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3Leaf Audio Club - Episode 2

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RJ said:
I've been on the hunt for a Doom 2 for some time. I'm not willing to pay scalper prices and frequently miss out on the when they're in the classifieds.

I'll just keep my fingers crossed for a used one and/or another release.
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It's crazy right!?!? Reminds me of when those two guys bought all the purell hand sanitizer and were charging outrageous money for it because people couldn't find any.

Maybe it's those same two guys are doing the same thing only now with 3 leaf pedals...hmmm

Kidding but I did have someone quote me a price recently for a 3 leaf pedal and I was like... . It did sell though so can't fault the seller I guess. Weird times.
 
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jdjk7 said:
My Doom 2 is rusty, but the graphics and stuff have held perfectly. Not so much with my MKIII. I sent him an email, but I'm not holding my breath or stressing about it. He'll get to it when he gets to it... I'm not planning of getting rid of either one anytime soon, so I'm not in a hurry to get anything replaced.
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Mine D2's rusting too. But in a good, industrial chic way :)

My favorite looking pedal and when I wrote to Spencer back in the day, his favorite sounding 3Leaf pedal.
 
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Hey, so I'm a big fan of Umphrey's McGee (jam band/prog rock) and their bass player, Ryan Stasik, uses a ton of 3leaf pedals. He just shared this instagram post of his pedals for a new home board he's building featuring the 3leaf little black box, doom 2, proton, and vulcan. He runs similar pedals (doom 1 and chromatron) on his touring board, where the octabvre has replaced his OC2 (not shown in the picture, but confirmed in the comments). Just wanted to share some 3 leaf pedals being used by the pros!

Here's a recent video of theirs where he's getting some incredible tone out of the octabvre during a jam. This was from a set where the audience guides the jam based on text submissions, so the full video is wild (read the video description, octabvre featured at 9:50):

And here's a recent full show with tons of octabvre use, such as the jam during the first song (show starts at 1:29:58, jam during first song at 1:33:44). Cory Wong opened for them and you can listen to his set earlier in the video:
 
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the pedals are just coated similar to a blued firearm, light coat of something like triflow will keep it from happening, but you have to be careful, and don't use a solvent like wd40, you sneeze and this screen print comes a flying off
 
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Can someone with experience talk a little more about the similarities between the Chromatron and the most recent (V4?) Proton circuits? I read earlier in the thread that the current Proton is the same circuit as the Chromatrong but with fewer controls and no effects loop. Is that right?

I ask because I recently redid my board and no longer utilize the effects loop of my Chromatron. My main gigging band is also trending in a "no amps on stage" direction which suits me just fine, but I'd like to add a cab sim to the end of my little Pedaltrain Nano+ board for that and can't do it without making some room. If the Chromatron and current Proton do in fact sound the same (more or less) then that would be a good spot for me to start making room.
 
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silky smoove said:
Can someone with experience talk a little more about the similarities between the Chromatron and the most recent (V4?) Proton circuits? I read earlier in the thread that the current Proton is the same circuit as the Chromatrong but with fewer controls and no effects loop. Is that right?

I ask because I recently redid my board and no longer utilize the effects loop of my Chromatron. My main gigging band is also trending in a "no amps on stage" direction which suits me just fine, but I'd like to add a cab sim to the end of my little Pedaltrain Nano+ board for that and can't do it without making some room. If the Chromatron and current Proton do in fact sound the same (more or less) then that would be a good spot for me to start making room.
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Spencer told me they were the same circuit except one of the Proton's controls has a wider range than the Chromatron's -- but I can't remember which. So essentially, the Proton can do everything the Chromatron can, but the Chromatron can't do everything the Proton can.
 
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silky smoove said:
Can someone with experience talk a little more about the similarities between the Chromatron and the most recent (V4?) Proton circuits? I read earlier in the thread that the current Proton is the same circuit as the Chromatrong but with fewer controls and no effects loop. Is that right?

I ask because I recently redid my board and no longer utilize the effects loop of my Chromatron. My main gigging band is also trending in a "no amps on stage" direction which suits me just fine, but I'd like to add a cab sim to the end of my little Pedaltrain Nano+ board for that and can't do it without making some room. If the Chromatron and current Proton do in fact sound the same (more or less) then that would be a good spot for me to start making room.
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I made a post in the previous page or two that yes, this is pretty much the case. I owned both and tested them against each other, matching all the relevant controls. If you're no longer using the fx loop, then yeah, you could go "down" to the Proton and save room. I wouldn't personally do this, as I find the Chroma's features indispensable, but it's your setup.
 
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silky smoove said:
Can someone with experience talk a little more about the similarities between the Chromatron and the most recent (V4?) Proton circuits? I read earlier in the thread that the current Proton is the same circuit as the Chromatrong but with fewer controls and no effects loop. Is that right?

I ask because I recently redid my board and no longer utilize the effects loop of my Chromatron. My main gigging band is also trending in a "no amps on stage" direction which suits me just fine, but I'd like to add a cab sim to the end of my little Pedaltrain Nano+ board for that and can't do it without making some room. If the Chromatron and current Proton do in fact sound the same (more or less) then that would be a good spot for me to start making room.
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Pretty sure that's just it, the trigger and sensitivity range are the same, I wonder what "peak" is compared to the chrome though, is that how far the envelope goes until decay? and if so I guess you loose your attack from the chromatron. Just remember that FX loop is more than just a loop, I recently split my signal, inputted my IE Fmeron into the input of the Chromatron, inputted my bass into the return of the FX loop and never used the send. The Fmeron is what triggered the envelope, set to a percussive mod, it sounded freaking amazing. It's like toying with a sidechain on a compressor
 
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labeledbass said:
Pretty sure that's just it, the trigger and sensitivity range are the same, I wonder what "peak" is compared to the chrome though, is that how far the envelope goes until decay? and if so I guess you loose your attack from the chromatron. Just remember that FX loop is more than just a loop, I recently split my signal, inputted my IE Fmeron into the input of the Chromatron, inputted my bass into the return of the FX loop and never used the send. The Fmeron is what triggered the envelope, set to a percussive mod, it sounded freaking amazing. It's like toying with a sidechain on a compressor
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Peak is a resonance control on many filters. The attack on the Proton is fixed while the Decay controls the decay time.
 
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