UC's demo archive! (Digital Flora FX - Draugen)

[UglyCasanova]

The link you added to Pladask is broken though... I think it's a .com not a .no

Oh, right. Knut went international on us.

Me fix (in the description, not the video. )

[coldbrightsunlight]

Ruh roh

Going to watch later, v excited!

[UglyCasanova]

Tootin' my own horn for a bit here... :surprise:

Draugen is an analog spring reverb going into a gain circuit capable of anything from a simple boost to full on clip city fuzz.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUdDm0pVthU[/youtube]

Feel free to discuss or comment on it in my shark tank: viewtopic.php?f=285&t=64094&p=1394418#p1394418

[coldbrightsunlight]

Get hype yooooo

[Dandolin]

yo

also - I that game
fjord noir ftw

[UglyCasanova]

I actually haven't played it, but it looks good. I'm familiar with it from Norwegian folklore. 2Spooky4me!

[Dandolin]

leave it to me to go low(brow)

[UglyCasanova]

The word Draugen is derived from the Norse “draugr” it is used traditionally to denote ghosts.

The Draugen is a wicked water ghost entity. They are said to be the ghosts of sailors or fishermen who lost their lives at sea.

They then are doomed to haunt the waves. In these tales any man who takes to the sea dreads meeting up with this entity.

The Draugen is described as being monstrous in size covered in seaweed. He is seen only after dark during stormy seas. He is always seen rowing the remnants of his shattered boat. The legend states that the unlucky sailors that encounter him are first alerted to his presence by his terrible screams.

If sailors encounter the Draugen, it will drag their boats down to the depths of the sea and the men on board will all drown. Some of these unfortunate victims are then condemned to become Draugens.

Neat

[Dandolin]

yar

[coupleonapkins]

Get hype yooooo

[moid]

That looks great, well done for squeezing a spring reverb in that box! I tried making my own reverb springs a few years ago and still haven't got that circuit working... le sigh. Your artwork reminds me of Theodor Kittelsen



and also some of Peder Balke's work



in other words, I like it

[UglyCasanova]

It is Kittelsen.

Always loved that drawing. Was going to only use it on my proto, but when I posted a pic of it the consensus was to keep the artwork. It's so old there's no copyright, so...yoink.

[Pepe]

It's so old there's no copyright, so...yoink.

[qersty]

i was sooo waiting for the footswitch 2 to be a feedback loop

[UglyCasanova]

This demo was recorded directly into a sound card. When you go into extreme settings (blåse past 3 o'clock or so with some gain) with a loud amp and have the pedal close enough it will oscillate. What I've done when playing this way is to roll back my guitar volume to 7-8 and then go to 10 when I want it to feedback. I tried making the second footswitch a mechanic feedback thing, but it ended up spiking really fast. Digital verbs or verbs that use analog chips even you have the delay of the chip itself to use as a build up mechanism for any sort of feedback (like on the rm-1n), but it's not so easy for analog springs to have them slowly enter feedback. I hope that makes sense

I'll try to film some more clips of it in different settings and with different inputs and post it in the shark tank thread