CLUSTER FLUX

[peaches]

And the thread rises from its relatively short stay in the grave.

Basically, I need some money, can I replace my Spectre and Warped Vinyl with a Clusterflux and be happy? I'm worried the lack of a tone control on the Moog means I wont be able to get the super sparkles lush chorus of the WV, and that I'll miss through zero on the spectre. But then again, the Spectre can't really cop airplane noises.

Baiscally, i wanna find out how does the Moog compete with:
a) Sparkle sparkle WV chorus.
b) post fuzz (and I guess clean purty) flanging vs the Spectre.

[lordgalvar]

Keep the chasebliss.

Cluster flux is different and kinda in its own realm. If you gotta replace, go 1980s Japanese like Maxon.

[Invisible Man]

You have reached maximum pedlol if you want to save money by buying a Moogerfooger.

[ritz]

For me personally the sweet spot of the clusterflux is as a light to medium overdrive with subtle flange or chorus in it. Stacks really well with other dirt to give it some motion. It can do stronger/wackier, but I love it best when it's giving that deep but subtle pulsing warmth. It's the frosting on top of my dirt cupcake

[peaches]

Keep the chasebliss.

Kinda what I wanted to hear I'll be honest. I do love those pedals.

You have reached maximum pedlol if you want to save money by buying a Moogerfooger.

this is exactly what I was thinking while typing up that post. A mix of that and "jeez what has this forum turned me into".

For me personally the sweet spot of the clusterflux is as a light to medium overdrive with subtle flange or chorus in it. Stacks really well with other dirt to give it some motion. It can do stronger/wackier, but I love it best when it's giving that deep but subtle pulsing warmth. It's the frosting on top of my dirt cupcake

Now see this sounds super cool, exactly my vibes right now. I think I'll hold off on doing it online for now though, I may see if I can try the moog in person and see what I think.

Thanks for your thoughts y'all!

[whoismarykelly]

I keep the Clusterflux around because it sounds cool but mostly for the dumb reason that it fits a big hole on my board that would be annoying to fill with other pedals. I actually liked the chorus sound of my AM BiChorus more but the Moog has lots of fun weird stuff.

[11A]

Keeping a pedal that fills the right sized hole is totally dumb but something I think we can all relate to.

I'd forgotten this thing had a step Lfo mode, hot shit.

[whoismarykelly]

Keeping a pedal that fills the right sized hole is totally dumb but something I think we can all relate to.

I'd forgotten this thing had a step Lfo mode, hot shit.

Its the one thing I hate about the bigger pedaltrain boards. An odd number of slats means a bunch of typical size pedals leaves you with an unused slat that can be weird to find pedals for if you have arbitrary requirements like not putting something on sideways.

[AndyBassist]

love my clusterflux, it is by far the best chorus/flanger ive heard and played! plus im just getting into the midi side of it but its amazing also found out that on random it will a psedo sample and hold kinda thing!

heres an old demo
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCSvKXuN_U[/youtube]


and a soon to go live demo but this shows at around 1:50 the sample hold kinda thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInofM0hrxc&t=186s

[zoooombiex]

I keep hoping for a smaller pedal that does everything this does but haven't found it yet. For fun times try S&H shape, med-high rate and high depth, and then turn up the feedback until it self-oscillates. Sounds like a computer from an 80s movie.

[zoooombiex]

Also, I've always been interested in exploring the midi side of this, but I don't do any midi at all. Does anyone have any recommendation for a small (~25 key) midi keyboard that could be programmed to work with this?

[echorec]

Also, I've always been interested in exploring the midi side of this, but I don't do any midi at all. Does anyone have any recommendation for a small (~25 key) midi keyboard that could be programmed to work with this?

A lot of people like the Keystep from Arturia for desktop applications. It has 32 slim keys, built-in arpeggiator, and can do polyphonic sequencing.

[zoooombiex]

Also, I've always been interested in exploring the midi side of this, but I don't do any midi at all. Does anyone have any recommendation for a small (~25 key) midi keyboard that could be programmed to work with this?

A lot of people like the Keystep from Arturia for desktop applications. It has 32 slim keys, built-in arpeggiator, and can do polyphonic sequencing.

Thanks - I'll check that out. I'm really thinking of this for live use. I gig with a rhodes & clav, and thought this might be an interesting way to add a third board without actually bringing a synth.

[lordgalvar]

Set it into positive feedback and use a CV sequencer. I've used the lightning wave ghost to sequence some creepy feedback oscillations out of the cluster flux. It can be a good little percussion generator with an lpg.

[Mosfed]

Like all things Moogerfooger, you start with what you think is a chorus/flange pedal and then you realize that it's only about 15% of what it can do. Crazy crazy crazy Box and it's amazing.