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Meris Enzo Synth Pedal

#462
I added these to my board last week, incredible! Mercury 7, you're next.
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jmone said:
Had a little more time tonight to play with the Enzo...
  • The tracking isn't as bad as I thought. I wouldn't say it's as good as my Pitchfork tracking but it’s good.
  • However....tracking isn't consistent below A on the E string for me on a vanilla passive P Bass. This can be a problem in Mono Mode. Though if I plan on playing below the A in the future, I will pitch shift down an 8ve and play an 8ve higher. Honestly I don't know many pitch-shifters on the market that are good below A on the E string anyway so I would say the Enzo is par for the course here.
  • In the manual it suggests that the filter can be set to "do nothing" by setting the cutoff to 0 and changing the filter type to Ladder HPF. When designing an 8ve Up preset for myself, I noticed how freaking loud the string noise was getting. Particularly when I lifted my fingers off of the string because it was also being pitch shifted to ear piercing territory. Instead I switched to Ladder LPF, filtered out some high end, and was able to get it to sound closer to my Pitchfork in that regard.
I'll consider my pitch-shifting problems solved. I will need to keep modifying my preset after a couple band practices but I should be covered. This thing tracks well for anyone who might have been concerned.

It's going to take a while for me to get used to the Mono Mode and using Envelope Triggering. It's so unnatural for me to pluck a string and have my plucking dynamics have minimal effect on the output. I'm sure I'll get used to it. Alien8 - your "Moog settings" from a page or 2 back are an awesome starting point by the way!

Honestly starting to really fall in love with this thing. It's got some quirks though!

The pedal is still too loud... I might not end up caring because chances are if I kick on an effect, I'm trying to stand out. Let's see what happens at band practice, which will be the ultimate test. I'll count how many times my guitarist gives me the 'side eye'

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the added string noise from Dry mode prob comes from the sustain knob becoming a compressor threshold setting, bring the sustain control down in dry mode to back off the compression.

Plus i must say why not use a Bass Whammy for that pitchshifting?
 
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jmone said:
I know this is 0.00001% of what this pedal can do but how’s the straight pitch shifting of the dry signal?

Are we talking passable - as in no one would notice in a mix or are we talking studio-grade - where it could be my go-to for any digital pitch shifting when recording?

Does it have its own flavour to it like the difference between the Pitchfork, DT Whammy, and the POGs....or does it sound similar to something currently on the market.

It’s safe to assume the tracking is stellar (in order to do half of the things it does), but I’m more concerned about the tone.
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The pitch shifter can't handle complex chords very well, it's more of an old fashioned pitch algorithm than a modern whammy or POG, so simple answer is no, it won't do that.
 
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AngelCrusher said:
Thats awesome. Sounds like we are into similar stuff. I agree, i was unable to emulate an analogue bass line. I got very close - check my picture a few posts back and copy that. You will deal with dropouts though.

Safe to say that you can get those analogue sounds with the FI?
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i dont understand how you're not getting proper analogue bass sounds with that thing....
 
#474
aguacateojos said:
Should have one of these arriving tomorrow with the preset switch... excited to dig in. Any resources y'all would recommend to help me get acquainted?
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Definitely. Check out Elliot Garbus' Enzo editor, it'll make it that much more rewarding. It now has a random preset generator and you can save preset lists. The generator is incredible. Just set your params, let it run, and save the sounds you want.
You can get it, here:
ElliotGarbus/Enzo-Editor-and-Librarian
 
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The Meris box will let you have 4 presets. If you get a Disaster Area qConnect or a DAD Micro, you can have 16 presets. I have 3 meris pedals, so I have a qConnect to control all of them, but if you're just going to have the one Meris, the Micro is fine.
 
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aguacateojos said:
Word, I'll look in to those going forwards but for now it seems like the Meris I/O box is the cheapest one to let me use the program you linked to. Guess I'll have to go analog for the beginning.
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Let me just say that even though the Micro costs a bit more, it's well worth it. It will be incredibly frustrating to only be able to save 4 presets on the Enzo, even moreso with the preset editor, because of the sheer number of awesome sounds you'll get. I even feel severely limited by 16. If you can find a way to get the micro, you won't regret it.
 

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