NPD - moist and springy

[phantasmagorovich]

It seems like a good run lately. I came home yesterday - BAM! AMP.
I come home today - BAM! MOISTURIZER!

And one into the other is craploads of fun. Clips maybe tomorrow.

[Gunner Recall]

Holy shit

[hazelwould]

Damn dude! How much was that?!

[D3rP]

What is it?

[delaydecay]

an Ekdahl Moisturizer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g86o5FkwiM

http://www.sdiy.org/knas/products/moist ... urizer.php

thats a very cool toy you got there

[theshoegazer]

Do fucking want. I demand clips!

[foomanfat]

Oh goodness. You've got me all bothered.

[colin]

Clips please, I remember looking that thing up a while back and most of the clips online are with synths. I'm definately interested in what that thing sounds like with a guitar.

[tuffteef]

spacey

[MaxMaps]

Holy shit

wow

Pog 2 smog 2 I want this!

seriously give us the break down, how is it?

[leastwise]

son of a bitch!

(I REALLY WANT ONE OF THOES!)

[phantasmagorovich]

Alright, so the quick rundown before I have to go to work:

I only played with it for like half an hour, so I might forget something or have overlooked something, whatever.

It is a spring reverb. You can use it straight for reverb and it's good at it. Not better than the built in reverbs in Amplifiers and less versatile than the simulated reverb in pedals, but it's REAL. You can see the springs. (The top picture shows the - pedal? - before it's assembled. the little black things are small patches of velcro and that's where the springs are attached.)

'You can see the springs' is actually the real asset of this thing because it also works as a noise device. TOUCH the effing springs and away you float into reverby noise paradise. There are a couple of videos online of people attaching stuff to the springs and generally raising hell with this. It is already loads and loads of fun just playing the springs with your fingers. I still have to figure out some of the possibilities but it really works as an instrument. I had the impression it's either one or the other though. When I let a chord ring out and touch the spring the input signal won't come through. But that's something you can use too.

But there's more. There are all those knobs. It has input and output level. It has a blend knob for the reverb and it has a VCO and a filter that can be modulated by the VCO. And there's a blend knob for the filter. The filter has a knob that lets you blend LP BP and HP filter, one for cutoff frequency and one for resonance (labeled from 'none' to 'ouch'). The VCO blends in between square and triangle wave, and has amplitude and speed control. Filter type and freq are both VCO controllable, you can dial in how much with a knob for each parameter.

Basically it's a spring reverb.
Basically it's an instrument.
Basically it's a modulated filter.

It is more fun than swimming!

Edit: Oh, and there are like 10 jacks on the back, for expression or CV control on probably every parameter of this thing.

[phantasmagorovich]

What I wrote this morning is right, but I should add that it is all extremely usable. EXTREMELY! I love this thing and everyone should have one. I only wished it could do infinite reverb. That would be IT.

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/ifmh/moist-and-springy-1[/soundcloud]

In the clip i use it for CVing the 4 Eyes Fuzz and the Teaspoon first. Then I try the filter on guitar and do some trem-ey stuff with the filter, then I add reverb and in the end I play on the springs.

[adrianlee]

this is really really really cool.

I want. badly.

[Derelict78]

damn thats cool I just dont know about $400 cool