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June 12, 2009 at 12:58 am #78392ChumleyParticipant
Yes, it’s a blatant rip-off of Julian’s thread. Sue me. All of these pedals are similar to SMMH/Voice Box/POG2
Knobs listed from left to right.Triple Muff Pi-Basically, three pedals in one: a Big Muff, a Metal Muff, and a Fuzz Factory.
Mode-Three modes: Classic, a standard Big Muff sound; Modern, a Fuzz Factory style fuzz; and Metal, which is hopefully self-explanatory. The modes determine the functions of the X and Tone knobs, as well as the general sound.
Input Gain-Straightforward. Used to drive the distortion. Duh.
Clip-Slope of the clipping. On low settings, you get a mild overdrive, and on extreme settings, a square wave.
X-Classic: Volts, for that GeOD sound. Modern: Stability, which is very interactive with the Tone knob, for oscillations and other wackyness. Metal: Gate. Hopefully self explanatory.
Tone-Classic: Typical BMP tone. Modern: on low X settings, functions as a PW, and on higher X settings, controls oscillation pitch. Metal: SCOOP!
Volume– :facepalm:
Preset Knob-Like the POG2. 8 presets.
Mono in and out, expression pedal with a switch determining X, Tone, or both on the back. Preset switch and Bypass switch.Polymod-Under each of these knobs is a switch. For the first three controls, it determines which LFO it’s modded by, and for the last three, it’s waveform or envelope direction.
Chorus Depth-Small Clone circuit, with variable depth. Switch determines between LFO1, LFO2, or envelope.
Phaser Depth-As above, but obviously a Small Stone.
Tremolo Depth-This one is interesting. The three positions are LFO1, LFO1&2, or envelope.
Rate 1-Waveforms are Sine, Square or sine modded by the envelope.
Rate 2-As above.
Envelope-Knob determines sensitivity, and switch determines Up, Down, or Stationary.
Preset Knob-Again, like the POG2.
Stereo in & out, Preset and Bypass switches. CV out from the LFOs and envelope, as well.Synthbox-This is the most ambitious of these fictitious pedals. I dunno if this would work, but whadaya gonna do?
Oscillator-The guitar’s input is synced to a DCO, much like a Moog. Knob controls pitch.
Octave-Minimum is pure octave down, mid is regular, and maximum is octup. Between those values, you can blend octaves.
Ring Mod-Controls ring mod pitch.
Tracking-Minimum, ring mod tracks to the guitar, and maximum, is stationary. In between are some weird half-tracking effects.
Filter-Low pass resonant filter, knob controls cutoff. Resonance is preset, but controllable via a trimpot.
Mix-Dry/wet. Duh.
Preset Knob-Yet again, like the POG2.
Stereo in & out, Preset and Bypass switches. Expression in, switchable from oscillator freq to ring mod pitch to filter.So there you have batch one. Imagine what you could do with those three pedals alone… Polymod with envelope controlling trem for a volume swell effect, with the LFO CV controlling the Synthbox’s oscillator pitch while the other LFO controlls volts on the TMP…
Yes, I realize this post was a waste of time. But it was a FUN waste of time.
June 12, 2009 at 1:25 am #97762julianModeratorIf you’re having fun wasting time, is it really wasting time?
June 12, 2009 at 2:00 am #97763ChumleyParticipantI write a megapost, and I only get responses to the last sentence. Typical.
June 12, 2009 at 2:26 am #97765julianModeratorThey be cool ideas, I don’t have much to say about them though. Third one kind of sounds like the Pigtronix Mothership.
Square wave chorus sounds fun.
June 12, 2009 at 8:04 pm #97820ChumleyParticipantI have no idea what it would sound like, though…
June 13, 2009 at 7:50 am #97837devnulljpParticipantQuote:So there you have batch one. Imagine what you could do with those three pedals alone… Polymod with envelope controlling trem for a volume swell effect, with the LFO CV controlling the Synthbox’s oscillator pitch while the other LFO controlls volts on the TMP..I getthe feeling you’d like the Pigtronix stuff…especially the Envelope Phaser
June 13, 2009 at 8:37 am #97838Stoner WizardParticipant“The Screamin’ Mole Muff”:
What would be a 2 Big Muff circuits cascaded in series, with two switches to activate a bass booster (Mole), a treble booster (Screaming Bird).
Chassis: A sheet metal DMM-size would be fantastic, but… a new DMM chassis to make it pedalboard-friendly and conquer “new generation” buyers.
Knobs (of course, black pointer-knob style for classic size, or the ones used with the Hot Tubes for new style chassis)
* Volume: Output Level
* Tone: The typical Muff control.
* Big Muff: Sustain and gain for 1st Big Muff
* Bigger Muff: Gain for 2nd Big Muff. It should have a switching device to activate the knob if you wanted to use one or two BM at the same time.
* Mole: Bass boost level.
* Scream: Treble boost level.Switches:
* Killer Tone: To emphasizing certain freqs, to be used in conjuntion with tone control. A three way-switch with: “Thud” (low-mids), “Attack” (mids) and “Screech” (hi-mids).
* Mole On/Off: For heavy bass boost (a built-in EH “Mole”).
* Scream On/Off: For treble boost (a built-in EH “Screamin’ Bird”)Volts: It depends, I suppose. If it’s a two-pedal in one (like the MXR Doubleshot), maybe 18 volts would be fine. If it was a single-pedal concept, a higher than 9 volt voltage (12 V or 18 V) would add more “room” to the sound.
That’s the “theory”, but I’d like to know how such a weird thing would sound.
Regards
June 13, 2009 at 1:04 pm #97843nightravenMemberthere should be an EHX custom shop where dreams like these can come true >.<
June 13, 2009 at 5:24 pm #97853ChumleyParticipantThat would kick immense ass. I suppose you could try to get in touch with one of EHX’s R&D dudes and offer them large amounts of money to build you a pedal, but I don’t know how well that would go over…
June 18, 2009 at 10:02 pm #98116SiriustarMemberI’ve think that the difference between the Screamin’ Bird, the Mole, and the LPB-1 is minimal. They could probably stick all three into the same pedal, and just have a “dark, normal, bright” switch on it. I know, I know, “but then you wouldn’t be able to have all three!”
I breadboarded the LPB-1 in, like, two minutes. Really simple, but sounds really good.
June 18, 2009 at 10:09 pm #98119electro-melxModeratorQuote:I’ve think that the difference between the Screamin’ Bird, the Mole, and the LPB-1 is minimal. They could probably stick all three into the same pedal, and just have a “dark, normal, bright” switch on it. I know, I know, “but then you wouldn’t be able to have all three!”I breadboarded the LPB-1 in, like, two minutes. Really simple, but sounds really good.
yeah, this is true…the screaming tree is only a cap difference from the LPB-1 too….but hey, they are cheap enough, some people like simple pedals that do a simple job and I for one don’t like paying for features I’m not going to use.
June 18, 2009 at 10:12 pm #98120SiriustarMemberI totally know what you mean. I tend to starting thinking of how good things can be just in terms of the amount of knobs and switches, and I forget that a lot of other people don’t care for that type of stuff.
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