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dubkitty wrote: ↑Thu Aug 14, 2025 3:26 pm don’t know the Outward, but the RR is my favorite ring modulator. every home should have one.

Tell me why you like Randy so much dubs whaddya doing with it

I am so stuck up on gas only applying to electronic stuff like pedals or amps or rawking rawl geetars I keep denying that acoustic instruments are gear too and gas very much applies. Where I'm getting with this is that I am going into Da Drone Zone for real cause I finally bought a set of Swedish bagpipes which is in the mail currently. Kinda been thinking it would be cool to soothe my renaisance reed gas but have been unsure about it. I have been listening to the Kronos Quartet's "Early Music" though and what I first thought were a krumhorn actually were a säckpipa so I'm pretty stoked that it will not only be a folk music noise machine.

So yeah if anyone could set up a bed for when I'm evicted that would be nice

le lambin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 15, 2025 11:55 pm

dubkitty wrote: ↑Thu Aug 14, 2025 3:26 pm don’t know the Outward, but the RR is my favorite ring modulator. every home should have one.

Tell me why you like Randy so much dubs whaddya doing with it

Don't know if this is what dubkitty likes about RR but for me the thing that makes RR so great is how much it focuses on being a streamlined, great-sounding ring mod in a small package. It feels a lot like my big box frequency analyzer but without the size and annoying 40 vdc brick, albeit the filter on the frequency analyzer gets more fatter. The filter on RR still is great, being sweepable makes for a lot of cool sounds you can make a phaser sound or vibey sounds or slightly filtery trem sounds. It is also great for taming the quasi-samplerate reduction noises you can get in square mode. It also has a ton of great clang when used as a typical ring mod sound. The huge hz knob is a great feature

i mostly use it for what i guess are typical ring mod use cases…bells, ugly dissonance mixed with straight guitar, and lumpy tremolo. one of my old tracks is a loop i played over, and the first part is the Hopf with the old pickups through the RR:

https://on.soundcloud.com/pWDtTpibDegPK9caRA

this is all the Randy with various other processors and is an example of my bell sounds:

https://on.soundcloud.com/EdrwVhS8hzLx4WGdZr

there’s a odd kind of clarity to the bell sounds which i absolutely adore…other ring mods seldom have that kind of crystalline quality.

this is a more recent piece from earlier this year that uses Randy with an array of reverbs and delay.

https://on.soundcloud.com/sYazO3dP026BCS0kiU

dubkitty wrote: ↑Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:27 am i mostly use it for what i guess are typical ring mod use cases…bells, ugly dissonance mixed with straight guitar, and lumpy tremolo. one of my old tracks is a loop i played over, and the first part is the Hopf with the old pickups through the RR:

https://on.soundcloud.com/pWDtTpibDegPK9caRA

this is all the Randy with various other processors and is an example of my bell sounds:

https://on.soundcloud.com/EdrwVhS8hzLx4WGdZr

there’s a odd kind of clarity to the bell sounds which i absolutely adore…other ring mods seldom have that kind of crystalline quality.

It’s pretty amazing the sounds youre making with your guitar here- sort of murky and foggy but not over the top. Mysterious even! Great stuff

I actually got myself down to 3 guitars, but two antique/junk stores near my house keep tempting me.

One has a neat old Zen On guitar from the 60s that actually has a straight neck and is playable. Surprisingly, the seller put fresh strings on it and tuned it up.

Another place has a semi fancy Harley Benton tele with 2 hum buckers. I don't need it, but probably a decent chassis for experimentation for $125.

thank you. the key thing on my tracks is that there’s always deep reverbs (often 2 or 3 at once) and usually lo-fi delays working on the ring mod sounds. and everything else, really. i’m a big believer in creating artificial, or perhaps virtual, environments in sound. i’ve said half-seriously that my love of music comes from it giving me different places to go. i know a loop is finished when i can let it play in the background for an hour and still like it.

i’m actually getting towards the end of my guitars want list. the only things left that i don’t have any parts for or don’t have in-house yet are the baritone Jazzmaster conversion, a Telecaster Deluxe with WRHBs, and one of the Hohner Steinberger copies. there are probably non-essential ones now, but they might become essential with sufficient twiddling. i mused in the project guitars folder about what it would be like to not be looking for guitars any more. of course, that was before the Squier Telecaster Custom with neck humbucker, Jazzmaster bridge, and Bigsby B50 in Lake Placid Blue dropped.

Randy arrived- it’s real good. No surprises there.

What was a surprise was the Cooper FX Outward. Something was loose on the inside and rattling around, so I opened it up for a look see and wouldn’t you know it:

well, well, well.

i would be sorely tempted by one of the new Squier CV Teles or Esquires if only they didn’t have poplar bodies. maybe i should get over that, though, because the Duo Sonic has a poplar CV body and sounds and feels fine. i can’t help but think of the Sherwood Green Esquire Custom as an easy answer to my bound green Telecaster jones, and if one shows up parted out on eBay i’m off.

unexpected purchase but a Science/EAE Mother Preamp came up locally for cheap, so
i normally like the clean tones from these kinds of preamp peds but this is the first time the higher gain sounds have also totally stacked up against drive pedals and amp gain. the 'absence' knob seems to make it really easy to tailor to different guitars and direct/amp-in setups, etc. very good feels about this one...

I got a Mooer Rage Machine metal distortion pedal: what a surprise! I think it will serve me well for my noise-industrial tunes.

gila_crisis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 9:08 am I got a Mooer Rage Machine metal distortion pedal: what a surprise! I think it will serve me well for my noise-industrial tunes.

Death Metal clone, no?