So I'm 5 minutes into using the Polymoon, and I wanted to jot down my initial reaction.
Usually when I buy a pedal, I'm expecting a few sounds out of it, that I can really maximize for a particular sound. With the Polymoon, I can already tell it's not a 1...2...or even 5-trick pedal. I'm running a Pocket Piano through it, and I already know there are dozens of exotic sounds inside---should I be able to tear myself away from the initial findings, which are so intoxicatingly spacey and dreamlike.
setting #1: push the Time to nearly minimum and the Feedback to 3:02 (anymore and you'll be damaging your speakers and/or hearing), this will give you a metallic garbage can reverb, which is great for synths or drum machines. It's making my Pocket Piano sound like a modular system running through a Misty Cave. It also reminds me of the trash can setting on the Alesis Ineko. ---Experiment with the other pots to suit your tastes.
setting #2: engage the Slow phaser and set the top pots as follows
Time 2:00
Feedback 2:57
Mix 2:00
I have all the lower pots set at or below 9:00, which is giving me this slowly-evolving, chasing pattern. By increasing the Dynamics pot, you'll be mixing in a beautiful flanger/chorus sound.
The interplay between the phaser and the delay on this pedal is superb. (There's so much going on in this pedal.
) I was a bit confused by the product description and the sound clips---I was asking myself, "The control layout is so simple. Where are these sounds coming from?" Once you start playing with it, you'll immediately start to understand how this pedal could be so versatile and so unique.
In less than 5 minutes, I can say the Polymoon has become my new favorite phaser, my new favorite delay, and my overall new favorite piece of music equipment. Flanging, soundscapes, multi-head echoes...there's just so much happening.
(A lengthy intermission was taken here to revisit the Polymoon.)
After plugging a Catalinbread Echorec into a Hologram Infinite Jets into the Polymoon, I just experienced one of the most spectacular sounds I've heard from any combination of pedals before. The MP just adds so much dimension/size/texture/movement to everything I've fed through it so far. I'm going to run a drum machine through it tonight or tomorrow, in order to see what kinds of odd textures and rhythms I can coax out of it.
----If you like dreamy/otherworldly/synth sounds, this is a no-regrets acquisition. Think Broadcast, Stereolab, Neon Indian, Krautrock, et cetera.