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Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 12:42 pm
by friendship
if it looks like it belongs in a submarine, it probably sounds good
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 2:43 pm
by Chankgeez
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:07 pm
by _r_
Update on the Gonkulator - I absolutely love it on bass. Love tuning the frequency down really low to the key of whatever I'm playing in and dialling some distortion in - it's like having a dirt pedal with a clean blend but with a bit of added glitchy synth weirdness. Not sure what the alt-country band that I play bass in will make of it but hey. Also been rehearsing for a solo electronic set which involves my Volca Bass playing a constant one-note drone for about 15 minutes with LFO modulation and knob-twiddling to vary it so tried running that through the Gonkulator. Similarly boss. I particularly like really cranking the resonance of the Volca's filter to the point where it's audible as a note and letting that interact with the ring mod, especially with the LFO doing its thing. Makes all kinds of phantom arpeggiated notes appear!
I honestly never knew I needed a ring mod so much...
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 12:34 am
by lordgalvar
Black cat is indeed a nice looking pedal. Mine's broke.
Dr Strangelove! Kinda fun having that little delay in there.
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:59 am
by crochambeau
I just got back from band practice, where I had deployed a Monobius with expression input. It turns out that sweeping the carrier frequency with a treadle like a wah is something I have been missing.
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:07 pm
by Chankgeez
Yep, that's awesome.
And, apparently, the Gonkulators are on sale at Sweetwater:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Gonkulator
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 4:52 pm
by retinal orbita
Gonk rules. I use mine with a HM-2 and a DOD Death Metal for the dirt section of my noisecore band
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 4:53 pm
by $harkToootth
crochambeau wrote:I just got back from band practice, where I had deployed a Monobius with expression input. It turns out that sweeping the carrier frequency with a treadle like a wah is something I have been missing.
Curtis...you know what you have to do...
I. Write up a detailed "Crochambeau style" explanation/add-copy
II. Make a video
"Please" and "Thank you" Sir!!!

Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:22 pm
by adamajah
Yeah... i couldn't resist that...

Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:42 pm
by Dandolin
Stop worrying and learn to love the carrier.
Also, I gonkulated.
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:27 pm
by BoatRich
retinal orbita wrote:Gonk rules. I use mine with a HM-2 and a DOD Death Metal for the dirt section of my noisecore band
I just grabbed one and it’s definitely getting stacked with an HM-2. What order do you run them in?
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 12:50 pm
by retinal orbita
BoatRich wrote:retinal orbita wrote:Gonk rules. I use mine with a HM-2 and a DOD Death Metal for the dirt section of my noisecore band
I just grabbed one and it’s definitely getting stacked with an HM-2. What order do you run them in?
Right now my board is HM-2, DOD Death Metal, Moogerfooger Ring (in a loop) Gonkulator, Gristleizer, DD7 but I'm always tinkering. I should post a pic tonight
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 1:49 pm
by BoatRich
retinal orbita wrote:BoatRich wrote:retinal orbita wrote:Gonk rules. I use mine with a HM-2 and a DOD Death Metal for the dirt section of my noisecore band
I just grabbed one and it’s definitely getting stacked with an HM-2. What order do you run them in?
Right now my board is HM-2, DOD Death Metal, Moogerfooger Ring (in a loop) Gonkulator, Gristleizer, DD7 but I'm always tinkering. I should post a pic tonight
I’m thinking it’ll go in between my HM-2 and a DOD BiFet. I like rat style drives boosted and I’ve heard this is similar to a RAT?
Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:05 pm
by BetterOffShred
It's not strictly a ring mod.. But I just bought a Phantom Arcade off Reverb. Been looking for one for a while, it's got the badass pixel graphics too. So pumped

Re: Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the masses
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 6:09 am
by actual
Adventure Audio have premiered a sexy new best of a ring mod, the Outer Rings. Pre-order is up on their site.
"This is a brand new take on a ring mod. As far as we know, this topology has never been done before. I will attempt to sum up whats going on here in a very brief, brief, extra brief explanation.
The core function of the Outer Rings is to multiply the input signal by an internal square wave oscillator. This multiplication produces a square wave containing harmonic energy mathematically related to the harmonic content of your input signal and the oscillator. That can then be added together with your post-gain signal for some truly outer galaxy tones.
Because we like to adventure and take things further, we didn't stop at one oscillator... we included a modulating oscillator to sweep and wiggle the frequency of the multiplying oscillator hands free. (Look ma, we're modulating now!) You can use it as an LFO to change the pitch super slow (we're talking 10+ seconds for a full pitch sweep) or rev it up into the audio range and make the the multiplying oscillator do some math and make some sweet, sweet frequency modulation in the process. "
Demo:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb5Hix_lJIn ... ture_audio
https://adventurepedals.com/products/outer-rings