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Argh, you’re making me regret not having said yes to these two when Andy offered me them in a bundle with the Subterranea for a really cheap price.

OK, the Manta is really cool. Wish I’d tried this sooner.

Just got the Subterranea today and it is very OC2-like but with a filter than can be opened right up to be way buzzier than even the Octabvre MKII can get. And the two waveform voices are so cool. It plays really tightly down to A on the E string, after that it’s patchy. The only down side is that it is ridiculously sensitive to even the slightest vibration so it’s a bit noisy. It could do with a gate on it. I’m very curious about the new one he’s making. (Taylor emailed back today saying he probably won’t be putting a gate on that one either but is making a new gated fuzz.)

You could totally turn these pictures into one of those spot-the-difference games one finds in kids’ magazines. ?

Not quite, @Jonse - you may want to try connecting the envelope jacks to each other on the two Chunk pedals if you’re running the fuzz into the filter - it makes a huge difference to the response: Skip to 7.30 to see the comparison.

Probably beyond most people’s reach but these pedals are great and have €120 off on Friday: https://glou-glou.org/

Have you seen those Manta demo videos with the Hot Hand controller? That does dubstep stuff really well.

@GisserD, if I’ve interpreted correctly and you are the person who bought Andy’s Xerograph, would you mind sharing your experience with it with the rest of us? Thanks.

Annoyingly I’m ill and in bed today and the Subterranea and Manta are sitting on my desk at work having been delivered this morning. (I need to try and get out to the post office at some point to post the MXR BEF I sold.)

This is true, you can get some interesting effects by forcing the pedal to glitch by feeding it multiple notes. It can sound really cool when using distortion.

I’m glad I managed to hook you guys up. Everyone is happy.

I’m trying to reprogram my brain. As of tomorrow I’ll have 5 octavers! I’ve temporarily got down to 6 filters, at least until Friday!

I found out yesterday that maybe the way to go is to get a Moog Sub or Subsequent 37 as it has a line in! That’s one big-assed pedal though!? https://www.moogmusic.com/products/phattys/subsequent-37

Or just use the MXR for all of it as it tracks all the way to low F. ?

In other news, unless the Subterranea does the same sound then I’m keeping the Octabvre MKII, can’t get those sounds out of any of my other octave pedals and the growly square wave works brilliantly with envelope filter.

There’s an hour-long video on YouTube where they go in depth into the toneprint editor. I wonder if the classic monophonic setting is a basic toneprint template which you can edit.

Actually, I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that it was deliberately done to make it authentic sounding. You can always change the parameters in the toneprint to get it to track better (eg the input EQ - this adjusts what signal the pedal “sees” I order to create the octave down).

Does the chunk do self-oscillation? The Xerograph does (as does the Moog). Both are capable of super high resonance.

One thing I do remember about the Moog filter is that it wasn’t quite as responsive to the envelope as some other pedals. @Bo0tsy, did you see the Xerograph sale post I tagged you in?

I didn’t pay the bypass much mind to be honest. Besides, I was running it through a crappy amp and only at home so didn’t really give it the most rigorous test in that respect. Btw, the phaser in the Rendez Vous is pretty cool, especially as you can route the envelope or the LFO to it and it can be between 1 and 6 stages with loads of options for feedback being in or out of phase with the dry signal and being inverted.