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Iron Ether FrantaBit

#341
Wud said:
"tumbleweed"
I notice how the Usual Frantasuspects have all gone totally off the radar!
I wonder why that is ?
Too busy a tweakin' me thinks.
Mine has just cleared Customs, so I should get my grubby mitts on it in a few days.
Mysteriously enough I'm sure I'll be "poorly" on that fine day.
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Can't speak for anyone else, but I haven't posted at all because I was enjoying the 4th of July weekend. I'm sunburnt, tired and my ears are ringing, but still smiling.

I'm glad my looper will let me flip flop loops because I'm having a real hard time right now figuring out whether I like the FrantaBit before or after the Xerograph better. When the Franta is up front it feeds all kids of cool harmonic content to the Xero, but when it is downstream I can take a synthy sound and degrade the whole thing.

It hasn't been a week yet so I'm obviously still in the honeymoon phase, but I'm still in love with this little box of crazy.

Jean Baudin said:
here's some franta noise. seriously, turn your speakers down. this will hurt.

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Awesome. Pure awesome. Taylor should be flooding you with emails and PMs to use that as a sample on the IE site.

Tyler Kirschner said:
nah it's cool i just don't think i heard the obliterate mode in it, which is something i find particularly exquisite and look for in a pedal.
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Behndy's video (if I'm not mistaken) was ALL Obliterate mode.

And Jean's (again, if I'm not mistaken) is ALL Degrade mode.

I think people have gotten the impression that the Degrade mode is always more subtle than the Obliterate mode.

The Obliterate mode uses a ring mod like sound to approximate bitcrushing/SRR with an analog circuit so it is always a fairly extreme tone. And when the sample rate and bitcrushing are not drastic on the Degrade side it IS pretty subtle. But cranking those knobs gets a more extreme sound on the Degrade side than what the Obliterate side is capable of.
 
#343
hey Tyler! also this one...

Franta Settings Play

....... has some pretty severe settings in both the Degrade and Obliterate modes from around 4 minutes on. yerpah!

but yeah, Jean's is awesome 'cause it shows the Frants shining in a much more fleshed out musical setting. i'm just doing rambley cheesy lines while knob twiddling.

i DID get to use it for a mostly me and the drummer then my keyboard player coming in to match jam out last night, and AWESOME. i'm with Jared, i know it's still Le Honeymoonz, but i know that it's so far my favorite bit crusher based pedal and has FILLED that need.

i heart Taylor.
 
#345
Tyler Kirschner said:
Oh. Then that means I have not yet heard the more dramatic side of Obliterate!
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What I was sort of getting at before is that the Obliterate side doesn't really have a less dramatic or more dramatic side to it. It sort of is what it is all the time. In that mode the Sample Rate knob is basically a frequency control and the Bit Depth knob introduces some dirt to add to the "bit crushing" sound.

The Obliterate mode is never subtle, but it also doesn't get a whole lot crazier with different settings.

The Degrade mode (the true digital side) on the other hand goes from completely clean (with both knobs dimed), to a touch of lo-fi sound, to either clean sample rate reduction or intense digital distortion if just using the sample rate or bit depth knob (respectively) by themselves to wacked out Noisebox like sounds and then to complete audio destruction.

The Obliterate mode is a lot like the Heliotrope or BugCrusher and is very cool. But the range of tones on the Degrade mode is absolutely huge.
 
#346
thanks for all the kind words, guys!

I realized I didn't post any samples with the xero..... and that's where the CRAZY stuff happens.

Tyler Kirschner - there was some obliterate mode in there, definitely the last two parts. like jared said, obliterate is more ringmod-ish, but with a tremondous range.

Jared Lash said:
Awesome. Pure awesome. Taylor should be flooding you with emails and PMs to use that as a sample on the IE site.
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actually, I did a bunch of recordings of random xero and oxide stuff and sent them to IE - but I think he has been to busy building pedals to update his site. a few really weird ones too. ;)
 
#351
caeman said:
And I bet that there are pedal geeks on here that could still identify the pixelated pedals.
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The soundblox multiwave bass distortion is the easy one there =)

Oh, just got my email today. SHould be in the mail today; it's going to be a long wait till the lil' bugger gets all the way here to Brazil. Will be worth it.
 
#357
Yup, that's it

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I've had about an hour with it so far and I am blown away by how much fun this pedal is. I keep giggling to myself every time I change settings! This is my first bitcrusher pedal, so I cannot make a comparison to anything else, but this m****f**** KILLS.

I might make some clips tonight, but most likely will wait till I get the hang of it a little more. As is the case with every IE pedal I've played, the versatility is a little overwhelming (in a very very good way) at first. Back to the grind...
 
#360
M Sterling said:
Here's a quick little ditty I put together to show the Frantabit by itself and doing some sweeps with the Xerograph. It's a little wild, probably due to a case of newborn induced sleep depravation, but whatever it was stupid amounts of fun to make...

Bacon 'Slposion
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rad. babies and bacon.... mmmm, so good.
 

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