Ring (and/or Balanced) Modulation for the modulator masses

[friendship]

if it looks like it belongs in a submarine, it probably sounds good

[Chankgeez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6gYjL_6638



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95QKhkYVXuo

[_r_]

Update on the Gonkulator - I absolutely love it on bass. Love tuning the frequency down really low to the key of whatever I'm playing in and dialling some distortion in - it's like having a dirt pedal with a clean blend but with a bit of added glitchy synth weirdness. Not sure what the alt-country band that I play bass in will make of it but hey. Also been rehearsing for a solo electronic set which involves my Volca Bass playing a constant one-note drone for about 15 minutes with LFO modulation and knob-twiddling to vary it so tried running that through the Gonkulator. Similarly boss. I particularly like really cranking the resonance of the Volca's filter to the point where it's audible as a note and letting that interact with the ring mod, especially with the LFO doing its thing. Makes all kinds of phantom arpeggiated notes appear!

I honestly never knew I needed a ring mod so much...

[lordgalvar]

Black cat is indeed a nice looking pedal. Mine's broke.

Dr Strangelove! Kinda fun having that little delay in there.

[crochambeau]

I just got back from band practice, where I had deployed a Monobius with expression input. It turns out that sweeping the carrier frequency with a treadle like a wah is something I have been missing.

[Chankgeez]

Yep, that's awesome.

And, apparently, the Gonkulators are on sale at Sweetwater: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Gonkulator

[retinal orbita]

Gonk rules. I use mine with a HM-2 and a DOD Death Metal for the dirt section of my noisecore band

[$harkToootth]

I just got back from band practice, where I had deployed a Monobius with expression input. It turns out that sweeping the carrier frequency with a treadle like a wah is something I have been missing.

Curtis...you know what you have to do...
I. Write up a detailed "Crochambeau style" explanation/add-copy
II. Make a video

"Please" and "Thank you" Sir!!!

[adamajah]

Yep, that's awesome.

And, apparently, the Gonkulators are on sale at Sweetwater: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Gonkulator

Yeah... i couldn't resist that...

[Dandolin]

Stop worrying and learn to love the carrier.

Also, I gonkulated.

[BoatRich]

Gonk rules. I use mine with a HM-2 and a DOD Death Metal for the dirt section of my noisecore band

I just grabbed one and it’s definitely getting stacked with an HM-2. What order do you run them in?

[retinal orbita]

Gonk rules. I use mine with a HM-2 and a DOD Death Metal for the dirt section of my noisecore band

I just grabbed one and it’s definitely getting stacked with an HM-2. What order do you run them in?

Right now my board is HM-2, DOD Death Metal, Moogerfooger Ring (in a loop) Gonkulator, Gristleizer, DD7 but I'm always tinkering. I should post a pic tonight

[BoatRich]

Gonk rules. I use mine with a HM-2 and a DOD Death Metal for the dirt section of my noisecore band

I just grabbed one and it’s definitely getting stacked with an HM-2. What order do you run them in?

Right now my board is HM-2, DOD Death Metal, Moogerfooger Ring (in a loop) Gonkulator, Gristleizer, DD7 but I'm always tinkering. I should post a pic tonight

I’m thinking it’ll go in between my HM-2 and a DOD BiFet. I like rat style drives boosted and I’ve heard this is similar to a RAT?

[BetterOffShred]

It's not strictly a ring mod.. But I just bought a Phantom Arcade off Reverb. Been looking for one for a while, it's got the badass pixel graphics too. So pumped

[actual]

Adventure Audio have premiered a sexy new best of a ring mod, the Outer Rings. Pre-order is up on their site.



"This is a brand new take on a ring mod. As far as we know, this topology has never been done before. I will attempt to sum up whats going on here in a very brief, brief, extra brief explanation.

The core function of the Outer Rings is to multiply the input signal by an internal square wave oscillator. This multiplication produces a square wave containing harmonic energy mathematically related to the harmonic content of your input signal and the oscillator. That can then be added together with your post-gain signal for some truly outer galaxy tones.

Because we like to adventure and take things further, we didn't stop at one oscillator... we included a modulating oscillator to sweep and wiggle the frequency of the multiplying oscillator hands free. (Look ma, we're modulating now!) You can use it as an LFO to change the pitch super slow (we're talking 10+ seconds for a full pitch sweep) or rev it up into the audio range and make the the multiplying oscillator do some math and make some sweet, sweet frequency modulation in the process. "

Demo:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb5Hix_lJIn ... ture_audio

https://adventurepedals.com/products/outer-rings