Dudley wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:31 am I'm after an active two button ABY pedal for different signal paths for looping. Those of you who do the same, how often do you use (or wish you had) ground lift and phase reveral options?

Kniferide wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:18 am

Dudley wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:31 am I'm after an active two button ABY pedal for different signal paths for looping. Those of you who do the same, how often do you use (or wish you had) ground lift and phase reveral options?

I found myself wanting the phase reverse all the time when using 2 amps. Ground can also be an issue and its nice to have the lift. certain pedals can flip phase too so having a switch is nice. The Radial BigShot is like $130 and does everything you need. Better to have it than need it.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:44 pm People will malign the boss buffer, but for Y'ing two amps I've found it great - definitely prefer the sound over a passive parrallel connection.
Used to be you could buy a stereo chorus used for next to nothing, turn the chorus off (or on if you're fancy) and there you go

benadrian wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:56 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:44 pm People will malign the boss buffer, but for Y'ing two amps I've found it great - definitely prefer the sound over a passive parrallel connection.
Used to be you could buy a stereo chorus used for next to nothing, turn the chorus off (or on if you're fancy) and there you go

Yeah, I've used a TU-2 as an active splitter a lot of time. You just have one side that doesn't shut off if you actually want to tune.

Now I just kinds do all this stuff in a Helix or HX Stomp, but that's just what I have laying around. It has a polarity flip in the path splitter/merger. Super handy for running into two amps with opposing polarities.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:17 pm

benadrian wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:56 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:44 pm People will malign the boss buffer, but for Y'ing two amps I've found it great - definitely prefer the sound over a passive parrallel connection.
Used to be you could buy a stereo chorus used for next to nothing, turn the chorus off (or on if you're fancy) and there you go

Yeah, I've used a TU-2 as an active splitter a lot of time. You just have one side that doesn't shut off if you actually want to tune.

Now I just kinds do all this stuff in a Helix or HX Stomp, but that's just what I have laying around. It has a polarity flip in the path splitter/merger. Super handy for running into two amps with opposing polarities.

That's nice. Younger me would've preferred than instead of wiring my one speaker cab out of phase and then forgetting.

benadrian wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:32 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:17 pm

benadrian wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:56 pm I used to have a polarity flipping F to M speaker cable pigtail for stuff like this. I think it got left at an old studio???

Yep. I had a little hammond enclosure with 1/4" in and out and a DPDT on it just for A/B polarity. Just drop it in between the head and cab.

losthighway wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 4:22 pm Okay, maybe this question isn't small:

Preamble: I have some very basic synth experience with the monophonic Microbrute. I understand attack, decay, sustain, oscillator waveform (saw tooth, square wave etc).

Question: I've jumped into the polyphonic/ more complicated world with my newly acquired Sequential Take 5. My big challenge is understanding how to achieve stability with pitch/tuning. Both starting off with things in ordinary pitch (I got used to the tuning knob on the back of the Microbrute), but more challenging creating settings that are pitch stable.

As I've started exploring this badass little synth I've loved the presets on it, but know to master the many controls I need to craft my own sounds. When I start minimal and strip away layers of the signal chain, I sometimes arrive at sounds that shift pitch the longer you sustain a chord. It feels dumb to ask, but what is going on there? I can tweak until it goes away, but I get that weird mesmerized, stoner synth deep dive happening and I lose the science. I just suddenly emerge with a new sound that is also cool, and is pitch stable, and I don't even remember the last dozen tweaks I did that got me there.

How does one tune, and keep in tune various synthesizer patches?

penningtron wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:00 pm Anyone have a tuner app they like? Android, and I need more than EADGBE. I'm fine with paying for it but no subscription b.s.