Exactly what the title says. I thought the bassballs would be a one-trick pony (and it is, really) but the way the sweeps interact with other effects produces some really awesome sounds. I’ve been playing around a lot with the trim pots, and changing their positions produces some really strange and wonderful sounds. The first filter seems like it affects the attack and the second affects the perceived decay (as one filter sweeps the other). Turning the first filter totally counterclockwise and the second at about noon makes it sound like a really splashy drum with this wild juicy sizzle noise as it fades out. It would be totally pointless to set this setting and forget-it, but with externalized trim pots one could tweak this endlessly. The Bassballs will also produce these crazy, super-high pitched squeals at certain settings, and playing with the trim pots seems to affect not only how shriek-y this squeal is, but how long it lasts and how quickly it swells. When I run this into an octave fuzz and then into a delay it made a sound that was compared to “the sand people from Star Wars.” Crazy.

The nano bassballs has no room for such things, but maybe a Deluxe Bassballs in the future? Maybe a LBM size enclosure.