#63

Have you taken a look at the amazing Empress Echosystem? Dual stereo delays including their delay+reverb gives you a ton of flexibility on delay vs. reverb.

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#64

I really like your post and your taste for exquisite guitar pedals!
I am currently using H9, Diamond Delays, Strymon stuff and would like to try the Red Panda Tensor and the Earthquaker Avalanche Run.

But Iā€™m not sure if the Chase Bliss stuff is a bit over the top for me. Maybe the Blooperā€¦

#65

Thanks! Got the Blooper too! But I tend to save that for guitar so far so that it forces me to use my Octatrack more for synths/drum machines.

Butā€¦Blooper does a lot of what the OT does and is WAYYYYY easier to get a handle on.

#66

Oh, thats interesting! ( most of the time I am guitar player ^^) and the last weeks I was thinking about buying an OT again, ā€¦the 1st OT didnā€™t really fit my workflow, but to do OT stuff with Blooper sounds awesomeā€¦

#67

Have been messing with the Vongon Paragraphs today, which is a great sounding filter. Can sequence the gate with CV or midi. Pretty cool!

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#68

Hi, Iā€™m not sure if anyoneā€™s brought it up, but Iā€™ve been using the expression input on a Line6 M5 stompbox modeler with CV from a circuit mono station. The cool thing about this, is that the movement of the control pots on the pedal repeat with the CV pulse. Most of the the models have 5 parameters that could be modulated this way and the M5 has a mono input and stereo output, witch is great for the delay models.
The M5 is far from being great at anything, but having a way to modulate stuff like delay feedback with the push of a button and a pot sweep is fun.

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#69

I used to use Bigsky alongside my modular for some stereo plate reverb and occasionally ā€œBloomā€ and ā€œCloudā€, but have taken it out of my signal chain. One thing iā€™ve started implementing pretty much all the time is highpass filtering the signal that goes into the reverb and running that in parallel with the unfiltered, unreverbed sound. Tidies up the low-end SO MUCH, which is already a very dense part of the spectrum in my music. With this signal flow, itā€™s just easier to keep the reverb in euro format, next to the filter and mults.

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#70

Anyone here tried out the Boss EQ-200 with any synths? Iā€™m big on EQ and it looks really interesting. The fact that its stereo and can be run linked or in parallel seems really useful for being able to get more interesting stereo effects, or say using one channel as a master EQ and the second to EQ a feedback loop or as a tweakable FX send offers some interesting options for synths/electronics. patch recall is pretty handy and with midi control again offers some interesting possibilities. I guess you can change the center frequencies to a range that might be more suitable for synths than a lot of other EQ pedals which is also a plus. Curious if anyone else here has given it a shot, even with a guitar.

#72

Its been mentioned before but the DIYRE L2A is very helpful for getting more out of the fuzz and distortion pedals I already own. Some of them really donā€™t sound that good when running synths straight through them (especially a bass sound) due to the pickiness of analog fuzz guitar pedals and impedance. If anyone is looking to put some of their pedals to good use, the L2A is a good option.

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#73

I played around with a Mother 32, Moof Minifooger Delay, and Rat last night. The Rat with its filter control worked great for distorted acid sounds. The Minifooger Delay also seems tailor-made for synths. The sound didnā€™t get wimpy or weird when driven - in fact, the drive really bolsters the low end and added the right harmonics. Didnā€™t get splatty.

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#74

Paragraphs is a really great pedal to pair with the Lyra (I mean, with anything. But I really like it with the Lyra). I think heā€™s about to build another batch. Super nice dude.

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#75

I like my zoom ms-70CDR, as noted above itā€™s a ā€œmultistompā€ stereo in/out pedal and I picked one up on reverb for about $65. The firmware update added a ton more (50+ pedals more than the original ), I think that was last year. There are clones of red panda particle, strymon, ehx, boss, tc electronics, etc and you can chain together up to 6 virtual pedals

The only problem is having too many choices.

Iā€™m not a menu diver so i tend to pick one pedal option (I love the cave reverb echo , and the reverse delay and shimmer, and the particle ) at the beginning and mostly stick with it for each session

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#76

I also picked one of these up recently and am really enjoying it. the one thing I hadnā€™t really considered is that even while now it seems you can sort of hack the firmware to add them, you canā€™t fit ALL the available effects in the memory, so you arenā€™t getting the cab simulations or distortions like you do on the 50, which could have been quite nice to have for adding a bit more harmonics or drive and dirt - the dirtier effects on the 70 are the ones I find most interesting. I can see how it would be nice to have both the 70 and the 50, but at least things like distortion pedals are usually on the easier/cheaper side to clone or buy.

Iā€™m really not big on reverb, in fact I absolutely cannot stand the sound of most of the most popular reverb pedals (strymon, TC, so on). Maybe it sounds snobby but they have this very distinct sound and it always comes across the same to me - its the same as the ā€˜rings into cloudsā€™ thing, or ableton resonators, so on, where very quickly that single effect becomes the focus of the whole thing and makes for really uninteresting sound design. Luckily with the Zoom if you donā€™t have a ton of other pedals you can break it up a bit by chaining things in weird orders and adding some extra filtering somewhere down the line to get away from ā€œthat soundā€.

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#77

@faded @slowsounds hello, I used to own a zoom 70cdr, lovely pedal. have you ever used this? it runs in chrome, iirc

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#78

I havenā€™t tried this yet, but Iā€™ve seen it around.

I was a bit confused- for the MIDI function, has someone been able to find/document midi control for pedal parameters/functions? I know people have worked out the on/off/next functionality for a while now, but if I could use something like a patchblock to make parameter changes that would be fantastic.

#79

Incredible, I hadnā€™t seen this. Think thereā€™d be enough interest for a zoom ms 50 / 70 thread to discuss this and other tips / tricks of the ms line?

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#80

@faded Iā€™m glad you like it!!
Unfortunately, Iā€™ve been downsizing and sold most of my pedals this yearā€¦ but maybe others would be able to share ideas with you?

#81

interesting. Which ones would be remain?

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#82

Boss volume pedal > Korg Tuner > JOYO ACtone > Strymon TimeLine > Boss TR-2 > Ditto Looper.

Itā€™s been like that since December. Seriously tempted by the Blooper but I committed to a depth year!!

Sorry to sideline the thread. Back to the topic at handā€¦

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#84

Still have that hedra? How does work for you? Iā€™m considering one.