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Quote:Okay, so I bought a Small Stone off of ebay, and took it directly to the studio, as my band was recording. Our guitarist (I play electric mandolin [through all EHX into a Sunn Solarus]) asked if he could use the Small Stone in a freakout that he was overdubbing at the time that I walked into the studio. I hadn’t been able to test the pedal yet, so I just handed it over. The “rolling” call was heard through the headphones, and the Small Stone was activated. It made some FANTASTIC synth-type sounds that could be raised and lowered in pitch via the knob, and at the peak pitch, it would make actual phaser sounds, but the guitar’s signal was nowhere to be found. It was simply phasing the sine-wave type sound. At the bottom pitch, the pedal sounded kinda like a tape delay. All of this was going on while the color switch was on, and it wouldn’t make any sound at all when the color switch was off. It’s going on the album as-is, but I would like to know if the pedal is ever going to sound like a normal Small Stone. Is it the battery? I haven’t had a chance to check it because we’re keeping our equipment at the studio until the album is complete, and I live almost 100 miles from the studio. That’s a fun drive every day… Any help you folks can give will be handsomely rewarded… (I mean I’ll say “thank you”.)
The Problem, after talking with the engineers, is most certainly a loose wire inside of the pedal. It could be at the jacks or on the way be to the circuit board.
The sounds you are hearing, while very cool, are being generated from within… triggered from the randomness of contact.
Was this pedal used or new?
If this is a used Small Stone and you feel competent, you may want to have the Small Stone opened to check.
Make sure that the pedal is unplugged. HOWEVER, I would advise you to have a repair tech check it out. If it is new, send it in for service.
Quote:I got this last Christmas and I can still say I don’t know how to use it. However, I can still coax some wild sounds out of it. I was even able to get an auto-wah sound from it, amongst the sounds you listed. It could benefit from a better manual, though.I have worked a lot with the Flanger Hoax since it was a prototype until now. It is truly one of the most exciting modulation instruments ever built. I programmed synthesis for virtually every keyboard company, as am independent programmer, from the early 80’s until the early 2000’s. The approach that you have to take with the Flanger Hoax is very similar. Not is synthesis but in how relevant paramiters interact to create the summed sound. It is definitely not a box that you open and then run with it. You have to invest time and you definitely have to write each program down because a minor error in setup can take you to a whole new planet OR another great sound. You invest some time and you will be rewarded big time.
You just need to learn the interaction. I will try to find some of my old program sheets and put them up but give me a little time because my studio has changed. I use it for one shot sound design in film noow. I tend to never save sounds once I am certain I will not need it any further.
What a creative tool for anyone interested in unique, musical and colorful modulations. My sonic favorite here and I love almost all of our designs. The sonic potential never gets old and that means a lot when you do not want to follow the same old crowd.
Rick
EH
Quote:I bought a Metal Muff last year and my jaw was still being scraped off the floor at how awesome it was. In opinion the best all round distortion pedal for metallers.However, now, the pedal has dropped in volume and sounds raspy at high distortion levels (even around 7).
Raising the volume on the pedal results in aweful tone (it never used to go above half-tilt) and I can’t raise the master volume on my amp as the balance between clean and distortion would be off. As for the rasp on high distortion, I’ve tried all manner of separate overdrives but nothing helps at all.
I’m not sure if it’s the diodes or connections that need replacing/servicing, but I don’t want to do anything until I’ve asked fellow EHX users!
Any help much appreciated!
If this problem is still existing, I would highly recommend that you send it back for service. We can suss the problem right away and get it back to you the way you remember it.
Painless and quick and done correctly.
Rick
EH
Quote:it could ditch the 3rd octave up and 4th octave up sliders for “octave + detuned” and “2 octaves + detuned” sliders. Plus other cool stuff of course.There is no doubt that an extra detune of the certain octaves would be nice.
Still the 3rd and 4th octaves up are totally useful in a unique waveform configuration. It is quite amazing that as you form your sonic landscape the addition of the 3rd and 4th upper octaves really create a nice top animation.
This is really applicable when you use the upper region envelope. It slides those harmonics right in.
Those two octaves really are there for a color edge that is not really on the POG. The POG is one of my all time favorites.
Julian, please tell me what you are thinking about when you say “Plus other COOL STUFF of course”.
EH is always, as you know, really loves hearing “other cool stuff ideas.”Quote:I use mine this way from time to time, but the filter is so great that it feels like a waste not to employ it. You don’t get the same amount of tone control as a Hot Tubes due to there only being a frequency knob with resonance control, and with the resonance down, the tone control is extremely slight; you can, of course, also turn up the resonance to get the half-cocked wah type tone in the demo. This works out perfectly because it allows you to get a frequency response as wide or narrow as you wish.
There’s way more gain onboard than I would ever use, and it can get a little spitty at higher input gain settings, but with the input gain set to a moderate level, it’s a great sounding overdrive/distortion that’s a nice change of pace from time to time. Also, it reacts extremely well to DI recording, which is more than I can say for any Tube Screamer I’ve ever played.Hope it helps!
Absolutely! Once you really start integrating the control functions you realize that any parameter can really change the color pallet. The frequency and resonance possibilities are outstanding and since they have real control, you are always amazed at how totally over the top or subtle they can be. I love this box.
The 16 second delay is a character pedal. It was re released because soooo many people wanted it.
You indeed made the right choice. The Midi alone fit your needs. The fact that you can always mix-down complex 4 channel tracks in a stereo mix and free up the original four track for rerecording is what I like. The resolution loses nothing in the mix as all of you know from workstations. However, the 2880 is just an efficient and powerful box.
The 2880 is a creative and powerful instrument.
I just have to tell you that if you buy the remote controller pedal, you will never be sorry. For performance an absolute must. To sketch out ideas, it makes work so much more fluid.
Quote:Quote:two questions:second question: since big boxes are going out of fashion and die-cast is totally in right now, is there any place to get the leftover big EHX enclosures?
That would be cool!
It would be cool but we use all of our designed “big Box” cases in production.
Quote:So today I played with my SMMH after almost a month (I´d been away at college) and started noticing weird since I couldn´t get my loops in time/synch (this doesn´t happen ever) until it got to the point that I couldn´t erase a loop, I pressed and hold several times and nothing happened, after maybe 10 times of doing so, I got to erase the stored loop, but now it won’t work on loop mode or any of the other settings, I tried cleaning the switch, even checked for any bad solder connections but everthing seems to be in place, any help guys? I think this is the first time I ever see/read about a problem like this. Help me out I’m desperate, looping is pretty much what I got this pedal for.There is no doubt that this is a footswitch problem. The SMMH will have to be sent for service.
This can happen but when I talked with the main engineer, he said that he had seen it once and only once before. Your problems were spot on to an issue with the footswitch.I would send it in and it will be repaired right away.
Here is where I am coming from. I work for Electro-Harmonix. However, if there is a pedal or instrument that I do not like I am not going to champion it. Fortunately we have so many original and terrific designs that are really special within the whole realm of the pedal world.
I know all of the other vocal processors and have worked with almost all of them. They have cool features. Yet, the Voice Box does one thing that none of the others have. It sounds like human voices.
I can hear the ” oh yeah…sure it does” out there. The first time you work with it you hear it.Perfect for performance and great to really sketch up a great demo. This is only my opinion but I have used it a lot and have heard truly excellent singers use it. WoW!
The Vocoder has 245 bands and it has an earthy tone reminiscent of the old school vocoders.
I had my doubts but when I heard it as it was evolving to the final design I was blown away.
Can’t wait until you guys get to check it out.
Quote:Now I must ask…how is it on bass? :pThe Big Muff with Tone Wicker is great on bass. With tone control being bypassed it is a powerful sound.
For me, I love the Bass Big Muff. All of the Muff sound with a serious and tight low end.
Yet the unique aspect of all of the Muffs is that they stay true to the sound but each has its
own character. Some evolved into bass favorites but some were designed knowing what bass players want to hear.I do love the Wicker though.
It’s just the unbearably loud hiss. It’s almost as loud as the effect itself when the effect is turned on. A little noise is fine, I have many other analog pedals that produce a little background noise when switched on but this is nothing like that. Well, sort of like that I guess but multiplied 10 fold.
I can call you guys and you can hear it over the phone if you’d like, it’s that loud.[/quote]
If it is almost as loud as the effect then it has problems. While the Stereo Clone Theory has noise, you should not hear it on anywhere near the level of the effect itself.
Do you have a sound sample that you can email me? ricks@ehx.com
I could tell you a lot about your problem just from hearing it.
Quote:Wish I would have known this before hand, now I’m stuck with a pedal I can’t use.Like I said I love all my other EH pedals (and I own a lot of them, lol), but this one is the only one that has ever gave me any trouble.
Please let me know about what you mean when you say “this one is the only one that has ever gave me any trouble”
There is not problem that cannot be fixed. I really would lide to point you in the right direction.
Rick
Quote:Wish I would have known this before hand, now I’m stuck with a pedal I can’t use.Like I said I love all my other EH pedals (and I own a lot of them, lol), but this one is the only one that has ever gave me any trouble.
Tell me what your problems are. I really would like to know what you mean by “but this one is the only one that has ever gave me any trouble.”
There is no trouble that cannot be fixed.
Rick
It definitely sounds like a switch problem. Spraying Deoxit definitely could solve your problem straight away. However, just remember that a LITTLE spray of Deoxit goes a long way. You will know instantly if you need service
December 3, 2008 at 8:07 pm in reply to: Can someone tell me what size casing the BMP/Tone wicker will be in? #88295Quote:I think it’s going to be the same size as the LBM
or that’s what it looks like atleastThat is the exact size. EXO
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