If you’re going to use a guitar amp as a model for the servitor, it might be helpful to work some of the characteristics of amplifiers into its programming. This will make it more flexible, as it cane be fine tuned for specific tasks.
For example, have you considered the possibility of magickal feedback? This occurs in guitar amps when the amplified signal is picked up by the sound source, forming a loop (you’ll have heard this live and on records as a loud whining sound). You may be especially susceptible to this if you increase the power. It may produce unwanted unpleasant effects or overkill in your workings (or if you have more of a punk ethos, those effects may be desirable).
Feedback can be avoided by limiting the power of the amp, or eliminating certain frequencies, or being careful about the location in which the music is being played. These may have magickal parallels: for example, working in a specific location may well increase the power of what you’re doing naturally (i.e.; a ley line). Virtually all amps come with a graphic equaliser of some sort, so that the performance of the amp can be tailored to the acoustic performance of the location (along with other reasons: certain equalisation specifications are a requirement in different kinds of music, so a flexible servitor design may allow you to fine tune the signal for the type of methodology you’re using).
Then you have considerations like effects (i.e.; reverb, distortion, delay, etc). You may find these all have powerful magickal parallels (for example, imagine casting an amplified spell with a delay effect in place, so that the spell is automatically recast at certain time intervals, in exactly the same way as the caster originally specified, but without the need for the hir to be present. Or imagine adding reverb if you were blessing a geographical area, the working automatically gaining characteristics that facilitate it filling the region).
What would I recommend doing? I’d go for a servitor version of the Line Guitar POD. This piece of kit can digitally sound model a wide variety of amps, so that you can use their “sound” without having a different servitor for each different type of working (it’s fully customisable). It also has a good many guitar effects, and the facility to download “sounds” from the Internet. This would be wicked if you were making it a group servitor, because if you want to duplicate someone’s setting for a particular working, you dont have to spend ages calibrating the amp in order to mimick the effect - you can just ask their permission and download their settings. This way people who are inexperienced with using the servitor have access to advanced settings creatd by some of the best mages involved.
This has the capacity to be a very powerful and unique tool. I hope some of this helps: I know practically nothing about magick, but a fair bit about guitars! |
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