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Soundblox pro multiwave bass distortion

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Deftones86

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May 16, 2013
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#1
Anyone that owns this, give me your take on it as I am about to come into possesion of one. The reviews ive seen are good, but I sometimes play with a pick so im wondering if any pick players have experience with this pedal.
 
#4
It won't sound like any other distortion you have heard before. The way the MWBD distorts each of the frequency components of your signal give the pedal a very unique sound. If you are looking for bread and butter distortion, wait a few more weeks until the OFD Micro modeler comes out.
 
#7
I have a Fuzzrocious Demon as my OD. The multiwave doesn't need anything, but I prefer to have a couple different voicing options on hand. I use the MWBD for swells, textures, and when paired with the Orbital Modulator, it is synthy heaven. Here is an old "How To" video I made for some friends. I talk for a bit, but you can get the general idea.
 
#8
You can get some of those grinding rock distortion sounds out of it, but as zwkoch mentioned...the Multiwave is its own monster. When I put this video together of it, I was deliberately trying to address some of the questions people had over whether or not it can be a good rock distortion:

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#9
It does a whole bunch of things most distortion pedals can't. It has alot of very unique features and this leads one to use it for alot of things other than distortion..

It's SOOOO tweakable , but has to be kind of coaxed to do traditional types of distortion sounds. But, if you are a patient dude and try a billion different things on it, and keep dialing them in the mix as you go, you can come up with a bunch of cool things and save them. I've been able to get all kinds of more traditional sounds out of it. It takes alot of tweaking, don't be afraid to dial in (or out) crazy EQ curves and then blend that curve in gradually. This, combined with carefully going through all the different sounds, can come up with some traditional sounding tones out of some unexpected "effect types" on the pedal, if the more usual suspects (single band normal, etc) aren't working for you.

Most of the sounds, though, have this kind of synthy Source Audio "sound" to it that's hard to describe. It's a unique kind of sound. Bassists seem to firmly like it or not.

The real strength of this pedal, though, is it's versatility. I have used it as an emergency (clean) preamp (for keyboards!) , a clean boost, a solo octave up, a volume pedal, a crazy synthy wah, as well as traditional-type distortion, even a kind of poor-man's B3k simulation, and a kind of Wolly Mammoth imitation. It's not like the thing NAILS this sound or that sound, it wasn't really made to emulate other pedals. It's definitely got it's own sound. But can be dialed into the mix easier than alot of pedals. It also plays well with any other dirt I've tried before or after.

Live, people love the sound. It took me a long time to get a handle on it. There's a bass effects snob that comes around once in awhile and he raves on and on about my distortion sound.

I'm pretty much a quiet, non-confrontational dude, but this pedal turns me into a face-melting sonic thug
 
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#10
The thing that I liked the most was the ability to use an expression pedal to go between too types of distortion, which is something unique and useful. Packed full of lots of good sounds, HOWEVER, they are digital and for me not very organic. The pro has a large foot print which was a factor in why I sold mine. If you need lots of different sounds in one pedal, this does it well.
 
#13
Fro 20 said:
It does a whole bunch of things most distortion pedals can't. It has alot of very unique features and this leads one to use it for alot of things other than distortion..

It's SOOOO tweakable , but has to be kind of coaxed to do traditional types of distortion sounds. But, if you are a patient dude and try a billion different things on it, and keep dialing them in the mix as you go, you can come up with a bunch of cool things and save them. I've been able to get all kinds of more traditional sounds out of it. It takes alot of tweaking, don't be afraid to dial in (or out) crazy EQ curves and then blend that curve in gradually. This, combined with carefully going through all the different sounds, can come up with some traditional sounding tones out of some unexpected "effect types" on the pedal, if the more usual suspects (single band normal, etc) aren't working for you.

Most of the sounds, though, have this kind of synthy Source Audio "sound" to it that's hard to describe. It's a unique kind of sound. Bassists seem to firmly like it or not.

The real strength of this pedal, though, is it's versatility. I have used it as an emergency (clean) preamp (for keyboards!) , a clean boost, a solo octave up, a volume pedal, a crazy synthy wah, as well as traditional-type distortion, even a kind of poor-man's B3k simulation, and a kind of Wolly Mammoth imitation. It's not like the thing NAILS this sound or that sound, it wasn't really made to emulate other pedals. It's definitely got it's own sound. But can be dialed into the mix easier than alot of pedals. It also plays well with any other dirt I've tried before or after.

Live, people love the sound. It took me a long time to get a handle on it. There's a bass effects snob that comes around once in awhile and he raves on and on about my distortion sound.

I'm pretty much a quiet, non-confrontational dude, but this pedal turns me into a face-melting sonic thug
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Hi

I also have this pedal. Its a little overwhelming. Would you mind sharing your settings?
I would appreciate it
 
#14
You can get a standard distortion sound if you find the sweet spot tweaking it. I've found in between the first multiband setting when coupled with the clean boost, boost eq on low frequencies and play around with the dry/wet ratios to taste. The single band distortion on its first position can achieve this too, but I found it gets a little lost between two guitars. And increasing the drive and wet output just makes it to synthy to sound like a classic distortion.
 
#17
Just plug in an expression pedal in the middle jack. One end of the exp. will give you the preset at the red LED and the other end the preset at the green LED. (toggle red/green bank with the little black button to the left. Remember to save). In between you'll get a yellow light and an in-between sound.
 
#18
Hmmm. Maybe I am over thinking this.
If I have a sound in PRESET 1 BANK A and I want to morph to PRESET 2 BANK , how do I get that to happen.

Do I go to PRESET I and move the EXP pedal to the UP position and save it. Then go to PRESET 2 put the EXP pedal and move the DOWN position and save it?
 
#19
You can only morph between presets that uses the same LED, 1/4, 2/5 and 3/6.
I think If you plug in an expression pedal, you will find it very intuitive - you'll see the LED change color and indicate where you are in-between the presets. There is no special way to activate the expression pedal - just plug it in and it will morph between the current preset and whatever is saved on the same spot in the other bank.
 

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