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PYPB XXXIII - Effects are STOOPID
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Ok got a pic of my current working board. The board itself is an ancient SKB I got at a pawn shop for $50. One of the wall warts is for the SKB, the other for the MuTron III+. The other 6 pedals use up all the power taps the SKB provides, and I have the Qtron+, SP MKII, OC-2, and EP clean boost to get on the board, so it seems I need to upgrade the SKB.
Sic, Sic, Sic!!
The amazing sound coupled with the fine tuning features makes this pedal totally worth the extra bread.
modes, trim pots, clean volume, octave up volume, octave down volume.
Would only sell her after I acquired an Octron2.
Sic, Sic, Sic!!
The amazing sound coupled with the fine tuning features makes this pedal totally worth the extra bread.
modes, trim pots, clean volume, octave up volume, octave down volume.
Would only sell her after I acquired an Octron2.
The Octron looks really cool. How is the tracking below A 5th fret E string? Also, what do all of the switches do?
Thanks
I've changed my boards around, and will post the "bigger all-round/EBS heavy"-board in a while, when it's done. Meanwhile, these pedals just screamed for a little board of their own. Sound a-ma-zing too...
I would say excellent, but I am pretty sure it gets hairy with most units way down low. I have noticed with clean blend at 3:00 and Octave down around 12:00 (just to beef things up) it sounds great all along the neck. The more you take away the Clean and boost only the Octave down it gets a little finicky. But compared to anything Digital this thing KILLS!!
Controls:
Octave UP MODE
There are two modes, Mode 1 and Mode 2. The mode is selected by the black switch - move it to the position you desire. Mode 2 is the default setting.
Mode 1 - This is great for the type of sounds associated with many vintage Octave-up units (Octavia). In this mode you can get many strange distorted overtones, similar to a ring
modulator as well as a sweet upper octave overtone.
Mode 2 - By rolling off high frequencies before the octave doubler, Mode 2 delivers a bold, pure analog upper octave. No need to role your GTR tone back for better octave sounds.
Octave DOWN tone - This trimmer lets you dial between two different resonant tones. Full clockwise - The bottom end is emphasized producing a full, fat octave down tone. Great for clean tones, mixed with clean guitar for the bass/guitar sound.
Full counter clockwise - Midrange is boosted. Better for adding a lower octave note without rattling the speakers. Also great for feeding a distortion or overdrive pedal.
Octave UP Drive - At Minimum there's very little sustain and gain. Around 1/3 to center is the normal setting. At Maximum you get the most sustain. Note about Octave UP - Analog
upper octave is a product of distortion, there is no way to get a "clean" tone as one might expect from a digital pitch shifter.
Octave UP tone - Controls how bright the Octave UP tone is. At max, you may experience feedback and whistling under high gain settings (back it off). Normal setting is around center. It's a smooth treble roll-off that lets you dial in an upper octave sound that's not shrill, like many other octave-up effects.
alot of nice boards since my last post!
this is my backup board which I made from the extra pedals that I didn't sell/couldn't sell haha.
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basically just an ikea gorm board with a wah, os-2, coolcat tremolo, green rhino od, Formula no.5 Amp sim/OD, T-rex Squeezer comp, powered by a belcat power distributor (which is powered by the t-rex power supply that came with the compressor).
this is my backup board which I made from the extra pedals that I didn't sell/couldn't sell haha.
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basically just an ikea gorm board with a wah, os-2, coolcat tremolo, green rhino od, Formula no.5 Amp sim/OD, T-rex Squeezer comp, powered by a belcat power distributor (which is powered by the t-rex power supply that came with the compressor).
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it's like a cheap DC Brick- over here its about 2/3 the price of a DC Brick. However the wall wart stopped working after a day or two and the replacement made the total cost the same as a DC Brick haha.
Courtesy a crappy cell phone pic, here's my board as of half an hour ago 
And with this my pedal GAS is quelled, at least for a while.
And with this my pedal GAS is quelled, at least for a while.
Love that pic. Something about it's texture... I don't know anything about altering pics so I can't say for sure what it is but whatever you did to it looks great!
I think that I'm going the Ikea gorm route for my new board like you, Kester. My PT2 is great but it still doesn't hold everything that I want to use. I was debating about just adding a PT Jr, but the gorm thang can be got cheap as hell...and big! A 30" x 20" board painted pink would be so obnoxious that I may just have to do it.
Lots of great boards in here, BTW. Something about the look of those Octrons...damn. Great piece of gear, that.
Lots of great boards in here, BTW. Something about the look of those Octrons...damn. Great piece of gear, that.
Here's mine, it's a mess at the moment and not all pedals are in the loop:
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Crappy iphone pic, sorry.
Anyway, it goes like this: P-Bass > Phat Phuk B > Fulltone OCD > TFR > EB Volume Pedal jr. > EHX Memory Toy > VT Bass > Amp. (tuner is in the tuner out of the VP)
At least that's what my setup was with my old Hartke amp. I would use the VT Bass as a preamp. I'm now trying to adjust to my new SVT-VR. As it is, I don't need the VT Bass anymore, and I'm considering downsizing the board.
I'll probably remove the Memory Toy and VT Bass, and just keep the dirt pedals. I can use the Memory Toy and Flanger and Rat together with my Oxford Pedal as a guitar board. I'll keep the VT Bass for recording at home.
Anyway, I'm loving enhancement the Phat Phuk B is giving to the OCD, it really makes up for the slight low end loss. In the end I have a really nice, tubey OD with my SVT VR and 810 at any volume (can't really crank the SVT to get that sound unless I want to blow everyone away lol)
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Crappy iphone pic, sorry.
Anyway, it goes like this: P-Bass > Phat Phuk B > Fulltone OCD > TFR > EB Volume Pedal jr. > EHX Memory Toy > VT Bass > Amp. (tuner is in the tuner out of the VP)
At least that's what my setup was with my old Hartke amp. I would use the VT Bass as a preamp. I'm now trying to adjust to my new SVT-VR. As it is, I don't need the VT Bass anymore, and I'm considering downsizing the board.
I'll probably remove the Memory Toy and VT Bass, and just keep the dirt pedals. I can use the Memory Toy and Flanger and Rat together with my Oxford Pedal as a guitar board. I'll keep the VT Bass for recording at home.
Anyway, I'm loving enhancement the Phat Phuk B is giving to the OCD, it really makes up for the slight low end loss. In the end I have a really nice, tubey OD with my SVT VR and 810 at any volume (can't really crank the SVT to get that sound unless I want to blow everyone away lol)
Here's mine, just a little home build. It has smaller dimensions than the pedal train Nano! (13"x4") The portability is super convenient (it fits into my gig bag), and there's a good number of sounds on it. I cranked the mod trimpot on the memory toy way high so on extremely low delay/zero feedback settings it acts as a chorus, so I have two choices of octave (OC-2 or the octave setting on the BSW) fuzz, various assorted synth filters, delay and chorus. Sweet.
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