Hello to Probes Pedals!

[FuzzHugger]

Hello to Michael from Probes Pedals!

He makes some pretty sweet loopers.

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And I hear he has a fuzz in the works, in case any of you love fuzz...

[Mudfuzz]

That looks as you say sweet! I love loopers!

[kosta]

And I hear he has a fuzz in the works, in case any of you love fuzz...

None for me thanks. That fuzz is bad for ya. Hate the stuff.

[Mudfuzz]

And I hear he has a fuzz in the works, in case any of you love fuzz...

None for me thanks. That fuzz is bad for ya. Hate the stuff.

[kosta]

Makin' the scene with the Mujahideen!

[Michael]

Thanks Tom! This is Michael here from Probes Pedals, the rumors are correct! Fuzz is on the way (even though nobody on here likes those anyway.) It will be the first effect in my pedal line which will in include: fuzz, overdrive, vibe and tremolo. I currently produce the Super Looper true bypass loopers also like Tom mentioned.

Info on the fuzz (yet to be named):

- Toggle switch switching between octave fuzz and normal fuzz
- Input, Fuzz, Output controls
- Rolling the Input back gives you more of a crunchy overdriven tone and very responsive to volume knob and picking volumes
- The controls are all very interactive with each other to shape lots of unique fuzzy tones
- Sound Samples coming in the next few weeks

Can't wait to get to know everybody here! If you have any questions, or just want to talk pedals, shoot me a message or an email!

[Chumley]

Can you make the vibe affordable?

[Michael]

Chumley, I'll see what I can do . I haven't started designing that circuit yet, but I'll keep it in mind once I get to that point!

[Chumley]

Hah, no worries. Vibrato is one of my favorite effects, but I can't seem to find a dedicated vibe for less than $120... I don't know what your standard of affordable is, of course. XD

[Michael]

What type of things have you found are essential to a good vibe in your opinion? What things could be improved upon from vibes you've used? And you don't need to limit it to Vibe. What about for overdrive, fuzz, and tremolo? I want to make sure that what I design can help to solve problems, and provide for the needs of all of the effect addicts out there!

[theavondon]

What type of things have you found are essential to a good vibe in your opinion? What things could be improved upon from vibes you've used? And you don't need to limit it to Vibe. What about for overdrive, fuzz, and tremolo? I want to make sure that what I design can help to solve problems, and provide for the needs of all of the effect addicts out there!

Dear god, we found another nice pedal maker. I love ILF.

[Blurillaz]

looking for in vibes-
shin-ei psychedelic machine and boss vb-2 in one box

[Chumley]

What type of things have you found are essential to a good vibe in your opinion? What things could be improved upon from vibes you've used? And you don't need to limit it to Vibe. What about for overdrive, fuzz, and tremolo? I want to make sure that what I design can help to solve problems, and provide for the needs of all of the effect addicts out there!

*poke* You rock.

Fuzz: NAILING specific tones, and being able to get similar tones out of mutliple rigs. Devi pedals are kinda what I'm thinking here; most of her two-knob jobs only have two or three "tones", with the rest of the control knob's range fine tuning them... but the tones themselves are awesome.
Overdrive: I've always thought pre-distortion EQ is really useful... maybe have two different gain stages, with an EQ in the middle?
Vibe: Just keep it tight and sweet, and you can't really go wrong, can you?
Trem: Tap Tempo is hugely important, in my opinion. It really facilitates "choppy" type sounds, which are honestly a bit impracticle without tap. Variable waveshapes are nice, pulse width control is awesome, and CV inputs, imo, are always nice on this kind of effect. In fact, I can't think of any other CV Tremolos out there...

[Michael]

Thanks for all the input Chumley!

I do have a tremolo in design stages that is switchable between tap tempo and pot controlled speed. It also features 4 ratios for the tap input which are 1:1(real), 1:2(double), 1:3(triplets), and 1:4(Quad time). You can choose between square, sine, sawtooth up, and sawtooth down waves. It is an all analog audio path that is digitally controlled giving you the best of both worlds! There will be more news on this over the next few months.

One more thing I forgot to mention before, is that I do a Line 6 DL4/MM4 Mod. It gives you a stomp switch that acts as an expression pedal moving from heel to toe positions giving really cool dive bombs on the delays and lush modulation sweeps. For any of you M9/M13 users out there I can also do the mod for you we would just need to talk about placement of the switch.

[Bellyheart]

Welcome to the fuzz hatred

The trem sound great. Add a expression pedal and I'm all in. I've never really wanted tap tempo...seems like an issue that can be avoided by focusing, but I'm sure there are reasons beyond me. I'm only one person and one idea. I think really what I don't like about tap tempo is the price tag goes to about 200 plus. The lovepedal trem is perfect for me, except no expression pedal.