That’s probably correct, I’m going off my recollection of 20 year old information. I thought maxon was just a brand name of ibanez’s parent company, i’ll check out the link though.
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HA! Thank you!!!
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I have a fjord fuzz pedal with some internal circuitry that lets you put it in a constant state of starvation by adjusting some trimmers. It’s kind of a cool feature.
This version looks a little different than mine though.
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That sick, my Walrus Eons also has a voltage starve that lets you go from 3V to 18V and it lets you get so many different tones from the pedal with the gain control. Minimum voltage and max gain setting is so vastly different to max voltage minimum gain.
Speaking of, the Eons works extremely well with the Syntakt outputs and sounds so good.
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Love walrus pedals. Great company from a human standpoint too. Really nice people.
I wish my fathom reverb were stereo, it’s one of the best sounding reverb pedals I’ve owned.
This pedal sounds a bit like The Breeders (Last Splash).
Can’t remember if I commented this before, but Fairfield Roger That was sick when I owned it. I’ve since moved it along and kind of regret it. Definitely tempted by the 20% More they just released.
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I bounced this test of the Roger That on one of the Prophet 5 factory string presets. There’s a healthy dose of reverb but you’ll get the idea.
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EHX Germanium OD and Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi have a “Volts” pot to starve the circuit too.
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As well, if you’ve got more than one guitar pedal many power distributors add a “voltage starve” option to one or more 9v channels.
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Is there a simple way to convert the line level from a synth properly to instrument level so as to be able to run it through multiple pedals?
For example, I’m wanting to run my Moog Sub 25 through misc Boss, EHX, etc pedals and not have to turn it down so low that it sounds like ass. I do have a Zoom L6 and Tascam Model 12 that I’m wondering about using the sends, but not sure if that does the trick.
Edit: Like is there a DI box that would do what I’m looking for?
I looked through the thread but didn’t seem to find the answer.
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I think what you’re looking for is a reamper, which is basically a reverse-DI.
Radial makes them (a bunch of folks do). You can find them used at your local guitar shop.
Reampers also let you, well, re-amp a (DI) guitar signal after you’ve recorded it.
Record the signal from your guitar via DI, then send thru the Model 12’s aux output, thru the reamper and then to your amp. Opens up a lot of after-the fact-tonal tweaking.
Also just really helpful fiddling with the amp’s knobs and finding good tone settings without having to play the guitar at the same time.
Also I’m pretty sure reampers are passive (mine is), which is a plus.
Searching reamp on YT should get you more and better info.
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I might be misunderstanding you, but I’m thinking of running a synth into distortion and delay pedals then directly in to a mixer. Not a guitar and amp. Again, I could be confused. Haha!
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Nothing special should be required, just control the levels with the mixer.
Sorry, I kind of got ahead of myself and off-topic. Typing too fast.
But yes, it’s pretty much the same idea—lots of guitar pedals are only designed to take instrument level/impedance and sound shitty when you put a line level through them. (I think all Boss pedals can take both instrument and line level happily but I may be wrong.)
Anyway, the concept is the same—you send your signal (either straight from the synth or via your mixer’s Aux Send) through the reamper before the pedal, so that the pedal receives the impedance it expects and is designed to use.
I like to go right into the M12 with the synth and then use Aux Send so that way I’m also record a clean take so I can change or add the FX later, but you don’t have to. (Warning—that also uses twice as many tracks, obvs.)
Also, if you’re recording stereo then you need a stereo reamper (or 2 side by side), which can get pricey depending your budget.
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Ok, so reaper is the key here. Yeah, the Boss pedals sound fine, but specifically the EHX Deluxe Memory Man is wonky. I have to drastically turn the synth down so it doesn’t overload the pedal, then boosting the mixer volume brings up a low hum.
This is getting beyond my knowledge because I didn’t go to school for this stuff, but I think it has more to do with impedance than level.
You should be able to find one for less than $100 used, but if you have extra $ to burn, I got the Radial JCR (used), which has a bunch of special extra features—it has a level knob, which is nice, and 3 basic filter shapes (low cut, high cut, and off) which can be helpful for some sources. Also, it has a phase inverter, which can help since the method I described above means I get a lot of extra AD/DA conversions (source to M12, M12 out to Aux, FX back to M12 is uh… math… 3 conversions).
HOWEVER—If you don’t want to spend any money, I see from your Setup pics that you have a ton of pedals already, and some of them may basically work as re-ampers on their own. Especially anything by Boss.
So I’d suggest starting by doing some research/trials on the pedals you have and seeing if putting them in front of the EHX might help.
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I appreciate your help!!!
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