

Low gain on each, maximum stages. The key is not to max any single pedal — keep them all at moderate settings so they stack without turning to mush. The SD-9 at low gain after the Fuzz Factory adds midrange body and sustain. The AC+ adds EQ shaping and controlled volume.

Badger — Henderson Mode

Power7

Drive7

Gain5

Bass2 (!)

Middle6

Treble5

BoostOn

Bass at 2. You've got three gain stages before the amp plus amp gain plus boost. If you don't annihilate the bass, the low end will be an incoherent mess. Mids at 6 for cut. This is the only patch where the Badger is adding its own gain.

Mobius — Rotary + Timeline — Dual

MobiusRotary

SpeedFast (tremolo mode)

Depth1 o'clock

Horn LevelHigh

Preamp DriveLow

TimelineDual

Time 1350ms

Time 2550ms

ConfigParallel (L/R split)

Repeats10 o'clock

Mix10 o'clock

Guitar: Neck. Vol 7. Tone 5. Play slow, heavy, Sabbath-weight riffs. The rotary speaker effect adds Doppler swirl to the massive gain stack. Dual delay at two different times creates width and depth. This is the sound equivalent of the Death Star's superlaser reaching full operational capacity. Neighbours will file complaints. This is confirmation it's working.