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December 2, 2010 at 1:31 am in reply to: Effctology Vol.19 “How to turn you guitar into a Moog synthesizer” #112865

bill ruppert
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Yes you can do a portamento sound using the Ring Thing in the pitch mode using a foot pedal.
It will not be automatic so you will have to use your foot to sweep into each individual note.
Not the same but will give you a portamento affect.
The only downside will be if you’re playing a very long solo your foot is going to get tired!

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Can i make the glide/portamento effect with another non-vocal pedal???

December 1, 2010 at 3:05 pm in reply to: Effctology Vol.19 “How to turn you guitar into a Moog synthesizer” #112850

bill ruppert
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Friedjesseradio thank you!

The Big Muff is a distortion unit which clips your guitar signal when it distorts.
In other words it cranks up your guitar signal to the point that it smashes the top and bottom of the wave. This smashing causes the wave to be flat on the bottom and the top. It’s called a square wave as when viewed on an oscilloscope, it is square!
With the distortion comes tons of bright high end harmonics.When you turn down the tone control on a Big Muff you remove some of the high-end harmonics the square wave begins to smooth its edges. It begins to look much more like a sine wave. Below is a picture showing a almost square wave and a sine wave.

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bill, how did you filter the square wave from the big muff into a sine wave? that sound killed me!!!

oh and freakin amazing as always!

November 30, 2010 at 2:29 pm in reply to: Effctology Vol.19 “How to turn you guitar into a Moog synthesizer” #112830

bill ruppert
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Effctology Vol.19 How to turn you guitar into a Moog synthesizer

If you are guitar player and use effect pedals, you owe a lot to the development of modular synthesizers.

The modular synthesizer consists of separate specialized modules connected by patch cords. Combining the signals generated by multiple modules into a common audio output allows a potentially infinite number of configurations, leading to a potentially infinite number of sounds.

Modules consist of oscillators, filters, envelope generators, ring modulators, noise sources, LFOs and more. The effect pedals used by guitar players accomplish many of those same things and can be patched together just as it’s done on a Moog modular synthesizer.

When you look down at your pedal board, what you see are really the building blocks of a modular synthesizer.

Below are some of the settings used in Episode 19.

Switched-On Bach

“Lucky Man” Solo

To create noise sweep effects I used white noise generated by a Big Muff distortion cranked full up.
Using a dummy plug to turn the unit on with nothing connected to the input, I connected the output to a Micro Synth for manual filtering.

An LPB-1 booster can be used after the Big Muff to help generate even more noise.

The acoustic guitar was recorded through a 12AY7 Mic-Pre

Vintage electric bass sound setting:

The late Bob Moog (left) with EHX founder Mike Matthews.

If you have any questions please ask.
Thanks for watching.
Bill Ruppert

Moog is a trademark of Moog Music, Inc.

November 28, 2010 at 8:12 pm in reply to: Need new “Fine” toggle switch for 16 Second Delay #112787

bill ruppert
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beedoola
Good luck get it fixed up.
Should be an easy fix.
The 16 second is one of my favorite all time pedals!

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Give the the customer service rep. Chip Scooter a call.
(718) 937-8300
Or you can email info@ehx.com for help.

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The “fine” slider switch on my 16 Second Delay broke and I need a new one. Can anyone suggest where I may find one? I’ve checked online parts stores like “Small Bear Electronics” with not luck. I’m able to repair the switch myself, I already de-soldered the broken one.

How much would EHX charge to send me a replacement?

Thanks bill! Love the demos you do.

November 28, 2010 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Need new “Fine” toggle switch for 16 Second Delay #112785

bill ruppert
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Give the the customer service rep. Chip Scooter a call.
(718) 937-8300
Or you can email info@ehx.com for help.

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The “fine” slider switch on my 16 Second Delay broke and I need a new one. Can anyone suggest where I may find one? I’ve checked online parts stores like “Small Bear Electronics” with not luck. I’m able to repair the switch myself, I already de-soldered the broken one.

How much would EHX charge to send me a replacement?

November 22, 2010 at 2:21 pm in reply to: Effectology Challenge #112688

bill ruppert
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nneekolas
Hey your stuff sounds great!
You certainly are on the right path.
When I think about it there were several things I would look at when trying to get the bass to sound like a guitar.
The first thing would be in the pitch shifter. The best pitch shifter to emulate a guitar would be one that preserves the harmonics or keeps them in the same order.
Normally when one sings into a pitch shifter up one octave the voice will sound like a chipmunk and not like the same person with a woman’s voice. That is due to the way the upper harmonics have been shifted as well as the pitch.
Pitch shifters that are formant preserving keep the harmonics in order while pitch shifting.
These are much more natural sounding and preserve the sound while shifting up one octave.
I believe the ring thing is formant preserving and would help your base sound more like a guitar when shifted up.
The second thing would be to voicings you play on the bass. Try to play things appropriate for what would be played on an actual guitar. In other words if I was going to do a flute sound I certainly wouldn’t play guitar riffs as that would not sound like a flute.
I also would probably not use the fifths when pitch shifting. Just stick with the octave and play the fifths by hand
I have also found that putting a pitch shifter after the distortion sounds more natural.
Doing this helps mask the sound of the pitch shifter.
Your stuff sounds great keep going and let us know what you come up with!
Bill Ruppert

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For fun, I uploaded a couple quick 2880 recordings of my efforts so far. I used a HOG and an Enigma and recorded straight into the 2880. The only instrument used is my Gibson Thunderbird electric bass, played with a pick, and only one track of the 2880 was used for each.

The HOG settings were like this (Slider values from 0 to 10):

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[size=-1]
Input Gain: 6
Dry Output: 0
Sub Octaves: Both 0
Original: 0
+5th: 7
+1 Oct: 2
+1 Oct + 5th: 10
+2 Oct: 2
+2 Oct + 3rd: 0
+3 Oct: 3
Envelope: ON
Lower: Zero (At the Center Detent)
Upper: +1 Towards Decay
Filter Frequency: 5
Filter Resonance: 0
[/size]

The Enigma settings were like this (knob values from 7 o’clock to 5 o’clock)

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Blend: 1 o’clock
Mode: Bandpass
Attack: 2 o’clock
Decay: 7 o’clock
Start: 5 o’clock
Stop: 1 o’clock
Q: 9 o’clock
Sensitivity: 2 o’clock
[/size]

Here’s an attempt to sound like a clean guitar:

http://soundcloud.com/kyonshies/bass-to-guitar-clean

Here’s an attempt to sound like a dirty guitar. I used the distortion built into the Enigma, and slightly tweaked the Attack to be slower and the Stop Frequency to be lower.

http://soundcloud.com/kyonshies/bass-to-guitar-dirty

November 3, 2010 at 1:32 pm in reply to: Effectology, Vol. 1: Electric Guitar plays Blues Harmonica #112363

bill ruppert
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Hi Nu
Well a lot of the magic of that sound comes from the octave fuzz of the microsynth.
It’s an octave fuzz similar to an Octavia effect pedal used by Hendrix.
It produced the overtones for the harp as well as the overdrive which made it sound like it was played to a small blues amplifier.
I’m not really sure what would work in its place, it’s just a matter of experimenting.
Good luck and let us know what you find and you might find something completely different that’s just a cool!
Bill

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Hi Bill,

I would like to know, if there would be a recommendation for a different pedal set up in front of the hog to achieve the harp sound. EG an limiter/enhancer combined with the octave up on the HOG?
(I have a HOG on order but no actual plans to acquire the micro synth right now.)

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

November 3, 2010 at 1:20 pm in reply to: BASS SYNTH handles low notes bad #112362

bill ruppert
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Yes if the trigger slider is too high in wait for your signal to die down before doing anything.
That might be your problem, hope it helps and let us know!

November 3, 2010 at 1:05 pm in reply to: BASS SYNTH handles low notes bad #112360

bill ruppert
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Try turning down the trigger slider on the front panel?
Also you may need to adjust the input trimmer which is located on the inside of the unit.
The output of your bass may be too hot which requires the adjustment of the input trimmer.

October 21, 2010 at 5:39 pm in reply to: Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.18 World Sounds By Bill Ruppert #112080

bill ruppert
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Alan,
Yes it is the Stereo Electric Mistress in the filter matrix mode.
It’s such a great sound.
Just make sure you use the rate control to the tune the matrix filter to the chord or key you are playing in.
I like when the LED is in the yellow-orange color range.
The short envelope you hear is most likely caused by the notching produced by the filter matrix.

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Crazy, i Have one!!! it’s just i could swear i hear a short envelope… is it just the filter matrix? it’s the part where it shows you up stroking that chord on that ibanez right before the “backwards indian instruments” part

October 21, 2010 at 1:28 pm in reply to: Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.18 World Sounds By Bill Ruppert #112072

bill ruppert
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Hi Alan,
This sound you like was done with the stereo electric Mistress pedal.
You can see the settings in the graphic above.

The sitar melodies sounds were meant to sound more like an electric sitar rather than the acoustic version which is quite different of course.
When you think electric sitar think songs like”hooked on a feeling”or the Stevie Wonder hit “signed sealed delivered”.
Have fun!
Bill

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Okay, sorry bill, but the later sitar “buzz” sound was not as good as whatever the first one was you tacked onto the end of the tabla part… you know what im talking abut right? was that just the Riddle Qballs? or what were you using there? sounds nothing like the starved Gm Big Muff…. and i really really liked that sound a million times more….. please oh please tell me the secret… i will love you forever….

October 13, 2010 at 3:11 pm in reply to: Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.6 “The Mellotron” #111949

bill ruppert
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A volume pedal gives more control of the swell and goes to zero in an instant.
You can vary the rate of the swell with your foot to match the phrase you are playing.

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I was wondering why you use a volume pedal to swell the chords, instead of using the pog2 attack control ?

October 13, 2010 at 3:06 pm in reply to: Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.18 World Sounds By Bill Ruppert #111938

bill ruppert
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Thanks!
I will put all MP3 audio tracks up on Soundclick soon.
The audio is far better as an mp3 and you can download them free from Soundclick.
Youtube uses a very poor audio compression
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I will post a link when they are up.
Bill

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Bill, this sounds amazing. Any plans to release this stuff as mp3’s? Itunes or something? It’s too good to exist just on youtubeâ€¦

September 30, 2010 at 12:35 am in reply to: Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.18 World Sounds By Bill Ruppert #111726

bill ruppert
Participant

Thanks everybody for listening.

fantomenos I do have some mp3’s up on sound click.
I will have to get them all up there as the audio is much better than youtube.

Mr Grim, fantastic on listening to other instruments!
I listen to short wave radio and internet radio often.
I LOVE figuring out what makes up the style of different cultures music.

This week I have been listening to old radio remotes of big bands of the 1920’s-1950’s.
I feel like a sponge when I hear things I have not heard.
Its fun and so great for your ear and your playing.

Its all about learning what makes up a style.
After a while you can pinpoint elements.
Great fun and it works for EVERY style of music there is.
It allows you to bring more colors into your own music.
it should be taught in schools!!!!
Bill

September 27, 2010 at 2:24 pm in reply to: Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.18 World Sounds By Bill Ruppert #110705

bill ruppert
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Below are settings for some of the sounds seen in episode: 18 World Sounds.

With all the controls of the Germanium Big Muff set to max the unit will self oscillate.You can control the pitch of the oscillation using the volume control on your guitar. It will also generate a blast of noise with the guitar volume control near max.

You can control the sustain of the electric sitar buzz with your guitar volume
control.

Same setting as the radio but adding a mod delay with repeats creates a wall of
sound!

Harp and kalimba effect

Thanks for watching!
Bill Ruppert
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