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3Leaf Audio Club - Episode 2

#5,542
smeet said:
Curious about the 2 models of doom 2. If it’s really just a gain difference, couldn’t you just have one pedal with a wider range on the gain control, or a hi/lo gain switch? Or is there more to it?
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The high gain model is meant to make the Doom 2 work better on guitar. Low gain bass fuzzes can be problematic for guitar, because guitar puts out relatively far less signal than bass, resulting in less tasty gatedness at low gain and more farty nothingness. For stuff like my Broughton Maestro, if I try to run guitar through it, the sound is basically unusable without the gain set really high. I've tried my guitar through the Doom 2 and I don't remember it suffering quite so much, but the extra gain would surely help.

To say it's the 'guitar version' in the marketing might suggest that it wouldn't be useful for bass, but this is untrue, as the clean blend is still present. So I imagine 'high gain model' is a good compromise as far as the marketing is concerned.

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jdjk7 said:
The high gain model is meant to make the Doom 2 work better on guitar. Low gain bass fuzzes can be problematic for guitar, because guitar puts out relatively far less signal than bass, resulting in less tasty gatedness at low gain and more farty nothingness. For stuff like my Broughton Maestro, if I try to run guitar through it, the sound is basically unusable without the gain set really high. I've tried my guitar through the Doom 2 and I don't remember it suffering quite so much, but the extra gain would surely help.

To say it's the 'guitar version' in the marketing might suggest that it wouldn't be useful for bass, but this is untrue, as the clean blend is still present. So I imagine 'high gain model' is a good compromise as far as the marketing is concerned.

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High gain model would work nicely in a bi-amp situation or a good blender, on a bass too
 
#5,559
I’ve had a Wonderlove / Chromatron and a Doom / Doom 2 for a long time but never an Octabvre, because I’ve always wanted to have a poly octave with octave up instead. In this particular use case, though - running the Octabvre into the Doom 2 from inside the Chromatron’s effects loop - there is definitely something special going on that I’ve never gotten from the other octave pedals. There’s so much weird and wild stuff coming from how they interact, like how the Doom2 can sort of re-generate an upper octave when you run the Octabvre into it in Sub mode or how the Octabvre induces its own sort of quasi-envelope filter effect in the Doom2. It’s so cool. I’m stoked.
 
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jasonbraatz said:
I’ve had a Wonderlove / Chromatron and a Doom / Doom 2 for a long time but never an Octabvre, because I’ve always wanted to have a poly octave with octave up instead. In this particular use case, though - running the Octabvre into the Doom 2 from inside the Chromatron’s effects loop - there is definitely something special going on that I’ve never gotten from the other octave pedals. There’s so much weird and wild stuff coming from how they interact, like how the Doom2 can sort of re-generate an upper octave when you run the Octabvre into it in Sub mode or how the Octabvre induces its own sort of quasi-envelope filter effect in the Doom2. It’s so cool. I’m stoked.
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D2 and Octabvre were meant to be together. I've had good luck with GR2 as well the chrome. Hopefully one day a proton v4
 

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