The Virus - Mutated Overfuzz

[gila_crisis]

So here my Virus Demo, it took me a while to do this video.
I got few other pedals lately, and it took a bit to concentrate only on the Virus.
It's a wonderful fuzz, with a voice of its own. Control set is super simple but it can cover a lot of sounds!
Jero, amazing! and the purple/black splatter finish on mine... another amazing thing about the pedal!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef7LiMKEl78

[Dandolin]

Noice demoooooo!
Loved the beat destruction @ the end - and I agree, it is a tremendously versatile box and very sensitive to input, both in terms of gain/impedance and source eq

[gila_crisis]

Yes agreed: it's one those pedals that reminds you the guitar volume has more sweet spots than only fully open or fully closed!
And with beats and electronics/synths it rips too!

That's actually a ritual I do with every fuzz pedal I get: try them with synths and line level instruments, because not always distortion guitar pedals work in this scenario. In the bad case they cut too much low end and implode due to the too high input level.
But Virus doesn't care and works wonderfully in this context!!

[Jero]

Taking a small break from these for the time, while I get some other long overdue new projects moving forward. Do not worry, they will return. Already got some ideas going for future batches.

[Dandolin]

[Jero]

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Ian selling an older Virus, on vero. These one's have some extra nasty artifacts in the extreme settings. This is the one from the original demo!

[Jero]

New pcbs are in and production is back on. I have 10 populated and ready to go right now.

[Chankgeez]

David Torn playing with a Virus and a Spiral Electric FX Aleph (both alternately and together):

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBwiT8gcun/



He posted the times over in "Strictly Fuzz": https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index ... t-36477304

00:23 -- Stomping Stones Virus, only the right switch ON
02:14 -- Spiral Electric FX Aleph, alone
03:28 -- the above, together
04:20 -- BOTH ON, both left and right switches on the Virus are ON
04:54 -- Aleph, alone
06:31 -- BOTH ON, both left and right switches on the Virus are ON
09:39 -- Amp Clean-up (there's no fuzz from 09:39 to 12:41; just gtr, amp, and the gooey/loopy bits.)
12:41 -- Aleph, alone
16:36 -- BOTH ON, only the right switch on the Virus is ON

[Chankgeez]

He uploaded it to his YouTube as well:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejtjqt5Hvlg

[Dowi]

David Torn playing with a Virus and a Spiral Electric FX Aleph (both alternately and together):

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBwiT8gcun/



He posted the times over in "Strictly Fuzz": https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index ... t-36477304

00:23 -- Stomping Stones Virus, only the right switch ON
02:14 -- Spiral Electric FX Aleph, alone
03:28 -- the above, together
04:20 -- BOTH ON, both left and right switches on the Virus are ON
04:54 -- Aleph, alone
06:31 -- BOTH ON, both left and right switches on the Virus are ON
09:39 -- Amp Clean-up (there's no fuzz from 09:39 to 12:41; just gtr, amp, and the gooey/loopy bits.)
12:41 -- Aleph, alone
16:36 -- BOTH ON, only the right switch on the Virus is ON

Hope this lets more people know about Jero amazing stuff!

[Jero]

Thanks for posting all of that! I need to go back through them myself.

Ps. More of these are on the way

[Jero]

More Virus fuzzes up on the site!
https://www.stompingstones.com/product/virus

[dubkitty]

i received a Virus as part of the ILF Secret Santa Spectacular, and i particularly love the array of faraway broken overdrives melting down as the gain goes up in Mode 1 (or whatever the top switch position is called). i did a comparison of all my dirt pedals while culling stuff down to fit five board spaces, and in my notes i said it has "a unique sort of distant, longing quality." it's very rare for the sound of a pedal by itself, independent of what's being played, to make me feel emotion. there's one particular spot that feels like Radiohead, too. i'm slotting it onto my front-end board as part of an array of fidelity de-enhancers meant to create distance and texture before everything goes into the main board. it's perfect in that spot, between the Ibanez Lo Fi which is the genteel version and the incoming So High So Low filters + preamp pedal which lets you sound like a bad telephone connection to the 1950s. more people should talk about this mode because it sounds great and goes from only a wee bit of drive to a great honkin' wall of mud. nice mud, the kind cosmeticians use on rich ladies.

it's striking how the Bias switch in mode 3 actually makes the fuzz calmer and more manageable. i don't think i've ever seen that before. there's a definite Devi Ever vibe in Mode 3...it sounds like it was made to be broken.

there's so much in there i literally wrote like 200 words of notes while evaluating it. it's quite a piece of kit.

[Jero]

Can't get the embed to work but here's another demo

http://youtu.be/zZlmWymNNK0

[Chankgeez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZlmWymNNK0

Listened to that last night. Sounds fantastic!