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  • in reply to: HOG Modification #109627
    julian
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    Please do not release a midi-accessible version ….

    I wish they would.

    The fun I could have with an arduino!

    julian
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    well, as it seems EHX listen to suggestions from the community and deliver the goods (ie. the freeze pedal) could i throw the idea of an analog pitch vibrato out there…..

    something nano size with controls for speed and depth…..not a univibe clone, more of the music box, old record type pitch warble….nice and slow and warm.

    it could be called the ‘music box’ or something like that.

    please….

    pretty please :)

    Sounds kind of like the Clone Theory minus chorus.

    julian
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    ok. im still unsure on the 1st idea but i know the phase cancellation now. i knew it before. i just didnt know what that would be called. im not sure i understand how it would be in a pedal though?

    Well you simply have a mixer with 2 inputs, and you have a circuit putting one of the inputs 180 degrees out of phase.

    julian
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    Well basically I’d like the Freeze to have its own effects line. So for example I’m playing a clean passage. I hit the freeze and the frozen notes have tremolo. But not the clean notes.

    Typically this would be accomplished with a Y splitter (or simply a pedal with two outputs) and a mixer (or simply a multi-channel amp, which is what I use) so I’d have a dry audio path and a wet audio path. In the wet audio path would be the freeze, followed by whatever effects you’d want to have on it. The dry audio path would be dry.

    It’s important though for this sort of set-up to run your effects 100% wet, because otherwise your wet path would have dry signal, and you don’t want your dry signal affected.

    That’s actually how I run my HOG, so I can do that. The point in me wanting the Freezer is partially because the auto-decay function sounds really useful to me, and I’ve always wanted to run two HOGs in a row so I could have freeze and then use the other HOG to do filter and pitch sweeps of the frozen chord.

    This is a nice way BTW to put effects on your delay if your delay doesn’t have an effects loop.

    Phase cancellation is simply a way to get rid of unwanted sound by combining it with the same sound 180 degrees out of phase with it. There are phase cancelling headphones that play ambient sounds 180 degrees out of phase to get rid of them, but they don’t cancel out the music you’re listening to.

    in reply to: should i get a ring thing exp pedal? #109582
    julian
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    try out your HOG expression pedal on your Ring Thing and see if you think you need it or not.

    julian
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    There’s an idea for a pedal- the phase canceler! Those would sell by the ton!

    Liberty- I haven’t actually bought a pedal since last January myself. Last two purchases were Bass Big Muff and Tone Wicker.

    I’ve bought some guitars and amps at flea markets, but I’ve mostly been buying records and DIY stuff. I certainly see the merits in playing with minimal effects, but I still want stuff. My board’s been disassembled for months. I really want to put it back together, but my amp’s in need of a retube and so I don’t feel motivated without my main amp working.

    I am kind of interested in the Germanium Big Muff though. If I dig the tones that is. I’m just hoping that it is actually a muff when you take out all the extra bells and whistles under the hood, otherwise it’d be weird to have a Big Muff that isn’t really a Big Muff.

    julian
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    I don’t own a cathedral, but when doing that sound, I think a little bit of overdrive helps.

    My friends and I did a spaghetti-esque jam for a soundtrack to a friend’s movie that never got made.

    Listen here:

    http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=981488&songID=7949466

    I’m the left guitar- DOD-250 into SMMH on reverb setting. I believe the dry signal may have been clean, but I’m not 100% sure. Later I add some Little Big Muff or Big Muff with Tone Wicker (I forget which one, tone wicker probably, because it sounds more open.) If I had any tremolo it was a Subdecay prometheus set to Low pass filter with no resonance and a fast sine wave setting. My guitar was a neck-through on the bridge humbucker.

    My friend on the right has a simpler approach. Vox AC30 with some trem and verb. He might be using amp OD, or he might be using a Boss OS- or OD- 2 or 3. His guitar was a stratocaster.

    in reply to: Stereo Polyphase #109549
    julian
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    I ended up selling mine, but I really, really miss that slow envelope setting sometimes.

    in reply to: Electro Harmonix question #109548
    julian
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    I think you want a V256 and not a Voice Box. Voice Box requires a separate instrument input to vocode to, will V256 has an internal synthesizer for vocoder effects.

    As for delay, look at the Danelectro PB+J or the Ibanez DE-7. They’re both cheap and have longish delay times.

    julian
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    looping and freezing are completely different though.

    Jesse, even with a Y splitter, you’re still sending dry to the Freeze, and the dry will pass through the unit when the effect is on, which is exactly what I don’t want. The only way to eliminate the dry would be to hit a mute right before the freeze every time you use it, or to mod it internally.

    I still might get one if I can figure out how to do a dry switch easily.

    in reply to: SMMw Hazarai Mod – preset footswitch #109532
    julian
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    Well that function is just a momentary switch. You could have a 2nd momentary switch on the same unit, or program the arduino to emulate a momentary switch hit a couple milliseconds after it emulates the encoder.

    julian
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    I do think the decay thing is a nice touch.

    It’d be nice if they had an XO one with wet/dry blend, separate wet/dry outs, gliss, an expression pedal input, switchable expression modes like on the HOG, and tap tempo for the decay/attack.

    julian
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    Well technically I could do that. Or I could just make a mute pedal. They’re pretty simple. But it seems to be a little extra tedium that would be unnecessary if the Freezer simply had a blend control instead of an Effect Level control. Or separate wet/dry outs.

    in reply to: SMMw Hazarai Mod – preset footswitch #109524
    julian
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    If you can access where the hazarai knob is soldered in, it’s definitely doable.

    I’d bolt a nano or an XO sized enclosrure to the side, and rewire the input jacks to be in the additional enclosure. Wire up power, and wire an arduino and a switch or two or three in.

    The arduino you’d have to program of course, but the software is free. . . the board costs 25-30 bucks, and hooks up VIA USB.

    in reply to: SMMw Hazarai Mod – preset footswitch #109520
    julian
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    I understand that. But I think there’s a way to hack it.

    The hazarai knob is a rotary encoder:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_encoder

    All you have to do is make an addon box (Which would have a lot of wires feeding to the SMMH) that is wired up in parallel with the onboard rotary encoder. The PWM functions of the Arduino could emulate the rotary encoder’s square waves.

    You could program it a way to use one switch to perform all the functions, or you could use multiple switches, which would be easier.

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