Fairfield, the announcement of a new pedal?

[whoismarykelly]

Hmmm.
I'm not sure how i feel about that. I was hoping for less lo-fi if I wanted. Someone said there's a trimmer that affects the lpg but I don't know where or in what way it affects it. I just want random vibrato without all this darkening business.

I guess I could look inside but no manual came with the pedal so

Edit: There IS a manual on the web site and it looks like there may be some things to help with my issues.

Edit 2: Eh not really. I was able to get more headroom but alternate settings of the LPG trim didn't seem to do much other than produce loud volume spikes on attack or even darker tones.

[sylnau]

There's 2 trimpots Inside... one is an LPG adjust the other one, they told me not to mess with it. I haven't mess with the LPG yet.

[baremountain]

Hmmm.
I'm not sure how i feel about that. I was hoping for less lo-fi if I wanted. Someone said there's a trimmer that affects the lpg but I don't know where or in what way it affects it. I just want random vibrato without all this darkening business.

FWIW this is based off the feedback path of the Meet Maude, which had a lovely VCF in it. You're just given control of the VCF shelf and more modulation parameters (vs the MM's 'none', 'some', and 'lots' options). I use my MM full wet all the freakin time because I'm so in love with this sound.
I can't imagine there being that much darkness if you roll off the mix knob to 3:00-ish (based off my experience w blending filtered signal in general and watching the Knobs video for this one). Highs will quickly become noticeable w a little clean signal. It's not like you need super high freq signal being modulated, right?

[neonblack]

This is true. I could work with that as long as the mix knob didn't go into chorus territory too quickly.

[whoismarykelly]

Once you start blending dry in it does get chorusy but because its random it doesn't have a classic chorus sound. The wet signal is heavily colored though so to get high end clarity you need some dry signal.

[worra]

Anyone notice that the depth knob ccw of 11 o'clock or so isn't super noticeable unless you're hitting it with a hotter signal?

[whoismarykelly]

Im running depth high and using the damp control as a depth in practice. Just controlling how spiky the modulation jumps are.

[mamsk]

Im running depth high and using the damp control as a depth in practice. Just controlling how spiky the modulation jumps are.

same

[worra]

Im running depth high and using the damp control as a depth in practice. Just controlling how spiky the modulation jumps are.

Yeah that seems to be the ticket. Turning depth down doesn't really get me anywhere interesting even with other combos of settings.

[sylnau]

[Eric!]

^^ mostly

[ProCarsteNation]

Finally picked mine up at customs today.

first impression is twofold:

a - could be a bit of a one trick pony
b- I don't ever wanna stop listening to that trick


contrary to you other guys I'm running damp all the way ccw to get those sweet inbetween noises and using depth as... well depth.

[whoismarykelly]

Finally picked mine up at customs today.

first impression is twofold:

a - could be a bit of a one trick pony
b- I don't ever wanna stop listening to that trick


contrary to you other guys I'm running damp all the way ccw to get those sweet inbetween noises and using depth as... well depth.

Yeah if you have no damping then the depth works as it would on most other pedals. If you damp the modulation even a little the depth can disappear pretty quickly.

[baremountain]

first impression is twofold:

a - could be a bit of a one trick pony
b- I don't ever wanna stop listening to that trick

100% this. It's like if hugs could be captured in sound.
Also The damping/depth thing is an illusion, if you think about what's happening when you use the damping.
Say your depth goes from 0-10, and the center is at 5 (unity pitch). With damp all the way back, the movement of pitch is truly random, meaning you could go from 0 to 10 in a single step, creating what you hear as a huge pitch discrepancy.
When you dial the damp up, you're limiting where it can go from step to step. So if the modulation is at 0 on one step, the next might be limited to be within a neighborhood of, say, half the depth.
This means from 0 you can go anywhere from 0-5. You can still travel all the way up to 10, but you have to make a stop halfway there first. I hope that makes sense. You could compensate for damping by increasing the rate, which sets the speed of whatever is modulating the BBD. You're more likely statistically to get stuck in smaller pockets while damping is on, but the depth is all still there, I assure you.

[ProCarsteNation]

hugs captured in sound.

Yes!
Awesome album name btw


And I actually like the chorusy territory between say 11 and 1, 11 & 1 beeing quite different.
then with damp very ccw I keep it non chorusy by having only 1 of rate & depth cranked enough to just notice and the other one low and subtle.


and I've found one more trick:
It sounds more like being hugged by Hellboy in the depths of the lake of fire.

If I find the time I'll demo it the nexxxxxx
yeah, right!
me finding the time.
without obsessing over quality of playing, video or audio,
that's surely going to happen. real soon.

so here goes:
max mix,
close the gate. completely.

you're probably left with low muffled uninterestingness.
bring the volume up enough to really hear it though. CRANK IT!

Sounds gnarliest to me with rate & depth close to max, damp ccw.
Slap your favorite dirt behind it