Here’s one of my reviews, copied from the Talkbass effects forum.

Here’s the second of my reviews. This time we’ll discuss the Deluxe Electric Mistress.

Size This pedal is old large style. Same as the old Micro Synths, Old Frequency Analyzer, Memory Man, etc

Power: I have a mid-90s unit that has an attached power cord. I believe the newer versions have an adapter, but I cannot confirm that.

Bypass and Tone Suck It is not true bypass. It has a slight loss of low end when engaged. It adds a small bit of noise when the color knob is increased as well as going into Filter Matrix Mode. The newer models are now true bypass.

LED: No LED. You have no way of knowing it’s on unless you’re paying attention to the sound.

Controls 3 knobs, 1 switch. The knobs are: Color, Range and Rate. The switch is for Filter Matrix

The Color knob adds a sort of trebly sound and makes the high end stand out a bit more. I’m not actually sure of what it does technically.

The Range knob allows you to set the lower limit of the sweep.

The Rate knob controls how fast the sweep is.

Sound: The effect is very subtle through my practice amp here at the dorm. Through my GK rig it is more pronounced. It seems to respond best when my pickups are fully open. I’ve recorded 3 samples on my sound click page which you can find here

The Flanger clip is a sort of Tool-esque riff/ripoff in D minor. Its played with a pick and gives you an idea for the extent of the flange. I had to remove some noise from this track. For some reason, the pedal was incredibly noisy when plugged into my sound card.

The Filter Matrix clips shows off the metallic sounds possible in filter matrix. Then I play some chords and manually sweep using the depth knob. The Filter Matrix mode takes out the rate control.

The 3rd clip is Flanger+Big Muff for some EVH style sort of sound. I really had no idea what to play, so take it with a grain of salt. You can hear a lot of the noise from the pedal in this clip. This noise actually does not come out of the amp whenever I’m playing. I’m not sure why it was there. My dorm room does however pick up a lot of radio interference.

My Opinion: It’s a very subtle flanger that does the “jetplane swoosh” if you play with hard dynamics at a higher volume. Without your pickups on full and playing moderately loud, I think the effect is kind of lost. It can also do near-chorus sounds which is pretty cool. The noise is tolerable, when you do hear it. Filter Matrix mode is great for ambient noise fests. You can ever make the metallic overtone out of tune with the fundamental you’re playing.

One again, I’m open to any questions or criticisms. Hope this helps.

This is taken from my initial review from Talkbass’s effects forum. This was written before I had a chance to run the blogger through my rig, and now I no longer have the blogger. I’ll put my impressions on sound at the bottom.

So, I go to check the mail today and in the package compartment is a feisty little box, hopping all around. I figured this had to be the Bass Blogger.

When I brought it inside and opened the box, the Blogger leaped out of the box and began searching for a keyboard to blog at.

Unfortunately the first one it found happened to be the keyboard of a 1970s Baldwin Fun Machine. The blogger was confused to say the least.

I calmly collected the confused Blogger and led it to my computer, where it immediately sat down and began blogging.

Eventually, tired out from blogging, the Blogger passed out and allowed me to start writing this thread.

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So, I haven’t actually had the chance to hear the blogger yet. I have rehearsal later tonight and I’ll do it there.

I’ll add in a real review when I get a chance, but here are my initial impressions.

Appearance The Blogger looks pretty cool. Its the same size, shape, etc as all the other XO pedals.

Controls: The Blogger has 3 knobs, and 1 switch. The knobs are Volume, Tone, and Drive. The switch changes from Fuzz and Drive. According to the EHX manual the knobs have the following functions:

Drive Knob: In both Drive and Fuzz modes, turning the drive knob clockwise will increase the amount of distortion or fuzz

Tone Knob: The tone knob rotates from left to right. As the knob is rotated the filter changes from dark to bright through a linear frequency range.This tone knob was designed to react with certain frequencies that are geared for bass and made to apply to both the fuzz and drive designs

Volume Knob: In the fuzz mode, this is a master volume control after the gain stages. In the drive mode, the volume is inactive and remains at unity gain for optimal performance.

The blogger has wet and dry outputs and mono input.

One possible problem: The pedal itself is labeled above the power jack with “Do not use daisy-chained power”. The manual also suggests to not use the Blogger with anything but the battery, or with a dedicated power supply. Typical 9V center negative 200ma stuff.

I may try daisy chaining just to see if it really works, but I am scared of possibly blowing my brand new pedal. I may just run on battery for tonight.

I’ll try and make some clips as soon as I can, as well as actually hear the pedal. I have no cables and no amp at my house, so I’ve just been sitting here looking at it. It’s been fun to look at at least.

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So, I’ve rehearsed and gigged with the Blogger now. At first I was a little underwhelmed with it. When I was practicing around before rehearsal started, it seemed to lack any and all balls. However, once you get the amp volume up, the balls were very pronounced.

The Fuzz circuit seems to be the Muff circuit, since I was able to dial in the exact same tones on the Blogger and my Muff. The OD has a nice edge, but I think I may not be too big a fan of OD since my favorite setting is having the drive and tone cranked. The Tone knob really changes this pedal’s sound, the filter it goes through is huge, so you can get a lot of different OD sounds.

It sounds great as an OD, preferably at high volumes

I also found, you cannot daisy chain the pedal. If you put it on a daisy chain, it will not power on.

If you want to hear the fuzz side of the blogger, you can check out my band’s myspace (linked in my sig). I turn on the blogger near the end of the track “Not so Distant Future”

The Current Wishlist (updated as people reply with more)
Reissues

Distortion/Fuzz/OD:
XO vintage Hot Tubes
XO Deluxe Big Muff
Fuzz wah
IC Big Muff
LPB-2

Filter:
XO Zipper
Crying Tone
Queen Triggered Wah
Big Muff Crying Tone

Delay/loop/reverb:
Nano Slapback Echo
xo 16 second delay
XO holiest grail

Modulation:
XO Bad Stone
XO Polychorus
double XO Pulse Modulator with stereo ins
XO 9v electric mistress
solid state XO wiggler

Pitch shifting/synthesis:
double XO POG with LPF and detuned like the big one

Other/weirdo:
Nano Random Tone Generator
XO Attack Decay
XO Space Drum

Utility:
Nano Silencer
XO White Finger

New Ideas

Distortion/Fuzz/OD:
Octave Muff
Big Muff with Hazarai (a bunch of different big muffs in one box)
Germanium Muff
Noise Muff (voltage sag, gate, feedback, etc.)
Really hairy muff
bit crusher
Rectifier like Metal Muff

Filter:
Sample and Hold filter (like now please!!!)
Low pass filter in a wah enclosure
Low pass filter with ADSR or Microsynth filter in an XO or nano enclosure (possibly tap tempo digitally controlled but analog)
step sequenced filter
full range filter

Delay/Looper/Reverb:
Holy grail with boost, more verb, hold, and trailing bypass
Modulated Reverse Delay
SMMH with foot controller
Small Looper with HOG like expression modes for full control. https://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/82/
Chaotic Looper- records samples and weirds them up
cassette tape delay

Modulation:
Spinning Speaker Leslie type effect
Transparent Vibrato
Polyphonic Pulse Wave Modulation
polyrhythmic tremolo
one knob one switch nano tremolo
Cloning Facility https://www.ehx.com/forums/viewreply/6767/

Pitch Shift/Synthesis:
Freeze Glissando pedal
deluxe frequency analyzer- Carrier in, built in chorus in series, CV/expression for blend and shift. Filter footswitch.
Freeze Pedal with FX loop see https://www.ehx.com/forums/viewreply/5646/
Super Hog/ HOG 2.0 https://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/92/
EHX Melody Box- polyphonic, but plays monophonic parts over your chords. https://www.ehx.com/forums/viewreply/6115/

Other Weirdo:
Theremin pedal
Waveformer- extracts a sine or square waveform from the highs
Assignable pitch effector- has FX loops that only effect certain parts of the spectrum, certain pitches and stuff.
Random Effect pedal

Utility:
Tuner
6 band Graphic EQ
EQ Signal splitter
2 footswitch small preset pedal for HOG (1 scrolls, 1 activates)
Pedal order switcher

MelX’s Original Post:

Old pedals it would be cool to see again.

Silencer nano
Bad Stone xo
Screaming Tree nano
slapback echo nano
zipper xo

and also from my own imagination…..

XO tuner
nano 6-band graphic eq

lets hear your idea’s……..because on this forum, ehx are listening!

a lot of people seem to have problems using this pedal (usually because they haven’t read the manual properly) but sometimes just because the knobs don’t always do what you expect them to do. (it’s full of suprises!)

Personally I think it is one the greatest EHX pedals ever made and destined to be a classic.

If you are having any problems getting to grips with what this brilliant pedal can do…or you don’t seem to be able to record a loop and overdub without a volume drop or other problems, this is the place to ask….I haven’t found something that can’t be sorted with some careful adjustments and preset planning.

Not much compared to some other’s, it is a start though.
I have a Graphic Fuzz on backorder and a Double Muff coming in the mail.

So post what you have whether you have one EHX pedal or a hundred. What is your favorite out of them?

What’s up everyone?

I had been looking into building a pedal with a voltage sag. I would came across a few schematics and directions. Being as lazy as I am, I just bookmarked everything for later. Then the GeOD was released. I searched, high and low, in every music store in Pittsburgh. Could not find it. Even had family in Eastern Pa look for this thing. Yeah I know that I could have ordered it. I’m lazy. Well I finally found one. After an enjoyable dentist visit, I staggered across the street to a smaller guitar shop. There she was, finally!!!

I haven’t had as much time as I would like with this pedal. So far, it is winner. I use it for that 60’s garage rock tone. Copying the setting from this site’s demo, it nails it perfectly. I think it sounds great with single coil pickups. I use my Strat or Mustang into my Bassman with the GeOD. WOW!!!! The tone and vibe, knocks my socks off.

So if anyone wants to share settings, thoughts, recommendations. Lets hear them.
Any questions?

The dimensions are:
4 5/8″ x 3 5/8″ x 1 5/8″ (11.5cm x 9cm x 4cm) I hope my math is correct. The measurements do not include the rubber feet on the bottom or th in/output jacks on the sides.

Here is a link, that shows a size comparison between the GeOD, Big Muff Pi and LPB-1.
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff252/mingpau/DCP_0015.jpg

The title says it all really….what on earth was this?

does anyone have any info or even better a picture?

I was getting pretty sick of having my pedals all over the place so I picked up one of these the other day and I’m currently spending my time setting this up with a power supply, new cables and a few new pedals….here’s my first impressions.

Firstly it’s a little bigger than I expected, you can easily fit a mixture of about 10 XO/Nano sized pedals in this…providing you don’t mind having 2 rows of pedals….I don’t have anything to measure it with right now, but I will post pictures when it’s all together so you can see exactly what’s possible. This bag is an absolute steal in my opinion. it’s very well made…right up there with the better quality guitar gig bags. It’s a great design too, there are flaps in the sides to pass cables, power supplies etc through the sides, a carry handle and shoulder strap and a handy pocket on the ‘lid’…I’d recommend this to anyone who needs an inexpensive way to keep or transport a smallish pedal set up. if you have a lot of the larger box pedals then you might find it’s a bit small for your needs….but if you have a smaller set up or you use mostly XO/Nano I can’t recommend it enough.

it’s another great quality/brilliant value for money EHX product in my opinion……..I just don’t know why I didn’t buy one before now.

this has to get a 10/10 from me, because I really can’t find anything I don’t like about it and it was excellent value for money.