Tell me about your McSpunckle Gnomeratron!

[Caesar]

I've submitted the request to the family to get me a McSpunckle Gnomeratron.

So what can I look forward to?

What are some of your favorite settings/tones?

[smile_man]

it's like a big muff with marshall tone stack.

[Holy Schnikes]

Veritable. Fuzz. Workstation.

I have a deluxe with the rotary selectors for diodes pairs, endless fuzz combos packed into that little fucker. It's also loud as all get out and takes some dedication/patience to understand how everything interacts and to tame it a bit. Once you get the hang though, endless awesome fuzz options from more standard to insane noisemaker status. I'd say big muff is the easiest to dial in maybe but it goes WAAAYYYYYY beyond into some insanity I've never heard spewed from any fuzz. I never use it to cop muff tonez as a result, got plenty of those already.

Have a look at this for sure, may not pertain to the newest Gnomeratron exactly but it's helpful.
http://nconspicuous.com/gnome/VTF%20Instructions.pdf

[futuresailors]

With my old fuzzes I was all "man, these still sound like chords."
With the VTF I'm all "now everything sounds like white noise!"

Aka it's awesome.

I like Schottky diodes. Gain dimed. Tone dimed. Octave up. Second diode off. And whatever the far right tone toggle setting is. It's like a fizzier, more obnoxious FY-2.

Also, it doubles as a dronetron.

[jrmy]

A bajillion different flavors and then some.

With the octave off, you can get into muff-y territory. But with endless tonal variation & gating possibilities. You can also get into trashier/treblier territory - I've only played a Fuzz Face a few times, but I've been able to cop tones that I think are pretty similar from the VTF. You can also play around with the clean blend to get "barely there" fuzz if you want it - just a whisper of fuzz around the edges.

Then the octave... well, that's a whole 'nother beastie. Quite unlike any other octave up I've heard - it's almost modulated, like it's got a slow flange on it. Really distinct.

And the magic mode? Sweet baby jebus. Worlds ending. Amps melting. Speakers 'sploding.

It's good stuff, that VTF. Very good stuff indeed.

[jrmy]

Also, do you have an And Aardvarks!? If so, you'll have to try ramming it with the VTF. Holy mother of god is that awesomesauce.

[Achtane]

I think it would be a lot of fun in a feedback loop.

[bronzetalon]

There's a tour box thread with demos and thoughts and such. It's my favorite fuzz ever.

[MaxMaps]

It will make you a man.

[Holy Schnikes]

It will make you a man.

Pretty much, grow hair your chest and all that.

[Fuzz_Pi]

If there's another tour box, I'm definatly in.
I must admit tho, the Gnomeratron's massive presence (penis) does intimidate me

I mean there's so many switches and knobs I feel like I'd accidentally press the red button and send a nuclear warhead into Moscow

[MaxMaps]

it cures the common case of sucking

and can kill cyclopes with a c major cord.

[jrmy]

I mean there's so many switches and knobs I feel like I'd accidentally press the red button and send a nuclear warhead into Moscow

Don't worry, Spunckiez planned ahead - to launch the warheads, you need two keys and a retinal scan.it's almost impossible to do accidentally.




Almost.

[Holy Schnikes]

I mean there's so many switches and knobs I feel like I'd accidentally press the red button and send a nuclear warhead into Moscow

Focus your concerns on your speakers and/or neighbors. Moscow should be fine, maybe.

[univalve]

it is one of the most versatile fuzzes out there: thin, fat, doomy, lightly fuzzy, full shred. all in there. but it has a learning curve and it takes time to tame it. def. one fuzz i would always buy again if it would get lost somehow.