New EHX pedals

aen · Post by **aen** » Fri May 30, 2008 4:42 am

wat? They only emailed me about the BASS BLOGGER. I am pumped for the Bass Big muff. Cause I have a bass. And the microsynth would be cool, depending on the price...

All in all

BONAR!

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:03 am

a bass boost on a big muff sounds like a cool thing to have.
curious about the blogger.

SpectralJulian · Post by **SpectralJulian** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:16 am

dry, normal, bass boost. 3 tone stacks!

aen · Post by **aen** » Fri May 30, 2008 6:28 am

well, not that the Big Muff is lacking in the bass department...

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:27 am

YESS BASS MUFF!!!

Post by **Mike** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:43 am

EHX is really pulling some impressive stuff out of the bag in recent years.

I wonder what the metaphors is all about?

Post by **Hurb** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:46 am

it looks like it has a xlr output

Post by **Mike** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:47 am

Oh, looking at controls and the XLR, looks like it's a Bass DI/Amp sim pedal.

James · Post by **James** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:52 am

What are these micro synth pedals like? Are they just a fancy EQ and a bit of an ADSR? Should I buy one?

euan · Post by **euan** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:52 am

Microsynth looks hot. Do want. I wonder if they will do a Graphic Fuzz version as well? I already want the Qtron+ in that shell.

Post by **Mike** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:56 am

James wrote:What are these micro synth pedals like? Are they just a fancy EQ and a bit of an ADSR? Should I buy one?

I dunno, I've always wondered myself what the deal is.

roachello · Post by **roachello** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:01 am

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!! no bass small clone?

James · Post by **James** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:05 am

I hate how guitar pedal makers are shit with naming things. In the recording world if a knb controls the compression ratio it is called 'ratio' In the guitar, it could be called anything from "sustain" (fuck off, it is not sustain) to 'squash' (closer but no) to 'mojo' and no-one bats an eyelid.

Looking at this pedal now my guess is...

Trigger - Alright Dave?

Sub-Octave - reasonably named pitch shift
Guitar - dry signal
Octave - reasonably named pitch shift
Square wave - fuzz eq and ADSR to emulate a square wave?

Attack Delay - little fade in thingy for a volume swell

Resonance - standard filter resonance
Start Freq - Band pass low setting
Stop Freq - band pass hi setting
Rate - Being a sweep I guess its a shitty LFO going up and down the range of the band pass ding a bollocks wah effect

Now a lot of those are reasonably named, but what does it actually do? is it just an octave pedal with a bollocks wah thing going on? Surely there is more to it than that.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:21 pm

Oh, Bass Muff. i'm going to give that a go on guitar. The green faceprint gives me a notion that maybe they were thinking about the old Sovtek green muff, which lots of people use on their bass.

aen · Post by **aen** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:56 pm

James wrote:I hate how guitar pedal makers are shit with naming things. In the recording world if a knb controls the compression ratio it is called 'ratio' In the guitar, it could be called anything from "sustain" (fuck off, it is not sustain) to 'squash' (closer but no) to 'mojo' and no-one bats an eyelid.

Looking at this pedal now my guess is...

Trigger - Alright Dave?

Sub-Octave - reasonably named pitch shift
Guitar - dry signal
Octave - reasonably named pitch shift
Square wave - fuzz eq and ADSR to emulate a square wave?

Attack Delay - little fade in thingy for a volume swell

Resonance - standard filter resonance
Start Freq - Band pass low setting
Stop Freq - band pass hi setting
Rate - Being a sweep I guess its a shitty LFO going up and down the range of the band pass ding a bollocks wah effect
Now a lot of those are reasonably named, but what does it actually do? is it just an octave pedal with a bollocks wah thing going on? Surely there is more to it than that.

It actually generates a squarewave based on your input. It's kind of envelopey and lowpassy and pitch shifty. Not the coolest thing in t he world, but kind of neat.

analogsystem · Post by **analogsystem** » Fri May 30, 2008 6:10 pm

Yeah....you can do a lot to control the envelope but don't expect to play chords or anything other than single note synth lines.

It does sound huge, have a decent volume boost, and can be really cool for special effect moments....but sounds a bit gimmicky if used too much. It's also got that old school analog synth thing where it never sounds the same twice, even if you have the sliders in what appear to be the same places.

SpectralJulian · Post by **SpectralJulian** » Fri May 30, 2008 6:13 pm

microsynth is basically an analog up/down octave box with fuzz, attack delay, and an envelope triggered filter.

Here's a demo of the bigger version

SpectralJulian · Post by **SpectralJulian** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:07 pm

oops forgot to copy past the youtube vid

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Mages · Post by **Mages** » Fri May 30, 2008 10:44 pm

man, that thing is so cool... does jack white use one of these? I was watching the demo for the guitar one and it sounds like some of the sounds from the new white stripes album and some of raconteurs stuff.