HAHAAA!! XD  I was just thinking about how I would approach making ambient with gameboys. Then I said never mind, that would be really boring after a while. Me thinks  syncing a whole lot of gbs' ,like 5 or so could be amazing. Something to chinstroke to at least..

This is A-MA-ZING.

OT as to LSDJ; but when talking about post-production effects, Yerzmyey's "Strange Light Under My Bed" http://ubiktune.org/releases/ubi051-yer … der-my-bed blows me away

I ran my DMG Game Boy through my pedalboard, with various delays, reverbs, octavers and such, recorded each track individually, and got this:
http://starsaslights.bandcamp.com/track … tars-above

This is a slight bump, but hey, was just reading through threads and I love ambient + chip!

I realized I might be making an ass out of my mouth, so here are some examples (all LSDJ)

church space (from ~1.20)
https://soundcloud.com/failotron/track-340

monophonic PU1 channel + analog echo + reverb - recorded live
https://soundcloud.com/failotron/ash-tree

same thing, but with harmonic modulations
https://soundcloud.com/failotron/hawthorn-tree

^ awesome reading, thanks!

somehow picking this up:
For me, handling reverb and reverberations/reflections and echo is almost identical to architecture. You practically create spaces, relations, narratives of a landscape, composing not just in time, but in 3D as well. Reverberations have the extreme power to suddenly contextualize sound, since it scales out it's surroundings on a multitude of levels. This I think is really important to take into account. Using these tools will for sure completely strip your sound from any of those features associated with the algorithmic coldness of electronic music - but then again, perfect silence only exists inside the machine, so from the point on you play anything from any speaker or headphones you already have reverb.
What I see with a lot of artists, that they have absolutely no patience in getting into these tools, meanwhile using them all the time without any brain whatsoever. I'm not talking about the techy side, but rather letting the time to compose and build these spaces - playing with decay, diffusion, reflections, overtones and such, and alternate them throughout the soundpiece. If it's not done right, it's no different for me than an out-or-proportion architectural design or bad typography. The space between the elements is what truly makes your work awsum : 3

two practical advises:
> For warm, spacious sound, try putting your sounds in a space with acoustics you like and record them again with a mic. I used bathrooms, churches, concert halls, stables, gardens, hangars, a kebab joint, all sorts of silly things. It's a nice way to experiment and who knows, you might catch some funky extra sounds on the way.
> If you prefer using artificial reverb, I'd recommend going for a cheapo digital effect unit (early Lexicons, or even a Nanoverb), since these machines are not as delicately calibrated as the big guys - meaning you can tweak them more. If you are a tape/space echo nerd, I'm not gonna stop you - it has a fantastic sound for a lot of things, but it lack the flexibility to really compose in space.

hope this helped - wanted to say a few words about the 'why' rather than the 'how'.

a large portion of these two tunes are ambient noise stuff
http://skgb.bandcamp.com/track/space-man
http://skgb.bandcamp.com/track/you-already-know-2

but yeah, if you have access to two dmgs, i highly recommend live mixing with a... mixer... to get really good volume control

or even just like, adjusting the volume knob on the dmg while recording live, haha

sabi - colorblind (2001)
http://eerikinpujsound.com/legacy/relea … puj033.zip

i just got nanoloop 2.6 in the mail about 20 minutes ago, and i'm blown away at how well it does ambient stuff.

Soft/warm arpeggios done in WAV, coupled with higher arpeggios in pulses...
I find it's best to have a very simple pulse lead, maybe 50% duty cycle. Personally, I believed it's all in the arrangement, programming and musical knowledge you possess.
Here's an example:

http://chipmusic.org/jansaw/music/alone-in-space

how come no one commented 'just smoke a spliff and go to town'

Build better envelopes in your tables.

I got bored of lack of dynamics in LSDJ works and mostly abandoned DS-10 for reasons already mentioned. My suggestion is to use the volume pot to introduce a softness that game boys can't make without also introducing noise.

this is a great thread! so many great ideas!