January 18, 2010

Video Demo: Malekko Chicklet Reverb

Stashed under: Show and Tell - Non-Fuzz — grygrx @ 11:07 am

Price: $120

Available from: Dealers everywhere.


January 15, 2010

Video Demo: Paul Cochrane – Tim

Stashed under: Show and Tell - Non-Fuzz — grygrx @ 12:48 pm

Price:$169

How to buy:  http://www.myspace.com/paulcaudio

Manual


December 20, 2009

Video demo: Mid-Fi Electronics Clari(not)

Stashed under: Show and Tell - Non-Fuzz — grygrx @ 8:31 am


July 4, 2009

Show & Tell: PigtroniX Mothership

Stashed under: Show and Tell - Non-Fuzz — grygrx @ 2:30 pm

This is the first pedal I’ve ever spent a lot of time with that was labeled ’synthesizer’. I’ve come away from the experience wondering if it’s something I should just avoid. That said, I also had the chance to play around with it on guitar, and I felt it was much easier to get usable sounds out of it.

The pedal is really three parts, that can be used together or separately (to some extent). In order to use the ring mod or sub-octave solo, the VCO needs to either be turned down or have the wave set to the ‘off’ position. Some quick comments about each.

VCO
- The VCO by itself seems to be a little limited on bass with only a few sweet spots on the ‘tune’ knob.
- Glide is a little odd, and sometimes there seems to be no movement on anything other than the lowest settings
- Square wave seemed to track the instrument better.

Intelligent Ring Mod
- Works across the range
- Blend volumes (ring/clean/master) really make it super-usable
- Follows appropriately

Sub Octave
- Marginal bass tracking
- No note decay… it’s on or off.
- Not something to try and use by itself, but sounds pretty good when blended with VCO

I really like the idea and function of the intelligent ring mod, I dare-say if this was offered as a separate pedal I would buy it, because I love to add the atonal moo’ing without the hassle of tuning it in each time.

There are a lot of things going on in the PigtroniX Mothership, and anyone that dismisses it out-of-hand is being negligent. I’ve made a couple of statements about this pedal (of course now documented forever on the interwebs) that were harsh and dismissive. This pedal is not a toy, because it lacks the necessary simplify, those looking for one will find themselves disappointed. There are amazing sounds in here on bass, but finding them may take awhile… and then finding a place for them in your music.

The Muff:
Options
Intelligent ring mod
Separate volume for everything AND a master volume

The Rest:
VCO range somewhat limited on bass.
Sub-octave tracking & decay
Complicated (duh!)
Unique Power-Supply


March 31, 2009

Show and Tell: Fromel Seraph (Formerly Lush) Chorus (Boss Dimension C DC-2 Clone)

Stashed under: Show and Tell - Non-Fuzz — grygrx @ 6:59 pm

Fromel Seraph (formerly lush) Boss Dimension C (DC-2) Clone
Fromel Seraph Front

Samples:

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Notes:

Awesome looking acid etched casing. Mine was done when he was having trouble with the originally selected named (Lush). It’s Japanese for “Between the devil and the deep blue sea”. High build quality. Battery is useless (it eats them).

Probably not dynamic enough for a singular chorus and probably not worthwhile on bass if you aren’t going to be using the stereo capabilities. The rich fullness really rises up on bass when in stereo mode, almost like an alternate reality reverb (if that makes any sense at all).

More headroom than the DC-2, doesn’t get weird with big low notes, and you can hit with a distortion or fuzz into it.