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I've had my eye on this pedal for a while and Prymaxe finally had them in stock so I snatched one up with their sale. I wasn't sure from the demo videos if this actually was a tremolo with random functionality because the guy in the videos never plays anything more than nonsense. Literally. He just slides his fingers around on the neck and makes noise with the guitar while running it into the pedal. I can tell from 30 seconds of playing that a better demo video would sell cases of these pedals instantly. Its extremely musical and brings a unique electronic element to guitar music which I haven't found in any other pedal.

But the biggest curiosity here is that the name is completely wrong. I dont know if its a language barrier issue (Japanese builder, manual all in japanese, labels in english for some reason though...), but this pedal that is called a tremolo is very clearly a delay. Or maybe more precisely its a sampler with instant playback, random sample length, and random number of plays. The workhorse chip inside is gooped but its either the surface mount SpinSemi FV1 or a large surface mount delay chip. If you play, it keeps going after you stop. In other words, its a delay and not a tremolo. And thats probably why people dont buy this pedal. They dont want a weird broken trem. But if you told them it was a GLITCH DELAY they would sell out constantly. I just dont get it.

But this pedal is awesome. And thats all that matters.

yea these are amazing. i like the aesthetic of the control names. and the wonderfully (poorly) translated manual as well.

i had one for a minute many moons ago, but something was wrong with mine. i returned it to prymaxe. le sad was i

Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D. wrote:yea these are amazing. i like the aesthetic of the control names. and the wonderfully (poorly) translated manual as well.

i had one for a minute many moons ago, but something was wrong with mine. i returned it to prymaxe. le sad was i

Strange because the build inside is neat and clean. Maybe a defective part or something?

something w/ the bypass was fucked on it.

maybe they have upped their game? i am tempted to try again.

and you are right its totally not a tremolo at all. have no idea where they got that from lol

not trying to shit on this thread but i actually remember someone else saying their masf possessed was broken too..
regardless, i spotted this pedal maybe a week ago and have been very intrigued

I've had two both broke.
The third I sold to a guy on the forum which broke like two months later.
Same thing every time, the volume cuts and just won't work at any setting on the knob

FUCK. thank you for reminding me about this. i've wanted one forever. and at $230 shipped? yesh please.

i'll try to do a demo when i get it in.

lol. i WAS gonna buy one last time i was in Japan, but with the shitty dollar to yen rate and local prices it was about $120 more than i just paid.

WOOT.

if it's broke, that sucks butts. i'll exchange it. I WANT IT HARD.

tommasters wrote:I've had two both broke.
The third I sold to a guy on the forum which broke like two months later.
Same thing every time, the volume cuts and just won't work at any setting on the knob

Damn. Thats a pretty rough track record. Maybe a bad batch of pots somewhere along the way. I'll have to see how it goes with mine.

^^ yea that was it w/ mine/ remember chatting w/ mr. masters about it at the time.

funny thing is, if i ever really cared for a pedal to work. this one was it.

if you post a gut shot we could definitely tell if it is a spin chip.

The Recovery Effects Bad Comrade might be a cool alternative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L6PymEq7rY

Or the Hexe Electronics Revolver II, Red Panda Particle or Sonic Crayon Anti Nautilus offcourse, but you guys probably know all of these already as they're being talked about here quite a bit.

Tristan wrote:The Recovery Effects Bad Comrade might be a cool alternative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L6PymEq7rY

Or the Hexe Electronics Revolver II, Red Panda Particle or Sonic Crayon Anti Nautilus offcourse, but you guys probably know all of these already as they're being talked about here quite a bit.

I have an Anti Nautilus and its really more of a tabletop processor that you need to manipulate while playing audio through it. It has a stompswitch but its not really intended to be a pedal.

Ah, okay, I didn't know as I have no hands on experience with it, I thought / hoped it would do some glitchy / pitchy / delay kind of stuff just as you play some guitar through it?

Teej212 wrote:if you post a gut shot we could definitely tell if it is a spin chip.

Its gooped but there are a 28-pin SMD IC and a 32-bit EEPROM right next to each other. Thats usually how I see builders implementing the FV1 IIRC.

Tristan wrote:Ah, okay, I wouldn't know because I have no hands on experience with it, I thought it would do some glitchy / pitchy / delay kind of stuff just as you play some guitar through it?

Yeah it does but there is an envelope triggering quality to that pedal that makes it much more workable if you are tweaking controls while its on.