Trek PWM fuzz Tourbox

[autopilot]

yeaz, it has a lot of different textures combining both voices, but it opens up if you use an external source to control the second voice so you can add more options. im running 2 terra's (parallel) one with the 2 voices for a super comp swelling saturation and the main one to straight fuzz tone and the second voice linked to a cv source with the option of exp control or lfo via a broadcast so i can add some modulation to the octave.

[goroth]

Who's next on the tourbox? Pm your address duder!

[UglyCasanova]

I did a quick research using the cities of the addresses http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/calculate-distance.html so i think it will be

Goroth
Tristan
Disarm D'arcy
UgglyCassanova
Eivind

I didnt calculate Norway because Eivind wont be able to participate in may, i dont know if i left someone, if so let me know.

[goroth]

I'll just be going back to school to learn to read now...

[Tristan]

Do you still have my address?

[goroth]

And with great sadness the tourbox passes on to my bestest Dutch buddy.

I was not at all tempted to keep all the pedals.

Not at all...

Demos and thoughts will be posted!

[Tristan]

I can imagine, thanks, you my bestest Swedish buddy too!

[Dandolin]

im running 2 terra's (parallel) one with the 2 voices for a super comp swelling saturation and the main one to straight fuzz tone and the second voice linked to a cv source with the option of exp control or lfo via a broadcast so i can add some modulation to the octave.

Demoz?

[autopilot]

cool, next week, since my board is at the practice space, and we have shows on thursday, and maybe saturday/sunday

[Dandolin]

cool, next week, since my board is at the practice space, and we have shows on thursday, and maybe saturday/sunday

[goroth]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9_-3_a2OVY[/youtube]

Terra fuzz was my favourite I think. There are a lot of sounds in this beast, and the different modes add a lot of different textures. You could do a 20 minute demo of this thing and still not cover everything.

Adam, is the secondary fuzz out of phase with the first? I noticed between like 10 o'clock and maybe 2 o'clock when mixing in the secondary fuzz I lost a lot of volume and bass. Then it all came back when the secondary fuzz took over after 2 o'clock.

I've got pretty low output pickups so that might have something to do with it, but with the bias at 12 o'clock I got no sound. I generally start with all knobs at 12 and then tweak from there. I thought at first there was something wrong with the pedal. Eventually I maxed everything and discovered that no no, it worked just fine! Is it possible to raise the lowest value for the bias pot? Or perhaps in the instructions include a "home" setting. This is how Tom explains the Velcrobot, which has two gain knobs, a gate knob and a bot knob (? haha!). It doesn't make any sense, but he provides a "home setting" and then gives some ideas for how to explore it.

I think this would help the Terra fuzz, without dumbing it down.

Kinda like: Start with bias all the way up, secondary fuzz all the way down. Input volume maxed. Output volume and gain to taste. That would have got me off to a flying start with this pedal.

Or maybe I'm not giving people enough credit for being intelligent...

[autopilot]

thanks a lot. Yes they are out of phase so in certain settings they cancel each other, i find that it makes the pedal more versatile, but i'll consider your thoughts, the thing was that i wanted to cop a lot of tones and since that both fuzz voices share all the controls (bias, tone, gain, input) it was a way to make both interact in a new way, also the secondary fuzz (in your case the primary the one that is labeled vol) is linked to the exp/cv jack so you can also control the volume externally of it, adding more shades, but i'll recheck the phase thing and see what can i do, thanks for the feedback

[autopilot]

perhaps is the pickups with 9v-10v the bias works all the way

[goroth]

Hahahaha, I've used the pedal "backwards" the whole time? That is awesome haha!

I get you on the phase thing. In that case chuck it in the instructions and tell me to turn the volume up at certain settings so that I understand it's a rad feature. I'm so used to listening for phase cancelling in my recordings and in the rehearsal room it was a bit natural for me to think it was a negative rather than something cool.

[Bellyheart]

Package landed today. It was evasive since the usps doesn't wanna stay in business but they've realized their errors and now I have the two boxes. Fun.