RE: Costch’s earlier statement.

not alot of people have ambitions beyond emulation, unfortunately. it’s all a matter of misguided dreams; for some reason people think that being the next rolling stones involves sounding exactly like the rolling stones. they fail to realize that those records have already been made, and even though it’s still easy to appreciate and enjoy them, they are – in this day and age – devoid of any real artistic merit.

for the same reason that someone who gets into metal invariably grows a horrible beard and stops playing or listening to any other kind of music, someone who gets into the beatles tries to write the proper followup to Abbey Road. hence my official formation of “The Society to Let Music Die” aka “The Committee to Keep the Past in the Past.” Now accepting members.

on a similar note, i like the big boxes but ehx has already made those pedals. it’s time to move forward.

It doesn’t matter if you run the Muff into the FA or the FA into the Muff, it sounds crazy mean.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showpost.php?s=75fc2ef9fac4cca42e7838f4d31cf25a&p=5112451&postcount=12

That’s for a Bass Microsynth, but the poster talks about how he used the same method for doing his Q-Tron at the end of the post. I used this thread to mod my Micro Synth for LED status, it works nicely and it took my soldering iron longer to heat up than it did for me to do the actual work.

Whole thread here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=315187

Cool, thanks! I found an old Akai GX-630D in town here for just under $70 CDN, as far as I can tell it’s in perfect working order and it looks functionally identical to the GX-215D. Now it’s just a matter of finding enough time to get this happening!

PS that TEAC looks incredible… just plain incredible.

I’ve always been curious about this, but sadly monophonic octavers just don’t really fit into my guitar pedalboard…

Any chance you’ve tried it on a bass?

Given the addition of the expression control on the XO Worm, I was a touch disappointed by the lack of a CV in on the XO Frequency Analyzer and the lack of a footswitchable Fuzz On/Off on the new Graphic Fuzz… Still, an updated POG would be cool – expression control over the sliders themselves would be great, where the slider’s position is the maximum setting and the expression fades the voices in ala the volume mode on the HOG.

OR: Have a single preset button, and then have the expression pedal fade between the current settings and the preset – allowing you to go from bass to organ with either a single click or a simple rock of the heel. This would totally jive in the larger XO boxes, like a new Micro Synth but with two stompswitches.

I’ve tried:

Boss DF-2, MXR Bass Blowtorch, Fulltone Full Drive II, Maxon OOD-9, Zvex Box of Metal, Boss ODB-3, Way Huge Fat Sandwich, EHX Graphic Fuzz, MXR Blue Box, and both the NYC and the XO Little Big Muff (I don’t own all of those, though).

When you run the dirt into the HOG, you wind up with a digitized sound that sounds absolutely great when you blend in the dry signal with a few intervals turned up. Using it to tune down gives you a really synthetic sound that isn’t intolerable, but certainly not a tone worth chasing. Proper use of the filter will allow you to get by, but the other guitarist in my band is a real tone snob and so this method just couldn’t fly.

It’s difficult to describe the problem you get when you run the HOG into the distortion – it was the most pronounced on the Box of Metal (which I returned near immediately) and least noticeable on the Graphic Fuzz. I guess I would say that it introduces a subtle fizziness and gives you a highly synthetic sounding tone. The part that irked me is that the problem doesn’t arise on the +1 or -1 settings, and is much less noticeable even in the more ‘extreme’ slider shifts. It seems it’s only when you try to tune specific pitches with the expression pedal that you run into trouble because I’ve used HOG -> Big Muff for fuzzy basstones on more recordings than I’ve used an actual bass for, and in an experiment, I played a ‘guitar’ solo running a bass shifted up two octaves into the Graphic Fuzz just to see how it sounded. I was far from disappointed.

I’m almost positive the problem has to do with the expression pedal because when you shift the original pitch up an octave or down an octave, it doesn’t sound the same as if you just use the +1 or -1 sliders…