Re: Crushsound | Farmer's Mill
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:50 am
its really solid metal construction, quite big and heavy but pretty indestructible, all the knobs and footswitch are really solid. very good build quality.
its a buffered pedal with a 3way switch at the back for off (turns off buffer) / full range effect / low freq range effect, there is an indicator light for when switched on, another that flashes in time when activated, and another to indicate if the boost circuit is activated
the footswitch is held down for momentary, doubleclick for always on (single click to reset to momentary)
soundwise its a random on/off tremolo with a very clean edge to the 'wave', i havent noticed any 'thump' as the sound alternates on/off.
there is rate, mix (from zero to full), and the most interesting part is the 'mill' dial.
the 'mill' is the random factor of the on/offs, as you increase the amount it increases the range of the randomness, so you'll get longer and shorter lengths of silence/sound (it may also be increasing the frequency that those longer segments occur as well as the actual lengths)
what that means in practice is that to the left the randomness is within a more predictable range and 'even-ish', and to the right it get progressively more chaotic sounding.
full applies the effect to the whole signal, with the mix affecting the depth of the sound drop, with the low range selector it only applies the effect to a fixed part of the eq spectrum with the higher part of the signal passing through
at the highest rate there is the usual drop off in perceived volume, the boost circuit when you click it on adds an immediate few db of level at its lowest setting, which to me was a little bit too loud to exactly match my bypassed signal.
i would have preferred the boost circuit to switch on at zero boost so that i could have dialed in just the 1 or 2 db that i wanted to volume match, rather than as a 'boost'
it's very hypnotic with sustained chords and washes of ambient sound, i like it at about halfway depth, or a bit more when set to low range, with the rate about halfway too.
it works well combined with a predictable modulation like chorus or phaser
i keep meaning to make demo vids of loads of pedals, i'll try and get around to doing some.
its a buffered pedal with a 3way switch at the back for off (turns off buffer) / full range effect / low freq range effect, there is an indicator light for when switched on, another that flashes in time when activated, and another to indicate if the boost circuit is activated
the footswitch is held down for momentary, doubleclick for always on (single click to reset to momentary)
soundwise its a random on/off tremolo with a very clean edge to the 'wave', i havent noticed any 'thump' as the sound alternates on/off.
there is rate, mix (from zero to full), and the most interesting part is the 'mill' dial.
the 'mill' is the random factor of the on/offs, as you increase the amount it increases the range of the randomness, so you'll get longer and shorter lengths of silence/sound (it may also be increasing the frequency that those longer segments occur as well as the actual lengths)
what that means in practice is that to the left the randomness is within a more predictable range and 'even-ish', and to the right it get progressively more chaotic sounding.
full applies the effect to the whole signal, with the mix affecting the depth of the sound drop, with the low range selector it only applies the effect to a fixed part of the eq spectrum with the higher part of the signal passing through
at the highest rate there is the usual drop off in perceived volume, the boost circuit when you click it on adds an immediate few db of level at its lowest setting, which to me was a little bit too loud to exactly match my bypassed signal.
i would have preferred the boost circuit to switch on at zero boost so that i could have dialed in just the 1 or 2 db that i wanted to volume match, rather than as a 'boost'
it's very hypnotic with sustained chords and washes of ambient sound, i like it at about halfway depth, or a bit more when set to low range, with the rate about halfway too.
it works well combined with a predictable modulation like chorus or phaser
i keep meaning to make demo vids of loads of pedals, i'll try and get around to doing some.
