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Iron Ether Subterranea

#1,681
Subterraneas, Polytopes, FrantaBits added to the shop... Yes, plural.

Polytope looks amazing. Almost pulled the trigger on it to replace mine on looks alone :)

Each and every pedal cumming out of Taylor's shop is like a little sculpture... that makes bad ass sounds!


Eric
 
#1,682
eveilleu said:
Subterraneas, Polytopes, FrantaBits added to the shop... Yes, plural.

Polytope looks amazing. Almost pulled the trigger on it to replace mine on looks alone :)

Each and every pedal cumming out of Taylor's shop is like a little sculpture... that makes bad ass sounds!


Eric
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Those blood red Subt's are sexy. If I hadn't disliked the sound of mine I would have kept it just for the looks.
 
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Okay. Got in some quality time with the SubT. As a basic octave pedal, no problem. I A/B'd it with my EBS octave pedal. Tracking is okay. (IMHO that's where a lot of octave pedals fall down.) Sound is good, and the filter control gives some tasteful options.

I re-watched the YouTube demo and used the settings shown as jump off points. The synth options are huge. Lots of combinations are available. It's very easy, though, to turn the sound into a buzzy distortion box. It takes some subtle tweaking to find some neat and useable synth sounds.

I was a bit disappointed at first try yesterday, but with time I'm finding my way to some useful stuff. A little synth goes a long way. I'll keep working with it, and for now it has a place on my board.

If I could make one suggestion, it would be to have the filter control work on the synth voices and not just the clean. That would give the option to tone down the wide open square, pulse and saw waves.

Tomorrow I'll see what I can do following the SubT with my Xero.
 
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RDUB said:
Okay. Got in some quality time with the SubT. As a basic octave pedal, no problem. I A/B'd it with my EBS octave pedal. Tracking is okay. (IMHO that's where a lot of octave pedals fall down.) Sound is good, and the filter control gives some tasteful options.

I re-watched the YouTube demo and used the settings shown as jump off points. The synth options are huge. Lots of combinations are available. It's very easy, though, to turn the sound into a buzzy distortion box. It takes some subtle tweaking to find some neat and useable synth sounds.

I was a bit disappointed at first try yesterday, but with time I'm finding my way to some useful stuff. A little synth goes a long way. I'll keep working with it, and for now it has a place on my board.

If I could make one suggestion, it would be to have the filter control work on the synth voices and not just the clean. That would give the option to tone down the wide open square, pulse and saw waves.

Tomorrow I'll see what I can do following the SubT with my Xero.
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I think the SubT is really meant to be placed before a filter pedal, hence leaving the filter off the synth voices. The same as the oscillators on a synth minus the filter section of the synth!
 
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RDUB said:
Okay. Got in some quality time with the SubT. As a basic octave pedal, no problem. I A/B'd it with my EBS octave pedal. Tracking is okay. (IMHO that's where a lot of octave pedals fall down.) Sound is good, and the filter control gives some tasteful options.

I re-watched the YouTube demo and used the settings shown as jump off points. The synth options are huge. Lots of combinations are available. It's very easy, though, to turn the sound into a buzzy distortion box. It takes some subtle tweaking to find some neat and useable synth sounds.

I was a bit disappointed at first try yesterday, but with time I'm finding my way to some useful stuff. A little synth goes a long way. I'll keep working with it, and for now it has a place on my board.

If I could make one suggestion, it would be to have the filter control work on the synth voices and not just the clean. That would give the option to tone down the wide open square, pulse and saw waves.

Tomorrow I'll see what I can do following the SubT with my Xero.
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If you use the synth voices, use the octave and clean to bring up the bass and make it sound MUCH better. And, absolutely right, a little synth goes a long way. Synth voices at noon is a LOT of synth :)
 
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When I owned one it was almost unusable alone. It was amazing and I really loved the things it did, but the raw tone was not to my liking. Just a tiny bit of overdrive, distortion, filter, modulation, or anything else after it helps tame some of the full spectrum frequencies that are unnatural for bass synth tone. I get why it is made this way, so it can work with any instrument. If I wanted a "just SubT tone", I would use my OFD with a 50% blend of OD to help tame some of the insanity.
 
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Somnambulance said:
The subt was actually my first true octave pedal, but I do have a Density Hulk that does sub frequencies beautifully.
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I had an OC2 that I liked, but wasn't too crazy about its tracking, still a great tone.
Now I got me a Madbean Lowrider and it's much better at tracking, plus the octave up is this nice fuzzy synthy tone.
Gotta try it in band mix but so far my subt gas is subdued.
 

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