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What's the best green ringer?

Really I should just PM Chank but let's all join the fun.

I want to make a Zvex machine clone and a green ringer in a box with seperate footswitches and stick it first in my chain to mess up all the other pedals.

I like the octave on the STEP and the cleaner octave up sounds on the Buzzz but I've never tried a ringer. Tentacle seems expensive for what it is. Fuzzmaster General had some nice clean sounds in the demos.

The point is I want clean green ringing. With volume. And a machine. The clean green ring machine.

If you're familiar with using stripboard, http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/201 ... inger.html has great (and verified) layouts for both the ringer and the machine (http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/201 ... chine.html). Both should be fairly cheap/easy builds, the green ringer was the first pedal I ever built.. They sound really weird and cool. I put mine in a box with a devi fuzz. You can almost hear zappa whispering in your ear while you play it.

edit: recommend building a little booster like the LPB1 to stick in front of the ringer to help it do it's thing better

Fuzzhugger Upper is my favourite. It's got a volume BOOST and some nifty controls to tweak the sound.

Dude hit up turnip farm fx. He is awesome and will build you what you want.

FuzzHugger Upper is a good one.

Chicago Stompworks is another good one and is readily available.

You could also get DannDubbleEwe to build you one. I bet it'd sound great.

The Tentacle does seem expensive and I didn't like it as much as the other Green Ringers I've tried.

You should also try placing the Green Ringer farther up your signal chain. It gets gloriously messy. For what it's worth, I like having boost and/or dirt on either side of a Green Ringer in my chain. If you want "clean" Ringing, I'd suggest a boost both before and after.

Oh, also, Green Ringers can be kinda noisy. Definitely don't daisy chain it. I don't even run it off of an isolated power supply. Totally on its own adaptor, separate from everything else.

Katanasound Venomous Snake! Hard to find but does the ringer thing plus more, and can daisy chain without issue.

Haven't tried it, but Henrietta has a lil octave up box. & its purple.

Another vote for the Upper. It will likely never leave my board.

Passive ring mod!

I have what I believe is a no-text Chicago Stompworks GR clone. It's great, no knobs, and in side-by-side comparisons, it is a less 'dirty' octave than on the STEP. I A/B'd the Stompworks with the Fuzzhugger Upper I have, and the Upper also is mighty clean, with a few knobs to tweak stuff.

I've said this before, but a fav order of mine is running a Green Ringer clone into the Driving Notion with the DN mix set a little more toward the bass side and the Treble control Set low and the Bass knob around 11 o'clock. Playing double-stops, you some cool trashy ring mod-esque sounds, and for some reason playing these near the 10th or 12th fret involving the D-string on a guitar causes some bass notes to appear out of nowhere, helped no doubt by the DN's hyping of the low end.

Does the upper have a clean blend? That would be interesting. A nice fun octave floating around behind your signal.

Nope. Controls are for bias, sustain (not really sure what it's doing but it changes the sound) and a low pass filter, which can be pretty nice to dial back on the harshness a bit. It's possible Tom could do you on if you asked nicely though? :IDK:

goroth wrote:Dude hit up turnip farm fx. He is awesome and will build you what you want.

+1 Nick is the man

monkeydancer wrote:Nope. Controls are for bias, sustain (not really sure what it's doing but it changes the sound) and a low pass filter, which can be pretty nice to dial back on the harshness a bit. It's possible Tom could do you on if you asked nicely though? :IDK:

The clean blend in the Algal side of my Dual Bloom is on its own board, separate from the bloom itself. This makes me think it wouldn't be terribly hard to add clean blend to the upper.

There's two different forms (that I know of) of the Upper: the one-switch version, and one like mine that has a second footswitch for an effects loop.