The Guitar Thread

Thanks, that’s very kind of you

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You can eventually say I used OT to send midi clock and CCs.
Both worked independently, not together. I was sending 2 or 3 different CCs, plocked (no continuous sending), no other messages.

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Wampler Tumnus. Wow.

They call it a transparent overdrive and my o my is it. I have not found an instance where it doesnt improve tone without “changing” it character. With no drive its a beautiful boost. It works amazingly on some already amazing vintage tube circuits, 59 bassman, brownface deluxe, marshall 1974x 18 watt. And straight into daw.

Its a klon clone that i think has won some shootouts. Im my mind, i imagine 2 of these would kill an analog heat for simple warming up of a signal (obviously not for bells and whistles). Maybe i will try it on analog rytm dual vco?

And no i do not have any affiliation! :slightly_smiling_face:

I needed to share:).

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Well, even if this a klon clone, …it is a very fine pedal. Love it

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The klon circuit is great, I have a couple (Way Huge Conspiracy Theory and the MXR Sugar Drive) and I like them on bass too. Bit of a stretch to say it would compete with an AH on varied sources though. AH just has so many more flavours.

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This a great video about the most popular kinds of overdrive. He also mentions the Klon and how it has a unique circuit inside

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Yeah I really like mine too!

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what’s everyone’s favorite chorus pedals? I’ve been really impressed by the demo videos for Native Audio’s Pretty Bird Woman.

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Got to be the chorus effect you get when on on a slow flanger depth n speed of a 70s electric mistress. Andy summers is my heroooo.

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This is great. And I had no idea JHS had a youtube channel!

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Oh boy, you’re in for a treat then. They’ve got a ton of great videos and Josh is a class act always plugging other companies’ pedals.

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The JHS channel is great, so much hilarious snarky content: Solid State Amps Suck - YouTube

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I greatly envy the tidiness of this…

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A flanger? :content:
I think I prefer a flanger with lower settings than a chorus with maxed ones, in general…

@JamesM may shime in.

I just sold an insignificant Boss SUPER CHORUS CH1 Blue Label.
In stereo I realised only 1 channel was processed.

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I think the Strymon’s Ola Tri-Chorus setting sounds great, especially in stereo. I like it at the end of a chain with a stereo delay in front of it. The Boss Dimension C also sounds great, I think, but maybe a bit more headroom on the Ola for higher level input,

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Man this thread has me gassing for an American professional 2 jazzmaster. Unfortunately it’s so beyond my reach financially, but if I ever eventually sell my eurorack it’ll be the first guitar I buy.

In a more positive note, I managed to get a deal on a lovely Faith ‘naked’ Venus acoustic guitar, which I’ll be picking up on Tuesday as a Xmas present to myself…I’ve been after a Martin for years but again, too cost prohibitive but my local guitarguitar has this Faith reduced from £700 to 450, plus I’m part exing my fender player mustang so I’m basically getting it for £200.

I love the minimal look, it’s made from exceptional wood (spruce and mahogany, no sprays or lacer ) , with the idea that over time it creates its own lived in and well played look, which is something I find cool, it’s got a pick up and tuner hidden somewhere too, beautiful tone and I’m sticking some 13’s on so I can play with my fingers the way I prefer in my preferred alt tunings and break it in while I get progressively more pissed over Xmas.

I might have an opinion :rofl:


Focus is on Bass atm for some recordings. Flangers back on later when guitar can play with us again.
@bpgrand89 I dig the Boss CE-2B most, mostly because it’s the CE-2 with a mix pot, and it’s so easy to mod. One of these on the board is modded to be slightly brighter (like a CE-1) and can be mixed to full tremolo at Wurlitzer speed! Definitely prefer the 2B to my new CE2w for everything.
DC-2w is great for stereo chorus from still micro pitching to EHX Clone Theory like vibes.

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Whoa, chorusman! So if you only kept one, which would it be?

And have you tried the dc-2w on rev2? And maybe we already discussed, but did you think the rev2 chorus was respectable enough comparatively? I like it i guess but im not an expert….i like rev2 chorus better than the Octatrack chorus thats fo sho!

Yes I tried the DC2w on the Rev2 but via the mixer fx loop (SSLSiX cue/ext), so I could mix to taste rather than straight into the DC2w which would have no mix control. That said, it sounded excellent.
I found the chorus in the Rev2 a bit pedestrian, but I get excellent chorus naturally by layering and panning with pitch modulation, basically a true 16 voice (32 OSC) chorus :heart_eyes: Throw in Slop and pan modulation, it gets wilder. This is how I decided the Rev2 was my perfect string machine.

As for guitar and Bass, I’d keep the CE-2B and replace the resistor inline with the mix pot to half its value, and swap the 47cap on the depth control with a 60. And jump points 3&4 to get 9v :nerd_face: and I’d keep the so called high pass bass filtering cap as is, which sounds better for guitar too; more depth especially with distortion/OD.

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Whoa, 60uf? This is not a common cap value!?!

But good to hear your thoughts. I will have to try and recreate a patch as you describe:). Youre using 1 lfo to mod pitch and another to mod pan on layer A and then doing same on layer B but changing rates/depths differently? And prob a no no to talk too much synth in this thread sorry so i will stop right there. :grinning:

pF tiny disc type. It’s a very subtle change, the kind of thing you notice in a side by side test. Altogether the mod I described sounds closer to the CE-1 mode on the new CE-2w but with mix control.

On the Rev2, like you said, just copied A layer to B that has a few more cents and rate change on the OSC tuning, so just mimicking a standard chorus. But yeh, no rules.

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