I really want to check out a Monocomp. I kick myself for watching it sit in stock. Also want to try a Terraformer, Azure Drive, and a Quick Silver (duh). Someday. That's the way... patience... persistence.
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If anyone wants to try an Apex and has a Monocomp, I’m into a temp swap.
Or possibly a permanent one
Or possibly a permanent one
Teijo K.
Commercial User
I absolutely love my Monocomp with my sixties/seventies type prog band. It sidelined my Fea Labs DE/CL to my secondary board I use with my more modern band. In all fairness DE/CL works better with that band, so it worked out great for me.
Same thing happened with me. I find the Monocomp and Cali are similar, but the Monocomp is quieter and easier to dial in.
As you should... it seems like a number of Monocomps move around, so they are not for everyone I guess, but man is it a good compressor.
Be careful what you wish for. Apex at the very front and Monocomp at the very back make a powerful compression combo on a board. I would imagine you'll get a number of PMs hoping for a more "permanent" swap.
Alright... I'm guessing some of you out there know a little bit about making coffee. I hate the stuff, and therefore have no knowledge. I am forced to educate myself my wife loves the damn stuff, and I keep having to clean/fix/operate her grinder, which seems to work only intermittently. It also seems to make quite a mess. So. Anyone have any suggestions for a reliable and effective, small volume, no fuss coffee grinder. I'm sure she will use it to entertain her friends on occasion, but mostly it's just for her own use in the morning. Oh - ease of use is also a big deal. Not so worried about noise, though I suppose quieter is better, but that's not a deal breaker. The one we have already is pretty loud. It's a Krups.
just put a Apex at the end and moved my mono up closer to the front, have you tried the way you've mentioned? I was trying the Apex as a limiter, and it worked. But with the compression cranked on the mono I have better luck, as a limiter.
But I was think of sorting it out like you say, the monocomp, at high voltage, can take some pretty hot loads at the end of chains.
I've always had it right before the s1 (MC), would there be benefit from placing the s1 before? Sounds good as is, but I've never tried it
Having a fuzz fest today and my oh my the Calamity is amazing. If there was a Broughton/Chase Bliss collaboration this may be the pedal for it. So much versatility. The blend knob make’s every setting usable. A+++
Baratza Encore and Virtuoso are the gold standards of quality home coffee grinders. We’ve had our for 8 years?
Fellow makes a fancy one but it’s more fashion than function.
[EDIT!] I have to scratch everything I wrote previously. The BEAD and Doom 2 can get very, very close at certain settings. I think someone would be happy with either one, depending on which one is in stock.
The Doom feels more refined with lower gain settings. The BEAD is the more versatile of the two, but took me longer to fiddle around with. The good thing is you can flick the toggles to various combinations and find something you will like with most of the knob settings. It can get a nice, fat sounding synth like the Doom but took longer to find it whereas the Doom doesn't take much effort to get a get sound, fat juicy synth sound right away. I'm using both of these throughout the Xerograph Deluxe with Octabvre in front as I'm going for that synth sound. Hope this helps, I'll be happy to answer any q's in a PM since this is a Broughton thread. But segue to me adding the Maestro to the mix...Maestro sounds great, really good voicings and presence. Putting both switches to the left gets a bit more gated and in the ballpark as the other two for certain settings. Definitely a fun pedal with very interactive knobs. A lot to be discovered in the Maestro.
Perhaps an FFXL Deluxe could have a gate on the effects loop to make any fuzz gated. That would be crazy.
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We drink tons of coffee around my place and have had a $40 Chefman coffee grinder, which gets used multiple times a day everyday, for around 3 years. So I guess it depends on what you're willing to spend. Go with the cheap one and tell your wife with all the money you saved you can purchase a new pedal.
Definitely I have. I love the Apex at the front to get a strong, steady, transparent signal into all the other stuff downstream, and the Monocomp at the very end for a little extra bigness and personality.
Leaning towards the Virutoso plus because of its popularity in online reviews. And Valentine's Day is coming... who doesn't want to look like a hero on Valetine's Day?
https://www.amazon.com/Baratza-Encore-Conical-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B007F183LK/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2MOAWESXIKJXM&keywords=encore+coffee+bean+grinder&qid=1644165895&sprefix=Encore,aps,56&sr=8-3&th=1
Definitely not inexpensive at $170, but I’ve had mine for 3.5 years. My wife and I both make home brew coffee (decaf for her and regular for me), which takes a lot of beans. We do around 1-1.5 lbs per week of grinding, so it gets a lot of use. In the time I’ve owned it I’ve only had one issue - one brand of beans we bought were really oily and jammed up the chute. Unjammed it, switched to a slightly less oily bean and haven’t had any issues since.
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Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
I just got a Lido 3, it’s awesome. But, it’s manual. I don’t know how you feel about that. I love it, highly recommended.
Oh analog, good choice
Install of the new guts for the Baby Sumo almost complete. I need to hear back from Didier regarding one last connection and then it will be time to test!
Pretty sure this is where the magic smoke escaped.
Pretty sure this is where the magic smoke escaped.
