--- It was the thread about the "laughter fetish" that prompted me to offer this little personal experience,... The right kind of laughter can definitely "make" the whole tickling experience, no?
--- For years now I've had a small "recording studio" capability,... actually just a Tascam 4-track cassette machine... hooked into various amps, reverb & echo units, etc. By combining a couple of tracks, I could achieve up to around nine separate tracks without too much sound degradation. So I got the hot idea of making a "laugh track" recording,... but the project naturally became more involved (and better)
--- I had a willing accomplice in the project,... a young lady who has been a frequent NEST attendee, actually. As she sat securely roped into a chair in the studio,.. her feet elevated to optimum tickling level,... and a microphone stand just to her right, I tickled her feet for several 5-minute tracks,.. perhaps five or six in all,.... then combined some tracks to create the effect of a whole roomful of shrieking, giggling ticklees. It worked great.
--- So great, in fact, that we decided to go further. We quickly wrote up a movie-style "trailer" for a "Mystery Tickle Theater" episode,.... with yours truly dubbing in the chilling pipe organ from Bach,... as well as narrating the copy in my best Boris Karloff voice. The general idea was that a young woman had stumbled into an old haunted castle where once the Baron von Kitzlen had mercilessly tickle-tortured hundreds of innocent young virgins,... and their laughter still reverberated throughout the ancient stone hallways... And naturally, the old spirits get their hands on her, eh?
--- Once the whole thing was properly mixed, it made what I thought was a great parody of a real-life movie trailer,.... and the backdrop of the pipe organ and the many howling, screaming "virgins" (appropriately accented with reverb and echo, of course) were just the ticket. I still keep a cassette of the trailer in my car for those long drives,..... and I still have the original master lying around here somewhere.
--- Actually, I'd like to do it again, only better. Anyone else ever do anything similar?
(PS -- I've lost touch with my "accomplice," but D., if you're reading this, give me a holler.)
--- For years now I've had a small "recording studio" capability,... actually just a Tascam 4-track cassette machine... hooked into various amps, reverb & echo units, etc. By combining a couple of tracks, I could achieve up to around nine separate tracks without too much sound degradation. So I got the hot idea of making a "laugh track" recording,... but the project naturally became more involved (and better)
--- I had a willing accomplice in the project,... a young lady who has been a frequent NEST attendee, actually. As she sat securely roped into a chair in the studio,.. her feet elevated to optimum tickling level,... and a microphone stand just to her right, I tickled her feet for several 5-minute tracks,.. perhaps five or six in all,.... then combined some tracks to create the effect of a whole roomful of shrieking, giggling ticklees. It worked great.
--- So great, in fact, that we decided to go further. We quickly wrote up a movie-style "trailer" for a "Mystery Tickle Theater" episode,.... with yours truly dubbing in the chilling pipe organ from Bach,... as well as narrating the copy in my best Boris Karloff voice. The general idea was that a young woman had stumbled into an old haunted castle where once the Baron von Kitzlen had mercilessly tickle-tortured hundreds of innocent young virgins,... and their laughter still reverberated throughout the ancient stone hallways... And naturally, the old spirits get their hands on her, eh?
--- Once the whole thing was properly mixed, it made what I thought was a great parody of a real-life movie trailer,.... and the backdrop of the pipe organ and the many howling, screaming "virgins" (appropriately accented with reverb and echo, of course) were just the ticket. I still keep a cassette of the trailer in my car for those long drives,..... and I still have the original master lying around here somewhere.
--- Actually, I'd like to do it again, only better. Anyone else ever do anything similar?
(PS -- I've lost touch with my "accomplice," but D., if you're reading this, give me a holler.)
