What's your favorite ring modulator?

[van_muddlestein]

I have the Minifooger and I love it! I use it a ton for my noise band. You really need an expression pedal to make the magic happen though. I have no problem doing the Roulette Dares thing just sweeping it up and down. I might be the only person who owns/likes the Mini Ring!

Dude I totally forgot about those cause they're so new!! I think you may have inspired my next pedal purchase.

[DarkAxel]

I wonder how come noone ever mentions Dwarfcraft Hax... anything wrong with that one?

[zRobertez]

I wonder how come noone ever mentions Dwarfcraft Hax... anything wrong with that one?

Isn't what's wrong with it... the appeal???

[DarkAxel]

haha, good point!

just that... it can be had for very good money and it also has exp input... so i`m curious

[space6oy]

huh i don't think i'd heard about a DW ringmod...

[Shish]

Hax has been on my radar forever, I just never pulled the trigger.

[leaves turn]

OK so I've had the RR for a few days now. It's awesome but has two drawbacks:

1. Square wave trem has a popping problem. You can get around this by using the filter.

2. Low headroom; any sort of hot signal will distort in an ugly manner. I had to move it in front of my dirt.


Still, great sounding ringmod and tremolo. Might be the best at either effect that I've ever used.

[goroth]

Hmm... maybe write to Guilluame about it. I remember loosely following a technical discussion about the RR and it should have plenty of room for some serious voltage swings. Then again, I've never had an RR, so that's kinda pie in the sky.

[leaves turn]

Yeah I just shot Fairfield an email. The headroom thing is weird. Even with just a signal chain of Accountant -> RR, maxing the level on the compressor will turn the revenge all hazey. Switch off the ringmod and signal is clean. I wonder if it's just my unit.

[insubordination]

Brief overview with some sample settings I dig.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-xXAYUQE8c[/youtube]

[leaves turn]

I got confirmation from Fairfield (sent 'em a recording) that the haze I'm hearing is the input JFET stage going into hard clipping. I changed my mind about the noise (doesn't sound particularly bad), but just know that if you have gain before your RR, it'll likely add its own distortion to the mix.

Still, great pedal.

[goroth]

[Chankgeez]

GREEN RINGER

[zRobertez]

Okay. I've had the Vitruvian Mod for a couple weeks now. And its pretty fucking awesome. And so was insubordinations demo! A lot of cool sounds in it! Which is mostly what I have to say about it. There are tons of different tones in it. From other videos, I wasn't super expecting as many traditional ring mod sounds but it totally has them. I don't know how I would compare it to other ring mods (first stand alone ring mod for me) but it totally can do the normal clangy ringy stuff. On the pitch modes, it turns kind of into a monophonic harmonizer-ish thing with ~3 octaves of range which you can set from specific intervals, or in between those with the fine tune knob in choas mode. I don't really know what to say about other than its way fun and way useable in a lot of situations so I think Ill just list some of the cooler unexpected sounds I got out of it.

It can turn fuzz into octave up/down fuzzes
Or just clean octaves
Synthy noises
Pre-organizer gives a weird choir of overtones that usually consist of the ring mods freq instead of the pitch you are actually playing
Putting a reverb before it turns it into a glitchy verbed out hotness
Post tuner keeps you in tune
At one point I got something that sounded a lot like a rhodes with an acoustic into the Vitruvian and a couple other peds
If you keep the mix lowish, polyphony sometimes sounds like an overdrive
Turning the mix up then gives some awesome glitchyness

And a billion other things that Im not remembering right now. its seriously fun though

[Chankgeez]

Nice review, zRobertez.