Nice! Really cool stuff, thanks for sharing.

That’s a good question. I have the Behringer FCV100 and I was hoping to hook it up in a similar way to what you’re describing. I wanted expr control for my Ring Thing and volume for my Hazarai but unfortunately, that Behringer didn’t work for the Ring Thing at all. So I just bought a Boss EV5 which works quite nicely for its one function.

Happy to help. Rock on! :thumb:

Ok, I did what I said I would do (A first!) and here’s what I came up with.

I started in loop mode with repeats set at noon, and switched to 1 sec echo. I did simple 8 bar riffs and kept layering in around the same sonic space (all on the d and g strings, around the 10th-12th fret). By the time I got to 6 layers, I could no longer distinguish between what I played first and what I played sixth.

I switched back to loop mode and maxed out the repeats, then switched back to 1 sec echo. I played a bass line on my low strings in order to make something stand out and rest in a different sonic space, then kept layering in the higher range as described before. I could still hear the bass line by the time I got up to 6 layers, but it definitely had faded somewhat.

Here’s my perspective: Turning the repeats knob to maximum in loop mode does not carry over when I switch to 1 second echo. If I was in loop mode, I definitely could have put a bass line, tap out a drum beat, put in a guitar line or two and would have heard each instrument. In echo mode, with effect minimized, I got similar results. But in both cases, it had to do with where the sounds were residing in the spectrum. If I had 1 sec echo on and looped a heavily delayed riff and then added more layers in other modes, like 3 sec+mod for example, all in a typical range for guitar, all the sound just mushed together.

So my view on this is that your pedal is working now as it should be. I think your early impression that it does not attenuate in delay modes came from whatever you were playing at the time not really pushing the limits of what you are trying to accomplish recently. Also, I think there is a limit on the memory, so your early impression may have been a 10 second loop and your recent experience might have been 30 seconds, so layering ability would run out sooner.

Hope that helps.

Very cool.

When I get home I think I’ll be fooling around with my board a bit, so I’m gonna check to see how my pedal behaves while I’m paying attention to these specific issues. The fact that yours is behaving differently now than you’re used to is certainly a problem.

I hate to say it because I obviously love EHX pedals, but in 20 years its the only pedal manufacturer that I’ve ever had quality issues with, and that includes Line 6, which gets lots of complaints. I’ve had malfunctions with my Qtron+ (fave pedal), Small Stone, SMMH, and Worm. Their repair shop is good and cheap though so its not been a huge deal.

I went through a lot of EHX in the last year, now I’m down to my faves:
1. Q-Tron+
2. Hazarai
and 3., my awesome new Ring Thing, which has way better pitch shifting that the microPog and more useable ring mod than the Freq Analyzer. Too bad my account was deleted and all my posts with it, it would have been nice to have the evolution documented here. C’est la vie.