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How do you all dig the Blue Box? I want one, but I hear the volume output sucks.

I'm been thinking this too. I find red or blue things hard to resist.
I think I may need a dyna comp too.

Meh. Did Not really like it. Sound and Volume issues. But your Taste may differ...
Get an infanem Second Voice instead.

I like it. I didn't find it as bad as people say...
the diff between on and off are about the same in my demo as in the real world...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZL_RY7f4Z8[/youtube]
For the money they are great. Although... if you want awesome... Dwarfcraft Robot Devil will make you shit rainbows and it is also very fucking loud!

Mmm, the Second Voice is quite a bit more expensive.


I like your demo, Mudfuzz. Sounds good. Thanks for posting that. From what I just heard, sounded like the pedal was a bit louder than the dry signal.

It's about even, depends a little on you instrument. I've have gigged with it and for what I used it for [to get a evil tuba sound] it worked out fine. Also you could just do the melvins thing and run it into another gain pedal to boost it a bit.. listen to eggnog.. that is bluebox > RAT in parts.

or, buzzbox in theory.

I have always wanted to get a blue box just to further my Buzzo Studies.

I had one. it sounded great, but full volume was barely unity. So I sold it.
Apparently there is some easy mod to help the volume at the expense(?) of it being more square wavey?

I love it - but don't find the volume an issue... Just boost it if you need to. I use it with octave up pitch change effect afterwards to get it in same key as the original note... Sounds v 'primitive synth' with nice glitches!

Boxbie wrote:I had one. it sounded great, but full volume was barely unity. So I sold it.
Apparently there is some easy mod to help the volume at the expense(?) of it being more square wavey?

I did this simple cut mode: http://www.noisefx.com/article/mxr_blue_box_mod

Now it's useful. Not plenty of volume but +/- unity one.

Moustache_Bash wrote:How do you all dig the Blue Box? I want one, but I hear the volume output sucks.

It's a cool pedal, but I agree the volume drop sucks. I found that when I had a Mid-Fi Glitch Computer, it could nail the Blue Box pretty damn exact when the tracking knob is all the way up, plus it has a ton more volume. You also might want to check out the Seppuku Sub-Octave Synth, which can also do the 2-octave-down thingy.

I love them! For the money it can't be beat really. Only reason I sold mine was owning a harmony synth & second voice. I changed a resistor in the one I had which helped a bit with volume issues...enough to where I don't remember any problems/dislikes with it.

If you have a a bit more dough to spend, I would get Brian from SS/BS to make you a guhhgh. Then there's the second voice as well. The suboctave synth from Seppuku is cool too if you can find one.

I think the DD robot devil is based on the blue box as well

I like mine, even with the volume drop (and it's not significant, I can just work around it with another pedal or adjusting something).

Absolutely amazing mean in conjunction with a splattery octave-up effect.

rfurtkamp wrote:I like mine, even with the volume drop (and it's not significant, I can just work around it with another pedal or adjusting something).

Absolutely amazing mean in conjunction with a splattery octave-up effect.

Truth. I've had a whole lot of fun ripping of Lightning Bolt with Whammy (on the 2 octave up setting)>Blue Box.

Glitchy Weeerp to WOOOOOOMP is magic in a box. I definitely tweaked the treadle on the Whammy with a whole lot of those octave-y dive bombs.

Shitballs, I need to set that back up again.