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Nothing that you haven't seen before but some action shots of my pedalboard from a gig last night.





Pictures from http://www.davidhallphotography.uk/hom ... _04yr8-d6E

Hurb you fckn legend. Killing it!

Oh I dunno about Legend! But cheers all the same.

Quality pics

So happy seeing my 2 glitchy boys with their new noisepapa

Also happy to see a Superfuzz too! I keep NEARLY picking one up with the express interest to totally modd it for switchable octave. Whoops, just bought one.

Yeah the ottobit is used on two of our songs now. The judder forms a good part of noise sections. As well as kinda fake feedback stabs.

The superfuzz is just a great sounding fuzz and it sounds massive. I would like a hyperfuzz one day mind.

Picked up one or two new (old) things recently. I saw a Peavey 210 TVX bass cab available nearby and picked it up this morning. I spent an hour or so with a scrubbing brush cleaning it up, removed the grille and vacuumed/wiped the dust off the speakers and generally made it look more presentable. The idea was to have a more portable bass rig than the HH VS Bass combo, but the cab is still quite heavy. I can drive it quite nicely with the HH IC100 which has a frequency response down to 10Hz, trem, fuzz and reverb (and a "Studio/Stage" switch that reduces the gain). However, I think the IC100 has not yet had my attention since I picked it up some years ago (thank you Tim); those switches are dirty and don't always work as they should (Servisol required), it's a bit noisy (swap the 741 op-amps out for NE5534As) and maybe a bit hummy (replace smoothing caps).

New board:

Nice. How’s the Deadbeat?

Thom wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 7:02 pm Nice. How’s the Deadbeat?

Jack of all trades master of none. I usually leave it on detune for subtle chorus, but all of the other sounds besides phaser and flanger (not because I don’t like flanger/phaser, it’s just particularly bad versions of both IMO) are very usable and handy to have on the board with the turn of a knob.

They’re discontinued but apparently the identical circuit as the $35 Coolmusic Modulator and probably other cheap multi-mod pedals with the same settings…I just had to have the moogerfooger cosplay version

Cool, good to know.

Nick wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 10:30 pmNew board:

I've heard that all the cheap nano format octave pedals are not very good. How do you find the Mooer?

I had a Mooer Pure Octave on my board for 8 or 9 years. It got unreliable towards the end, and then suddenly became really noisy so I replaced it with a TC Electronic Sub'n'Up. But for the first 5 years or so it was solid, definitely worth the £30 or however much I paid.

sunshiner wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:17 am

Nick wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 10:30 pmNew board:

I've heard that all the cheap nano format octave pedals are not very good. How do you find the Mooer?

That’s probably for the OC-2/3 style octave down pedals (maybe also the pitchfork style like Freddy had)

The V1 Tender Octaver is well regarded and basically an EHX Micro Pog, IIRC they even had to change the circuit because of it. I have no complaints at all about mine, its quiet, tracks well and reliable. I’ve had it on my board pretty consistently since ~2015, I can’t speak for the mkii version but others here (dots I think?) have them and seem to like them from what I remember.

Yeah, I bought a mk1 from Hurb and sold my Micro POG; it's pretty much bang on; any tonal difference is down to non-code variables.

Thanks, Freddy, Nick and Doog, much appreciated. So that's what EXH was suing Mooer for a couple of years back, good to know.

A PEDANT WRITES: please remember that there are two (maybe more?) Mooer Octave pedals - the Pure Octave and the Tender Octaver. Only the latter is a POG clone.

MK2 seems to sound quite differently from MK1 judging by the demos I've just watched. So probably it's not a clone anymore, which should make sense as they would've been sued again.

Yeah, MK2 is no doubt some 'open source' alternative that just sounds worse.

As an adjacent bit of news:
http://www.ehx.com/products/pico-pog/

I wonder if this is based on the same chips and code as the Nano POG and Pitchfork, both of which have more latency vs. the OG Micro POG. Seems it's a hard thing to nail at a lower price poin, although this is like $250, so maybe it's comparable? Would probably check one out if I hadn't jumped ship to an OC-5 for the new band.

There's TC electronic SubNup in the nano format which is rather on affordable side. Has anyone tried it?