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Southampton Pedals show some love thread!!

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The whole approach to the Utility Knife was to create a great sounding modulation pedal without the bells and whistles of a super tweakable mod box. Usable straight out of the package in any setting. Low profile. And a price tag to match.

There are major players in the industry making incredibly versatile modulation pedals that we can't compete with. However, we think there is a serious lack of HIGH QUALITY affordable multi fx.

Great idea and explanation right here. Not sure there is a pedal with these criteria currently out. SA Orbital perhaps but its a bells and whistles pedal that isn't the easiest to use on the fly (not knocking it, great sounds in this box). We should be about two weeks out if everything is on schedule. Has the price been decided on these yet?
 
Soon to be Ictineo owner here.

Hello again, this time as an Ictineo owner. Now, after two tries, I understand the appeal of the Submarine Designer and thus the Ictineo. It uses a "fuzzy" approach to equalization, not a surgical one. In a way it should be a more natural method for most players than, say in the extreme, a parametric equalizer is. Quirky, but natural.

But it was only after reading the user manual for the original pedal that I got the design's rationale and usefulness. No-one could without the manual. :) C'mon... two complementary 'aggregated architecture' tone controls, one a tilt EQ? Brilliant, but very hard to discover deterministically within the whole system. Anyway it was for me.

Also, nobody (and I mean no-one whosoever) possibly could guess that each toggle's "SUB" position is meant to be sonically equivalent to the voice of the first Submarine pedal.

Trial and error discovery of useful settings is one thing. Deterministic sound sculpting with a full apprehension of the controls' systemic function is another. It's that last one that I wanted.

So, instead of a link to the archival Zeibek website, attached here is a copy of the original manual, for your reference.
 

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Hello again, this time as an Ictineo owner. Now, after two tries, I understand the appeal of the Submarine Designer and thus the Ictineo. It uses a "fuzzy" approach to equalization, not a surgical one. In a way it should be a more natural method for most players than, say in the extreme, a parametric equalizer is. Quirky, but natural.

But it was only after reading the user manual for the original pedal that I got the design's rationale and usefulness. No-one could without the manual. :) C'mon... two complementary 'aggregated architecture' tone controls, one a tilt EQ? Brilliant, but very hard to discover deterministically within the whole system. Anyway it was for me.

Also, nobody (and I mean no-one whosoever) possibly could guess that each toggle's "SUB" position is meant to be sonically equivalent to the voice of the first Submarine pedal.

Trial and error discovery of useful settings is one thing. Deterministic sound sculpting with a full apprehension of the controls' systemic function is another. It's that last one that I wanted.

So, instead of a link to the archival Zeibek website, attached here is a copy of the original manual, for your reference.

thank you for posting the manual, and for the encouragement to read through it! Though I have to say, the manual raised as many questions as it answered... just one example: "Beyond the star symbol, it enhances the extreme point of the curve is set, wherever it may be."

I think this is saying that the two lower toggle switches (not the bass boost or the boost, which function as you'd expect them to) are used to set the frequency points at which the Tone (tilt) and Body (mid scoop) operate. Seems that could be communicated more clearly right on the pedal...

Time to play with my Ictineo a bit more! Regardless of whether I understand what it's doing, I do find myself leaving it On most of the time...
 
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