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Source Audio suggestions thread

#107
gregmon79 said:
Will us existing OFD owners have the opportunity to send to y'all to get modded possibly?? If if ever happened that is.....
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As noted, it is going to be an option in the Hub Manager to update the pedal firmware so that it could change from being a Bass OFD to a Guitar OFD. (not too much special work). It would not be a switch on the pedal itself. That would take lots of work, and it is not clear that we should do this. Hope this is better than nothing!
 
#108
rsmith601 said:
As noted, it is going to be an option in the Hub Manager to update the pedal firmware so that it could change from being a Bass OFD to a Guitar OFD. (not too much special work). It would not be a switch on the pedal itself. That would take lots of work, and it is not clear that we should do this. Hope this is better than nothing!
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I mean, speaking as one who does not yet own an OFD (but plans on soon purchasing one) and as an intermediate guitar player, that sounds like it would be pretty freaking cool, if you did decide it to be worth the time/effort.
 
#109
While we've got a thread going.....



I've tried twice now to create a cable that will let me use a standard expression pedal (I.E. Moog EP-2) with the "Sensor In" jacks on the SB2 line. Roger has sent me a few emails and I'm sure it's my shotty solder skills, but one from the factory would be AWESOME. I realize it might fight the Dual Expression, but I'd pay enough for a couple that a hefty profit would be no problem.



It'd take 5 minutes to design, and sell em for $15-$20 a pop? It'd be good for all, methinks! ;)
 
#110
enjoi1018 said:
While we've got a thread going.....

I've tried twice now to create a cable that will let me use a standard expression pedal (I.E. Moog EP-2) with the "Sensor In" jacks on the SB2 line. Roger has sent me a few emails and I'm sure it's my shotty solder skills, but one from the factory would be AWESOME. I realize it might fight the Dual Expression, but I'd pay enough for a couple that a hefty profit would be no problem.

It'd take 5 minutes to design, and sell em for $15-$20 a pop? I'd be good for all, methinks! ;)
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Some good news on this. On March 3rd Brett from Analog Devices (as seen in many SA NAMM videos) will be joining our engineering team. I am going to ask him to work on this right away!
 
#112
Nobody yet makes a good octave multi fx unit. One where multiple types of Octaver pedals are accurately emulated and improved. Wouldn't be awesome to be able to take the functionality of a POG but dial in the basic tone of a MXR? Optional warm analogue vs clean digital octave sounds...all with kick ass tracking. I'm sure there's a lot of scope here for bassist and guitarists
 
#113
The more everyone is talking about a multi for an octave peaks my interest as well. A lot. I used to have a mini POG as many may know and regret flipping it every day. I was using an OC2 for a while but now use a pitch shift patch in the zoom 60b. One of the main reasons I have yet to grab another mini POG was because it's not the cheapest pedal around and it hasn't been high on my priority list. But I've used all the main octave pedals out there with the exception of the aggie. I liked the taste of all of them for different reasons. It think it would be awesome to have a multi octave box to have at least two presets at my feet. Having the chance to have a micro POG and an OC2 and maybe even a pitch shift would be so convenient. It would be great to have all those tasty octaves in one box and have the luxury of having at least the 2 presets at my feet. That's without having the HUB which would give you even more presets at your feet.
 
#114
It makes a lot of sense. The ability to EQ the octave signal independently of the clean signal just like in the OFD would fit right in.

I wonder if the multi-wave techniue of separating the signal into ten sections and then mixing them back together again could play into this?
 
#116
There's also shifting down just the harmonic content, ie. an octave down without the lower note from shifting the fundamental, as a way of fattening up the sound. Octave as tone enhancer.

Separately, adding a high-pass filter to the octave sound to protect the amp would help as well.
 
#117
ryansalmond said:
There's also shifting down just the harmonic content, ie. an octave down without the lower note from shifting the fundamental, as a way of fattening up the sound. Octave as tone enhancer.

Separately, adding a high-pass filter to the octave sound to protect the amp would help as well.
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Oh heck yeah! Have a HPF on there as well like where the noise gate is on the OFD. Oh man!
 
#118
The multi-octaver idea still has me thinking.

The akai unibass is an effect that is ripe for modelling since (so far as I know) it's discontinued and over valued on the used market. On the other hand, it's a bit much for companies like Line6 or Zoom to model I think. Seems like it would suit Source Audio's strong points just right though.

In terms of adding features to flesh out a multi-octave pedal, what about a bit crusher? Would only require one control (not talking about sample rate reduction). Like the auto-tune, could work well as part of an octave signal with an unaffected signal in parallel, low bit settings in particular (5 or 4 bits), since they gate out too quickly to be used on their own, and yet otherwise have (I think) the best tone.
 
#119
I think someone mentioned a compressor earlier- Another idea would be compression that would be impractical in normal analog form- Like a four or five band compressor with variable crossover points.
As extravagant as that may sound, I've done experiments with compressor plug-ins in my laptop and found that picking certain narrow bands to compress and boost heavily (say one band somewhere in the low-mids and one band in the high mids) while only compressing other parts of the signal mildly, can result in some really amazing, yet practical sounds. A very musical way of getting whatever voicing and coloration you want.
 

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