Only really guidelines. For example, generally you put reverb last because you want your effects reverbed, not your reverb effected, and you put delay after your distortion because you don’t want your repeats to be compressed.

Well, the first 3 pedals I’d go for are the HOG, Big Muff, and Crybaby, but not necessarily in that order.

You’ve got to make the following choices:

Big Muff before or after the Crybaby?
Big Muff before or after the HOG?
HOG before or after the Crybaby?

If some of the answers to the choices conflict (say you want the Big Muff after the Crybaby but before the HOG and you want the Crybaby after the HOG) you have to decide which are most important to you. It’s not a better/worse type thing, just tonal preferences.

You might also want to see if you like Small Stone before the Big Muff, so that might enter into the equation as well (some people like phaser before distortion.) If you don’t like it before that, put it 4th (or in the DMM’s loop for awesome phased repeats)

After that I’d go:

Chicken Salad- Boss Volume – DMM – Cathedral

There’s no rwrong way to do it. Different orders will give you different side effects tonally when using multiple effects that you may like or dislike.

I think the new microsynth is still analog.

Did you try adjusting the preamp gain trimpot? That could have slipped out of alignment.

If that doesn’t do it, I’d suggest contacting EHX about getting it repaired.

You can find out how to here:

http://www.newsensor.com/CutomerServices.aspx

Make sure to e-mail them first and get an RA number.

EHX’s myspace posted some more clips:

http://www.myspace.com/ehx

The first one sounds awesome.

It says on the ad flyer that it can do whammy type bends and detune, plus it has an LFO. LFO + detune = vibrato. + dry = chorus.

Or at least I think that it would. I’d think the memory boy would have a better modulation sound though.

All will be answered by the manual though.

I’m confused as well as you pencil-in as to how all the controls work together, how you choose if your modified filter or rate, or fine or depth. How you choose between ring modulation, upper sideband modulation, lower sideband modulation, and straight pitch shift modes.

To me it seems the preset switch steps you through the presets and if you hold it down it tunes it.

Falipe Sosa hints in the NAMM that you can use the preset switch to switch through several chords like the Zvex Ringtone, and mentions you might just want 3 of those. So I’m wondering if there’s a way to limit the number of presets that you can step through.

The really important feature to be is the pitch shifting. If the pitch shifting is as good as the HOG’s octave bend mode, sign me up.

And the auto-tuning. I’m wondering what the range for the auto-tuning. If I could auto-tune the oscillator with notes that have been pitch shifted way down or way up, that’d be awesome.

Also, have you tried your Casio’s midi with any other devices?

Yeah, you don’t want to put gain effects in the loop.