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tegendemuur
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RUP mkII - ultimate multiband distortion | VFE Pedals
PLEASE READ BELOW BEFORE ORDERING!Pre-order now for this limited run of RUP mkII multiband distortion pedals! Expected to ship in October. Select from two options - but the circuit is the exact same for both. Stock & Hand-Painted - Select from an assorted selection of color schemes once the...
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Rainbows, unicorns, and puppies.
The RUP (rainbows, puppies, unicorns) was originally designed to split the audio signal into 3 parts - bass, mids, treble - send each through a distortion engine and then mix them back together. The RUP mkII takes this concept to the next level while taking 33% less pedalboard space.
Each band now is identical outside of the range of the HPF & LPF circuits, allowing the user to decide what range of frequencies are set through each band. The DRY knob blends in the input signal with zero distortion or EQ, and the MASTER knob sets the output volume.
Each band features:
- Cascading soft clipping & hard clipping sections with variable compression controls
- The soft clipping section is pulled directly from the Dragon & Pale Horse overdrive pedals
- The hard clipping section is pulled directly from the Alpha Dog distortion pedal
- Wide gain range for generating plenty of saturation & sustain or keeping it squeaky clean and using the EQ controls & loop with your own overdrive, distortion, or fuzz pedal (or any other effect)
- Dedicated FX loop for each band
- PRE/POST switches to move the FX loops before or after the distortion circuits
- When in POST mode, the MIX knob is placed before the FX loop to prevent unwanted distortion...or crank it up to add distortion to the pedal in the FX loop
- Phase switches compensate for pedals in the FX loop that invert the signal phase, but can also be used to experiment with various blended tones
- 6/12 switches select how steep the frequency rolloff is for the low-pass (LPF) and high-pass (HPF) filter circuits
- When using time-based effects such as delay & reverb, the natural decay of these effects is preserved by holding down the footswitch when turning off a loop
- The link switch allows each band to be turned on/off at the same time as another band, including turning all 3 bands on/off together
RAINBOWS channel = lowest frequency range
UNICORNS channel = middle frequency range
PUPPIES channel = highest frequency range
The exact frequency range of each channel is still being experimented with, but the overall range will be very wide. I will update this page, email my pre-order list, and also send out a newsletter when the precise frequency ranges are finalized.
Nostradoomus
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how bout now
bluedmc777
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@tegendemuur That’s just insane!
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tegendemuur
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Indeed. I do have a digital multiband distortion (Source Audio Ultra Wave) and it is so much fun (if you can live with a mini trs cable between phone and pedal to dial in the details). This one looks very fun too, especially through allowing your own stock of distortions and fuzzes to be looped into it
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tegendemuur
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Aentons
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That was before he started using SMD components and 4 layer boards. I'm curious how diy friendly this new one will be.
mckillacuddy
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I don't know. The Klein bottle is pretty packed. Plus some wacky smt switching. It uses 16mm pots and only a handful of 1/8w resistors, though. I bet we could fit the RUP in the Triumvirate big box.
Aentons
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The first RUP was in a 1590DD and the new one is in a smaller 1590XX which puts those 3 foot switches much closer. I have a couple of other pedals that have 3 stomps in a 1590XX and that middle switch is basically unusable. And with the knobs so far down towards the stomps, I can't imagine it being used live.
Fama
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It's not really a new release since it's not out, but actually pretty cool idea. More of a gimmick thing, but could be cool for some live trickery, especially with synths.
Bricksnbeatles
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That’s dope. Nothing that hasn’t been done a million times in the studio, but never seen something like that for live use. Using it to trigger effects is particularly interesting.
Sort of done before:
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Fama
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A BBD reverb from Fairfield Circuitry. "3x 4096-stage BBDs in parallel" from IG comments. $489 USD apparently ($670 CAD I think?), no idea what it's in euros but going to be a lot. Understandably it's probably pretty complex, but that's quite a bit. Pretty cool pedal though, I have to admit, don't know if there are other BBD reverbs - some old rack stuff maybe?
tegendemuur
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Ugh, and I still have to get the 20% More.
Lastgasp Transroom has BBD (MN3011) reverb with pitch shifting. Out of production though. @Scruffie
Offtopic: wildest BBD thing today must be this thing. Too bad it sounds so horrible; way too much feedback, that thing keeps howling all the damn time. https://echon6.com/
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EHX Solid State Reverb, pretty awful, but, it is a BBD reverb!
Didn't Merlin do some PT2399 based reverbs with two chips? Nothing to stop one converting that to a BBD circuit.
Edit: Oh and there was a DOD FX... something or other.
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Fama
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Oh wow, never heard of those. Found a review for the DOD FX45 Stereo Reverb:
and also
Yeah, I can see why I never heard of them. Although it does sound like it was one influential artist away from being a "cult classic" that has it's fans and nobody else really cares.
The Fairfield Circuitry one seems much superior to that, at least.
Yeah, they both used the MN3011 chip which probably could have been used to build a semi-decent reverb and was the intent behind its release but with a lot of excessive engineering required and probably by the time it hit the market digital was becoming more affordable so it was met with a bit of a shrug by the industry...
The EHX circuit is less vintage magic, more, we got some samples, let's whip up a quick circuit and toss it out, it's very dull and not in the good moody way and the FX45 (thanks for that) somehow managed to use two to do not much more exciting.
It likely just ended up being used in car, karaoke and stereo systems to add a bit of a fancy stereo spread.
Besides those, can't really think of any BBD reverbs, it was an avenue that went untapped.
The Fairfield sounded okay, although I wouldn't say I heard anything I've not heard done with just two delay lines but perhaps it's a bit more lively in person.