#86

Anyone have experience of protone pedals overdrive? Found one (bulb overdrive deluxe) on reverb for super reasonable price, so waiting on it arriving.

#87

That’s not it but it’s the closest, yet, soundwise. The one I saw (or dreamed) was brighter and more brittle sounding. That is pretty great, though. This search / journey could prove expensive, I’ve already bought two pedals!

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#89

Did anyone else end up backing the Plankton Spice? I backed the desktop module. Looking forward to getting my hands on it to compare to my Analog Heat. I like that it has bitcrushing and a built-in feedback circuit. Plus obviously all the patch points!

ps. it makes me so happy that this thread has continued on! :slight_smile:

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#90

i can’t stop watching this… any eurorack people have experience with NE’s new distortion modules? I feel like this one is the most interesting, but is being overshadowed by the other more aggressive ones!

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#91

I picked up the Terci Ruina, but I haven’t spent a ton of quality time with it yet. It’s definitely not subtle, and while it’s awesome to have 3 flavors of distortion in 4hp, I also miss having any CV control. :slight_smile:

#92

I stumbled upon this demo of the Plankton Electronics Nutone some time ago, really liked the sound and the signal path design (two tube channels with CV-able gain and manual self and cross feedback) in just 8HP. You can run it in series without patching any extra cables, you can easily get feedback going, and you can run it on stereo signals too… I have the feeling this might end up in my rack…

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#93

I kickstarter’d the SPICE module and a kit for the NuTone after hearing the demos, I’ve got high hopes!

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#95

not entirely an OD device, but i just picked up an overstayer modular channel and it’s amazing, highly recommend if anyone was on the fence.

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#96

I’ve been dreaming of that one. Seems like a really powerful piece of gear for sound design.

#97

It looks like a Grammy award winning OTO Boum

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#98

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I made a couple of clones of the Black Arts Pharaoh. They work brilliantly with synths as they retain the lower end.

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#99

A while ago I drew up the schematic for experimenting with Tubescreamer clones. So the basic circuit, but with jumpers inbetween sections so you could break it up, and all pots meant to be wired off-board. I wanted to muck around with it, maybe play with different tone controls and other mods, and definitely try to make a stereo version, which should be possible by using dual-gang pots (although some of the values are a bit weird).

I never got around to doing the layout but I think it’d be easy (I just have projects like “O” and time like “.”). I wonder if anyone else would be interested in such a board.

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#100

me! a stereo moddable tubescreamer clone is a dream of mine. i print so much stuff thru those pedals.

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#101

It’s not quite that, but have you seen the EarthQuaker palisades? Like TS with switchable clipping elements and gain structures. It’s fun

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#102

pretty much came into this thread thinking of that…dont have one yet but been digging up whatever info i can. Do you reckon this is a do it all box as far as processing weirdo electronic music goes. In the sense of getting something decent to sounding awesome alive and good to release. Im looking for my first bit of pro gear outboard. Was thinking 500 series route with eq pre n comp or just the modular channel…could you describe some of the ways you are using it?

#103

hello! i’m starting a new thread after researching keywords like tube, tubes, valve, valves etc…
i’m interested in sharing experiences of using tube gear with various sound sources (guitars, synths, drums, mics, whatever).

i always wanted to add some tube pres\vcas\distortions to my eurorack rig but fact is after some research the only one i really like is the trogotronic m-277, but that is pretty expensive and not so common in europe.

recently i started learning guitar and i bought myself a little combo amp: the laney lc15r.
it has two tubes on preamp and three power tubes.
its a really small 15W combo with real spring reverb and some nice routing options (line out, power out, fx loop send and return).

i decided it was time to try it on synths!
here you have three tracks:
1)clean - no amp at all (from mixer to sound card)
2)amp, very high drive level (jack from line out to mixer to sound card)
3)amp, very high drive level + some spring reverb (2 small diaphragm condenser mics off axis on the cabinet)

the synth line is a mix of makenoise dpo and the harvestman hertz donut mk2 , both modulated and both being mixed and controlled via makenoise optomix and some envelopes from frap tools falistri and maths.

enjoy and please share your valve stories!

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#104

I used to have an Ampeg V4 (completely unecessary, I live in a one bedroom apartment and don’t make doom metal ffs) that had what I would still consider the best overdrive ever. sometimes I want to get a little fender champ or similar to get that sound back, but (after a serendipitous estate sale haul) I have too many distortion devices to justify it*

*that said I really want a Noise Swash, lol.

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#105

I recently sold my 1969 SVT w/ 6146B power tubes after not using it for ~8 years and thinking the loud rock band days were over. of course out of nowhere my old band decided to start playing again a week ago, ha.

it had incredible saturation at a certain level – LOUD.

I do still have a 1968 Ampeg B15 that I found at a thrift store and kind of left sitting around in disrepair… excited to get it fixed/cleaned up.

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#106

My friend Noah just alerted me to this - Electronic Audio Experiments & Mask Audio Electronics - Eldritch Blast - looks pretty musical - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wftUFsh48io&t=3s

There’s this, too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrnXV64felo

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#107

Hi, wonder if Paul Cochrane Timmy could suit your needs. It’s a boost/od-pedal that was worshipped over at thegearpage.com when I was in the constant buy/sell pedal-craze some decade ago.

It was designed to just add break-up/distortion (hair) without the midhump (blanket over speaker). Often described as transparent OD. Very nice to use with ringing guitar chords for full note separation (to hear each string etc). I haven’t tried it with synths.

I later settled on a few favourites - all very dynamic and responsive to my playing. Analogman Sun Face (germanium NKT-275, white dots :wink: ) - a dynamic fuzz face with full clean-up. Skreddy Screwdriver, a very versatile fuzzlike od. And last, my favourite: BJFE Honeybee - modeled after the fuzzy breakup of a small supro-amp. Transparent, but with a golden sweet glow and warmth. And the break-up has this really grainy texture. I keep it on low settings all knobs at 10-11 o’clock. For vintage soul and americana it was perfect for me into a Fender Vibrolux. But not really working at all into a Vox AC-15. Honeybee is nowadays also made by Bearfoot, I think.