Fiveway's Ambient Equipment Guide - Page 3

YOuAre · #31 02.06.04, 5:33 PM

I personally love the h2o myself, very nice chorus, and beautiful delay, its digital, but a very good analogue recreation.

screamingdaisy · #32 02.06.04, 5:38 PM

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I'll break out a screwdrive and see if I can find out for you.

Point taken.

I found the .pdf online, they're all 100kohm

Maneco · #33 02.06.04, 7:03 PM

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CHORUS:

The old boss DC series of chorus is you one stop for cocteau twins type sounds. The old EH clone theory is amazing fro those sounds as well.

Dear Fiveways,
i couldn´t agree more...i'm a big Cocteau Twins fan,and i built a clone of the dimension c,perfect,even for running female voice through and get that Liz Frazer sound (if the singer is up to the task,of course)...and i received a clone theory and a vintage memory man(the one with four sad1024) as a present from a friend,and now i can sound like "GARLANDS" and "HEAD OVER HEELS"...

regarding ambient equipment,i use the two octaves up of the whammy,i have the black one and the xp100,then i feed my quadraverb 2 with a patch of several modulations and delays...that way you can add background textures and noisy ambient sounds

keep in touch

Maneco

matb · #34 02.06.04, 8:42 PM

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What don't you like about the Midiverb III? If it is noise, then look to the yamaha's/boss se-50 field.

the ED-1 I haven;t tried.

and the fuzz guide is gonna be a WHORE. But worth it. I seriously am looking foward to this. I will probably do a seperate delay guide as well, because there are PILES of analog delays that people ignore. And DDL racks/half racks.

The noise and the lack of MIDI support kind of suck. Besides that, it's got some good reverbs. How much do the Yamaha's or the Boss' generally run for?

G6add9 · #35 02.06.04, 9:37 PM

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Digitech Digiverb - Some really nice sound out of this. Really massive reverbs, issues is a batery last 10 minutes in it. And the reverse isn;t really all that hot.

looks like a good first reverb unit ^

see, I told you that 5 ways is da man. soundclips, data, pics...cool

Cupid0 · #36 02.06.04, 10:40 PM

I disagree about the Alesis units being noisy. It's a probably a unit by unit thing. Mine is totally silent.

Cupid0 · #37 02.06.04, 10:42 PM

if you have the $$$$ a filter with lots of knobs and a gain stage (like my Modmax) are amazing for ambient sounds. They let you shape it however you want. I find i can totally make clean guitar sound like an analog synth square wave, and I can't even describe what it does when i bust out the 100% wet reverb...

fiveways · #38 02.07.04, 12:24 AM

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I disagree about the Alesis units being noisy. It's a probably a unit by unit thing. Mine is totally silent.

If your is you are lucky.

Guitar -Alesis-amp = noise fest. Every alesis unit i have ever heard is like that. If you have one that is other, I would love to hear it.

My amp is silent until I add it. Maybe you have more of a tolerence for added noise then I do.

Rock A My Soul · #39 02.07.04, 12:39 AM

This is a Very Informative Post. I bookmarked it so that I'll have a pocket guide to your opinions on everything. A comment:

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Marshall tremovibe are the only other vibratos on the market. I need to try the marshall again as the jacks are mislabeled.

The jacks are indeed mislabelled, but the vibrato still blows. It's more like a tremolo that just goes wider, if you know what I mean. Still not pitch-shifting. Average tremolo, but for a vibrato it sucks. If you try it, be sure to try it with an adaptor too, with batteries it sounds terrible.

And don't forget to mention that the Rat is a pre-2000. I didn't know about this discrepancy until about a week ago when there was a sudden flurry of threads about them.

Alecto · #40 02.07.04, 12:40 AM

Any self-respecting ambient guitarist must have an E-bow! And a quarter.

duluxdog · #41 02.07.04, 7:05 AM

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And don't forget to mention that the Rat is a pre-1990. I didn't know about this discrepancy until about a week ago when there was a sudden flurry of threads about them.

dude, it's pre 2000, i think

fiveways · #42 02.07.04, 7:07 AM

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This is a Very Informative Post. I bookmarked it so that I'll have a pocket guide to your opinions on everything. A comment:

The jacks are indeed mislabelled, but the vibrato still blows. It's more like a tremolo that just goes wider, if you know what I mean. Still not pitch-shifting. Average tremolo, but for a vibrato it sucks. If you try it, be sure to try it with an adaptor too, with batteries it sounds terrible.

And don't forget to mention that the Rat is a pre-1990. I didn't know about this discrepancy until about a week ago when there was a sudden flurry of threads about them.

I noticed it sounded at points almost like a step filter....any truth to this.

nobody · #43 02.07.04, 10:28 AM

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If your is you are lucky.

Guitar -Alesis-amp = noise fest. Every alesis unit i have ever heard is like that. If you have one that is other, I would love to hear it.

He's right, though. It is a unit by unit thing. My GT is notably more noisy than my g/f's GT. Her's is fairly silent, so is her Wedge.

fiveways · #44 02.07.04, 10:42 AM

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He's right, though. It is a unit by unit thing. My GT is notably more noisy than my g/f's GT. Her's is fairly silent, so is her Wedge.

Wow. Every alesis unit I have heard has driven me nuts with noise. From quads(any type) to all the various midiverbs. The Nanoverb was the quietest of them all....