Mentaltossflycoon
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My drummer has been using a contact mic on his snare drum as well as a kalimba and some other noise makers with piezo pickups a lot lately. He's been loving the woodpecker for a few months but we struggled to find a distortion that played nice with all of the instruments before landing on the Nein. The gating was just perfect for this set up keeping the noise and feedback under control with max gain.
We decided to eliminate all the controls he wasn't using so the Woodpecker lost it's depth knob and speed switch. They're permanently set to maximum depth and medium speed. The Nein lost the input knob, maxed, and the gate which I replaced with an internal trimmer. I had to do some unholy things to get all 3 into a BB2, one of my uglier crams but I'm quite happy with how much fun is stuffed in there.
The bit crusher was included because he's also been using the fv1 bit crusher setting on an arachnid I gave him a while back. Now he can just leave that on his favorite setting (pitch delay). They're quite different, I wish the fuzzdog had more controls but overall I prefer the sound of it and it's such a tiny pcb that is nice and easy to sneak into combination builds.
I chose to use knobs as labels. He recognized that muff knob right away so he knew it was the fuzz, the white pointer matches the "fun knob" on his Arachnid (FV1 clock module) and the giant blue mxr style knob is the speed for the tremolo. The smaller knobs are both volume. I also went with toggles instead of stompers, even the soft click 3pdt comes through loud and clear when they're clicked next to a piezo kalimba. I'm probably going to change out all the stomp switches on his set up in the future.
I did forget to grab gutshots, shameful, I know but to be fair they're super ugly. I had to swap some caps to the back of the tremolo, flipped the nein upside down and used long legged pots while the bit crusher is bent diagonally to avoid the input jack. It's chock full of tomfoolery.
We decided to eliminate all the controls he wasn't using so the Woodpecker lost it's depth knob and speed switch. They're permanently set to maximum depth and medium speed. The Nein lost the input knob, maxed, and the gate which I replaced with an internal trimmer. I had to do some unholy things to get all 3 into a BB2, one of my uglier crams but I'm quite happy with how much fun is stuffed in there.
The bit crusher was included because he's also been using the fv1 bit crusher setting on an arachnid I gave him a while back. Now he can just leave that on his favorite setting (pitch delay). They're quite different, I wish the fuzzdog had more controls but overall I prefer the sound of it and it's such a tiny pcb that is nice and easy to sneak into combination builds.
I chose to use knobs as labels. He recognized that muff knob right away so he knew it was the fuzz, the white pointer matches the "fun knob" on his Arachnid (FV1 clock module) and the giant blue mxr style knob is the speed for the tremolo. The smaller knobs are both volume. I also went with toggles instead of stompers, even the soft click 3pdt comes through loud and clear when they're clicked next to a piezo kalimba. I'm probably going to change out all the stomp switches on his set up in the future.
I did forget to grab gutshots, shameful, I know but to be fair they're super ugly. I had to swap some caps to the back of the tremolo, flipped the nein upside down and used long legged pots while the bit crusher is bent diagonally to avoid the input jack. It's chock full of tomfoolery.
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