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  • February 13, 2020 at 10:58 pm #86138
    renzulli
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    I think the Memory Man with Hazarai gives the most realistic Tape Revese effect except for the lots of delays. I find the AttckDecay pedal problematic to say the least.
    As mentioned before in my earlier post, even at its most extreme setting you can’t get totally rid of the delay.

    Now I’m wondering if some technical changes can be made by changeing a resistor, or value on the printboard or change the pots?

    I did the same thing with my Wah-pedal (bass-gain resistor value)and you can change the character of any Overdrive (f.ex. less treble, more mid etc.).

    Mind you, virtually every wellknown professional guitarist will make alterations in his/her pedals and amps that their usually not willing to share with the public.

    February 17, 2020 at 1:13 pm #125833
    EHX STAFF
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    It cant play what you did in reverse until you play it!
    That is why there is delay. Otherwise it would need to know what you play before you do.
    No way around it.
    it has to record a phrase and then reverse it. Just like on a tape machine but about 100 faster than the real thing.

    February 21, 2020 at 9:55 pm #125850
    renzulli
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    Ok. I get the idea. With the knob setting on the MM Hazarai with:
    – decay and repeats to zero (7 o’clock counterclockwise),
    – blend to all the way to 5:30 0′ clock (clockwise) and
    – delay at 12 0r 1 o’clock the repeats are almost down to one repeat.

    You have to think ahead since it takes a second for the note to get started. Not ideal but the best sofar you can buy probably.
    A quite realistic imitaiton of tape reverse. But now I’m studying tabs in reverse since Hazarai puts the melody in reverse too. Neverheless it sounds quite realistic.

    I’m more geared towards the idea of a device reacting on impuls (like an auto-wah) as is the case with the AttackDecay pedal. You could play more ‘real time’ were it not for the problems with fast and longer notes in a solo.
    with the decay knob all the way to zero and attack towards 9 or 10 ó clock it sounds ok but not as good as the Hazarai.

    Question: Is there any video available presenting an ExpressionPedal hooked up to the AttackDecay?
    Would a Expression pedal on the attack parameter solve my problem on faster and longer notes?

    February 24, 2020 at 10:15 pm #125853
    renzulli
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    Question 2: What Big Muff (i.e.(Pi, Sovjet, Ramshead) type does the Fuzz on the AttackDecay best compare to?

    February 25, 2020 at 12:29 am #125830
    julian
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    I don’t have an attack decay, but I’ve used MIDI CCs on my HOG 2 to adjust the attack time, and yeah, it works to an extent- but there’s a skill curve. You gotta coordinate your foot movement to your playing. I don’t think it’s ever going to sound as good as real reverse, but if you want it in real-time it’s the way to go.

    Another thing you could do would be to use a looper with a reverse function, one shot mode, and ideally some memory so you could have it already in there before the gig. So all you gotta do then is hit the play button when it’s time for your reverse riff or solo.

    February 25, 2020 at 11:21 am #125854
    renzulli
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    Hi Julian.

    That sounds interesting. Two questions:

    1 what’s a MIDI CC?

    2 do you hava an example or particular type of brand in mind when mentioning a ‘looper with a reverse function’? The EHX MM Hazarai seems to cover this, but it seems to me you probably have something else in mind.

    February 25, 2020 at 11:44 am #125855
    renzulli
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    Ok. I get what you mean on the second part, the looper. This can be done with the MM Hazarai. But this only extends up to 6 seconds in the Tap Tempo mode so it’s limited to playing only short riffs in advance. nor real time stuff. The looper extends to 30 seconds so that would be an option.

    I found out that on the AttackDecay the ‘decay’-knob CAN be turned down all the way to zero (anticlockwise) to get an abrupt cutoff of the note with the ‘attack’ or swell-knob to any position (idealy to 9 o clock) but with a expression pedal to steer teh attack mode would be perfect.

    I owned a SnarlingDog tape reverse/volume pedal (2 functions in 1 pedal) that you have to rock (like a wah pedal) back and forth to get the effect. But you have to rock the pedal ‘all the way’ down to the end (and back on the next note) otherwise there’s no cutoff and the next note blurrs into oblivion. So playing this pedal was problematic too, especially on faster notes. It just didn’t do the trick.
    Sold it again.

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