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Afterwards, I patched a bunch of pedals through the Patchulator, but my clean signal sounded like it was going through a ring mod even with all the pedals turned off. I thought there was something wrong with the Outer Rings, so I unplugged everything systematically until I was down to guitar > mixer > amp. Still had the weird ring mod effect. Turns out my mixer wasn't fully plugged in because Behringer uses the worst possible connectors on the planet and a light wind will knock them loose.
Long story, short: I want to circuit bend my mixer.
As far as the Outer Rings goes, this is pretty much exactly my experience with it as well:
baremountain wrote:Feeling the same way so far, Retinal! There have been plenty of settings where Tilt is towards the ring mod side, but it sounds like a messed up fuzz or something, and less like a dialup modem. I think the Outer Rings is going to be mainly about finding sweet spots. I could also probably benefit from re-watching a tutorial or reading the manual now that I've got it in front of me, but it's pretty easy to work your way around it. The Strange control is definitely the key to unlocking this thing's potential I think, as turning that is typically what brings me quickly from 'weird fuzz' to oscillations from hell. That said, still not getting clanginess the way that my roommates EHX Frequency Analyzer does.