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June 9, 2010 at 6:40 am in reply to: New Devices: Germanium^4 Big Muff &, .44 Magnum, Freeze, Neo Clone, & Headphone Amp #106768diegoartsMember
Yeah Mr. Grim, you’re right there!
Better they take their time to built the XO stereo polyflangemistressthingy and the XO stereo tap-pulsar!!!
June 7, 2010 at 7:26 pm in reply to: New Devices: Germanium^4 Big Muff &, .44 Magnum, Freeze, Neo Clone, & Headphone Amp #102616diegoartsMemberQuote:we need a full stereo ’22 power amp, with dual inputs and dual outputs, and recording output with cab simulation !!!+1 on that one!
diegoartsMemberfantastic idea! although i don’t know if it technically possible with audio or vhs cassettes. it would be great if it was!
important for me: size and price! and of course the possibility to tweak on the fly and sefloscillation madness!
diegoartsMemberthe main thing is – you need an effected output on one side and a rather dry signal an the other channel.
so the combinations might be:
a) effected + direct
b) effected + blended (with blended rather dry, so ccw)
c) direct + blended (with blended rather wet, so cw)important is a rather dry on one side vs. a rather wet signal on the other side.
really, try it and you will get what i mean!
in implementing the blended output you’re able to “finetune” your setting in either b) or c). this might help in big volume differences.
but – remember: blended knob full ccw is dry signal – no effect this way. and full cw is wet signal. effected output with full blended output will give you no stereo image as the output signal is the same on both channels.
diegoartsMemberHey Loopman,
i don’t own a Cathedral, but i imagine it’s TRUE stereo, therefor the signal should stay seperate/stereo.
although – remember: if you use the effect AND the BLEND output, the stereo signal depends on your setting on the blend knob. a wet setting there will reduce the stereo effect! a more dryer setting will give you a better stereo image.REMEMBER: the FH is not true stereo. you are only able to get a pseudo-stereo effect by sending a wet signal to one and the dry / or blended signal with a decent amount of dry signal to another speaker/amp.
try this – if you can – via headphones: effect output left, blended output right. then play something and move the blend knob from dry to wet slowly. you may hear the change in stereo field.
be aware, that this can sound pretty strange on headphones if the wet sound is at an extreme setting. this is mostly because the effected signal is much quieter than the dry signal. if you have a chance to balance that difference in volume, your stereo effect will sound really good.This way, i am able to get a really realistic stereo thru-zero tape flange. on one channel the flanged effect will go over the top and nullify the signal, while on the other channel it’s still present. so the overall effect is a kind of a panned thru-zero tape flange! try this – amazing!
hope, this wasn’t to complicated!
to put it in a nutshell: just fool around!
diego
diegoartsMemberi’d say that the direct and effect output are best for stereo use. this way, the stereo effect is most impressive.
if you don’t want that fixed, you can use the blend and effect output. this way you can add some effect to the blend output channel, also the stereo effect might get lost a bit this way.the blend output on it’s own is for mono use, as you can mix direct and effected sound with it.
if you happen to have a micro-mixer on your board, you could do this blending also with direct and effect output via your mixer – but the effect should be almost the same as with the blended knob.
so – stereo : effect + direct output (left + right) -> mono : blended output.
hope, this helped.
and if you’re wondering: in stereo use it’s a great plus to have one side uneffected in phasing and flanging, coz your signal never totally fades out or gets too quiet in the mix. also, the stereo effect this way is pretty dramatic. i own a flying pan and one of the best sounds in there is just to dial the phasing effect to either right or left channel – sonic bliss!
best regards
diegodiegoartsMemberpanning on the murf – thats interesting!
maybe i have to look into this one a bit more…
although – stereo ins ARE very useful and for me necessary, coz there is a great difference if you put a trem/panner before or after a stereo delay – its amazin – try it!
stereo ins are in the mxr 159 and the line6 tap tremolo. the last one is in my chain, but it is not really good, sadly.
greetings
diego
diegoartsMemberexactly – think of you decide, which sounds in a solo you want to travel from left to right and back – seasickness, as cryabetes wrote – is the word!
AND – i think that tap tempo IS VERY useful for timebased effects!and – not all or even just a few of us use midi that often! for keyboarders – alright, but for guitarplayers seldomly needed!
Moogerfoogers are great! BUT – they aren’t stereo IN sadly! and – there isn’t any panning, or is there?!
and – it’s very expensive!!EHX can do with an “all-in-one”-tremopan effect! at least, that’s my opinion!
best regards
diego
diegoartsMemberone more idea on this one:
i’m thinking Expression Input:
if there’d be an option to control speed and depth via EP, maybe it would be possible to control the Effect pedalwise, kinda like a volume pedal BUT with the option, that with different waveforms you either have a smooth transition of volume up/down, or an ON/OFF-pedal with square wave!
this way one could do freaky stutters via pedal.another plus would be in panning mode you could have a pan-treadle-pedal allowing you to control and accentuate the panning via EP!
how about that?
an why aren’t there any replies – don’t you people like a stereo tremopan pedal with taptempo?!
i can’t believe that!
best regards
diego
diegoartsMemberi only own the FREE SPEECH Talk Box and also it’s not really useful live (sadly) for recording it’s amazingly cool! i did a cover of “Welcome To The Machine” from PF once with lotsa “Talkboxing” – pure fun!
You can listen here if you’re interested: http://www.callasong.de/band/song.php?mp3id=208312#
I May yet have to try it with seperate Mic instead the insert ones. I read, this works pretty well.
Friend of mine got the Tuna Melt and loves it.diegoartsMemberQuote:The National – High Violetamazing! i’m getting it today! what a great band!
diegoartsMemberah, btw – i fooled around with lo-fi delays just the other day and great thing here is, that you can get shorter lo-fi times by tapping a long time and then choose a subdivision! crazy sounds this way too!
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diego
diegoartsMemberHi,
this issue is known as far as i know and its normal to analog delays – although most analog delay units don’t let the user choose delaytimes slower than the max. in the description, EHX done otherwise – which i think is very great! read the manual, it’s mentioned there, that the delay time knob maxes out at about 650ms and this way the delays will sound good. BUT – you are able to tap times up to (i think) 1500ms – the unit will still be able to produce a delayed signal, but the longer the delay time, the more distorted the delay signal. if you don’t want a distorted signal AND can live with delays max. 650ms (which is rather good for analog anyway), use the delay time dial for max delays. it’s easier than guessing and tapping.
for me, i like the option of longer distorted lo-fi delays, although i must confess that it’s barely useable for most situations!
hope, this helped.
diego
diegoartsMemberSo, i put my LPB2ube in the FX loop of the DXMB and it’s a gas! it really helps in so many ways. your delayed signal becomes louder and clearer, there are more repeats possible (pre-selfosscilation) and of course it helps in the oscillation itself. plus: you can turn the blend knob down a bit. your delay signal don’t have to be (much) louder than your original to still hear it.
i now will try to get a small, cheap EQ-booster, which will stay permanently in the loop. haven’t tried a comp yet, but will soon.
anyway – the ducking/gate is very strong in my opinion. it would be great if one could dial in a smaller amount of gating permanently. is this possible?!?! maybe not. no reply to this so far.
it’s also audible, that a boosted signal is more gated/ducked than a clean signal.
the booster in the loop helps a lot. put a cheap phaser after that and it’s sonic heaven. great sounds!
for the modulation – it goes very fast into very extreme settings. you have to keep it really low to get chorussy/flangey tones. one way around this problem of course is put in a expression pedal, dial in the highest amount of modulation depth you can live with and then take the EP to dial in inbetween mod depth! fine tune as you may say! works great!
diego
diegoartsMemberhi,
i own the deluxe version of the memory boy and one tip i can give is – be very careful with dialling in modulation depth. it goes easily into very strange sounding modulations. start with turning the depth knob all the way to the left (counterclockwise) to turn the modulation off. then try to play with delay only – turn up the feedback and blend to hear your delayed signal louder.
here are the instructions on the website:
https://www.ehx.com/products/memory-boy1/instructionsthis said – i am very glad to have bought the deluxe version, because the delayed signal is ducked/gated first – depending on the gain of the input signal – louder input – more ducking. too much ducking imho, but i guess it’s to keep the delay signal cleaner – the chips would overload too easily if a highgain signal would “overdrive” the chipset. that’s my guess only.
anyway – in the deluxe version i can put a booster/eq in the effects loop and this way enhance the delayed signal – golden!
hope, this helped.
greetings to malaysia
diego
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