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Heyyo,
I just built the BYOC VB-2 clone and it's really an amazing sounding pedal. I highly recommend it. Jake is right about it being super transparent.. It barely changes your clean tone (if at all) when you engage it, and it sounds great.
However, I bought my bandmate a Malekko Vibrato for xmas and he loves it. Barely even turns it off. I'm sure you'll be stoked on either one. Good luck!

Anyone ever used one of these guys for vibrato?
http://www.bbesound.com/products/stomp- ... _MB-2.aspx

I have the Malekko. It's great but yeah, I want it to go slower (and be less asymmetrical) at its slowest. Kinda want some demented detune thing, but it's the god damn biscuits for warm slippery vibrato.

It has a fair whack of treble rolloff at 9v. Be warned.

cool thing about the Behringer is its readily rehoused, and you can add a cap in parallel in the LFO to make it go REAALLLLY SLOOOOWWWW and if you fuck up anything its like $30 so no drama to replace.

Best bargain on the market really.

Jero wrote:

Ro_S wrote:

Gone Fission wrote:

big jilm wrote:

Gone Fission wrote:Otherwise and on the cheap, you could always mod a chorus pedal to lift the dry signal path.

Or get a danelectro cc chorus which has a mix knob.

Didn't know that one could do that. Is it a CE-2 clone, do you know?

It's digital, so no, it isn't a CE2 clone. It's a nice cheap chorus though.

I'm pretty certain you are both thinking of different pedals of the same name. The original Cool Cat Chorus was the big metal enclosure, and is a CE-2 clone. The current Dano Cool Cat Chorus is a little plastic blue, possibly digital, thing. Dano has been using "Cool Cat" as the name for the last few Series of pedals. So, you're both right.

The mix knob was mentioned so I thought it was the current, cool cat series chorus being referred to, and my above remark was concerning that.

Regardless, neither of these cool cat chorus pedals have analogue chips as far as I know. So neither can be genuine CE2 clones. Both sound decent though.

Oh, and neither have plastic housing.

Ro_S wrote:The mix knob was mentioned so I thought it was the current, cool cat series chorus being referred to, and my above remark was concerning that.
Regardless, neither of these cool cat chorus pedals have analogue chips as far as I know. So neither can be genuine CE2 clones. Both sound decent though.
Oh, and neither have plastic housing.

My mistake on the plastic. The original Cool Cat Chorus (DC-1), is a Boss clone, and is analog, and ran at 18v. Perhaps you didn't know this version existed?

Analog


Digital (possibly)

I'm lazy and didn't read the whole thread so I apologize if this has been mentioned, but the EHX Memory Boy can do some vibrato stuff depending how you have the knobs set.

Keeping the time and feedback low will do it. Works for me anyways and I love it. It's my favorite delay pedal

Jero wrote: My mistake on the plastic. The original Cool Cat Chorus (DC-1), is a Boss clone, and is analog, and ran at 18v. Perhaps you didn't know this version existed?

Yes, I knew about the earlier, big cased DC1 - and I knew there was a 18v and later 9v version of it.

However, I always thought both of the DC1 versions used low-fi digital chips like the Dan Echo. So both versions of the DC1 were analogue? Interesting. You learn something everyday. Thanks I suppose it does explain why it used to such glowing user reviews on Harmony Central.

I like that Malekko but how about the Depths from EQD? I saw a clinic in Cleveland where Jamie went through their whole lineup and it sounded great.

billymick wrote:I like that Malekko but how about the Depths from EQD? I saw a clinic in Cleveland where Jamie went through their whole lineup and it sounded great.

The Depths isn't a vibrato, it's a univibe (vibe) type effect. Different things.

Some or most Univibe type circuits do vibrato but The Depths isn't one of them, both the Black Cat Vibe and MG Mono Vibe have a great vibrato, best ones I heard so far on a Univibe type circuit and very distinctive.

Tristan wrote:Some or most Univibe type circuits do vibrato but The Depths isn't one of them, both the Black Cat Vibe and MG Mono Vibe have a great vibrato, best ones I heard so far on a Univibe type circuit and very distinctive.

Do you have them? We could do a shootout with my tube vibe and castledine next time?!

The Black Cat Vibe and Mono Vibe will arrive shortly, I'm probably going to buy one of them.
I know the Tube Vibe, that one is awesome too, I only heard about the Castledine.
The MJM Sixties Vibe also deserves to be mentioned, then we have all my favourite ones together in one post.
The rest of what I tried (Dejavibe, Micro Vibe, Mojo Vibe, Voodoo Vibe, whatever) is all not worth it in my opinion.

Ro_S wrote:

billymick wrote:I like that Malekko but how about the Depths from EQD? I saw a clinic in Cleveland where Jamie went through their whole lineup and it sounded great.

The Depths isn't a vibrato, it's a univibe (vibe) type effect. Different things.

Agh gotcha, I couldn't remember much about it other than hearing some warble. They were handing out beer and cheese platters for fudges sake

I noticed something about the Malekko Vibrato, when I use it with my amp's od or clean sounds amazing, even at 9V, but when I use it with my fuzz pedals the result is not good due to a noticeable change of tone: less low end, even more than the commented less high end besides the expected volume drop... and to be honest, using a 12V adapter doesn't seem to make a difference. I placed the vibrato after the fuzz because my pedals are very picky about being first in the chain. I have three fuzz pedals: MJM London Fuzz, MJM London Fuzz II and Sunmachine Reptile Fuzz. The Reptile was the only one that sounded perfect with the vibrato.

I must say I'm a little dissapointed with the pedal and I don't think that an increase from 12V to 18V is going to make a real and drastic difference at all. Think I'm going to return it and keep using the vibrato mode of my MJM Sixties Vibe... sure, it doesn't deliver the seasick extreme madness of the Malekko but at least it doesn't take off my low end in combination with my fuzz pedals.