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Source Audio OFD

#321
MonsterBass101 said:
Has anyone here successfully gotten in the ballpark of the Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz with the OFD? The Companion Fuzz is notably the fuzz used by Greenwood in Radiohead. Here is a clip! Fuzz kicks in right about 3:03. Thanks so much!

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I have a companion fuzz and the track that you posted sounds like has a lot of dry mixed in with it. either that or they added a ton of bass to it in the mix.
 
#323
MonsterBass101 said:
Has anyone here successfully gotten in the ballpark of the Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz with the OFD? The Companion Fuzz is notably the fuzz used by Greenwood in Radiohead. Here is a clip! Fuzz kicks in right about 3:03. Thanks so much!

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The Gated Fuzz with the gain around 3 O'clock would come the closest. Next would be the Octave Fuzz with gain on max, though it's native tone is much higher voiced than in that clip, but you could boost the bass and cut the highs and get a less standard sounding fuzz tone blended with the LoRetain blend.
 
#325
aledeville said:
What?!? Could I control the OFD with the M9? How so?
Now this is getting interesting...
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We are not the experts on this, although perhaps we should be!

My understanding is that the M9 can be programmed to send program change commands through the MIDI out port. If this is the case, then those commands can be sent to the Hub and call up "scenes".

If you search in the thread that is dedicated to the Hub, you will find more information on this point. I remember a TB member talking about plusses and minuses.

Hope this helps!
 
#326
I have a Line6 M5 and X3 Live and it works to change Hub scenes since it sends out a matching MIDI PC (patch change) command with each patch you select/recall on the Line6 device.

One potential downside is the Line6 boxes also send out MIDI CC (control change) depending on which, if any, effects are enabled in the Line6 patch you just selected. These are hard coded into the Line6 boxes, you cannot modify them, nor disable them.

Similarly the Hub will utilize inbound MIDI CC to control various parameters on the various SB2 pedals. Currently these are hard coded, you cannot modify them, nor disable them.

So, it's possible that the Delay effect on your Line6 box might happen to be mapped to the Bypass on your OFD, thus disabling the OFD. I'm not saying that's the case, I'm just giving a potential (theoretical) example. All of the Line6 MIDI CC is clearly documented, as well as all of the Source Audio SB2 MIDI CC. So it would be easy to cross reference what might conflict in that regard.

For the Line6 M5 you can just set a Volume Pedal effect in the Line6 and I believe it has no corresponding Source Audio MIDI CC. So then the M5 functions purely as a MIDI controller (and tuner). As a bonus the Line6 M5 supports patch names. Downside is it only supports 24 patches and is slightly larger than a Tech21 MIDI Mouse.

You can also send MIDI PC from any other device that supports sending MIDI PC. I've used the following devices:

* Line6 M5
* Line6 X3 Live
* Roland GR-55 guitar synth
* Roland TD-6 V-drum brain
* Reaper
* A variety of computer based MIDI tools such as MIDISwing

Lots of options. Don't let MIDI confuse you, it's simply a communication protocol. Once you understand the basics it all makes sense. Somewhere there has to be a MIDI 101 beginners video on YouTube or something that explains it all as simply as possible.
 
#328
yaksonator said:
I love the noise gate on the OFD. Works great and is probably the best one I've played with. Opens and closes just right on all settings.
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That's what I'm sayin!!! I can't say that I've ever really worked with a gate but I do know that I wasn't using it at first when I got the OFD, but after practice on mon I consciously turned the gate on low to med and it worked great. We could actually hear each other speaking to each other between songs. Before it was both the guitarist and me with our dirts on creating all kinds of noise. Now it's just him haha he did get one of those desomators recently and it works great. When he uses it.
 
#329
gregmon79 said:
That's what I'm sayin!!! I can't say that I've ever really worked with a gate but I do know that I wasn't using it at first when I got the OFD, but after practice on mon I consciously turned the gate on low to med and it worked great. We could actually hear each other speaking to each other between songs. Before it was both the guitarist and me with our dirts on creating all kinds of noise. Now it's just him haha he did get one of those desomators recently and it works great. When he uses it.
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I actually changed the gate from "medium" to "low" at practice this week because I realized that if you turn the volume down on your bass, you aren't sending enough signal to the pedal, and it will cut out; "low" is working fine for me now.
 
#330
Aladinsane1969 said:
I actually changed the gate from "medium" to "low" at practice this week because I realized that if you turn the volume down on your bass, you aren't sending enough signal to the pedal, and it will cut out; "low" is working fine for me now.
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You should also notice that the low gate closes slower than the med/high gate which should let more nuances in your playing through.
 
#333
I find the high gate almost unusable with my passive basses, the low or medium are where the magic is at for pretty much every bass/pedal combo before the OFD.

When I first got the pedal I immediately went to gated fuzz with a high gate and it was kind of unpredictable in a cool way, I'm sure I'll find a use for eventually.
 
#334
I've been using it based on the type of distortion I'm using for the song. Heavier, I'm on medium, lighter distortion I'm on the lighter gate. The heavy setting I've used for extreme fuzzed out tones. Really versatile and I'd like to experiment with more settings and other pedals before. Great feature on an incredible pedal. :)
 
#335
I was using the med gate for a stacked diesel dawg clone and the TS9000 on the OFD. It worked wonderfully. I put my trusty ODB3 back on in the same loop as the OFD and they stack well together so far. I won't know until our next show next Thursday. Another trial by fire but at least I know the OFD levels better now. And I'm pretty familiar with the way the ODB3 stacks with other dirts by now. It's funny, all the dirt pedals I've gone through the last year, I keep putting my ODB3 back on my board. It's like my constant. Well, it is as long as the B7K is on my board. I really dig how the ODB3 stacks with any other dirt pedal. It's gives any of them a dirty boost with some extra umpf. It really helps to put a little more low end back in if any gets taken away from any other dirt pedal. I don't have to worry about that really with the OFD. It's pretty ideal for me and our music.
 
#336
I like the gates on the OFD as well! I've never used them in the past, but with more aggressive fuzz settings I'm finding it very useful! It's less of an issue at home practicing or in the studio, but being able to control feedback and noise at gig volume is great! It's letting me use fuzz more often.
 
#337
I used the OFD all night for a practice with a mellower band, running mild fuzz tones. At the end of the night when I was left to my own devices I cranked up the Raton into the Brimstone XD-1 and oh lord what a sweet tone!
 

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