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dirt/fuzz with built-in expression?

Norwoodrules

Norwoodrules

Feb 23, 2009
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Toronto, Ont.
#1
had a thought yesterday that a dirt pedal with on-board expression that controls the level of dirt would be awesome.

Then I decided that this simply must already exist. searched here, but found nothing.

I think i would love this kind of pedal, and that it would be very cool for feeding modulation effects with varying amounts of drive.

I know this functionality exists by combining certain dirt pedals with an exp pedal, but are there any integrated models?

thanks

peace.
 
#3
I have such pedal - Dr. Scientist the Elements. Ultra-versatile, from boost/EQ through light overdrive all the way too crushing bones high gain. And you can control amount of gain with the expression pedal. Now I use it with Expressionator (with Pitchfactor and Boss RE-20) so I can go from clean bass to distorted octave up with delay using only expression pedal, lots of fun.
 
#4
Shish said:
I have such pedal - Dr. Scientist the Elements. Ultra-versatile, from boost/EQ through light overdrive all the way too crushing bones high gain. And you can control amount of gain with the expression pedal. Now I use it with Expressionator (with Pitchfactor and Boss RE-20) so I can go from clean bass to distorted octave up with delay using only expression pedal, lots of fun.
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This pedal is making its appearance in some threads and I am now growing curious. I am looking for more of a preamp/eq thing to use with my B3K. Thoughts?
 
#5
Checked out the DR. Scientist elements, sounds awesome.

I really do want one with an exp pedal built into the housing though.

Now that I'm on a tangent, it would be super sexy if it used some sort of optical sensor like those in the 3xfx fatman to control the level of fuzz.

I guess the fatman uses the opto sensor to control crazy osccilation, but if it could be used to sweep the range of fuzz, it would greatly reduce the size of the pedal and make it super crazy awesome attractive to pedal geeks.
 
#8
It's not built in, but the Source Audio pro distortions have an expression output for "morphing" between presets, so you could say have one preset be clean and/or slightly overdriven and then as you step on the expression it'll slide into another preset that is set to be more distorted.
 

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