Thanks Tut!
Yea I was thrilled to find it would follow the pitch of the guitar.
For me that was all that was missing from the Ring Thing.
It was there all along!
The output does need to be boosted before it goes back in the mod jack.
Use any booster or compressor you have, I used an LPB-1.
Bill

Intelligent Ring Mod

I wanted to show this bass sound against a rhythm track. My solution was to create a hand drum using the effect chain shown below.

Using a dummy plug to turn the Big Muff on without a guitar connected, I used its white noise through a Pulsar pedal to create a rhythmic pulse. Having a booster LP1 after the Big Muff created so much gain that the unit became microphonic. This allowed me to actually “play” the Big Muff like a drum.

An undocumented feature of the Ring Thing is its ability to follow the pitch of what you play and tune itself automatically. This feature is monophonic and produces great bass and synth sounds. The output needs to be boosted in level before being routed into the mod jack. For the boost I used a LPB-1.

A Germanium Over Drive was last in the chain to fatten the sound.

The Ring Thing’s coarse knob controls the global pitch center. It was set at -2 octaves. Below is the effect chain and setting for the Intelligent Ring Mod.

Taurus Pedals

This chain has tons of gain and I was able to play the bass line using just one hand. I adjusted the Riddle’s stop frequency with my right hand, but a expression pedal could also be used. Below is the chain and effect settings used in the video.

As a backdrop for the Taurus sound, I created a faux vocal choir sound. Below is the chain and settings for the important pedals in this chain.

String Bass

The combination of the HOG and Microsynth produced a string bass sound. The HOG was lowered one octave in pitch using the expression pedal in the Exp. Reverse mode.

A very small amount of distortion was added on the Microsynth to give the sound a buzz, only at the beginning of notes.

To produce the sound of a snare drum being played with brushes I used the Electro-Harmonix warranty card!

A Soul Preacher compressor pedal was used to bring the string level up in volume and a Cathedral reverb was set for a warm room sound.

Below is the effect chain for the String Bass and pedal settings.

A Wiggler pedal was used for the vibrato guitar

Thanks for watching.
Bill Ruppert

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Hi John,
Glad you dig the show.

For a line or riff like that i would use a modulation effect like a Poly Chorus or the Worm.
A little vibrato or waver would sound great with out killing the riff.
just enough to make it interesting.
We call it ear candy!

The Poly Chorus can also go over the top for other things so it even more versatile.
I would go Poly Chorus.

Good luck.
Bill

Hi Loopman.
The water sound was done with the Flanger Hoax and the PolyPhase.
The combo produced the multi bubble effect.
Below are pis of the settings.
Bill

Here is that template for a neutral setting:
Set trim pot so on and off levels are the same.
Good luck Bill

What version do you have??
XO version has only one trim pot.
Is yours an old big box?
If so it in the upper right hand corner.
Bill

Using the pedal in stereo creates a depth or space to the sound that can not be created in mono.
Applications are ANY recording or using two amps spit apart by several feet.
The stereo spread in the cathedral is the widest I have ever heard.
It almost sounds 3D to my ear.
Bill