Brandy New Fun Board

AJ Brown · #1 09-08-2011, 04:36 PM

I thought I'd put together a board to have fun with and experiment. Did the research and ended up with this:

Soundblox Pro Bass Envelope Filter >
Soundblox Multiwave Bass Distortion >
Eventide ModFactor >
Eventide PitchFactor >
EHX Nano Freeze >
TC Electronic Delay

All of these, including the Boomerang, are powered by the Eventide PowerFactor mounted under the Pedaltrain Jr. Nice and compact and complete.

I'd probably never gig out with it, but what the hell.

Bus_Mute · #2 09-08-2011, 04:44 PM

Tons of good sounds here! How are you liking the Flashback? I'm looking into delay, but I'm unsure if something without a tap-tempo is actually usable in a band setting.

Bob C · #3 09-08-2011, 04:53 PM

Way to go! You could make spaceship and robot noises all night long with that setup. I'd like to hear some of the sounds you're getting.

AJ Brown · #4 09-08-2011, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Bus_Mute

Tons of good sounds here! How are you liking the Flashback? I'm looking into delay, but I'm unsure if something without a tap-tempo is actually usable in a band setting.

It actually does have "tap tempo". You hold the button down and strum or pluck at the tempo you want. You have a point however that you may have an issue making adjustments mid-song, something I haven't tried. However, the various delay types are great and you get a 40 sec. looper in one compact package.

JoshuaTSP · #5 09-08-2011, 05:31 PM

What do you use all that for?

AJ Brown · #6 09-08-2011, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by JoshuaTSP

What do you use all that for?

Fun and experimentation. New and interesting sounds inspire me.

JoshuaTSP · #7 09-08-2011, 05:44 PM

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be offensive.
see a lot of boards with a lot of toys......but rarely hear them used.

I guess I was questioning (not particularly you) whether or not, people use these effects practically in a live situation or they're just "cool" things to have on your board to impress other musicians?

link to tunes or band?

AJ Brown · #8 09-08-2011, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by JoshuaTSP

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be offensive.
see a lot of boards with a lot of toys......but rarely hear them used.

I guess I was questioning (not particularly you) whether or not, people use these effects practically in a live situation or they're just "cool" things to have on your board to impress other musicians?

link to tunes or band?

No worries Joshua. No offense taken.

I just felt like having a board at home that helped me get through ruts. Different patches incite new techniques and help me think differently about the instrument. I haven't gotten around to recording anything yet, but I have a few ideas I'm working on. Hopefully I'll get to the point where they're good enough to post somewhere.

My current gig situation is pretty straight-forward. I don't use any effects at all, so this would never see a public place unless someone hired me as a soloist and I'm light years away from that.

JoshuaTSP · #9 09-08-2011, 06:48 PM

That's a really good idea!

GAS! thanks alot!

Smallequestrian · #10 09-08-2011, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by AJ Brown

Soundblox Pro Bass Envelope Filter >
Soundblox Multiwave Bass Distortion >
Eventide ModFactor >
Eventide PitchFactor >
EHX Nano Freeze >
TC Electronic Delay

Cool board! Is that your signal path? I think your missing out on a lot of fun without have the pitch factor and Multiwave feeding the envelope filter?

AJ Brown · #11 09-09-2011, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Smallequestrian

Cool board! Is that your signal path? I think your missing out on a lot of fun without have the pitch factor and Multiwave feeding the envelope filter?

I thought about that. I'll be changing things around periodically. I may start by simply moving the PitchFactor to the beginning of the chain... once I learn the beast.

Smallequestrian · #12 09-09-2011, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by AJ Brown

I thought about that. I'll be changing things around periodically. I may start by simply moving the PitchFactor to the beginning of the chain... once I learn the beast.

Its hard to stay away from the tried and true recipe of Octave>Distortion>filter for synthy funky fun.

Shish · #13 09-09-2011, 10:37 AM

how do you make names for Eventide presets?

chokeslam512 · #14 09-09-2011, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Shish

how do you make names for Eventide presets?

When you save a new one (or while in bank mode you can hold down the encoder as you would save but on an existing preset), press the right footswitch, then use the encoder to scroll through the available characters. Pressing the right footswitch moves to the character to the right. Then hold down the encoder to save as normal. If I'm not mistaken, you need the latest software version but I'm not entirely sure when that came out. Just give it a shot...

Shish · #15 09-09-2011, 11:38 AM

thanks! that's gonna make my life much easier

chokeslam512 · #16 09-09-2011, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Shish

thanks! that's gonna make my life much easier

You are absolutely right about that! I have a setting in Diatonic to mimic piano for Forget you... I used the uncensored name for naming my preset so my PF is constantly cussin' at me.