Bent steel is 24v I believe, but that hardly matters. I have heard that the XO is somehow ‘cleaner’ but buddy couldn’t explain what he meant so I didn’t take his comment too seriously. I heard from someone else that that XO’s trigger slider / envelope response is a little easier to control: the trigger slider is a little more consistent with which notes START the filter sweep and which ones play through the sweep. Once again, I’m a bit skeptical but you never know. I wouldn’t mind giving the two an A/B to settle this once and for all, but I’ve only seen one XO Microsynth in Calgary and it was a bass version.

Actually I have had the exact opposite experience… I find the quieter pickups to really shine with the Double Muff, that way you can play almost clean on the quieter notes but get a delicious fuzzy OD when you dig in a little bit. However, in regards to it being picky – make sure you are running it before any other effects (or at least before any with buffered bypass). It is really particular about this; if you run it after any buffers, you get a really harsh/trebley sound. I’m sure you’ve figured it out by now, but I figured it was worth mentioning – it took me a really long time to figure that out because I wasn’t entirely sure which of my effects were true bypass.

Happy Pi Day!!!

I will celebrate it today, because I say March 14th (which is numerically written as 3/14, not 14/3 which would be pronounced The Fourteenth Of March).

I don’t know how it breathes life into your pedals, but it seems like a great idea for running before distortions or after pedals which give you a weird volume boost like the Clone Theory. I guess it would make it SUPER easy to handle a Fuzz Face; with the flick of a switch you can go between OD and fuzz without having to try and find that sweet spot on the guitar’s volume knob every time. Same goes for dirty amps.

I’ve yet to see one in store or catch a review online, but honestly it seems like something you either could or couldn’t use. There’s not alot of mystery to it, except for how it could breathe that life…

Well I’ll be damned. You’re right! I’ve gotta say though, I hate it when sellers do this… try and get an exorbitant amount of money because — “You can’t Win if you don’t Play, right kiddo?”

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I would like to see the Bad Stone back as well, but as you may or may not already know, the Worm has a manual mode and the Polyphase has both a resonance control and an expression control that allows you to sweep the phase manually. The new XO version of The Worm is supposedly super quiet, and it has expression control as well. I hear that the Bad Stone has a super unique sound, though, and it would be nice to see that back on the EHX lineup someday. The Polyphase is super cool but I found that on the ‘typical’ settings (Phase 90 / Small Stone type swooshing), it kind of lacked personality. It didn’t sound bad by any stretch of the imagination, but IMO there was nothing to write home about until you cranked the resonance or hit the square wave settings.

Yeah, there’s no reason NOT to have them both on the same board. I just wouldn’t want to have to go from one to the other all the time, I prefer a board made of drastically different sounds that I can use together rather than having different flavors of the same sound that I can go between.

Personal preference, I should have clarified that in the post.