Lobster fingers Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Looks very interesting with a range of Fuzz, distortion and OD pedals modelled. http://www.sourceaudio.net/blog/post/the-soundblox-2-ofd-micromodelers-are-in-stores Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topo morto Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 That demo doesn't sounds as good as I remember their original bass distortion being (I quite liked that). Probably just the recording. But am I right in thinking it only has 2 user presets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyclaret Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 This sounds ace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyclaret Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 No one tried one of these yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudewheresmybass Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Hoping to try one soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyclaret Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 (edited) Tumbleweed.................. Looks I will have to raid my coffers and find out for myself on this one. Edited December 6, 2013 by tonyclaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudewheresmybass Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Hope to give one a whirl on Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyclaret Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 [quote name='dudewheresmybass' timestamp='1386341470' post='2299026'] Hope to give one a whirl on Monday. [/quote] Did Monday happen or should I say did you try it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyboo Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 There is a nice sample over on talkbass.com [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f36/source-audio-ofd-low-overdrive-clips-1038006/"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f36/source-audio-ofd-low-overdrive-clips-1038006/[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudewheresmybass Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 I did give it fairly comprehensive testing on Monday. Some of the sounds to be found here are quite reasonable. However I did feel that it was very 'nice', but there was no "wow" factor for me. There are a few redeeming features for me, but not sufficient for me to spend my cash on it. There is a three band eq which is applicable to all the drive models, and a noise gate which could be incredibly useful. I did manage to get some muse-ish tones from the pedal, but there plenty of muff/ fuzz face/ rat a likes out there. Of course, it is possible to save two different sounds on the pedal too. It's definitely worth a try out rather than a buy blind situation IMO. I'm sure there are plenty that would love it, but I'm not one of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 There's not been much noise about this pedal lately... but my curiousity got the better of me so I just ordered one from Bass Direct. I'm quite picky about my drive pedals and never got on with any digital ones before so lets see how this fares! It gets great reviews over at TB, if it gets the thumbs up from johnk_10, who has cloned and built nearly every drive pedal under the sun, it must be alright! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaHPsHtvdL4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUJ30QGm-Nw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazWills Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 interested to hear what you think, this could be cool!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifi2112 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 +1 dannybuoy ... Gonna get one too when I can afford it but loves to hear thoughts when you've had a chance to play around with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Turned up today and only had a 5 minute play so far, but initial impressions are good. I can get in the same ballpark as my SFT and ODB-3, and as it has 2 presets with a footswitch for each I can more easily switch between tones than I would with 2 separate pedals. It can't replace my Team Awesome Fuzz Machine though, that is a unique one! I still think analog boxes sound better at this stage, but I need to do some A/Bing later and more playing around with the EQ settings, I find I need to scoop the mids ever so slightly on the OFD for it to sound good, but then again that's typical of laying solo. Definitely better than the drive sounds on any Zoom/Korg units I've owned in the past! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifi2112 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Cheers for mini review ... keep em coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Had another brief blast - most of the models are rather underwhelming, but the Crunch Tube, Big Pi, and Bender modes all sound great. The 3-band EQ helps massively, and the unique blend knob is a two-way control where dry is at noon, with regular blend on the left and a lowpassed clean on the right. The gate works very well too, and if you want a gated fuzz but thought they mostly sound thin and raspy, you can apply it to any model such as the Big Pi! It has proprietary sockets for the expression control, I need to see if there's any way to hook up my Moog EP-2 to this so I can morph between presets. One annoying thing is that if you put it in bypass and forget to save your preset, when you activate it again it loads the last preset and ignores the current knob positions. Haven't read the manual yet though so there might be some tricks to this. Proof of the pudding will be A/B tests with my favourite settings on my usual pedals though, but this will have to wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyboo Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 (edited) [quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1391626053' post='2359433'] One annoying thing is that if you put it in bypass and forget to save your preset, when you activate it again it loads the last preset and ignores the current knob positions. Haven't read the manual yet though so there might be some tricks to this. [/quote] If you press all three EQ buttons for a short while it resets EQ settings. So I usually center EQ knob and reset it which gives me good starting point for EQ tweaking I have been having it for awhile and all that fuss (or fuzz? over on talkbass is justifiable. I don't think that this pedal is just another flavour of the month. Unlinke B3K or Vintage (at least for me). It is really hard to get not good sound out of it. I also find that mid sweep in front of it makes it even more versatile. Its EQ section comes after distortions. That is actually my only wish having EQ which could be positioned before or after dirts. Have you tried Crunch Tube? I like that one a lot. Edited February 7, 2014 by kyboo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 (edited) Crunch Tube is great, works well even at max gain. I've been trying various models with high gain / blend / mid-scoop to approximate my ODB-3, I think the TS9000 comes closest but it's not quite there. Tube Drive is the only one that approaches anywhere near clean with the gain at minimum - I wish the other models had a wider range on the gain control to clean them up a bit more. I can get a very nice low gain overdrive from this, and fatten it up nicely with a touch of bass boost. There are a few models I really don't like though where I haven't been able to get a good sound from yet - Smooth Tube, Fuzz Facade, Metal and Octave. Edited February 11, 2014 by dannybuoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1976fenderhead Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 I have a couple questions about this... 1: Can anyone make an A/B recording with a Bass Big Muff or a green Muff clone? 2: Once you recall a setting, is there any way it shows you how your knobs were positioned when you saved it? For example, like this feature in the programmable Sansamp BDDI: "HOW TO FIND A PRESET This is useful when you want to know the position of each knob’s setting in the memory of a channel. When you turn a knob from its stored position, it “unlocks” and the channel indicator LED will blink. The slower the blink, the farther away you are from the preset point.The faster the blink, the closer you are.At the preset point, the LED stops blinking and remains on." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 (edited) Can't make any clips right now, but I read the manual last night and it does blink faster as you move each knob back to where it belongs in the last selected preset. You can also switch it between buffered and true bypass! The muff model, whilst sounding good, has a very different sound the Bass Big Muff - the manual says it's modelled after a blend of Big Muff and Swollen Pickle. Most the difference is down to EQ, as you have a 3-band instead of the usual tonestack. You have to scoop the mids and boost the bass and treble to get the traditional sound. I'm currently enjoying the low gain sounds of the tube drive and crunch tube models, and got a good sound out of the octave fuzz by setting the blend on the low-pass clean side with just a little layer of raspiness sitting on top of the original signal. Edited February 11, 2014 by dannybuoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1976fenderhead Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Thanks, if you can recall the knob positions I'm very curious to try this pedal. Would you say it's possible to get close to a clean Sansamp sound going straight to a desk, so that it acts as an amp+cab modeller in a way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) New (and not very good) demo by Juan Alderette! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umOajn_3Z7I Edited February 18, 2014 by dannybuoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazWills Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 yeah, I just watched that - all the effects sound the same, I wonder how much $$ he got for the last couple of video demos! I don't want to knock his site as I think it's a good resource, but I think the recent fuzz wars with JMJ doing most of the talking was soo much more interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1976fenderhead Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 I like the effort he took in coming up with an interesting phrase to loop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazWills Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) Hahaa, indeed!!! Edited February 18, 2014 by GazWills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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