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  • #110059
    Cryabetes
    Participant

    Bill-
    I use rubber clerk’s thimbles between my strings at the bridge to get a “fretless/upright” sound- would these interfere with the HOG’s tracking at all?
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    #110060
    bill ruppert
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    Not sure but my my wife would love it:-) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    All kidding aside that would be called “prepared guitar” and I used to use very thin foam under the strings to sound just like a banjo.
    Some guys use paper clips or paper for sitar sounds.
    The Hog will be fine with anything!
    Bill

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    Bill-
    I use rubber clerk’s thimbles between my strings at the bridge to get a “fretless/upright” sound- would these interfere with the HOG’s tracking at all?
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    #110178
    andtrea
    Participant

    Fantastic demo and great ideas as always, Bill.

    Little Off-topic: I want to ask you how to reproduce the guitar “synth” of Dominic Simper from Tame Impala in this video:

    LINK

    He has a pretty basic pedalboard and i can’t really figure out (neither in many forums where I asket to other pedal junkys)…

    These are all his pedalboard pics available in the web that I found:
    http://s688.photobucket.com/albums/vv247/and_trea/Dominic Simper/

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    I owned POG, POG2 and MicroSynth but none of them come close to that sound.
    Someone said he use a POG sometime but sounds definitely more “chewy” (especially the POG 2) to my ears.
    The Verbzilla “Octo” setting could be definitely a good hint, but I guess there is more…

    I started to think that maybe he goes with the guitar into his microkorg (there a Boss Line Selector in the pedalboard too) but I think it’s a little bit too complicated…

    #110179
    andtrea
    Participant

    (sorry double post)

    #110180
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    andtrea
    I would try a POG2 set for original + one octave above.
    Order would be fuzz, pitch shift, delay and reverb.
    Slide around one one or two strings.
    Bill

    #110189
    andtrea
    Participant

    Yes, and I see a little Zvex box there.
    Maybe it’s aFuzz Factory with a strong octave up setting.

    Thanks, I’ll try!

    #110419
    kdinkis
    Member

    Can anyone tell me the actual settings used for the “Big Muff Hand Drum”? I tried this out. I seem to get the best drum sounding response when I tap the dummy plug. The back of the unit work well also. Nothing to very little from the sides or knobs as shown in this clip. I’m guessing I just need the proper settings.
    Thanks

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    EHX Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.17 Transforming Guitar to Bass

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkDLQAvrEQQ

    #110424
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    The Muff was all the way up.
    I also have an LPB-1 after to boost the gain even higher.
    To add to the thump, turn the bass on your amp all the way up and crank the middle control as well.
    I went direct with out an amp so I used an EQ and boosted 150Hz by 15dB (low end) and 1.6K (middle) by 15dB.
    I used the Big Box Muff.
    Bill

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    Can anyone tell me the actual settings used for the “Big Muff Hand Drum”? I tried this out. I seem to get the best drum sounding response when I tap the dummy plug. The back of the unit work well also. Nothing to very little from the sides or knobs as shown in this clip. I’m guessing I just need the proper settings.
    Thanks

    Quote:
    EHX Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.17 Transforming Guitar to Bass

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkDLQAvrEQQ

    #110428
    kdinkis
    Member

    Thanks Bill, I’ll give that a try. I could see how that intense EQ would help. I am using the big box Muff (Silver with black sides and bottom). I’ll also try that extra boost. Thanks again.

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    The Muff was all the way up.
    I also have an LPB-1 after to boost the gain even higher.
    To add to the thump, turn the bass on your amp all the way up and crank the middle control as well.
    I went direct with out an amp so I used an EQ and boosted 150Hz by 15dB (low end) and 1.6K (middle) by 15dB.
    I used the Big Box Muff.
    Bill

    Quote:
    Can anyone tell me the actual settings used for the “Big Muff Hand Drum”? I tried this out. I seem to get the best drum sounding response when I tap the dummy plug. The back of the unit work well also. Nothing to very little from the sides or knobs as shown in this clip. I’m guessing I just need the proper settings.
    Thanks

    Quote:
    EHX Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.17 Transforming Guitar to Bass

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkDLQAvrEQQ

    #110429
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    kdinkis
    One more thing.
    I just set the stuff up and realized I used the spliter plug as a dummy plug.
    A regular 1/4 works ok but there is twice the low end from the bigger plastic plug!
    The extra surface area helps.
    Bil
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    Thanks Bill, I’ll give that a try. I could see how that intense EQ would help. I am using the big box Muff (Silver with black sides and bottom). I’ll also try that extra boost. Thanks again.

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    The Muff was all the way up.
    I also have an LPB-1 after to boost the gain even higher.
    To add to the thump, turn the bass on your amp all the way up and crank the middle control as well.
    I went direct with out an amp so I used an EQ and boosted 150Hz by 15dB (low end) and 1.6K (middle) by 15dB.
    I used the Big Box Muff.
    Bill
    #110963
    jclancy
    Member

    The intelligent ring mod:
    Can’t you just hold down the tune button to achieve the same effect?
    How does stereo work on the Ring Thing? If it’s just dry right, wet left then that’s fine but if it splits the signal into different sidebands won’t you lose the part of the signal that goes back into the mod input?

    #110971
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    The intelligent ring mod effect is very different than the tune button.
    The sound is very different.
    Tune button tunes the global pitch to a single note.
    Notes other than the tuned note will be a sum and difference of that note.
    The intelligent ring mod is like hitting the tune button on every note.
    Intelligent ring mod is a mono effect. It can listen to only one note at a time to tune itself.
    The effect is very FM synth like.

    Using the intelligent mod you have only one out as the other output is feed back into the mod jack.
    Using the Ring Thing in its normal fashion it is stereo with one sideband on each side.

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    The intelligent ring mod:
    Can’t you just hold down the tune button to achieve the same effect?
    How does stereo work on the Ring Thing? If it’s just dry right, wet left then that’s fine but if it splits the signal into different sidebands won’t you lose the part of the signal that goes back into the mod input?
    #110972
    jclancy
    Member
    Quote:
    The intelligent ring mod effect is very different than the tune button.
    The sound is very different.
    Tune button tunes the global pitch to a single note.
    Notes other than the tuned note will be a sum and difference of that note.
    The intelligent ring mod is like hitting the tune button on every note.
    Intelligent ring mod is a mono effect. It can listen to only one note at a time to tune itself.
    The effect is very FM synth like.

    Using the intelligent mod you have only one out as the other output is feed back into the mod jack.
    Using the Ring Thing in its normal fashion it is stereo with one sideband on each side.

    Quote:
    The intelligent ring mod:
    Can’t you just hold down the tune button to achieve the same effect?
    How does stereo work on the Ring Thing? If it’s just dry right, wet left then that’s fine but if it splits the signal into different sidebands won’t you lose the part of the signal that goes back into the mod input?

    I meant holding down the tune button the entire time that you are playing. Theoretically you should get the same effect, no? I guess you could use a splitter to get the right signal to the mod input and the amp.

    #110976
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    Dolding down the tune button the entire time would not work.
    In this mode the tune switch is disabled.
    This mode has with 3 leds on.

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    Quote:
    The intelligent ring mod effect is very different than the tune button.
    The sound is very different.
    Tune button tunes the global pitch to a single note.
    Notes other than the tuned note will be a sum and difference of that note.
    The intelligent ring mod is like hitting the tune button on every note.
    Intelligent ring mod is a mono effect. It can listen to only one note at a time to tune itself.
    The effect is very FM synth like.

    Using the intelligent mod you have only one out as the other output is feed back into the mod jack.
    Using the Ring Thing in its normal fashion it is stereo with one sideband on each side.

    Quote:
    The intelligent ring mod:
    Can’t you just hold down the tune button to achieve the same effect?
    How does stereo work on the Ring Thing? If it’s just dry right, wet left then that’s fine but if it splits the signal into different sidebands won’t you lose the part of the signal that goes back into the mod input?

    I meant holding down the tune button the entire time that you are playing. Theoretically you should get the same effect, no? I guess you could use a splitter to get the right signal to the mod input and the amp.

    #116505

    Question; as a bass player myself and wanting to get the wicked sound you have in the Ring Thing demo with a bit more OOMF, would a Bass Big Muff set to a high gain level cause any tracking issues due to harmonic saturation? My Ring Thing is in the mail, and watching this vid sold me on the self-tune effect, but i’m unsure if the distortion will confuse the heck out of it.

    Edit to clarify, the BBM would be replacing the LPB1 in the feedback chain.

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