Well actually it’s the wonders of EHX’s digital stuff, because most other digital pedals, be it Boss, Behringer, Digitech, Marshall, the usual bunch, can’t take a hot signal in, let alone track it! They clip nastily and AD converters clipping is one of the harshest sounds around, second only to nails on a blackboard. As a general rule you don’t put any drive or signal boosting pedal before a digital one for this very reason. I’ve got a Marshall RG-1 which is a digital modulation pedal, and just picking too hard will make that bugger distort!

EHX > the rest

Bill did electric synth sounds in this (my personal favorite) episode of Effectology;

Electro-Harmonix Effectology, Vol.18 World Sounds

In addition to what you’re doing now I’d turn down the neck pickup on your bass, right down, and if you’ve got an EQ unit or pedal I’d roll off some of the low-end before putting it into the HOG, then mix in some of your dry signal, only a little, because you’ll want the sound of your pick attacking the strings to come through un-shifted, this will help to make it sound more natural.

That’s all I can think of that Bill didn’t mention.

Hope this helps

Haha, someone got sand in their vagina.

I think you are confused; I was referring to the voltage controlled oscillator, from what I could tell from quickly looking over the pedal it was simply a tunable drone. That’s what you can DIY for next to nothing. If it’s something else then I do apologise! As for the harmony thing you were talking about the Ring Thing can do any interval you like up to 2 octaves above or below.

Please don’t get angry and nasty for no real reason, this is not a place for venting infantile angst.

Portamento it is, not glissando, but no worries.

A pedal JUST for this doesn’t exist as far as I know, but you could probably put money on the EHX lab having something like this in the pipeline. It’s right up their street.

The V256 will get you the sound, but glide isn’t it’s only function, and the price-tag reflects as-such. Still not even half as expensive as the following however;

Pogtronix Mothership; it is very cool, but it doesn’t do much which you couldn’t get from buying several (far far faaaaaar) cheaper pedals, other than the glide obviously, but the Ring Thing can do all the ‘intelligent ring modulator’ and whammy sounds (plus a gazillion extras), the Octave Multiplexer will get you the sub octave (again, with extras) and you can build your own square wave/sawtooth generator with mix control for about £20. I’m not saying it’s a crap product but it’s totally not worth £350.

Hope this helps

Can you make a ‘Deluxe Green Back$’ that also prints British Pounds and Yen?

Sounds like a nasty case of dead pedal, and since the holy grail is digital it’s likely dead for good, unless you maybe still have the warranty somewhere? I’d contact Electro-Harmonix if I were you and see if there’s anything they can do for you. Their contact email address can be found via the ‘Support’ tab on the main page.