Effector 13: Truly Beautiful Lust
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- KVRAF
- 5017 posts since 13 Dec, 2005 from The Void
Excellent! Start a pimp thread so the prices get raised, ya fecking moron..
Jens, "B.t.w.: it appears I was wrong"
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
pough wrote:Bah. Too many options for mail-order. Too confusing. I'll just have to go out and get a Behringer or two!
On that note, and since I'm an attention whore, here's what my two bent Behringer pedals sound like (well they sound like ass of course, but a certain kind of ass):
the tremolo
the tremolo - part 2
the bass eq
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- KVRAF
- 4897 posts since 3 Jan, 2003 from Vancouver
You know nowt. Big Muff and Big Muff Pi are still tops.pHz wrote:truly beautiful disaster ...
... i know nowt about pedals but that has to be the coolest product name ever ???
For the record, I've got a Big Muff. It's my second. The first one was stolen away by a former friend. Some friend he turned out to be!
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2107 posts since 12 May, 2003 from gone
I have a Big Muff Pi, a Double Muff, and a Little Big Muff
as you all know, i'm one big fan of Muff
as you all know, i'm one big fan of Muff
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- KVRAF
- 5851 posts since 9 Jul, 2002 from Helsinki
besides the usual muff desires, I find the device you brought to our consciousness extremely lustafterable.
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- KVRist
- 472 posts since 16 Apr, 2003 from Alhambra, CA
Sonofabiatch! There was an SM on ebay with a buyitnow of $79, and I didn't pull the trigger, and now it's gone...oh well, it wasn't meant to be.
I'm gonna go home and plug my EH Micro Synth into my Fuzz Factory to dull the pain...
I'm gonna go home and plug my EH Micro Synth into my Fuzz Factory to dull the pain...
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2107 posts since 12 May, 2003 from gone
hey cheeso, was it you that won the Feedback Loop pedal on Ebay?
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- KVRAF
- 2135 posts since 12 Jul, 2004 from Brave New World
I love mine. highly recommended.
"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." -Carl Zwanzig
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- KVRAF
- 8088 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
This is an ancient thread, but I won a TBD (the original Effector 13 version, serial #20) on eBay and have been playing with it for a couple days now.
Day 1 was literally just messing with the fuzz without feedback -- turns out the cables I've had sitting around for 25 years were not all good so I had just enough to put the TBD on an effects loop from my Komplete Audio 6.
With fuzz turned down all the way and octave anywhere in the lower half or so, it adds a lovely soft almost-subtle degradation, like an AM radio station a few miles away -- for such a wild pedal, this is pretty much a universally usable effect. Fuzz up to about half with octave at minimum sounds like pretty traditional fuzz to me, but things start going mad above that. It's a very buzzy, sputtering, oscillating sound with harsh dynamics, not as universally useful as a Fuzz Face or Big Muff sound but pretty cool. Not something to run all your drum tracks through.
For Day 2 I picked up enough cables to start playing with the feedback loop side.
I tried it with my terrible old Zoom 607, and let's just say that's not an ideal effect to work with, but the feedback demonstrably worked.
I tried it with VST effects in the loop, and was fairly confused until I figured out I really needed to crank the gain inside the loop
to get it going. But once I was there, it was was all kinds of fun. Drum loop fed to the TBD's input; pitch shifting delay, compressor, and sidechained gate inside the feedback loop. The gate kept the rhythm semi-coherent. Then I replaced the gate PSP PianoVerb into the loop and went drone crazy. (It also needed a highpass filter to kill DC.) Fantastic chromatic drones.
The fuzz doesn't directly interact with the feedback loop. It's basically two separate pedals in one. I tried routing it in (pedal output into feedback return, and use the feedback send as an output) without success -- but in retrospect it might have worked with a gain boost in the loop. I will definitely try that.
I've not yet tried it with my Patchblocks, but I expect trouble trying to have enough gain for feedback but not clip like mad and turn everything into squarewaves. (Which can be nice too sometimes...)
The eye, when switched on, attenuates the return (whether or not feedback is engaged). It doesn't seem that useful to me except as sort of a gate when you cover the eye completely. Maybe feeding it with a blinking light could be interesting.
Would I recommend this pedal? Yes, if you can find it at a reasonable price and happen to like the specific fuzz it provides. There are definitely cheaper options for feedback loops, including DIY, and there are other starving/oscillating/gated fuzz options out there (also including DIY). I'm not sure I will keep this one forever after trying some other fuzzes, but at the price I paid I have no regrets.
(And chances are, if I do replace it, it'll be with another Devi Ever fuzz and a separate feedback loop. I have my eye on the Destructo Noctavia and the Noise Floor...)
Day 1 was literally just messing with the fuzz without feedback -- turns out the cables I've had sitting around for 25 years were not all good so I had just enough to put the TBD on an effects loop from my Komplete Audio 6.
With fuzz turned down all the way and octave anywhere in the lower half or so, it adds a lovely soft almost-subtle degradation, like an AM radio station a few miles away -- for such a wild pedal, this is pretty much a universally usable effect. Fuzz up to about half with octave at minimum sounds like pretty traditional fuzz to me, but things start going mad above that. It's a very buzzy, sputtering, oscillating sound with harsh dynamics, not as universally useful as a Fuzz Face or Big Muff sound but pretty cool. Not something to run all your drum tracks through.
For Day 2 I picked up enough cables to start playing with the feedback loop side.
I tried it with my terrible old Zoom 607, and let's just say that's not an ideal effect to work with, but the feedback demonstrably worked.
I tried it with VST effects in the loop, and was fairly confused until I figured out I really needed to crank the gain inside the loop
to get it going. But once I was there, it was was all kinds of fun. Drum loop fed to the TBD's input; pitch shifting delay, compressor, and sidechained gate inside the feedback loop. The gate kept the rhythm semi-coherent. Then I replaced the gate PSP PianoVerb into the loop and went drone crazy. (It also needed a highpass filter to kill DC.) Fantastic chromatic drones.
The fuzz doesn't directly interact with the feedback loop. It's basically two separate pedals in one. I tried routing it in (pedal output into feedback return, and use the feedback send as an output) without success -- but in retrospect it might have worked with a gain boost in the loop. I will definitely try that.
I've not yet tried it with my Patchblocks, but I expect trouble trying to have enough gain for feedback but not clip like mad and turn everything into squarewaves. (Which can be nice too sometimes...)
The eye, when switched on, attenuates the return (whether or not feedback is engaged). It doesn't seem that useful to me except as sort of a gate when you cover the eye completely. Maybe feeding it with a blinking light could be interesting.
Would I recommend this pedal? Yes, if you can find it at a reasonable price and happen to like the specific fuzz it provides. There are definitely cheaper options for feedback loops, including DIY, and there are other starving/oscillating/gated fuzz options out there (also including DIY). I'm not sure I will keep this one forever after trying some other fuzzes, but at the price I paid I have no regrets.
(And chances are, if I do replace it, it'll be with another Devi Ever fuzz and a separate feedback loop. I have my eye on the Destructo Noctavia and the Noise Floor...)