Idea

[Joe Gress]

At long last, sound clips.

At the highest reaches of the trem rate, the Holy Stain starts dropping some reverb in the mix. You can get the idea though.

Thanks. Great sounding clips, but not quite what I had in mind though. I'm definitely looking for a much slower rate, kinda like a phaser at the slowest speed. And in these clips the blend is a constant set rate. I want it to go from all the way clean to the blended signal as the LFO moves.

I know not everyone likes using a computer in their rig, but let me add that Guitar Rig 3 is able to modulate any control on any effect with an LFO, an envelope proportional to input level, a triggered envelope with ADSR control, or a sequencer. It's really fun.

It also goes much further by allowing the above-mentioned modifiers to control a specified range, while allowing a foot controller to sweep the "center" of the controlled range.

The only problem with that is that I would need the computer, the interface, the program, and whatever else. Kinda expensive and again a bit much for the (I'm hoping) simple job.

http://www.3xfx.com/sidewinder.html

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No. That is a panner between two channels. Kinda like the molten voltage one. I may be able to slow it down enough, but it does not smoothly move between the two channels. Plus I want to keep it on one channel, just with the dirt or whatever being blended in and out.

 

[Joe Gress]

Bump. Any more ideas thoughts on this before I start bugging builders?

 

[JanusZarate]

The main problem I can see with an LFO-controlled blend will be a volume drop approaching, at, and leaving the midpoint of the sweep. I wouldn't toss out the tremolo/blend idea just yet.

I see the tremolo idea came up quite a bit. I was thinking of the same thing.

However, a simple trem circuit simply won't do. You need the right waveform, and it wouldn't hurt to be able to change that later, either. I'd suggest using the EHX Pulsar or something similar as your base circuit - you can get waveforms other than the traditional "choppy" tremolo wave (which is usually a skewed sawtooth). Plus, the rate is very flexible, allowing you to get incredibly slow or fast cycling. I did some demos a long time ago of the XO Pulsar producing a very slow "pulse" instead of the tremolo one would expect to hear. I should do a bunch of new clips since I have an XO one again...

If I had a blend pedal, I could try to reproduce the exact sound you're looking for... but alas, I do not.

Now, I do also see a problem with the trem idea - you wouldn't get a true fadeout of your clean signal. If you're looking for true cycling between 100% distortion and 100% clean, you'd need to look back to the LFO blend idea and find a builder who can figure out how to dynamically combat the volume drop.

Of course, you might not mind the volume drop - it might not be severe enough to bother you. But I should still give you the heads-up that it will be there.

 

[Joe Gress]

Never thought about the volume drop.

I did look at some of the toneczar VFR clips, I noticed, even though he was using an expression pedal (whereas I would want an LFO doing the work for me) the switch between the two signals was seem less, and there was no volume drop. So it might be possible.

Also, maybe not blending the singal 100% might help. As in the idea behind the GeminiDrive of two channels versus a blend. Have one of the channels be mixed in and out with the clean signal by the LFO?