Sounds like Matt needs to find some better quality stepped switches.
Pete wrote:I've never really understood what a PLL pedal is. I just think wacky fuzz/filter craziness. Are pedals like Subdecay Noise Box, MASF Biloma, Seppuku Junktone, Industrialectric 4046-M, Mantic Flex, etc. considered PLL pedals?
4046m and flex yes, noise box I don't think so? No idea about the other two though never even heard of them!
PLL is actually a synthesizer the fuzzy and filtery sounds come from the way the phase locking circuit reads your input signal (I think)
I think biloma is more like a crazy envelope filter. Kinda more like rattle crow than a pll. Though it could be a CMOS filter like the WASP...I've never looked.
PLL is a way to mirror an incoming signal into a square wave by comparing and adjusting a free running oscillator to the incoming signal via phase. A phase shifted signal just has its wavelength starting at a different degree of the original signal. If it is 90 degrees off phase one wave cycle starts at the peak of another wave. It compared the phase to reset/lock the oscillator.
Something like that.
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I solved my PLL dilemma..... bought and built an '0415 synth' pedal kit from parasit. It's perfect! PLL toanz with 2 voices, 2 knobs - master level and mix of the 2 voices, plus 2 switches - -1/-2 octaves on voice1 and +1/+2 octaves on voice2! No dialling in your unrepeatable sound forever each time! If it had a greater variety of intervals I'd probably cream my pants. Probably the best £30ish Ive ever spent on an effect. Can't recommend it enough. On top of that it growls like a demon bastard through the mini.
Definitely the cheapest way to achieve PLL. It's kicked the bluebox off my board and stopped me wanting a Pollyanna. Hooray!
Chankgeez wrote:
We should have a game show à la Name That Tune
Inconuucl: I can shoegaze that tune with 5 pedals.
other contestant: I can shoegaze that tune with 4 pedals.
Inconuucl: I can shoegaze that tune with 3 pedals.
other contestant: OK, shoegaze that tune!
Inconuucl:
last time matt made a mistake and listed a judder for 3000 or something, and someone on reverb looked up the judder pedal he was selling and thought wow I can make a killing....till I shat all over his parade and had it changed mauahaha ...or maybe its for real this time bum bum BUMM!
WBJ could stand for Wooden Box Judder surely? £190 sounds a lot more realistic than £450. It's cool that the Judder's permanently in stock now, no pre orders or anything that screwed him last time.
I spoke to Matt last week and he was working on a batch of Glitch pedals. I don't know whether they'll be wooden/metal/available in both, though. After that it's another run of mini Judders and then hopefully some of the weirder stuff listed on his store.
