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  • March 25, 2009 at 12:45 am #77959
    bill ruppert
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    Electro Harmonix POG “Mellotron”.
    I was able to twist the EH POG with the help of the EH Poly Chorus to sound very reminiscent of the
    old MKII tape driven Mellotron keyboard.
    Genesis used this sound in songs like “Watcher of the Sky’s”.

    Effect Chain was a humbucker bridge pickup on a Jem guitar into the POG and then into the Poly Chorus.
    Delays and Reverb were added after that.

    Just amazing what can be done with just a 1/4 inch mono input.
    Link:

    http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=937182

    Bill Ruppert

    March 25, 2009 at 3:54 am #94862
    julian
    Moderator

    Cool sounds. Very stringy sounding.

    If only there was a pedal that could do mellotron flute sounds. That’d be amazing.

    March 25, 2009 at 4:27 am #94866
    bill ruppert
    Participant
    Quote:
    Cool sounds. Very stringy sounding.

    If only there was a pedal that could do mellotron flute sounds. That’d be amazing.

    Wait… I will work on it.
    I have done it before:-)

    Bill Ruppert

    March 25, 2009 at 6:23 am #94869
    st.bede
    Member

    DOWN RIGHT SUPER COOL….wow

    March 25, 2009 at 12:19 pm #94876
    SupremePancake
    Member

    This makes me really want to buy a POG before it goes XO.

    March 25, 2009 at 6:12 pm #94887
    st.bede
    Member
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    This makes me really want to buy a POG before it goes XO.

    as a newbie….XO means a large pedal, right?

    March 25, 2009 at 6:48 pm #94891
    julian
    Moderator

    XO = diecast boxes like the Little Big Muff or Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai. There was some conjecturing a few months ago about what XO means, a secret that is pretty well guarded by EHX. Currently the POG is in a big bent steel box.

    March 25, 2009 at 10:43 pm #94908
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    #2 in the “MELLO-POG” series.
    Here is a stab at the POG doing the Mellotron Flutes.
    Chain order was:

    Guitar -Graphic Fuzz-POG- Poly Chorus- Boss Vibrato-Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai.
    Any Electro Harmonix Vibrato/Trem would be fine.
    (If I had one I would have used that!)

    Link:

    http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=937182

    Bill Ruppert

    March 25, 2009 at 11:58 pm #94910
    tubezipper
    Moderator
    Quote:
    #2 in the “MELLO-POG” series.
    Here is a stab at the POG doing the Mellotron Flutes.
    Chain order was:

    Guitar -Graphic Fuzz-POG- Poly Chorus- Boss Vibrato-Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai.
    Any Electro Harmonix Vibrato/Trem would be fine.
    (If I had one I would have used that!)

    Link:

    http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=937182

    Bill Ruppert

    Incredible!! So cool :love:

    March 26, 2009 at 3:52 am #89146
    st.bede
    Member

    your cool…very cool…now I want one too….(I bet with the right pedals you could get a vox type of thing out of the POG….just humbly egging you on…peace)

    March 26, 2009 at 4:27 am #89149
    julian
    Moderator

    That mellopog flute sounds really really close. What settings did you use on those pedals? I’m wondering if I could do that on my HOG.

    March 26, 2009 at 11:16 am #94923
    SupremePancake
    Member

    Damn that sounds believable. I should try this with my HOG as well.

    March 26, 2009 at 4:01 pm #94929
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    Thanks Guys!

    Julian.
    When I first sat down to make the flute sound I grabbed the HOG, as I thought the Spectral Gate would be a big help in the sound.
    In the end I used the POG as its filter section did just what I needed and fast.
    A Flute sound is a Sine wave which is a wave that has the upper harmonics rolled off.
    The POG filter in the second position did the trick.
    A simple flute sound is constructed basically of just the fundamental note.
    In other words its just the original note with out any octave sliders added.
    The dry signal path with the filter slider (filter switch 2) turned down made it work.
    Before the POG I used a Graphic Fuzz with a very small amount of Dist and a EQ curve of an upside down smile. I other words 1000Hz was pushed up and the other sliders around it lowered.
    This Pre-EQ helped the POG by boosting that fundamental note and rolling off the upper and low frequencies.

    I can not see why you could not get something close using the HOG.
    I hope this helps a little.

    I will have some new fun sounds coming up using the HOG.
    Bill Ruppert

    March 26, 2009 at 4:21 pm #94932
    julian
    Moderator

    What about the voice settings? Just octave up?

    March 26, 2009 at 4:30 pm #94934
    bill ruppert
    Participant

    Julian.
    Its just the ordinal (fundamental) note.
    There are no octaves added.
    On the POG its called DRY output and when the filter is in the second posistion the filter effects that dry output as well.
    On the HOG you would use the 5th slider from the left called original as that voice is filtered as well. Of course no dry output on the HOG.

    When I did add an upper octaves it lost is fluteness and sounded more like an a organ.

    Bill

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