Iron Ether Xerograph, FrantaBit and Nimbus

I like!

Very cool.

 

Bravo, as always!

At first, I was all like, I like my frantabit before my xerograph. Now, I'm definitely a Xero first kinda guy. I have four IE pedals and when I hook them all up, it's almost like one big modular system because they integrate so well with each other. Really cool stuff happening over there in Nawlins'.

 

The cool thing is that I have two of those pedals, and Taylor is currently building the third one for me^^

I'm really looking forward to getting that Xero Deluxe^^

 

You seem to be getting an actual sound when in degrade mode on your Franta...I can get the fuzz type sound but can't get anything that resembles an analog (I know it's digital) bit crusher ala the BugBrand units. Sound clips/ an email to Taylor may be in order...

Otherwise, my GOD those sound phenomenal together. WHOO!

 

Nice! Sounded really good. I'm finally realizing that it isn't just tweaking knobs and playing whatever you want... It's more about, or seems to me in my limited knowledge, that your working with the pedals and what they are doing to make it sound musical... Or it could be that I'm just really tired and none of that is true... In other words it really a relationship with the "noise" that makes it sound good.

 

YES! That's what I was trying say! I don't have a lot of that kind of stuff yet, though the Polytope can do some crazyness and that where I first realized it... More to come some day I'm sure...

Anyway, another great vid Behndy!

 

Subbed so I can check this out when I get off work, I love experiencing Iron Ether pedals through Behndy's demos.

 

Xero first for me (amongst the IE pedals). Franta immediately afterwards and the Nimbus at the end. Try setting up a superlong verb on the Nimbus and then slam it with a muff variant on extreme settings. Sustain for days!

 

I just got a Polytope and Frantabit today. At first I thought the Franta was a mistake in the brief play I had before work. The demos I'd seen were behndy and Mr Excane's and they like their sounds freaky, so I thought it could be a bit less atonal than that, but it seemed this morning that it wasn't going to be for me. But tonight I played with the recommended settings and it started to blow my mind. Eventually I was peaking off my boobies! Get the exp pedal on there, run it into some xerodlx, poly, phaser (also arrived today along with W&C PPB), delay and away we go!
Came back to it a while later and didn't get as far as the other pedals except for some PPB in front. There's just so much it can do! Sweeping the sample rate is off the hook, then you settle on one rate and discover so much to it.
Is there a way to rig an LFO up to the exp input?

 

It's not designed to take a CV input, BUT.... I think the Expressionator can convert a CV LFO into a standard expression control. Not sure though- I don't have the Expressionator manual handy.

 

Hey guys... can the Frantabit do this: http://bugbrand.co.uk/audio/uCrusherDemo_Bass1.mp3

because I like the expression controls on the frantabit a lot. also you can't buy micro crusher. the micro crusher uses an analog sample & hold circuit for sample rate reduction, and does it really well IMO.

 

Man... I want ALL the IE pedals. ALL OF THEM. Why did I have to open this thread?

 

I'd say yes, more or less.

 

Your videos always make me want things. I'm thinking my next pedal is going to be either a Franta, Xero deluxe, or Source Audio BEF deluxe. I can't decide. Probably I'll go for the Franta first, depends if I still like the Micro Q-tron or not.