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Old 06-23-2009, 01:20 PM
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Sorry, I couldn't contain myself.
I vowed not to make a thread about this until I had a proper review and some decent soundsamples (but that is going to take a few days.)
But I just want to share my initial impressions on this pedal:





This is one insane tremelo.
It's a tremelo and rhythmic machine.


With the left knob you choose the tremelo shape. Also some programmed settings A B C D E but I haven't figured that out yet.

With the right know, wave/depth, you control the depth like on any other tremelo.
Closed there is no effect, open the tremelo is from zero to full peak.

The 4 knobs in between each are to control the rate of when the sequence is at that spot. Going from 1 amplitude in that quarter spot of the sequence to 16 amplitudes. Or F meaning no tremelo effect in that spot of the sequence or M meaning silence in that spot of the sequence.

By this you can create sort of a macro tremelo by the differents settings between the knobs. And micro tremelo by setting the rate for a quarter of the sequence.

Sounds complicated... but there is an easier way to explain this.

Each of those four knobs can also be dialed to ">>", meaning scratch this part out of the sequence.
So you can have a sequence divided into 4 parts max, or 3 parts, or 2 parts... or 1 part.
1 part is just like a normal tremelo.
So if you set knob 2, 3 and 4 to ">>" you have a normal tremelo and work your way up from there.

So, for example: if all other knobs are in the off (>>) position you use knob 1 to set the rate.
Waveshape form for example: sinewave.

For example set it to 1 amplitude of a sine-wave. Then use the tap tempo switch to set the temp to 1 second.

You now have one sine-wave tremelo effect over 1 second.
If you know turn the knob to 2 amplitudes, you have 2 sine-waves over 1 second. You can set it to 16 max.
You can set the tap tempo as slowly as 6 second, than you can choose from 1 sinewave over 6 seconds (it's like a auto-swell effect) or 16 sinewaves over 6 seconds.

Changing tap tempo again you can go as fast as 16 waves over a very fast tempo.

Now, here comes the fun part:
if you turn up the second knob, dialing it out of >> means putting it in the sequence, than you can divede the sequence into two different rate tremelos.

For example: tap tempo 1 second, knob 1 set to 1 amplitude, knob 2 set to 3 amplitudes.
Now you get 1 wave over 1 second followed by 3 waves over 1 second and the the sequence begins again (: 1 wave 1 second, 3 waves one second)

And now you have more to put in the sequence.
Let's turn up knob 3 to F (I think it mean infinity amplitude, basicly your dry signal with no tremelo effect) and knob 4 to M (meaning minimum... no amplitude... total mute.)

Now you have: 1 wave over 1 second, 3 waves over 1 second, dry signal over 1 second, mute over 1 second... and back to the beginning all over again.

Now, set the tempo much faster so this whole sequence happens over half a second and you get very interesting tremelo effects.

If you only use a 2 part sequense, and set the first knob to F (dry signal) and the second knob to M (mute) you have your basic square wave tremelo... this is what I mean by the macro tremelo.
Set the first knob to 2 amplitudes and wave to Squarewave, you have a micro squarewave withing a macro squarewave.



This thing is insane.


I promise I'll try to get some soundclips over the weekend, but I'm a dummy when it comes to recording.
And I still need to play around with this pedal some more fore a proper review.

Last edited by René_Julien : 06-23-2009 at 01:31 PM. Reason: long post means lots of typos, sorry
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Old 06-23-2009, 01:22 PM
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Oh yes, forgot to mention:
the lights under the knobs switch on when that part of the sequence is active.

With a fast temp it is like Knight Rider with the blinking going from left to right.
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that sounds pretty freaking cool. complicated, but it sounds like the awesome far outweighs the complication
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Old 06-23-2009, 01:26 PM
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that sounds pretty freaking cool. complicated, but it sounds like the awesome far outweighs the complication
What I described now is the simple use of the pedal.

With the A B C D E setting on the wave-knob you can program some more complicated things.
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Your a bastard for posting this! I've been waiting for AnalogueHaven (the only U.S. distributor to get one of these in forever). I almost bought one from the European dealer I wanted one so bad. Have fun.
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Old 06-23-2009, 04:30 PM
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Sweet. Looking foward to the clips, this could be a really cool addition to other sounds, and seems like it can be tweaked forever.
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This is madness!
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pop a boner smiley.
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pop a boner smiley.
Just cus its got a picture of a goat on it.... jeez Texans
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Sure is a purty goat.


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I had previously decided I didn't want the Goatkeeper because it seemed like infinitely fancy time divisions and sawtooth slopes would only keep me interested for a short while... but I'm still uber envious.
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Old 06-23-2009, 06:21 PM
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I had previously decided I didn't want the Goatkeeper because it seemed like infinitely fancy time divisions and sawtooth slopes would only keep me interested for a short while... but I'm still uber envious.
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I had previously decided I didn't want the Goatkeeper because it seemed like infinitely fancy time divisions and sawtooth slopes would only keep me interested for a short while... but I'm still uber envious.
Well, I'm glad you and theBigO haven't become entirely cynical and jaded. NPD FTW!!!
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Where did you buy it?
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Crush the Button in Belgium. They still have a few left if you want to pay 350 euros for it (that is about $500).
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+2 especially since even my plebeian Tremulus is a bit overwhelming at times.

Either way, I'd love to hear some slow ramp-up clips if you get a moment.
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I definitely want to try this pedal....
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**** that! aren't they like 325 new....gahhhh
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Well, I'm glad you and theBigO haven't become entirely cynical and jaded. NPD FTW!!!
Haha!

I too had written this pedal off, since I don't use Tremolo too much, and I'd lost interest in the Empress trem relatively quickly...

But seeing the back of the Goatkeeper for the first time (posted in the coming/going thread) I noticed the 'LFO Out' and 'Sync' outputs... and Im thinking that if it works like I think it might, the pedal would be great just for the LFO's you could make, if nothing else.... But alas, I doubt I'll see one in the classifieds anytime soon so...

Looking forward to some clips at least!
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