Seppuku FX

[UglyCasanova]

Haha, LG already snagged the AnalSynth and I'm keeping the Junktone

[Strange Tales]

Life isn't fair.

[Jwar]

Ok so after spending about 15 minutes with the Sub Octave Synthesizer, I have to say I am impressed. Man. I think I was wrong this whole time and just go so caught up in the wiring and shitty graphics. This thing is fucking crazy.

Not sure what's wrong with the second stomp yet, but I believe it could be just a bad stomp switch. I have that stomp on hand, so I'll know tomorrow. It's great as a regular fuzz though and works pretty damn good with my active bass.

[UglyCasanova]

That's great news, buddy! Glad it got there okay. Hope you can get that sub stomp working. That feature really pushes it over the edge of craziness!

[Jwar]

Yea if it's not the stomp, then I'm not sure! LOL!! I did a reflow of the solder on it and that did nothing at all, but the LED works. So it could still be some of the lugs are bad. But I'm not sure. I may have to pull the board and reflow solder on the component side as well. If anything you got me to pick up my soldering iron for the first time since fucking November! LOL!!

[UglyCasanova]

Fingers crossed! How about the glitch toggle? Does it do anything?

[Jwar]

Nope! LOL! But I have replacement toggles too.

[UglyCasanova]

...boners crossed?

[Jwar]

...boners crossed?

You know it.

[zeravla]

I don't know if it helps but here's what the inside of mine looks like. I can get a better shot of anything if you want to compare.

[lordgalvar]

If it isn't the switch, it will most likely be that CMOS chip. But it is most likely the switches (had to replace a few of seppuku switches
..just switches aren't that well made these days).

[Strange Tales]

Got my Hysteresis in yesterday and hot damn. Are all ring mods like this? I might have to get on the ring mod game if so. Pedal is so awesome on everything.

[UglyCasanova]

It's not ringmod, it's FM modulation, I think. Or was it both? Haha! LG knows what's up.

[Jwar]

If it isn't the switch, it will most likely be that CMOS chip. But it is most likely the switches (had to replace a few of seppuku switches
..just switches aren't that well made these days).

If it's the chip, I'm socketing that fucker if I have to pull it. LOL. Hopefully it's not one that's hard to come by. I also have some chips and sockets on hand.




So if I wanted to try something else, where's a good place to start?

[lordgalvar]

If it isn't the switch, it will most likely be that CMOS chip. But it is most likely the switches (had to replace a few of seppuku switches
..just switches aren't that well made these days).

If it's the chip, I'm socketing that fucker if I have to pull it. LOL. Hopefully it's not one that's hard to come by. I also have some chips and sockets on hand.




So if I wanted to try something else, where's a good place to start?

It's a common cd4046 pll chip. Parasit uses them all the time. He usually sockets chips but not always. I think he does it if he intends to swap and find the right one (ESP in the case of pt2399 chips and opamps). I know he pushes them hard and have replaced some (and there are a lot of bootleg chips floating around that end up in that part of the world via mailorder).

I'd replace the switches first though...most likely that is the problem (I had a bad batch of switches sent to me recently...some poles worked, some didn't).

Kompakt Kassette or memory loss/eccodrone might be good. But with active bass they might not work well (I have to ride the volume on my semi high output guitar for best results and run them first).

I would probably try looking for a DPM, fuzz Overloader, or the b-filter. Actually, b-filter can do a ton...b-filter or Hysteresis.

Got my Hysteresis in yesterday and hot damn. Are all ring mods like this? I might have to get on the ring mod game if so. Pedal is so awesome on everything.

Ring Mods are kinda like it in some ways, but it is Frequency Modulation. It sounds a lot like the Jen/Grestch Playboy HF Modulator. Holowan makes the thermal wave which is similar to the Hysteresis but has and envelope controlled decay that snaps up like a slow gate. The Hysteresis has two lfos running though which is different. I would kinda look at it as more of a different take on Analog srr and bit crush though...

Ring Modulation is the sum and difference frequencies of input and carrier signals that can be used to do a lot of different things (including some overlap with Hysteresis).

Ring mod is a specific form of amplititude modulation. FM changes the frequency instead of the amplitude (volume). But the Hysteresis can do amplitude modulation (trem) too. I think what it does is kinda does a fast trem to modulate the signal (ring mod like...playing a trick on the ear but still keeping the pitch related to the original signal and then it modulates that...like a trem made with a pll chip...the holowan does this with envelope and the Hysteresis with lfo).

Basically the carrier wave and Modulator wave to do not change shape based on difference like in ring mod....the frequency of modulation changes at audio speeds. A true frequency shifter (which none of these pedals are) will change the incoming signal via phase (to cut out the unwanted modulation and only have the shifted wave...not many out there though).

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Ring mod(way better examples in the ring mod thread...lots of modular ones too).

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At least I think.