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I've been interested in their Phaseomatic for a phaser, that can kinda do chorus if you dial it down. I love phasers, and a tube phaser, get outta town! The thing holding me back is the price and the real estate. It's a HUGE pedal for a novelty effect that I don't use much for gigs. But I bet it sounds awesome.
I'm able to get better and more useable tones from the Strom King than any of the Youtube videos. But I'm still puzzled by the shape control. I tend to keep it near minimum. The kick circuit is not dramatic, generally have it engaged. Right now, the Storm King into the DCX Bass is a nice combo.
One of these days, I'm gonna buy myself a Stingray or G&L and string it with fresh stainless steel rounds, just to explore pedals from that perspective, too ;-)
A very astute assessment, as always
. It’s interesting on its own; with the bias knobs both fully CCW (i.e. allowing the full voltage across whichever part/s of the circuit is/are gated), the volume controls are very clean, but their interaction does affect the EQ of the output signal, especially the relative strength of the mid frequencies, which in turn affects the character of the clipping, or perhaps more appropriately, starvation produced by the bias controls. I tried it at both 9 and 18 volts, and prefer it at 18 (fortunately, although I admit my own bias knob is turned up a little here, as the capacity to run under 18V was a selling point for me); the effect of the bias controls happens much earlier in their sweep at 18V, and the volume may be even a little cleaner or perhaps brighter.
It has always ever been thus for me. That true, optical pulse/throb is just cool as duck, and nothing quite matches it. At faster speeds and higher depth, it can do that choppy tremolo thing, which is also something I can't get out of any other modulation pedal. May have to consider chucking it back on one of my boards soon...
I don't know but I remember he was suspended a while ago when Nathan aka SushiBox was suspended, too.
The Tech 21 Bass Boost Chorus was my trusty go-to for several years for chorusing and detune sounds. I mostly used detune in place of chorus, which that pedal does quite well- you can use both together too which is cool. I liked the tone and features much better than the IE Polytope I used to have (to me it was too cold sounding- to be fair this was an older Polytope and they have updated it in some ways since including adding tone control).
They’re quite different. Some choruses can get pretty univibe-ish, and I would put the Echo Fix in the group of those that can almost get there, but really only at one end of its spectrum. They feel really different, as much as anything, even if you’re getting a credible sound, as you say. A phaser with a mix knob might get closer still.
Forgot that I had the Jam Waterfall Bass at one time. It is also a great chorus, but no longer have it.
Mr. Murdoque does have a Chase Bliss BS Wombtone inbound at this very moment to try out.
One problem you’ll never have with the Echo Fix is lack of headroom. It seems to be impossible to clip it. I’ve given it 40 dB of clean gain from my API LLX, and nary a whimper.
I don't know which pedal I used, but I wanted to see the clipping light come alive, so I fed it a maxed out pedal - I suppose it was either the Storm King or the Prunes & Custard, but it could have been something else - the red light came on, and it completely messed up everything before the comp, so I cannot say if it's sounding any different when clipping, but it took a fair amount of dB to get it there.
