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Iron Ether Subterranea

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morebassbaby said:
It's one of the new ones. I mean maybe that's what I'm hearing is the synth voice. It's like I can't get the pedal to not sound synthy. It's small and in the background, but I was hoping for clean octave when I just have the octave knob up with some clean signal blended in, and No Uni Synth or Octo Synth Honestly It could totally be user error at this point, but I'm not really sure how to get perfectly clean octave sound . So for those of you who have the SubT it does exist in the pedal?
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You should describe the sound to Taylor or record a soundclip. When you say "small and in the background" it sounds like what folks were saying about the earliest version where the uni-synth voice was always audible slightly in the background. Does the sound change at all if you flip the synth waveform switch? Does the Octave still sound dirty with the tone knob rolled down? My understanding is that the tone control can make the Octave voice either synthier or more dubby than an OC-2 depending where you have it set, with an OC-2-like voice somewhere in between the extremes (the OC-2 has a pretty strong low-pass filter built in, whereas the Subterranea's is adjustable with the tone control).
 
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Yeah, that is what it sounds like with unisynth in the background. It's been a little while since I've had some time with the pedal. I'll have to play with it a bit more to accurately describe my findings. Please don't misread any of this though, this pedal is sweet! I'll play with it some more and let you know!
 
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morebassbaby said:
Yeah, that is what it sounds like with unisynth in the background. It's been a little while since I've had some time with the pedal. I'll have to play with it a bit more to accurately describe my findings. Please don't misread any of this though, this pedal is sweet! I'll play with it some more and let you know!
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If it is the Uni-synth bleeding over then there has been a revision to fix the issue, so you should be able to get it fixed for free if you contact Taylor about it!
 
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photo.JPG got it yesterday. Haven't played through it yet though.
 
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It's a CNC engraver. Yes, it cuts the metal with a v-shaped bit in a three dimensional pattern to create the varying line width and depth. I have come up with some tricks for my machine so that each engraving is slightly different.

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Edit: The lettering could actually be cut straight through the enclosure and backlit with LEDs... you can see some interesting applications, though I'm trying to find ways to use these effects that fit within the IE aesthetic as I see it.
 
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It can take 10 to 20 minutes for the CNC to engrave one box. What takes the longest are deep/wide areas like the 'N' in Nimbus or the IE logo, because it can't engrave that depth in one pass - it has to go back and forth over the same line, each time stepping down slightly. These widest parts cut nearly all the way through the thickness of the enclosure, so the IE takes longer than all the control labels combined.

Another interesting thing is that it's possible to engrave after paint, so that negative space is painted and the text is silvery (clear-coated aluminum) - inverted from the usual effect.
 

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