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Iron Ether Subterranea

#461
at practice i just threw it into my signal chain early, like fuzz -> od -> SubbyT -> fuzz/phaser/delay whatevah but only really played it by itself.

at home i was playing with Subbers -> Xero -> TimeLine. NEAT.

so, it totally IS a tracking now. it's almost like a pitched white noise that comes on quietly if there's any string movement at all. it'd be better not to have it, but honestly, if it was something that tracked this well that i had to be super careful with during quiet song parts vs a dead silent thing that didn't track as well, i'd choose the noise.

i'm liking it a lot so far.
 
#468
Love the Sub T.

LOVE.

I recorded some clips while I was doing clips of my new basses but just haven't had time to edit and upload them all.

Not only has the Subterranea eliminated any need for a synthy fuzz to feed the Xerograph but it also gives me something very similar to the one sound I used the Malekko Bit for. The tone I love is the OC-2 with the soloed octave down with just a touch of the Bit for a very synthy tone. Sounds great on its own or fed into the Xerograph.

Just that little bit of extra harmonic content makes the sound. Blending in clean doesn't do it at all. Neither does overdrive or just a touch of clean blended fuzz.

But rolling up the filter on the octave of the SubT gives me a very similar sound that I like even better.

Taylor's stuff is letting me downsize my pedalboard.

I like that. A LOT.
 
#472
No, the synth voices (unisynth in particular I think) bleed through even when turned down if you want just the analogue octave voice and clean. You can hear it a bit in Behndy's demo.

The bypass is fine as would be expected from IE and the "noise" is not really noise so much as just those voices aren't quite at "0" with the knob all the way down. When you don't play, there is no sound.
 
#473
BenHack said:
Thanks for the video's guys. This isn't helping my waiting time at all ;):bawl::bawl::D

Hopefully I'll get the pedals at the same time I get my new cabs (fearless) and just explode in a ball of excited goodness!!!

Cheers

Ben
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I just received a fearful and pumping the subT through it is beefy. Really makes the pants flap. I parallel blend and had a mantic density hulk in one loop and the SubT + xerograph in another and holy moly!!!! BROWN NOTE.
 
#474
Jeff Moote said:
No, the synth voices (unisynth in particular I think) bleed through even when turned down if you want just the analogue octave voice and clean. You can hear it a bit in Behndy's demo.

The bypass is fine as would be expected from IE and the "noise" is not really noise so much as just those voices aren't quite at "0" with the knob all the way down. When you don't play, there is no sound.
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yah. to me it's almost a very slight carrier bleed through sound instead of noise. it's like the tracking is so grabby that minimal movement can trigger it, which for me is a fair trade for having really good tracking.
 
#476
behndy said:
yah. to me it's almost a very slight carrier bleed through sound instead of noise. it's like the tracking is so grabby that minimal movement can trigger it, which for me is a fair trade for having really good tracking.
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It's not even carrier bleed so much as just the uni-synth voice being "on" a little bit whether you want it or not. As some have said it can add usable character to the other voices but I'd rather have the choice to include it or not.

This is in no way a quality issue, as everything Taylor does it top notch.
 
#477
for sure. i know it's different than a carrier signal. just saying that in execution, it's somewhat akin to dealing with a carrier signal, an ever present sound that comes through during quiet parts too?

's just the closest thing it reminds me to.

BOOP.
 

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