#593

Nope, I still love the Mimeophon. It’s just excellent in zone 0, and the overall character is great.

E520 has some nice delays, but so far, I’ve mostly stuck to its spectral and modulation/shifting effects. The October update is apparently adding a Karplus chord algorithm which should be fun.

I even added an FX Aid XL, which is fantastic and does have some worthy resonator/comb filter abilities, but I just don’t see myself ever getting tired of Mimeophon.

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#594

anyone else having this hissing issue this badly? not sure if it registers on the video but its a substantially loud “hissing” noise. it is not my gear or cables. such a bummer. i just got this off reverb :frowning:

#595

Yup, you’ve found what is being considered a feature rather a bug.

(Rather than reopen the old wound, yes, that’s “normal”)

#596

curse… i’ve been excited about buying this module for so long. I used a friend’s briefly at one point and it did not behave like this.

#597

Check your gain settings. It’s possible that you are getting noise you don’t need to be getting!

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#598

There’s no input on that test, so it shouldn’t be gain staging.
On mine, with no input, the noise level doesn’t change as the input level is adjusted.

#599

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=zBngOYMchq8&app=desktop This helped but didn’t eleminate the hiss. i’ll just have to add this “noise floor” to the rest of the dirt and dust balls on my real floor. :wink:

#600

Well of course, with no input it’s a 0 to something signal to noise ratio.

When there IS a signal, adjusting the input gain up and the output level down makes a difference. Enough that it generally isn’t a problem for most people.

#601

We all discussed this at length above.

The problem for me in a musical sense is not so much the noise floor (which is way too high in the dry signal for a piece of audio equipment these days). But rather the fixed gating algorithm with no hysteresis control which they force on the user. This means you get artifacts on the decay of abrupt and delicate sounds. Quite a dumb choice for a west coast designer. If I want a signal gated, I’ll put a good one on myself.

Otherwise the fx sounds great.

#602

I just got my Mimeophon yesterday. I love this module, it’s brilliant. Voltage control over everything, no weird keypress combos / menus, brilliant sounds across all the zones… love it.

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#603

The Mimeophon is my favorite delay in or out of the box. It just works so well on so many things. I’ve been using it lately to give color to kind of lifeless samples. It just makes everything sound vibey and great.

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#604

I was playing with one the other day at the shop. Key word play because it’s sooooo playable. Flick of the fingers and you’re in an all new type of fx.

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#605

Has anyone else had weird/unintended issues with sending faster clocks to Mimeophon for tightly sync’d delay effects? I was clocking it with 16th notes out of Pam’s New Workout and was hearing some repeats out of rhythm so I tried switching to a quarter note clock and lo and behold, it locked in perfectly :thinking:

#606

Can you post audio of this?

#607

ok this might be a lot more subtle than my previous post implied, but there is a difference!

and i could’ve sworn last night that i’d hear occasional repeats that were actually out of rhythm a bit more… :man_shrugging:

quarter note clock

sixteenth note clock

#608

Really loving my Mimeophon so far. Both for traditional delay duties and for compositional duties (send in something super simple, tempo sync’d with lots of modulation and you’ll have a whole army of sound dancing around your main input). One thing I struggle with though: I frequently get clicks and pops when I try to use the flip gate input. On my DLD this used to be an issue as well until 4ms released a firmware update with a short reverse cross fade time. I think it’s like 8ms but it’s helped the issue a lot. Any chance of something like that coming to the Mimeophon? In general I’ve been thinking of the DLD and Mimeophon as basically just 2 different spins on the same general concept.

#609

I would think a crossfade on flip would mess up its ability to be used at audio rates…

#610

I don’t really use the flip like that so not something I’d miss. Could be an optional firmware thing, like they’ve done with the Morphagene possibly. As is there’s lots of times where I have a cool idea going on the Morphagene, start engaging flip with gates and then either abandon it or give up on using the flip input at all because things get too clicky. Sometimes I’ll switch to using the DLD instead but that’s not always possible.

Ahh meant to respond to @Starthief. On mobile :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

#611

My standard sales pitch for “the clicks”: get Izotope Declick. It’s seriously so good for this kind of stuff (if you’re hitting the daw for any other reason).

They ought to be paying me by now. You hear me, monolithic software giants?!?

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#612

I heard a pedal I really liked that could do some wonderfully woozy tape warble, and immediately thought “I must have it!” But rational mind took over and rather than throw down the cash for it I thought, is this sort of effect possible with the Mimeophon I already have? Turns out it is - modulating the μRate input can achieve woozy, warbly vibrato effects. @n-So demonstrates this in an earlier post. Maybe known to most of you, but since it’s one of many aspects that tend to go under the radar, I figure it’s worth highlighting!

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