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Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:13 am
by Gunner Recall
Ok why haven't you assholes told me about these pedals...
I was looking at the tonefactor website for things to get with a giftcard and I stumbled upon the meatwad (lovetone meatball clone

)
http://www.martoneaudio.com/meatwadminis.wavThe Lo-Tech-No-Fi-Bot also sounds pretty bad ass
http://www.martoneaudio.com/roboclips/pocketsynthclip.mp3
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:36 am
by ech0es
the builder is not very kind from what i heard.
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:34 pm
by Lintybits
ech0es wrote:the builder is not very kind from what i heard.
I bought a pulse synth from him a couple years ago, kept me updated thru the whole build process. Had no issues with him, seemed like a cool guy

Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:56 pm
by mprown14
Ive got the meatwad, pretty cool, but be prepared for a lengthy learning curve
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:14 pm
by Gunner Recall
mprown14 wrote:Ive got the meatwad, pretty cool, but be prepared for a lengthy learning curve
I bet
I've been drooling over the website since last night

Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:25 am
by Gunner Recall
http://www.martoneaudio.com/PhoTronPreview.wav 
What the hell is this thing!
I'm seriously considering purging some gear to get a PhoTron if I can dig up some more info on it...
All the little extras (expression, fx loop, GHOST WAH) sound pretty awesome.
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:02 pm
by Bellyheart
These are kinda blowing my mind. Once I started noticing Catalinbread and Fulltone and Zvex and Devi and this board, I began thinking that these were all the interesting companies...now I realize I should keep looking.
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 3:25 am
by bigchiefbc
Mario is a cool dude and is very open to doing custom stuff. Lots of guys over at Talkbass have gotten stuff from him and they all sing his praises. The Photron is an MS-20 filter clone with a ton of options.
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:17 am
by mprown14
I bet the ms-20 brain freeze with a co pilot broadcast could do some nasty shit

Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:04 pm
by Blurillaz
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:08 pm
by Gunner Recall
mmm PhoTron...I see you in my very near future...
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:42 pm
by dorfmeister
I like the looks of his Uber-Muff, The White Russian.
http://martoneaudio.com/WhiteRussian.htm
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:05 pm
by $.01
Great , just when I had tit narrowed down to a handful of required pedals for my rig, I see this ... well there's another hour or so sorting through wav samples and such... mmmmm , like sex , but trying to choose in a harem. laughter , love/hate. one of everything please ! more laughter.
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:18 am
by dorfmeister
Lintybits wrote:ech0es wrote:the builder is not very kind from what i heard.
I bought a pulse synth from him a couple years ago, kept me updated thru the whole build process. Had no issues with him, seemed like a cool guy

What is your take on the pulse synth?
Re: Robot Factory Pedal Co.
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:21 am
by Lintybits
dorfmeister wrote:Lintybits wrote:ech0es wrote:the builder is not very kind from what i heard.
I bought a pulse synth from him a couple years ago, kept me updated thru the whole build process. Had no issues with him, seemed like a cool guy

What is your take on the pulse synth?
well, I don't have it anymore.
I never really got along with it, didn't like the sound from the start. In the right application it would be cool but it wasn't at all what I was looking for at the time. Nothing against the builder or the pedal itself, it was just something I should have looked into more before I bought it.
Soundwise it was similar to a disaster fuzz or ultralord without the oscillation, def a synthy, pinched sounding fuzz. I did record something with it, if you go here -
http://lintybits.rpmchallenge.com/ and listen to the tune 207 on the first album (Ridden) it's on the guitar and oscillator.