Iron Ether FrantaBit

[warwick.hoy]

The fact that the man tapping machine vouches for TayTay would be enough to seal the deal for me. If Jean could just tap flight of the bumblebees that would tickle my ancient fertility gourd.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

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Maybe the first Franta south of the Equator, I wonder?

It is undoubtedly a unique pedal. Very fun, too.

My settings exactly!

 

[john turner]

i need this. i really do.

i... i need it.


awesome clips jean.

 

[Matt Dean]

+1... Jean, that was an AWESOME clip.

 

[Eric!]

I feel like..I could make good use of this.

 

[Jean Baudin]

Thanks guys!

 

[tigerbass]

Thanks guys!

Wow...some of the sounds you were getting in the middle there were absolutely !!!

 

[change-jug]

Holy crispy crap! That was......AMAZING Jean!!!!!!! I could listen to a whole album of that. That was super cool and now I want one!

 

[M Sterling]

Big props to "mean" Jean for that awesome soundscape. I agree with the poster who said he could listen to an entire album of that. Do it, Jean, you know you want to!!!

I came up with this interesting sound using the Franta and the Xero with an OC2 in front while working way too late one night. The top part is Franta into the xero in downsweep mode shifted up an octave with an M5.

FrantaStep

 

[Eric!]

This is NOT helping.

 

[jwr]

Big props to "mean" Jean for that awesome soundscape. I agree with the poster who said he could listen to an entire album of that. Do it, Jean, you know you want to!!!

I came up with this interesting sound using the Franta and the Xero with an OC2 in front while working way too late one night. The top part is Franta into the xero in downsweep mode shifted up an octave with an M5.

FrantaStep

Can you share your settings for this one? I've been messing around with the Franta and Xero combos and can't get even close to how good this sounds. I don't have the OC2...perhaps this is the problem...at any rate, I'd love to see what your settings are. Or anyone's for that matter.

 

[M Sterling]

Can you share your settings for this one? I've been messing around with the Franta and Xero combos and can't get even close to how good this sounds. I don't have the OC2...perhaps this is the problem...at any rate, I'd love to see what your settings are. Or anyone's for that matter.

No problem! One thing to remember is, how the sample rate reacts at any given setting is very much dependent on what key you're playing in. This particular sound requires the OC2, but in general I like this pedal a little better without the octave pedal. So, for this one, I noticed that with the sample rate all the way ccw and the octave on, my d flat on the 11th fret of the A string made this awesome wobbly sound and the f sounded like it was tuned to the sample rate, so I played the riff in f minor and hit the d flat last (min 6 scary note). This works in any key as long as you tune the SR to your root. I then tuned the bit rate to how much distortion I wanted. For the recording I used these settings:

Frantabit:

SR is all the way ccw
Mix: a little less than halfway
BR: a little more than halfway (live I turn it all the way ccw)

Xero:

Res: 11:00
Sens: off
Freq: 11:30
No clean blend

OC2 is just -1 dimed. Hope this helps, this pedal definitely takes some time to find what works for you. I had a little trial by fire with several sessions and two weekends worth of shows as soon as I got it, so I figured out a method that works for me to get useable sounds fast. Still diggin, though...
FrantaBit is DEEP!

 

[Jean Baudin]

jwr - if I recall right, I think you had kind of a funky order to your effects? You have the Xero first? I'll let Marc give you the right answer, but to get a tone like this you need to do something like octave-> franta/oxide -> xero

msterling - virtual high five... sounds great as usual.

 

[jwr]

Yea my order is kind of jacked at the moment. Was trying to experiment with the order. I'll try both your suggestions. Going to throw the nimbus at the end. I need a mini...

Thanks for the help fellas!

 

[Eric!]

There is no GAS, like an Iron Ether GAS.

 

[HiFi]

There is no GAS, like an Iron Ether GAS.

Agreed! Indeed!

Been waiting on a summer paycheck to place my Nimbus order (debating if I should do a custom color) when something else with my car goes wrong. Hoping I can clear out some pedals pretty quickly and still be in position to grab a Nimbus. (And the Deluxe Xerograph is also calling my name like a siren....to sink my summer savings.)

The FrantaBit looks less useful for me personally, but if it's on par with what I know of Taylor's other stuff, I'll be getting my hands on one eventually.

 

[Wud]

Well, This morning I was shocked and outraged to see a headline on the BBC News website saying IE users have low IQ -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology/

I was (not) about to get all uppity until I read it was about Internet Explorer users, and that the story was an elaborate hoax anyway.
I had a giggle with Taylor about it.

 

[Shish]

question for Franta users. is there any noise in pauses between notes like a carrier of ring mod? that's what is annoying about Heliotrope.

 

[M Sterling]

As far as I can tell, the carrier noise stops when the note stops. I will double check for you, though.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

question for Franta users. is there any noise in pauses between notes like a carrier of ring mod? that's what is annoying about Heliotrope.

Not that I've noticed. I think it's a digital circuit so it wouldn't behave like an analog ring mod.
That's why I unloaded the Helio. Otherwise, it was pretty awesome.