LukeFRC

And a fake plastic trees !

I’m guessing the artifice you get to control the distortion with the envelope too to make it feel closer?

It's a Aion Lumitron clone that I've modded with the "Moog" style filter switch you see around (which does something to the tone) and a decay control. I've got a bug I need to find where there's a noise getting into the the audio signal in up mode... Playing it a bit over lunch it does some nice stuff, I actually got some quite cool things in HP using a long delay to be like a slow attack thing... LP is cool... feeding octave and fuzzy od into it brings smiles to your face as expected... there's a certain warmth to the sound and it sounds like part of the basses sounds... When I started trying analogue octave pedals there was a massive difference (for me) between what I could get on the SA C4 (and HX, and Zoom) and analogue pedals - the analogue was just warmer and more usable musically... again that's just me, but there was something in the attack of the note on the C4 that kept bugging me. The difference between the filters on the C4, this mutron clone and the few others I've tried is no where near as large

I made my mutron clone. It's ok 🤣

I A-B’ed with @jimbobothy’s OC2 and the OC10 tracked better and had a warmer thing going on in the mids weighs a ton mind

so as explanation - I've a C4 and it's great... but it's chalk and cheese to the analogue octave I accidentally bought on eBay (a valeton OC10) - this build is to see how close the C4 is for envelope filters.... so far it's been pretty good but a pain to set up...

Don’t … I’m trying not to have too many pedals built but eying up the meatball, agent00funk (+brown dog), prunes and custard as diy builds … i mean the c4 can theoretically do all of this stuff right

Ild make a meatball if I wanted a bigger box!

Hmm 🤔. I was working out how to fit the extra pot in, and it would just about fit, but be far easier to miss it off… hmm

Calling any current or former Mutron owners … ( @ped, @Quatschmacher et al) im building one of Aions pcb based on a mutron 3 Im going to add a decay knob, the layout would be a lot simpler without the lp/bp/hp switch … for bass low pass is a given, but how useful is band and high pass?

exactly what I am doing. Before the no backline thing I didn't have any pedals at all... For me the difference is about sound quality, which is subjective I know... but I sold my HX stomp when I got the colourbox and then started buying a few analogue pedals to give me a palette of tones. If I could only use one unit I would still choose the colourbox over any multifx I've tried - because it just sounds great.

Like bigredx suggests do this next. the faults you describe could be a damaged cable, and a cable is far more likely to get damaged over time than the inside of an effect unit …

honestly when I was looking I'ld probably have been happy with any of 3leaf Enabler Broughton Messenger Jr Broughton Studio One Providence Bass Station JHS colourbox v2 and EBS microbes 2 which I'm sure someone will be along with in a little bit! The first 4 are almost unicorns to find, and the colourbox doesn't come up that often secondhand.

Just an observation A while back I had to really hunt for the preamp I wanted... currently there's so many nice ones in the forsale forum! Just on the first two pages... 3leaf Enabler Broughton Messenger Jr Broughton Studio One JHS colourbox v2 Providence Bass Station Walrus Badwater Eden WTDI HX stomp x2 EBS Microbass 3 Markbass vintage preamp Nux MLD If I had had that kinda choice when I was looking I probably would have got frozen with option paralysis (before getting the Studio One because they are so rarely up for sale in the UK) - as it is I ended up with a Colourbox v2 that is absolutely amazing... so I don't mind - but man what a lot of great stuff in the first two pages!

is it an on/off relay bypass or one that has momentary actions too?

I would look at the PedalPCB forum .... they call their bypass that can do more than on/off the intelligent bypass

I quite like the ability to put in the signal chain twice, probably not relevant with the switching box

Ive only just started to explore my h9 - I got a patch playing an arpeggiated 3rd, 5th octave and had a thought I could set the footswitch to switch from major to minor 3rd!

What do the expression pedals do?

I imagine he found there is far more money in social content than playing in a band

is the quartermaster kinda like a toe poke kinda kick move?

the rockbound one is pretty good as it takes cables into account I think

Obligatory post pointing out that a passive tone control will never add more anything, only cut…