green ringer on a bass?

[fatfoohy]

Hello Internet. I wanted to see some of your opinions on this issue. I recently built a green ringer octave up. However, its not totally clean. as you move up, you begin to get the octave effect, and the distortion begins to creep away, but is never totally gone. On the low end of the neck, (below the 12th fret) there is a distortion similar to a big muff. I'm not sure if this is normal, now granted, i have yet to try it out on a guitar yet soooooo, i have no idea if i did something wrong, or if this is due to using a bass on a guitar's octave pedal. Your opinions would be greatly appreciated
FATFOOHY
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[Smurf-o-Deth]

That's how analogue octave up sounds: mostly just dirt until the 12th fret or so, then the upper octave gets more audible. If you want a clean octave up, you have to go digital, really.

[newbold]

you're gonna love how it tracks intervals. I don't know if it's asimilar circuit design or not, but my Pigtronix OFO has an 'octava' octave up distortion in series with 2 parallel distortions, and WOW is it ever awesome (wielded properly)

Octave up ring mod distortion! Try tapping if you haven't. awesome.

[jetofuj]

Here's the thread with clip of Mutron Octave Divider (that has built in Green Ringer):


Mutron Octave divider GUTS + CLIPS + Deep Impact + Mutron Part Numbers :O :O :O

[dullsilver_mike]

I've toyed around with my general guitar gadgets green ringer clone on my basses a lot, but actually used it for a performance or recording. It cuts enough of the low end that I wouldn't think anyone could even hear it in a band setting; I haven't even tried that.

It's perfectly normal to get some gritty quasi-fuzz sound when playing lower notes or multiple notes at the same time.

The other day I did throw my voltage vampire (just a 10k pot wired to some 9v pedal plugs) in front of the green ringer's power input, cranked the knob (thus really starving the power to it), and it descended further into glitchy fuzz-like territory. Good times.