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…so who is stepping up to the mark? I don’t have the Voice Box yet.
WatsonWoodMemberVery true. So I will have to buy the new model so as to compare it with my own vintage DMM!
April 28, 2009 at 1:57 pm in reply to: MY VID: electro harmonix deluxe electric mistress VRS mxr evh flanger #96124WatsonWoodMemberThanks, St.Bede, really enjoyable! And I like the idea of double flange. So maybe this could be developed into a new EHX pedal. A double Electric Mistress called the Big Mistress a.k.a. the Big Mist!
Two parallel-running stereo EMs with a loop option to feed one flange unit into the other.
I often use the Filter Matrix option on my EM, feeding it with Crying Tone and Metal Muff, then ending up with SMMH. Good for new sounds.
Your demos are great and spark lots of ideas. :rawk:WatsonWoodMember“Jealousy, that’s what it is, it’s jealousy!”
Some people are just too greedy to be satisfied……
WatsonWoodMemberNo way it will have the same sound. Too many variables.
WatsonWoodMemberQuote:Quote:I don’t mean to be rude…but did anyone else think that sucked.I don’t really get the hostile reaction to this clip. Sure, he’s not a singer, but it seemed to me he did a good job looking at several of the Voice Box’s features (whereas most other Voice Box videos I’ve seen have focused on one or two).
What was so terrible about it?
Scott, I agree. It’s a Voice Box Demo and it shows the features of the Voice Box really well. A demo is not always a spot-on performance just as a performance is not always a spot-on demo.
WatsonWoodMemberI have often wished that the EHX sliders move incrementally so that a slider can be snugged into a “notch” and be roughly at the setting desired. Is this a possible mod? I’m thinking of the vintage Deluxe pedals such as Graphic Fuzz et al. Ron, maybe you have an idea or two?
WatsonWoodMemberI checked out vintage Attack Delay pedals on the net over here and found a few, with prices ranging from 50 Euro up to 700 Euro. However the cheaper ones are generally out of commission. As is mine, anyway. I’ll have to save up some cash and get mine repaired. So far I have only found one guy in Germany who can repair vintage EHX, out here near Bremen, called Peter Schmidt, and one guy in Brittany, France. How about the UK? Any suggestions?
WatsonWoodMemberI heard that the compressor circuit on the Deluxe Big Muffs was the same as the Soul Preacher’s. Any info on that?
WatsonWoodMemberMaybe we should add a Drop Tune Pedal to the list of the Crying Tone re-issues.
WatsonWoodMemberQuote:I don’t have one (yet) so I can’t comment on that. Though on my looper (SMMH) I have had some hiccups in drones. I think the thing is volume related. If you’ve got dynamics in your drone, the volume needs to be the same at the beginning and end. Unless your drone is the same volume throughout. Then I’m not sure what it could be.I don’t have a 2880 either, but encountered the same drone issue with my SMMH. I resolved it only by mixing the in-built reverb and some echo to my signal, then turning my volume pot on the guitar to zero just before hitting the record stop foot switch on the SMMH. The result was satisfying, even acceptable but not what I initially set out to do. But otherwise the drone loop sounded like a really badly spliced tape.
I was hoping to hear that the 2880 was smooth. I have done drones on my #1 Echo with the feedback pot way up. The result was great for a while however the signal decays after some minutes and loses clarity. I have a Korg 500 Stage Echo which does endless seamless sound-on-sound tape looping. I thought the 2880 offered seamless looping too.
So what’s up?WatsonWoodMemberAbsolutely. I use the SMMH and was about to buy a Holiest Grail when I noticed the mono only in, so I hesitated and ended up going for a vintage Freedom Amp instead. But I still want a Grail. Reckon I will wait and see if the stereo input feature is added. And the Holy Stain would be great with stereo input and output too.
WatsonWoodMemberThat is one fabulous idea!
WatsonWoodMemberI have indulged in tweaking the trim pots on the circuit of my Electric Mistresses with rewarding tonal results. You just have to be careful to turn the trim pots incrementally and remember where you started out. Once satisfied with the tone and effect of a set-up I put a drop of transparent nail varnish on each trim pot to hold it in place.
This way I have one crazy Electric Mistress with over-the-top effects, one warmer, full-sounding EM, and one with crystalline tones. ( I have one very old battery EM with green lettering, and two original issue Deluxe EMs).
The picture below shows part of the circuit of the battery-operated EM.WatsonWoodMemberThe Black Finger would indeed be a great XO re-issue. Mine seems to sustain for ever and ever with beautifully warm tones.
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