by mysteryroach » Fri Dec 02, 2016 1:17 am
Oh cool. Yeah thought it might be at first (i.e. simply a quirk that exists on everyone's unit) but then I tried to spot it in the demos and I couldn't hear it. Everyone else's seemed dead quiet so was worried it was just mine. However, there aren't a lot of examples to draw from and the ones that are there probably just got buried beneath what was playing (much like my own - only hear it when it's clean & the feedback loop isn't too loud&chaotic). Just making sure it should be like that. If it is, then that's all good.
It's a little hard to tell any differences in the degrade knob between mine and yours, being that it's so dependent on volume. So unless I can be sure that the signal feeding through the unit in your demo is at exactly the same level as mine, then I can't tell if it's working the same. It's probably fine.
There was one difference between mine and yours in that I'm fairly sure the regen knob goes higher. Although, again it could have been the difference in the signal I was feeding it - what I was playing, how hard I was picking/strumming etc. Mine tends to go into self-oscillation incredibly easily at 5:00 if you feed it a very small amount of sound. 3:15-3:30ish is where it typically sits on the edge of it - just repeating without much volume loss, but without feeding-back into blown ear-drums territory.
One thing I noticed though, is if the device feeds back enough (i.e. complete wall-of-sound levels), anything above 10:30ish will have the same degredation no matter where the knob is. So between 7 and 10:30 were the only areas where the location of the degredation knob really mattered. Everything above 10:30 becomes broken, even with the threshold at 5:00. And you had to really push the feedback a lot to get there to be any changes above 9.
I'll get round to finally making more patch cables and experiment with adding 2 boosts in front of it to see if it increases this 7->10:30 range. Maybe try my other guitar. Is your own experiences with the degrade knob that you can get substantial variation all the way up? Couldn't really tell much of a difference between the knob at 12:00 vs 3:00-5:00 in your vid. But it was hard to tell cause you were playing different stuff and you had the tone threshold in different places. As I said, it's probably fine. Feeling much better about it since hearing changes above 7:45.
All this being said - I've bought a lot of pedals this year, and this is the one I've probably had the most fun with. This thing = a soundscape machine. Time to join an Explosions in the Sky coverband or something.