elephantgrey

[quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1403026592' post='2479025'] The rubber under the time factor is just glued on, same adhesive on sticky backed velcro. Just peel it off and save it for the future, then put the velco directly on the pedal. Simples! [/quote] Just did that, using a peice of paper to cover the label underneath, turned out well. [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1403027640' post='2479041'] Nail Gun. [/quote] o.o has anyone told you how scary you are?

Im getting close to having an actual, functioning pedalboard (as apposed to a bunch of pedals on the floor), I got a mate to build me a wooden structure, covered it in the loop side of heavy duty Velcro, and put the hook side on most my pedals. The only problem im having now is deciding how to go about fixing my eventide timefactor to it. The bottom of the time factor is mostly rubber, which im sure will just rip from the pedal if i ever try to remove it from the board. Im worried of removing the rubber, and either damaging the pedal or making the almost £300 pedal worthless in the second hand market if i ever want to move it on. Anyone have experience with anything similar? What did you end up doing? Does Velcro vs rubber effect second hand value? Many thanks in advance for any advice. elephantgrey.

Noise gate. Would say limmiter, but thats really just a type of compression. Edit: just thought of another: synth pedal

I was just going on the theory that they are made of glass, and get warm, spill cold beer on warm glass and it breaks. I am of course assuming that the beer was cold, a silly assumption i know...

You may have buggered up the valves, in which case you will need to replace them even if the whole thing is is cleaner than when new.

There are different types of filter which all have as different sounds as the difference between a phaser and flanger. All could be static or controlled by an envelope, adsr, lfo or expression. Things like a lowpass, highpass, bandpass, allpass, comb (+ and -), formant and im sure there are more. The formant actually reminds me of another type of effect, vocoder (takes one signal, and EQ's it the same as another signal) which makes your instrument sound like like its talking. Another effect like this is a talkbox, or a auto tune (more like a pitch sift/octaver). I also have an EHX flanger hoax, which is a flange like sound made with two phasers.

Im using all four of the effects slots on the ms60b to create my 'clean' tone (plus a phase shifter that i use enough to not take away). maybe one of there new pedals would do the job, but i think id rather a single pedal that i could set after the frantabit, and leave the knobs alone forever.

Putting a compressor before an envelope could be a great way of controlling the shape of the envelope.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1402905454' post='2477624'] I don't know this pedal but there must be some kind of "tone" control to turn the harshness down. If you are playing through a monitor anything like that will sound really brittle and harsh on the top. I'm sure through a bass amp and cab that will go away. [/quote] No, there is no real way of making a bitcrusher less harsh by itself, and it is a quite harsh effect by its very nature. im running though a amp/cab simulation on my ms60b (Hartke HA3500 with a MB 1x10 cab simulation). As i said, my tone is fine without the effect, but reducing the bit-depth of a signal that much just creates harsh treble. [quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1402906803' post='2477642'] Wouldn't an EQ do what you want? [/quote] I dont really want to remove the high end, just soften it up a bit, hence why i want to go with a dirt.

I know i said cheap, but wow, didnt expect that cheap. for the price i might give both of them a try. Im just running straight through to a monitor at the moment, I sound fine while the frantabit is bypassed, but just the nature of the effect adds a very harsh high end to the sound when its turned on. Theres two ways i use the pedal, the first one is fine, i use the analogue sample rate simulation with the rate knob all the way down and the bit knob aat 3 o clock for a tremolo type effect, and the second effect i use it for is digital sample rate reduction, rate knob at 3, bit at 10-11. its a lovely sound, i just would like to round off the high end a bit (i like it being there, it works very well with a bandpass delay, i just want it a little less square-ey).

I have an iron ether frantabit, and i love it. The only thing is that its very harsh in the high end, and im wondering if adding a dirt pedal of some kind (probably a low gain distortion or overdrive) could maybe soften it up a bit. Dont get me wrong, sometimes this harshness is a good thing, but i really would love to be able to turn a pedal on to soften it up a bit, so i could use it a bit more often. Anyone have any ideas for a relatively cheap (preferably with a boss style power) pedal to do the job?

Managed to get some tape ordered. Hopefully it will arrive before the weekend and i can finally get some of my pedals together on a board.

[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1402431744' post='2473523'] I dont the technical reasons, but surely the massive benefit is to cut out any sort of hum? Correct me if I'm wrong. [/quote] You might not get interference from the mains, but you will surely get sag from the battery though, right?

Is it [url="http://www.tradetoolshop.com/velcror-brand-heavy-duty-velcror-brand-stick-on-tape-50mm-x-5m-black.html"]this[/url] stuff i want? Im finding it hard to tell between the hook and look tape and double sided sticky tapes they do…

Just a quick update, I went around town, the local music store owner said that he doubts hell be able to get in any pedal board tape, and the hardware store didnt have any velco, so internet it is. Still havnt really decided on getting hook and loop or mushroom tape. Both seam to be about the same price, but the velcro is thicker so i think im leaning towards that as ill end up needing less of it to cover my board.

[quote name='Higgie' timestamp='1401985342' post='2468943'] I use [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pedal-Board-Tape-Self-Adhesive-Professional/dp/B002SFULCW"]THIS[/url] stuff. It's never let me down! [/quote] Does that manage to hold to the board when rearranging pedals? Or is it mainly for those who can resist the urge to move everything about every time you play?

Today i managed to persuade a crafty type to build me a board to put my pedals on, that fits nicely inside a flight case i had handily laying about the house unused. Ive still got to get him to drill holes across the middle for power leads to go through, and find a way to actually attach my pedals to it. Ive read a few posts that seam to favor velcro brand hook and loop tape, over other brand stuff, or pedalboard tape. This seams to mainly be because of the adhesive on the back. Is this still what people are suggesting? how well does the loop side hold its integrity? Has anyone tried the godlyke tape?

The MS60b (in my experience) has some nice preamps and amp/cab sims, and the modulation sounds good (i only dont use because of lack of midi tempo sync with my other time based pedals). Im not that big of a fan of the dirt on it, but they do tend to have mix and mid controls, a step up of most of the analogue versions. The B1Xon seams like it would be a great option if your curious, 5 effects at once, and an expression pedal for £~70. At that price, it would even serve as a decent stop-gap if you do decide to get individual pedals.

I have been trying to control my electribe with a midi footswitch, but instead of triggering individual samples, i want it to start/stop the drum sequence, and change patterns (like verse/chorus/middle8) with little success. I am using a quite large midi unit, like the fcb1010, but would like to switch to a smaller unit that is ready set up to do what i want. I do wonder if such a thing could be made with a raspberry pi, which i have got, but have still not managed to use reliably as a laptop type thing, let alone program to receive button presses and send midi information.

[quote name='gadgie' timestamp='1401888161' post='2467866'] Dist > Modulated is better than mod > dististored. Usually delay before chorus as well. But that's just me [/quote] See i love chorus going into dirt pedals, especially a fuzz. That said i like delay afterwards, like a clean digital delay after a warm tube overdrive. Things like positioning between filters/dirt/octaves have had a lot of discussion, so has dynamic effects (compressor/gate) goes at the end or start of the chain, and before or after things like delay/verb. A lot of this is personal preference, and the interaction between the specific individual pedals, which give the whole set-up its own characteristics. I recently went back to having my compressor at the start of my chain for example. Now whilst i still get a reasonably even tone at the end for having a compressor in the chain, my preamp is more evenly driven more of the time. Another example is that i keep switching my dist and bitcrusher pedals around. Having my bitcrusher into the dist lets me soften out the harshness of the bitcrusher a little, but the other way, the signal into the bircrusher is louder, so it crushes it less. This kind of thing leads me to illiterate what others on this site have said before me, try EVERY order of your pedals. Ditching the preconceptions that effects should go in one order leads to interesting discoveries, and interesting properties that you wouldn't have thought of before.

There is no objective best order for effects, its all subjective. There is orders and rules of thumb to follow, but generally the only rule is to try all combinations and decide which order you prefer, that fits the music you play, and sits well in your band(s). If your asking for others opinions on what they would do, as a jumping off point, it depends heavily on what effects you choose to use with your multi effects, if you use 4 dirt pedals in a row, its going to be a different place to 4 modulation pedals. I personaly use my MS60b as BDDI>HRT 350>noise gate, so im my chain i go: compressor > bitcrusher > distortion > ms60b > delay > loopstation.

Yes, it is 9v center negative like boss pedals.

nice! ill be able to maybe bid on a few things after all =]