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I wish pedal to be simulation of FENDER RHODES piano...who make's one ,I'm first to try out

stripes wrote:i wish a spring reverb + fuzz existed... i guess the sunshine reverberator kinda does that but i'm talking verb controls, fuzz eq.. and dual switches so you can pick and change the order.

This.

A David Gilmour-type wah you could reverse the inputs/outputs on in order to get those weird "seagull" oscillations.

MS-20 filter in a stompbox, with expression outputs.

There actually is a wah that does the seagull effect. I think its called the Gull wah. Has a switch to swap from wah mode to gull mode.

http://www.eyerocktronics.com/index.php
Yeah, the 'Gullmour' Wah.

Also, MS-20 filter in a stompbox- you could look for a Frostwave Resonator, or get one of these http://martoneaudio.com/BrainFreeze.htm

Midnight Rider wrote:I wish pedal to be simulation of FENDER RHODES piano...who make's one ,I'm first to try out

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMuLvyWR2NY[/youtube]
Not pedal but... thing

If I remember correctly, I could get similar sounds doing that with a jh1 crybaby

A fuzz that can get me a super fuzzy tone, but with the clairity in the low end from my Orange.

AngryGoldfish wrote:Yeah, there are quite a few builders out there (won't name who obviously) who will avoid things like relay-based switching systems because, firstly, they know their market is all about traditional and... for want of a nicer term... snobbery, and secondly, they may not feel confident in their abilities as a builder to wire up a soft-touch switch without increasing the price substantially and keeping the build time reasonable.

that might be a fraction of the builders, but the real reason most of the time is that relays take power, and when you want to be able to design a pedal that can also run on battery power, you have to take things like that into consideration.

build time and price do also fall into it. have you priced quantities of relays? whatever you safe on using momentary switches instead of 3pdt's, you blow through on relays. have you ever tried using a cheap relay? loud, shitty, still expensive.

Midnight Rider wrote:I wish pedal to be simulation of FENDER RHODES piano...who make's one ,I'm first to try out

I use these samples of an original one and love it:
http://www.soundstosample.com/info/real ... ection/235

echodeluxe wrote:

AngryGoldfish wrote:Yeah, there are quite a few builders out there (won't name who obviously) who will avoid things like relay-based switching systems because, firstly, they know their market is all about traditional and... for want of a nicer term... snobbery, and secondly, they may not feel confident in their abilities as a builder to wire up a soft-touch switch without increasing the price substantially and keeping the build time reasonable.

that might be a fraction of the builders, but the real reason most of the time is that relays take power, and when you want to be able to design a pedal that can also run on battery power, you have to take things like that into consideration.

build time and price do also fall into it. have you priced quantities of relays? whatever you safe on using momentary switches instead of 3pdt's, you blow through on relays. have you ever tried using a cheap relay? loud, shitty, still expensive.

I can see where you're coming from with the vintage fuzz crowd, but I think the current requirements of a relay aren't going to be a killer for many guys interested in buying boutique pedals. I think, as said, a large part of it is to do with the market being saturated with builders who've made a career from downloading schematics and breadboarding stuff until it sounds good, instead of people who have a strong enough background in electronics to be able to do something requiring more thinking than a 3pdt. Factor in buyers not understanding different types of bypass and that's my explanation for relays or other switching systems not being in wider use.

I agree, relays are a little more complicated than a jumper across two poles of a switch. I do tend to think that a lot of why relay bypass schemes aren't used as much has a lot to do with keeping the price of a pedal down. Space is also an issue.

But I also agree that there are a lot of hacks out there who don't know a relay from a jrc4558

Midnight Rider wrote:I wish pedal to be simulation of FENDER RHODES piano...who make's one ,I'm first to try out

This guy seems to have that Rhodes sound down quite well (the playing is extremely angular and crazy though) but I don't really know how he does it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Mj9tVy6kE

^ damn, crazy skills. light ring-mod into wah? that's what it sounds like when he's adjusting it near the end

Yeah, some pretty sick shit there. I also think it's mostly some cocked wah sound combined with a somrwhat dry sounding drive and palm muting / percussive playing, the ring mod could finish that all off though it must be quite subtle in the mix because I don't really hear it as such.

Tristan wrote:

Midnight Rider wrote:I wish pedal to be simulation of FENDER RHODES piano...who make's one ,I'm first to try out

This guy seems to have that Rhodes sound down quite well (the playing is extremely angular and crazy though) but I don't really know how he does it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Mj9tVy6kE

That guitarist's eyes right at the :20 mark cracked me up.