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jrmy wrote:

sevenSHARPnine wrote:So how exactly does the starve knob affect the SM/VFM circuits? Is it worth getting the starve knob? I guess I'm really trying to ask, how "usable" is it?

I'll have to play around with it more to really let you know, but it doesn't seem to do much, certainly not as much as the starve does to the DB & 33 circuits. When I have my new noise & chaos switches engaged in the VF mode, it does oscillate a tunable drone, but it turns out that I can't play through it - in that setting, it just becomes a drone generator (which is still pretty cool). I may have some time to play around with it tomorrow, so I'll see if I can come up with more concrete / usable findings then.

Cool, thanks!

All right... phew... after a little time playing with the StaniHype, I finally feel comfortable posting my first clip... basically, it's a circuit-by-circuit rundown of combinations. I hope you like the little demo riff I use, because I play it a helluva lot. On all of these, the control knob was set at 3 o'clock (close to 75 / 80%), just because factoring that in too offered one too many options to keep track of. Needless to say, that's a whole 'nother area I need to explore.

So, the word here is usability... and frankly, there's a WHOLE HELLUVA LOT of usable settings in this little box. I found my personal favorite (33 > boost, starved 50%... which I do a little bit extra with at the very end), but I could see using just about everything in here at one point or another. This has just become my swiss army knife of fuzz. And after thinking about it, here's my reasoning: the three positions of each switch correspond not only to different Devi circuits, but also to a different set of frequencies. The 33s are pretty trebly, the "boosts" that are the middle position (and I have NO IDEA what this position is, circuit-wise) are great for mids, and the lower position is the Dark Boost which obviously loves the bottom end. Through mixing and matching, you can find a BAJILLION different fuzz & OD toanz here.

Here's the second-by-second rundown on my little clip:

0:00 - clean
0:07 - 33 > 33
0:14 - 33 > boost
0:22 - boost > 33
0:30 - boost > boost
0:38 - boost > DB
0:46 - DB > boost
0:54 - DB > DB
1:03 - DB > 33
1:11 - 33 > DB
1:20 - 33 > 33 starved
1:29 - boost > boost starved
1:38 - DB > DB starved
1:47 - 33 > DB starved
1:58 - 33 > boost starved

As a rule, I did correct for volume, since certain settings (33 > 33) can get pretty quiet, and the "boost" settings can get hella loud. Recording was done with my Fender Jazz (passive pups) > the StaniHype > M-Audio Fast Track Pro > GarageBand. I did do a little EQing in GarageBand, but kept it consistent across all tracks.

So there ya go: the StaniHype. Hopefully worth your wait - I know it was worth mine!

I'll do a little somethin'-somethin' that's more guitar-centric later on, and then add some VF / SM clips to the mix. Very stoked for all this pedal funtime!

OH WOW, you were right Jrmy, totally different on bass, holy crap.... that is some badass fuzzy synth bass clips!!

i started to type out what i did but i just sounded like a douche... so if anyone wants to know just PM me and i'll give you details....

i'm glad you like it man, seriously, the hype is a great pedal and the toggles give it so much more.... you're right, it is a "swiss army knife of fuzz" for sure....

Cool - glad you like it! Yeah, this thing is nuts. I started messing around with it using my piccolo bass last night (the closest I've got to a guitar, but it does have a strat pickup, so I guess that's guitarish), and the Hype was definitely acting way differently than on my regular bass - on certain settings it was actually oscillating, which it NEVER did on the Jazz bass. And on other settings, it had a REALLY pronounced octave-up going on, which was pretty cool.

You should totally post what you did to it - if not here, then over in D.I.Y. for sure! I wouldn't understand 99% of it, but I'd be fascinated just the same (I love hearing about that stuff, even though I know nothing about electronics).