Anyone voltage starved a B:Assmaster yet?

[psound79]

Wondering how a B:Assmaster responds to voltage starving with something like a Beavis Audio Devolt.

Could I in any way damage mine if I grab a starve unit and do this??

[Step]

Originally Posted by psound79

Wondering how a B:Assmaster responds to voltage starving with something like a Beavis Audio Devolt.

Could I in any way damage mine if I grab a starve unit and do this??

no, normally you shouldn't be able to damage your components, giving too high voltage would fry them though

[rcubed]

It would probably sound awful. Most circuits do when you voltage starve them.

[rratajski]

The brassmaster circuit already sounds 'glitchy' or semi-sputtery when as is...why make is worse or thin it out w/ a voltage starve?

[bassman1185]

Voltage starving is only really useful with guitars. With bass, you just loose headroom and bottom end. However, with guitars, that's not always such a bad thing.

[Taylor Livingston]

Originally Posted by psound79

Wondering how a B:Assmaster responds to voltage starving with something like a Beavis Audio Devolt.

Could I in any way damage mine if I grab a starve unit and do this??

It won't damage anything. I built a Brassmaster for a TBer, with several mods including voltage starve. I thought it was an interesting control; the effect was not as extreme as on Fuzz Face clones like the Fuzz Factory, etc. It has an interesting effect of emphasizing different vowel-like formants. Putting a higher voltage into it makes some pretty bizarre sounds as well. If you try this with a B:Assmaster, though, I'd check the caps to make sure they're rated for higher voltage. Some builders use 10v electros.

[psound79]

Originally Posted by rratajski

The brassmaster circuit already sounds 'glitchy' or semi-sputtery when as is...

Not enough for my tastes

Originally Posted by bassman1185

Voltage starving is only really useful with guitars. With bass, you just loose headroom and bottom end. However, with guitars, that's not always such a bad thing.

Not judging from some of the insane Dwarfcraft Devices videos I've seen.

Originally Posted by rcubed

It would probably sound awful. Most circuits do when you voltage starve them.

I'm aiming for wild gated/oscillating tones. Could sound awful to many I suppose.

Originally Posted by conical johnson

It won't damage anything. I built a Brassmaster for a TBer, with several mods including voltage starve. I thought it was an interesting control; the effect was not as extreme as on Fuzz Face clones like the Fuzz Factory, etc. It has an interesting effect of emphasizing different vowel-like formants. Putting a higher voltage into it makes some pretty bizarre sounds as well. If you try this with a B:Assmaster, though, I'd check the caps to make sure they're rated for higher voltage. Some builders use 10v electros.

Cheers for the replies.

[Taylor Livingston]

Yeah, I think somebody here (Jared Lash?) made an excellent point recently that it's less useful to say something is terrible than to describe what it would be good for. I'm not saying we need to totally bowdlerize our conversations, but in music, what's terrible to me is almost always great to someone else.

Voltage starving the Brassmaster/B:Assmaster doesn't make it that much glitchier/gated on its own, but combined with an emitter pot and some other tweaks, the starve can do some pretty neat things. It'll never get as weird as Dwarfcraft stuff though.

[psound79]

Great Destroyer here I come then.

[jrmy]

You might also want to check out some of the wilder Fuzzhugger offerings, too, like the Ab-Synth, which has an oscillation mode - http://www.fuzzhugger.com/pedal-ab-synth.html

[rratajski]

The AB-Synth was kind of "meh". Nad will back me up on this...