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Pedals you wanted ...until you tried them.

#223
crguti said:
Wren and Cuff Pickle Pie B & Darkglass Duality.
Two of the 'best' bass fuzz according to TB. Both noisy (it required to re-adjust my noise gate) and i couldn't make it work with band mates' heavy guitars. I returned them both.
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I felt that way about the 5th gear...I was looking for some transparent edge and I couldn't moderate it down enough not to just sound like a mess to me. It lasted on my board less than a week. It's amazing how TB's ears all hear things differently.
 
#224
jdc866 said:
I’ve heard good things about the 3 leaf audio octabvre but I’ve yet to try it. Although in thinking about it, I imagine any octave pedal will inherently sound a bit digital...it’s a digital tone relative to the input, so would be hard to have a non-digital tone in the octaves.

Thought I’d mention it as I haven’t seen that pedal in this thread yet
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Not sure what you mean by digital tone - nothing digital at all in the octabvre or most other OC2 style octavers. Or are you just using it as a word to describe the sound quality?
 
#225
DDXdesign said:
Not sure what you mean by digital tone - nothing digital at all in the octabvre or most other OC2 style octavers. Or are you just using it as a word to describe the sound quality?
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I have the OC-3 and the generated tones certainly have a digital sound to them. The octaves are generated by circuits, so there’s an inherent digital quality to them, any that I’ve heard anyway. Such like if I use an octave pedal and output only the generated tone, the note has a slight synth sound to it versus if I played the same note on my bass without the pedal. (I.e. C3 fretted, through pedal is C2. Vs just playing C2 on the bass without a pedal)

All that to say, I’m certainly no electronics expert. Just commenting what I hear with my ears.
 
#226
jdc866 said:
I have the OC-3 and the generated tones certainly have a digital sound to them. The octaves are generated by circuits, so there’s an inherent digital quality to them, any that I’ve heard anyway. Such like if I use an octave pedal and output only the generated tone, the note has a slight synth sound to it versus if I played the same note on my bass without the pedal. (I.e. C3 fretted, through pedal is C2. Vs just playing C2 on the bass without a pedal)

All that to say, I’m certainly no electronics expert. Just commenting what I hear with my ears.
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Ah, that's it then - the OC-3 IS digital, as opposed to the OC-2 and others like it.

Edited to add: it's funny, the analog ones sound synthy, while the digital ones tend to be more faithful to what the "real note" would sound like, on the down-octave at least - take the POG for instance, the C2 note generated by the POG when you play C3 will sound more like a real C2 than the one out of the OC2. Octave up, though, that's a whole different ballgame.
 
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#227
BurningSkies said:
I felt that way about the 5th gear...I was looking for some transparent edge and I couldn't moderate it down enough not to just sound like a mess to me. It lasted on my board less than a week. It's amazing how TB's ears all hear things differently.
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indeed...5th gear is one of those I don't what I did before it was on my board pedals. It's the gas needed to bump my live tone over the mess of loops I work with when solo and the always on that cuts through the mix making my tone shine and be bold and heard when playing with others.


...similarly, your thoughts on the Particle are opposite to mine (I'm using a particle v2 and it has presets).
 
#228
cosmicevan said:
indeed...5th gear is one of those I don't what I did before it was on my board pedals. It's the gas needed to bump my live tone over the mess of loops I work with when solo and the always on that cuts through the mix making my tone shine and be bold and heard when playing with others.


...similarly, your thoughts on the Particle are opposite to mine (I'm using a particle v2 and it has presets).
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The TC Spark (bigger version) did just what I was hoping the 5th gear would do...and I have the gain set almost to the minimum. When I dig in it has enough cut and hair to do what I want but works well with playing dynamics.

The Particle would be great if I had hands free and had it at 'table height' and was fun to play with at home but definitely didn't work in a live context at all.
 
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#230
BurningSkies said:
The TC Spark (bigger version) did just what I was hoping the 5th gear would do...and I have the gain set almost to the minimum. When I dig in it has enough cut and hair to do what I want but works well with playing dynamics.

The Particle would be great if I had hands free and had it at 'table height' and was fun to play with at home but definitely didn't work in a live context at all.
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we have different contexts ;)
 
#235
oysteivi said:
My drummer is lobbying for me to buy a bass synth, so I'm looking at the EHX Bass Micro Synth, which I've low-key wanted for many years anyway. My brain tells me I'll hate it, but my heart says gogogo!
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Many bass synths are just varieties of an electronic bass-fart box...so yeah, you have to do some soul-searching to find the toots you like or find one that does 'other stuff' that you dig.
 
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#236
LaklandLaksNADA said:
Vt bass and vt bass deluxe.

I Gassed so hard for the deluxe then sold it within two weeks of trying it.
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Wow, I didn't expect to see this one pop up here.

oysteivi said:
My drummer is lobbying for me to buy a bass synth, so I'm looking at the EHX Bass Micro Synth, which I've low-key wanted for many years anyway. My brain tells me I'll hate it, but my heart says gogogo!
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I'm not affiliated with this seller in any way >
For Sale - Price drop! Electro-Harmonix EHX Bass Micro Synth
 
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#238
I really wanted the Noble Preamp until I tried it. Now it didn't sound bad at all but I just didn't get the praise everyone throws on it for live use. Compared it to my Nordstrand Starlifter Preamp/DI and I thought the Starlifter was far better in a full band mix. I really wanted it to work for me also because of the built in power features to power my other pedals.
 
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