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Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:08 pm
by dubkitty
Gearmond wrote:hiorgos wrote:Indeed, Boss videos are terrible!
bad demo videos account for a large proportion of why people never use pedals in interesting ways.
just think about how many people don't like/use chorus, and how many demos include that fucking nirvana riff.
and how EVERY GODDAMNED FLANGER DEMO uses the EVH "Unchained" riff. whenever i hear that song, i expect to hear "hi, i'm _______ from _________, and this is the _________ flanger" after the first eight bars.
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:16 pm
by Gearmond
hah!
or even worse, Barracuda
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:12 am
by ChetMagongalo
kbithecrowing wrote:Holy shit. Tera Echo. Tera Melos. Nick Reinhart.
THIS PEDAL WAS MADE FOR HIM.
Nope x3... Do not want.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:38 am
by rustywire
skullservant wrote:I actually didn't think the Tera Echo was that bad. Its a stereo delay with a hold feature and modulation, that allows you to freeze and then play over it. For what it is, I don't think that is awful and got pretty ambient without totally sounding like shit.
I think they were really excited to debut their new technology, and for what that technology is, I think that right out of the gate they are showing potential with it. Yeah, none of the boxes are going to be like OH SHIT, but do we know of any other pedals that modulate delays by pick attack? No.
I think it's promising to see what they do with the technology in the future, but this is a good start, at least for the Tera Echo.
Yes, we do.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfe1eV4TzXo[/youtube]
Want^
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:53 am
by kbit
ChetMagongalo wrote:kbithecrowing wrote:Holy shit. Tera Echo. Tera Melos. Nick Reinhart.
THIS PEDAL WAS MADE FOR HIM.
Hah I know I saw this and I was like "uhh.. ok."
Then five minutes later I was like
Re: Nope x3... Do not want.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:38 am
by DarkAxel
rustywire wrote:skullservant wrote:I actually didn't think the Tera Echo was that bad. Its a stereo delay with a hold feature and modulation, that allows you to freeze and then play over it. For what it is, I don't think that is awful and got pretty ambient without totally sounding like shit.
I think they were really excited to debut their new technology, and for what that technology is, I think that right out of the gate they are showing potential with it. Yeah, none of the boxes are going to be like OH SHIT, but do we know of any other pedals that modulate delays by pick attack? No.
I think it's promising to see what they do with the technology in the future, but this is a good start, at least for the Tera Echo.
Yes, we do.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfe1eV4TzXo[/youtube]
Want^
or Wampler Faux Tape Echo
truly an amazing feature
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:11 pm
by Officer Bukowski
Or Midfi clari(not)
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:19 pm
by crohny
Casavettes wrote:Does boss even give a shit anymore?
When they stopped making the rv3 is when they stopped caring.
Re: Nope x3... Do not want.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:34 pm
by skullservant
rustywire wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfe1eV4TzXo[/youtube]
Had it and it was SO hard to get anything reasonable out of it, at all. But I guess if you have it you're not looking for reasonable delays.
The Clarinot is the more rationable/actually usable variation on it, and it completely slipped my mind.
I think the Tera Echo is interesting in that it's processor tells it to do this instead of that depending on pick attack
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:08 pm
by rustywire
Yeah, Snazzy Fx in general doesn't do "reasonable" but...that's surely why they exist. Enclosure size alone is a good indication of their silliness
From the demos, the Tera sounds like a modulated DD# delay with a fixed phaser instead of the typical chorus/vibrato circuit in tape delay emulators.
And instead of having knobs to control the mod, you vary its sensitivity via input signal strength.
Cool idea but less than impressive execution IMO. Of course, getting my hands on one has the potential to change everything...but this gives a real "gimmicky" impression...more so than the Snazzy boxes...while even sounding clumsy to me.
Seems to be aimed at the hipstery shimmer kids who play cigar box guitars or intentionally feedback microphones, while branding themselves "noise artists"
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:14 pm
by skullservant
I agree, I too feel like the execution could have been a little better like I stated a few pages back, but like I also said, I think that they were excited about their new technology and wanted to get it out as soon as possible. Is the effect itself impressive? Not to most of us. But I think the technology itself has potential, and while this first round of new pedals using the technology aren't what we all desire or find impressive, it's a start.
As I said a few pages earlier, just think about the potential with the technology- a 'smart' routing device that can split your signal by bands of sound into different chains. A utility pedal that takes your highs and puts them to one output, and your lows into another to be able to have a 'bass' chain and a 'guitar' chain, while doing it a little more 'smart' than a simple splitter that most of us are used to now-a-days
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:40 pm
by moogboy
Necroing this thread because the Multi-Overtone is fangoddamntastic. I went to see a friend play in November and there was a part of the set where his guitar basically turned into a gigantic lushmonster destruction unit and it turns out the Multi Overtone was doing most of that. I picked one up a couple of weeks ago at dadrock central (Blues Angel Music in Pensacola Florida) and holy shit is this thing good. I've been using it extensively on Bass VI and synths. It's not the greatest example in the world but this recording features a Moog Minitaur going into the MO-2 and a Strymon Big Sky in the first section:
http://juggableoffense.bandcamp.com/alb ... -sanctuary
The Boss demos are straight up fucking shit. I skipped over this when it was announced because the demos were so bad. Regret has followed ever since.
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:16 pm
by rfurtkamp
All of the MDP stuff of that launch are amazing to be honest - the funny thing is they're all in the GT-100/001 and a few of the other newer multieffects as well and they lend themselves so much more to preset-tweaking etc and control not possible with the generic pedal format.
Adaptive Distortion is stupid good on the VI as well.
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:30 pm
by D.o.S.
dubkitty wrote:Gearmond wrote:hiorgos wrote:Indeed, Boss videos are terrible!
bad demo videos account for a large proportion of why people never use pedals in interesting ways.
just think about how many people don't like/use chorus, and how many demos include that fucking nirvana riff.
and how EVERY GODDAMNED FLANGER DEMO uses the EVH "Unchained" riff. whenever i hear that song, i expect to hear "hi, i'm _______ from _________, and this is the _________ flanger" after the first eight bars.
You know, I didn't know what that song was by name, but I bet I knew which riff it was, so I looked it up. It is the Flanger Riff.
Re: New Boss pedals, Boss Tera Echo ...
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:56 pm
by Jero
D.o.S. wrote:You know, I didn't know what that song was by name, but I bet I knew which riff it was, so I looked it up. It is the Flanger Riff.
That one and Barracuda