Zvex: Ringtone/Ooh Wah II/Tremorama

I've only seen the vids. The ringtone looks like the most unusable pedal I've seen. It's like set it up for one song and never dream about using it elsewhere.

 

oh and you might check the classifieds on harmony central, the gear page, or musictoyz..

 

I have used both the Ooh Wah II and the Ringtone on bass. (I bought the Ooh Wah and borrowed the Ringtone.) The Ooh Wah was terrible, it's only suited to higher pitched instruments IMO, and I've heard better random filters. I sold it within a week. The Ringtone was awesome on bass, a really killer sound, and I intend to buy one eventually. The only downside is, as grygrx points out, it's an extreme novelty sound that really can only get used in like one song per record. But that one song will sound extremely F-ing cool.

 

If one could hook up a footpedal to modulate the carrier frequency as well as the presets I'd be sold. I have a SD Mold Spore and while the sweeping is great I really wish I could have presets for certain Keys/Chords.

 

What you CAN do with the Ringtone is set up the various stages to frequencies that sound good for specific keys/chords, and step through them using the tap switch.

 

+1 This. Incredibly useful, especially for a tiny unit with almost no controls. The step feature can get crazy. Definitely nice on bass, but the tap tempo version is a must for that. Great.

Tried the wah. Crap.

Had a tremorama for years. It was stolen, sadly, but it wasn't super useful (except with a Teaser Stallion with the feedback switch; pure noise chaos). I was trying to sell it before the theft. Zack said there were no plans to make a tap tempo version then. I'm not sure I would even buy that now. That system just doest work as a tremolo. Pass.

And don't get me started on the "Seek-blah" line and that stupid copper plate... Not his best work (the Machine is!).