Anyone got any Exar pedals?

[sk8]

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[The BurgerMeister]

someone's selling an Exar flanger in the classifieds.

 

[40Hz_of_Love]

Exar is a Polish pedal manufacturer. Since I live in Warsaw - they are quite common in the stores. Most people think they're low quality, but there is quite a lot of local big-name endorsers.

 

[metalmariachi]

Doesn’t Exar build the non-boutique pedals for Jacques?
If so they are very well built.

MM

 

[bongomania]

Yeah, I've always wondered about the Exar-Jacques connection.

 

[Jazz Ad]

I got the answer straight from the horse's mouth.
Exar manufactures the boxes for Jacques's production pedals but not the electronics.

 

[whoatherechunk]

exar?

 

[Toasted]

I think that they're REALLY good sounding pedals. The Octver is a Pearl Octaver clone. I think the enclosures look like a bunch of nursery children designed them.

Honestly, if you took these and put them in Hammond enclosures with fancy graphics people would pay 2 x for them. They're great sounding boxes.

 

[bongomania]

Bumpitty bump. I got the bass compressor yesterday, will post review soon of course, but now I have a hankering to try some of their other pedals. They have a bass distortion, bass chorus, and bass flanger; and they have an octaver, envelope filter, and multi-wah that look like they could be groovy on bass. In fact searching on those individual effects yields plenty of scattered posts about them one at a time, but I think it would be good to have Exar info consolidated here for easy reference. So if you have an Exar pedal, or have spent significant time with one, please post your thoughts here. FWIW they are now available on Ebay sold directly by Exar, and the prices are quite reasonable, and shipping from Poland to Portland was fast, no hassle.

 

[savinggrace]

Bongo- Will their compressor work as a limiter?

 

[bongomania]

Yes and no. It's a very extreme squasher, but it's not a great pick for clean/unobtrustive peak limiting.

 

[jetofuj]

I have Exar chorus that I got as a present 10 years ago or something. I will look for it.

 

[bongomania]

Unexpected update!!! Exar contacted me about possibly becoming their US sales representative, and I said I was interested. We have started preliminary negotiations--so it's far from a done deal at this point, but a very interesting possibility for the near future.

 

[Steveaux]

OK, now I'm officially curious.

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[fasto]

So if you have an Exar pedal, or have spent significant time with one, please post your thoughts here.

i own the Exar PigNose Envelope Filter (PN04) ... i don´t like that pedal:
- very noticeable volume drop
- hard to find good settings with my active bass
- the foot-switch reacts to easy
- the rubber surface from that switch fell off after a week or so

So in my view: expensive, bad sound, not so good quality. The PigNose soon to be replaced with the 3Leaf Groove Regulator

 

[tiresmokindad]

What are they like

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Exar pedals are like a measuring of sounds. The exar are the soft sounds when you play your dnb.

 

[bongomania]

That's what happens when you smoke tires. I could never figure out which end to light though.