Earthbound Supercollider. Anyone use it?

[Aussiephoenix]

A while back, I was watching every bassfuzz.org video, etc on youtube frantically searching for a pedal to substitute my mxr m80 which I used for anything except distortion as I simply found it too trebbly.

So, vid after vid, until I found the supercollider, which snapped my head towards the screen at the sheer intensity of it. Definitely what I was looking for.

These days I seem to be falling out of love with it... Dont get me wrong, its a kickass sounding pedal, but maybe Im not playing around with the settings well enough...

Whenever I play around with the settings one of 2 things happen, I either get it to go too fizzy(trebbly) or so damn deep that it drops down the rabbit hole and gets lost in the mix...

what kind of settings do you use?

[coolrunner989]

I love mine.

Settings:
Gain: 9:00-noon
Volume: noon - 2:00
Depth: between min and 9:00
Mids: between noon and max
Treble: between noon and max

I really find that any of these settings work for me, I wont let this one go anytime soon.

[Aussiephoenix]

Originally Posted by coolrunner989

I love mine.

Settings:
Gain: 9:00-noon
Volume: noon - 2:00
Depth: between min and 9:00
Mids: between noon and max
Treble: between noon and max

I really find that any of these settings work for me, I wont let this one go anytime soon.

I noticed that you use a Geddy lee.. I wonder if having an active bass feeding the pedal would make much difference to the sound... I've heard that some fuzz pedals dont like active basses...

[gm jack]

Active bass into it.

Gain - max
Depth - 9 o'clock
Mids - 2 o'clock
Tone - 11 o'clock
Volume - unity, which is around 11 o'clock

[rratajski]

Search up the forum. Lots of SC discussion on here.

This pedal is a muff-based fuzz, so it's active-friendly!

[gnasher1993]

The search function will really help you here. There really is alot of talk about this in the archives.

[rratajski]

So is reading the post above you... haha

[gnasher1993]

I just so happened to provide a helpful link .

[gnasher1993]

This is even more helpful .

[Aussiephoenix]

Sorry guys, I didnt realise it was such a popular pedal Ill hit up the search

[JMDT]

Originally Posted by rratajski

Search up the forum. Lots of SC discussion on here.

This pedal is a muff-based fuzz, so it's active-friendly!

That is partially correct depending on your definition of active friendly.

It is active friendly in that it doesn't make strage noises with an active like a woolly mammoth in some settings.

However, it doesn't sound as pleasant with actives either. With a passive I usually dime the tone knob. With active basses it sounds very shrill and unpleasant with with tone knob dimed. I usually run it at noon with actives and it behaves better. I'd say active it sounds 95% as good as passive when adjusted; either way it sounds great and is probably my favorite pedal.

[Aussiephoenix]

I've just been playing around with it, and I think I've narrowed down my problem with it...

I have a tendency of leaving an open string sounding in my riffs and playing one or two notes over it, and If I'm NOT doing that, the SC sounds exactly like I want it to, but if I DO that, as soon as I hit the first note, leaving the open ringing, there's a crazy dirty oscilating happening... I dont know much about pedals, but I'd point my finger at the note tracking? I dont know...

edit: I did try changing the sadowsky over to passive while playing, and found no huge difference in the SC's behaviour, so its not the "active-unfriendly" type of situation.

Edit 2: Also, if I'm playing a fast sequence of notes, I seem to notive a kind of compression happening as the notes get lower(bassier)... the sound kinda gets squashed and then opens up if I let it ring out.

[Bootzilla]

It doesn't track anything but maybe feeding it with more volume/frequencies will make it do that.

[Aussiephoenix]

Originally Posted by Bootzilla

It doesn't track anything but maybe feeding it with more volume/frequencies will make it do that.

So you think it may be receiving too much signal?

[Gashaponcito]

Originally Posted by gnasher1993

This is even more helpful .

Genius!!

[dannybuoy]

If the volume going into the pedal is too high, it reacts badly, starting with a severely squashed sound that eventually blooms into regular note. Sounds like what you're describing. Either turn down the volume control a tad or raise the depth control on the Supercollider. The depth control alters the amount of low end going onto the first stage of the circuit, like a high pass filter.

[Aussiephoenix]

my settings are:

Gain 1:00
Depth 8:00 - 9:00
Mids 10:00
tone 11:00
Vol 1:00

as for the input signal, I have the supercollider after my CE2b on my pedalboard, which suposedly works as a buffer (Ive read that somewhere). Other than that, Just my Sadowsky tokyo on full volume, but I shouldnt think its THAT powerful...

[smo]

I'm careful about what volume I feed the SC when using an active.
Try to make sure you don't overly-saturate the input.....
With active I like;
Gain 3:00
Depth Max
Mids Max
tone 9:00
Vol to a bit above unity for a live 'n' kickin rock 'n' roll moment.

With a passive I do turn up the tone a bit.....

[Chronicle]

Love mine.
I have a supercollider BEAST on order right now.

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7178814

[warwick.hoy]

i'm typhng this on my wii which is a PITA so bear w/ me.

active Warwick Thumb always w/ the volume turned down slightly.
Depth 9:00
Tone 4:30ish slightly away from max.
Mids 4:00
Gain Dimed
Volume 1:00

remember that the depth knob is counter clockwise with the max setting all the way to the left.

i like how my sc sounds with a slight clean boost afterwards.

that said it is sort of a one trick pony but it does that one trick really well.