Your best and worst pedal hot takes? šŸ”„

Feral Feline said:
So-called "hotkits" are a DIY abomination.

Overly complex with UN-needed multiple pin-headers and daughter boards and you're still left with #$%^&* sidejacks when you're done.
Extra points of possible failure = trouble-shooting nightmare and reliability issues...


REVV RED
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KLONE
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Tabletop users and other sidejack ensorsers (and top-jack aficionados alike) can still get better easier-to-build kits elsewhere for the very same proffered circuits.


I'm sure this will appeal to some people, somewhere, over the bainrow...

The NOT hotkits leave me cold.
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I like bypass daughterboards, but that potentiometer board makes my balls itch!
 
Feral Feline said:
Stumbled across them at HeavyMetalFX (PCBGM's US distributor) while looking for a DarkGlass preamp clone.

Fortunately the HMFX site has good filtering and I didn't have to wade through the 100+ PCBGM-detritus.


PS UPDATE: Found a hotkit that I like:

heavymetalfx.com

Melissa Tube Overdrive - Heavy Metal FX

Tube Overdrive pedal. Friedman Brown Eye amplifier sound (BE Channel) in compact pedal format! Gain, Tone and Volume controls, a Fat toggle switch that adds lower frequencies, a Sat. toggle switch (Saturation mode). ECC83/12AX7 or 6Š2ŠŸ-Š•Š’ tubes (2 pcs) are used. Switchable heating 6Š2ŠŸ/12AX7 by...
heavymetalfx.com heavymetalfx.com
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Ooh. Man, you can have fun modding those to other Marshall preamp specsā€¦.
(Makes note to self).
 
"Tone is NOT in the fingers." Rather style and playing signature are what is in the fingers. Tone is the combination of the guitar's pups, any pedals in the chain, the amp AND the settings thereof.
 
Thatā€™s an interesting take. Style and playing signature are all in the mind. Tone is absolutely in the fingers. Try changing picks, using the pads of your fingers, various combinations of flesh and fingernail, how close/far from the bridge you are, amount of force appliedā€¦ all those things have a big impact on tone. Try it and see.

The signal from pickup to speaker is just additional tone shaping after the initial tone shaping done with your hands.
 
falco_femoralis said:
Please explain a vibraphone to me
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"Tremolophone" isn't as easy to say.

For those unfamiliar, it's like a big xylophone, and each of the resonant pipes have a circular piece of metal in them attached to a rod connected to a motor with a speed control, which acts as a neat mechanical tremolo (obviously not vibrato).

A million years ago when I was a music major in college I played vibrophone for recitals. My peak was when I played Call of Ktulu arranged for 4-mallet vibrophone. Turns out it was the perfect instrument for that tune.
 
vigilante398 said:
ā€¦a circular piece of metal in them attached to a rod connected to a motor with a speed control, which acts as a neat mechanical tremolo (obviously not vibrato)ā€¦
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But if theyā€™re physical dampers, couldnā€™t they be attenuating certain frequencies at the same time theyā€™re attenuating overall amplitude? šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

Maybe itā€™s simultaneous tremolo and vibratoā€¦ šŸ¤”
 
pricklyrobot said:
But if theyā€™re physical dampers, couldnā€™t they be attenuating certain frequencies at the same time theyā€™re attenuating overall amplitude? šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

Maybe itā€™s simultaneous tremolo and vibratoā€¦ šŸ¤”
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In theory absolutely, but the effect is negligible and there is absolutely no audible frequency modulation.
 
You'd think there would be some sort of doppler effect happening like in a Leslie, but the sound waves traveling thru the resonator tubes just don't have enough magnitude to create one. All you hear in the room is a pleasing tremolo

Also, a tremolo can be described as alternating between two notes, like flutes and clarinets sometimes do in music from ye olde times. This is again different from the tremolo we think of
 
Also itā€™s called a vibraphone, not a vibrato-phone, so thereā€™s not necessarily any misnomer there.

I love vibraphone. Always wanted to a) be able to play them b) be able to afford them.

Recently Iā€™ve been listening to The Kicker by Bobby Hutcherson a lot. Great vibes-led hard-bop record from Blue Note, and if Iā€™m not mistaken, the earliest recording of Bobby as a bandleader. Only recently got into Bobbyā€™s records, but Iā€™ve always been a big fan of his playing on Eric Dolphy stuff.
 
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So, what Iā€™m hearing is: somebody needs to figure out how to put a whammy bar (or maybe 37 individual whammy barsā€¦šŸ¤” ) on a vibraphone! ;)
 
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