alex maiolo wrote:Holy crap man!
Tell me about THIS.

The knobs, man...look at those KNOBS.
It's enough to make *me* look like a knob.

I don't give a shit what it sounds like - GIMME!

Really, what's it do?

-A

It's a three voice oscillator/filter.

Ben Adrian

benadrian wrote:It's a three voice oscillator/filter.

And a very good one at that.

4MS makes some amazing shit. I'm looking at getting the Noise Swash.

benadrian wrote:

alex maiolo wrote:Holy crap man!
Tell me about THIS.

The knobs, man...look at those KNOBS.
It's enough to make *me* look like a knob.

I don't give a shit what it sounds like - GIMME!

Really, what's it do?

-A

It's a three voice oscillator/filter.

Ben Adrian

...that you can tie your guitar signal into. The company that makes them is AWESOME. They have artists that customize the boxes, if you're into that. They customize the build to your specs, and will suggest options if you like. Hello, expression pedals!

They will sell you a kit, and they accept barter. It is a button on the site...

Back when it was 3ms (1996), I had them build me a custom rack mount stereo tremolo/panner/dual discreet tremolo. It had relay switching and an expression pedal in. It sounded great, but the build quality was crap.

Later they started implementing the features into their normal tremolo pedal. If there was a makeup gain and better build it would have been awesome. Otherwise, it was a disappointment.

Ben Adrian

benadrian wrote:Back when it was 3ms (1996), I had them build me a custom rack mount stereo tremolo/panner/dual discreet tremolo. It had relay switching and an expression pedal in. It sounded great, but the build quality was crap.

Later they started implementing the features into their normal tremolo pedal. If there was a makeup gain and better build it would have been awesome. Otherwise, it was a disappointment.

Ben Adrian

I can see there being consistency issues. They are actually some kind of 'collective', and...well, you know. The concept behind it all is great, though.

gjhardwick wrote:thanks for everyones replies about tremolo pedals

i really like the trem sound that Joe from Growing gets. I know he uses a Colorsound trem, but i'm not keen on those pedals due to their size and lack of a psu socket and led.

any pedal that can get a similar sound to the Colorsound?

yeah, that’s true- its the infuriating thing about 'vintage' type pedals- not knowing when the battery is low other than listening to the thing and not being able to change the battery without a phillips head. Same with the chuck collins percolator I’ve got. I guess the payoff is that they sound so damn good!

Similar to those 3ms guys is this guy from Bristol called Tom Bugs...go to www.bugbrand.co.uk to see some of his work...I'm presonally planning on getting one of the Bugcrushers when I can afford it...(come on student loan!)

I thought I'd pop my cherry on this thread.

Hi.

I use pedals. I make them myself. They look like this:

I wanted to build my ideal distortion, so I spent some time building a bunch of different circuits. I ended up sticking with ways to overdrive my amp and add a ring modulated tone. From right to left, the switches are for a sustain, an orange sqeezer, a green ringer, and a 60 dB boost (useless at full throttle, but it makes it clear I'm not fucking around). Each of these has been modded to some extent, optimized for my guitar and amp.


This is a copy of a Tychobrae Octavia, not intentionally modded. Intentionally? I'm pretty sure I fucked it up somehow when I made it because it doesn't sound like something someone would make and market. But it functions quie well and I like it. It's a weird circuit, regardless, and I'm sure assembled right it would sound equally interesting.

I buy the boxes at the flea market. Obviously.

These 2 boxes cover all of my live musical needs currently.

I want to let it be known that Mr. Ovipositor is not fucking around at all. His band, Ovipositor, is quite awesome as well.

Ben Adrian

jason smith wrote:

scott wrote:I bought a Digitech RP-7 in 1997. I realized right quick that it wasn't gonna cut it, and upgraded to the RP-20, which I used for a couple-few years.

I haven't used the RP-20 since about 2002.

Guitar + computer = blech.

The RP series!! haha.. I bought the RP-5 around the same time you got the RP-7. Man, what a piece of shit that was. Even my friends cat expressed a dislike for it (by crapping on it). I remembered seeing people with the RP-20 and being jealous because theirs didn't sound so bad.

I picked up the RP80 recently and I think it's great. I never used those older Digitech models, so I can't vouch for them being ass, nor can I compare the RP80 to those, but I like it. Sure, the actual pedals are favorable to digital simulations of them, and turning knobs is easier than the less-than-user-friendly RP80 interface, but it's handy for those who like having effects on hand to experiment with but don't use them enough to justify the expense of a huge bank of pedals.