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I would be lying to say I'm not going to get one. I have a clone by Acidlabs which is way more expensive. Fun trick, set the step to one, enter all the voices on step one then turn up the tempo all the way up then play with volume knobs.

ErikG wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:27 pm

pet fever detector wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 12:43 am Behringer RD-6.

It sounds close enough, has an additional clap sound, direct outs, a bunch of syncing options and a pretty useless distortion section. I like it, it's fun and Amazon has all the funky coloured ones on sale for only $130us or $180can. Get your Lungs on.

I ordered a green one.

Nice, I got transparent red.

pet fever detector wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 3:09 pm
There are two things that I'm not crazy about. The 1/8th inch direct out jacks on the back of the unit, they sit flush to the case instead of sticking out a bit like the jacks on top of the unit and none of the jacks are fixed to the chassis with washers or anything, they are all PCB mounted. They feel sturdy enough for me as I'm not hard on gear and will be using it for a bit of messing around at home.

Otherwise, all the knobs, buttons and switches all feel good to me. It's a really light, plastic chassis but there is no flex or creakiness to it. It sounds good, it sounds like a 606.

I don't have any experience with the Roland stuff aside from poking around at it in the music store for a few minutes.

No regrets.

Right on! May have to pull the trigger.
Board mounted 1/8" jacks for all the direct outs on my Arturia DrumBrute - I've managed to to get over that.

Just setup and put some tracks down with a Grace Design m101 single channel external preamp.
I have been recording guitar (a Les Paul through a distortion pedal, through a Leslie amp) in the same room for at least a year now (same setup) so very familiar with how it sounds with my interface's built-in preamps.

The m101 has revealed more detail. It's added some nice clarity. The difference is drastic. Sort of like when you put on a pair of glasses with the correct 20/20 prescription for the first time and realize, hey wait, I'm seeing everything with so much more definition. I imagine this device is similar to the FMR Really Nice Preamp, in that it doesn't add any color at least. I know the FMR has some sort of innovative circuitry.

The only other preamp I've used was a Focusrite ISA One and in time I totally understood why it was marketed to give off a "vintage" sound, but I think ultimately that particular "vintage" coloration wasn't for me. Never really struck me in a pleasant way. If I had to match the Focusrite ISA tone to an actual color, I'd say it was a sort of green.

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See I never get these knobs that affect tonality. What do this knob do? Make the second harmonic louder? Make an arbitrary boost at 400Hz?

So I’ve had the Behringer RD6 for a little while now. My first impressions were not great. Drum machine wise I don’t have anything special: couple of electribes, Reason, Alesis HR16 and SR16. The RD6 is limited by comparison. (I know, it’s a 606 clone and all but a guy gets used to having more choices.)

But it’s growing on me. The limitations are liberating in a way and it’s got a nice presence, especially when run through a pedal or two. Doesn’t take up too much space.

I like it and suspect I will like it more in the future. Thumbs up.

VFE The Triplet - I bought this because I've always been super interested in all of the Dan Armstrong plug in effects. I had an original Orange Squeezer once that I loved, and I always loved the Green Ringer that was on my Mu-Tron Octave pedal, which I also sold for big bucks long ago. This also incorporates the Blue Clipper circuit. I've been wanting an Orange Squeezer again, so I figured 3 for the price of 1! Pros: all of these effects sound great and I like the switching on this thing. Cons: the Orange Squeezer section is always active and it compresses more than the one I had on it's lowest setting. Sounds fine on single coils, but it is WAY too much with hot pickups. If this section was a little more transparent this pedal would be killer. Luckily you can't really notice the compression much when you have the ring mod or the distortion going. Interesting features I don't really see other places: dimmable LED, and ability to change to momentary operation.
JHS 3 Series Fuzz - been looking for a Tone Bender inspired pedal and settled on this because it was cheap and had an external bias knob. As far as fuzz pedals that interact with you guitar's pickup impedance, it's not going to replace my Naga Viper or my 69 on my boards but it doesn't overlap either of those much and lets me easily get a velcro sounding fuzz (which is occasionally useful). It can also do mild classic rock style fuzz if you want to push your amp a little. Would I buy it again? It's not super exciting, but I probably won't sell it either. We'll see.

Was looking for a compression pedal/unit to use on some of my more harmonic output. Found an OTO machines Boum (from France ooh la la) and its really awesome. It really imparts character to just about everything, and its pretty intuitive and playable, much more so than a DAW or whatever would be needed to combine shit in this particular way IMO. I like it so much that I’m sourcing the other two effects units they have, the Bim and Bam.



BIM https://www.otomachines.com/product/bim/

BAM https://www.otomachines.com/product/bam/

BOUM https://www.otomachines.com/product/boum/

Also plenty more demo videos up for the trio google is your friend.

Zildjian L80 quiet cymbals:

So a little backstory here. I have a real drum set in my little home office/music studio. It's miced up for recording but a majority of the time I use it just for practice or to get a little cardio playing along to Plastic Surgery Disasters, etc. I'm in a house and my neighbors are pretty cool with loud music, but as a courtesy to them, as well as my hearing, I want to knock the dBs down. Because I record sometimes, I didn't really want to get a full electronic kit, and I'm not that into the way they feel/respond.

I'm finding the best thing in this situation is to throw some of those neoprene discs on the snare and toms, and load the kick with pillows. But my cymbals were overwhelming, and if I put mutes on those as well, I didn't like the feel. So I got a set of these Zildjian L80s which are like, regular cymbals but with a thousand holes drilled in them. These are about like.. how do I put this? Like if a regular cymbal was 80% quieter, kinda dull sounding, but had a decent feel to it. It also gets the kit pretty balanced, so if I'm playing along to music, no individual piece of the kit is distractingly louder or quieter then the other pieces.

So, yes but maybe with waffles, because of my particular needs.

twelvepoint wrote: Zildjian L80 quiet cymbals

I have a 20" 'ride' and it mostly does what it needs to do, and would probably sound acceptable at a very quiet gig if needed. But that's mostly going by the 'ding ding' sound as it would be useless to crash on.

Definitely not a fun use of $150!