Thanks guys for watching!
Its a great pedal.
The combo of flange and chorus creates all these very cool notches when in a slow sweep.
It really animates a frozen chord or notes held in infinity.
Thanks again for the comments.

Bill

Thanks tuskbane!

The portamento effect in the V256 is very different than the glide effect in the HOG.
The HOG must be in freeze mode before it will slide to the next note.
The V256 does it automatically when you change notes.
The sound of the effect is very different as well.

Bill

Thanks fjurden!

That clip was just the Ring Thing and small amount of delay from a Stereo Memory Man.
I played it around the 7th fret with out a capo.
If you dig that tone you will love the Ring Thing!
Hope you get a chance to check one out.

Thanks again,
Bill

Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.14: Envelope Filter Oddities

In this episode I explore finding new sounds using envelope filters. My goal was to find new sounds not associated with the normal auto-filter pedals.

“Canaries in a Q-tron”

Creating a feedback loop with Q-tron Plus I was able to produce realistic chirps of birds.

The “Signal Pad” pedal controlled the amount of signal that is fed back into the Q-Tron.
The rate of the chirps is controlled by adjusting the peak control on the Q-Tron. I looped several passes of bird sounds into the Stereo Memory Man in loop mode to produce the sound of many different birds.

The sound of water was produced by two phase shifters modulating the white noise from a Big Muff. The different phase sweeps in combination produced a sort of bubbling effect.

The EHX Orchestra was done using a POG2 and a Cathedral reverb pedal. The held chords under the flute sound were produced using the infinite mode of the Cathedral.
The bass was done using the POG’s -1 octave slider.

Below are the settings I used:

“Scratchy Old Record Effect”

To produce the sound of an old scratched up 78rpm record I started by using a Big Muff and a Stereo Memory Man in loop mode.

I looped the noise from a Big Muff turned up to maximum with nothing attached to the input. This created white noise for the background. I looped 15 seconds of this.

To create the scratches and pops I plugged and unplugged the Big Muff several times while overdubbing on top of the white noise loop. I then used the filter knob to thin out the sound, and the delay knob to raise the pitch a small amount.

The vintage-sounding guitar track was created using just a Riddle pedal. Plugging any cable into the exp. jack will stop the filter from following the guitar input, turning the pedal into a straight filter effect. Using the high pass mode with the addition of the on-board distortion produced the sound of a small dusty old tube amp.

The Riddle pedal will also produce a great tiny AM radio sound with slightly different settings.

Below are the settings I used for this clip:

“The Enigma Synth”

To transform an Enigma or Riddle pedal into a pulsating rhythmic synthesizer, I created a feedback loop and I inserted a Pulsar tremolo pedal within that loop.

The output of the Enigma was run into a small Muff overdrive. The small size Muff is a great overdrive for synthesizers as it adds bite without totally squashing the signal.

The final pedal in the chain is a Stereo Memory Man delay.

Below are the settings and wiring diagram for the “Enigma Synth”:

Never judge what an effect pedal will do by what you have heard it will do.

Experiment and you will find new sounds not yet discovered!

Thanks for listening,
Bill Ruppert

Thanks friedjesseradio.
You will find this pedal is VERY musical and not the old fashion computer noise ring modulator.
The pitch shift in is the best EHX has ever had.
I am a studio musician living in Chicago,so I don’t work at the EHX factory.
The 800 miles each way dive every day would kill me:-)

I will stay here in Chicago and do studio work.
Have fun!
Bill

Best thing is play the guitar first and if it feels like a dream buy it.
Its all it how it feels to you.
The “How It Feels And Sounds To You” is all that matters.
Bill

Mario, Grazie per il vostro posta! Buona fortuna con la vostra chitarra. Avete scelto il migliore strumento musicale di tutti! Arrivederci Bill Ruppert da Chicago.