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Post by benecol »

Amen, brother. I could get a good twenty minutes out of "these are the things I do to sound like the bloke from Neu!".
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I TOTALLY just upgraded my firmware to 2.01 with a cheapo USB interface. FUCK YEAAAAAAAAH
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And yet still no demo. FUCK YOU.
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I spent about 2-3 hours last night demoing and piecing together the audio, but it was way too long, too waffley and vague; it's extra hard to demo something when you're unable to show the settings. The screen is nowt but a glare when you put a camera like mine on it, it's annnnnnnnnnnoying.

I'll do a two mic demo in a little bit and blast through some settings.
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Close-miked guitar amp?
Seperate vocal mic?
Compressed voice to sound like a smooth radio disc jockey?

It must be.. AN GEAR DEMO!

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Now quit yer bellyachin', Livesley.

I'll look into doing demos of the other modes probably later today, while everything's set up.
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Lovely stuff. this is exactly what we need. It's going to put the ShortscaleGearDemos page back on the map.
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Post by Mike »

Sounds fucking MINT. Some really great Drive sounds in there and completely ripe for tweaking. Nice!
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Post by blacktaxi »

great demo, thanks! some nice sounding distortions, and sub-octave fuzz is pretty good too. but hell, the Fuzz Pi barely sounds like the real thing. it actually sounds a lot like the rat model.
but still, very nice piece of gear.
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Bear in mind, the Fuzz Pi has more controls (an additional treble and bass control) than the real thing; I'm sure you could dial it in pretty damn close with a real one to compare it to.

That's the thing about digital modelling; it's often done very "scientifically", analysing waveforms and how the controls interact, there's not a huge margin of error. It may also be modelled on an early Pi model, so may sound a little different to the current model.
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I find I use that sub-octave fuzz a lot. While I bought mine for the looper, delays, modulation and reverb, I find it's the filters I enjoy the most.
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Which is nice.
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Post by Bacchus »

This is a stupid question, but can you run two of the same effect on the thing simultaneously? Like, put a Muff into a Muff? I notice that it explicitly says that you can do that on the M13 page, so I was wondering if that was exclusive to the M13.
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Yup yup.
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Yeah, you can cascade them no problem and it actually sounds pretty good; sticking a volume boost into an OD pedal or what have you.
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[youtube][/youtube]
It's a... duck blur..

Proper demos tomorrow I think, I'd better get on with this paid audio mastering work..
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Post by Gabriel »

:lol: Love the looper demo.

Those drive sounds were actually pretty good.

:? Damn I think I'm starting to want one.
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Post by Thom »

Haha cracking looper demo Doog. It's all sounding well good so far.
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Post by Fran »

Sounds good at the bench test Doog. Look forward to hearing the gig volume verdict. :wink:
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Yeah, I'm really itching to try it at practise to see how it fares. My never-shifting fondness for irl RAT distortion is making it difficult to say "yup, this can definitely replace all my distortions"; even the closest models don't quite have the same EQ tonality I'm so fond of in the RAT.
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hahah Duck Tales. you nerd.