Pretty Years

[Ev_O)))]

so dang cranky i slept through my alarm to get in on the third run
Ev0 if you or your bandmate feel like flipping you know who to call

lol
#keepprettyyearsoutofnewsouthwales

[resincum]

cv is for manipulating the filter and with all i-iv switches down the filter is effectively out of the audio signal path, so that would seem normal.

tru

[Chankgeez]

… and flipped in record time:

https://reverb.com/item/2936438-smallso ... etty-years

[Inconuucl]

[Chankgeez]

… and a No Memory to boot:

https://reverb.com/item/2936443-smallso ... -no-memory

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

damn zach's gear depot is really going for the gold.

cv is for manipulating the filter and with all i-iv switches down the filter is effectively out of the audio signal path, so that would seem normal.

tru

ah yeah thanks kbit. i think i misunderstood the question.

[Chankgeez]

damn zach's gear depot is really going for the gold.

I would've been more impressed if Zach had thrown some Velcro on the Pretty Years.

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

damn zach's gear depot is really going for the gold.

I would've been more impressed if Zach had thrown some Velcro on the Pretty Years.

all good. he's flipping for a fair price and there are plenty of folks who want one so it works out.

[MrNovember]

Holy shit is that what a No Memory actually goes for? I really regret missing that one

[DRodriguez]

I put velcro on the top of my pedals and on the bottom of my shoe so I don't trip while using.

And that is an unusually reasonable price.

[Jwar]

… and a No Memory to boot:

https://reverb.com/item/2936443-smallso ... -no-memory

What a bitch. I mean it's not like it's a Wata fuzz or anything.

[manymanyhaha]

… and flipped in record time:

https://reverb.com/item/2936438-smallso ... etty-years

only 300. That's not going to last long.

[manymanyhaha]

Also, PY is effin deep. I don't think I've ever messed with an analog pedal that I can turn and tweak and have it seem so endless. Obviously, presets would be too easy. This thing is about twist and fuck that and twist and drool

[stradivari310]

After much USPS shenanigans I got my Pretty Years in the mail and spent a good few hours with it. The depth really is incredible. This thing is a true swiss army knife of distorted tones, and it feels more like a piece of studio gear than a stompbox.

Brian, if you want to provide any insight into this I'm really curious. Are all the tube stages inverting or are some of them cathode followers? I think a lot of the beauty of the filter matrix comes from the phase relationship between stages, and the phase changes produced by the filter itself. I'm mostly familiar with op amp SVFs where HP, BP, and LP all have different phase shifts (e.g. HP and LP are 180° out of phase) but I imagine this VCF has a similar thing going on. Either way, that mix of positive and negative feedback at different frequencies is incredibly fun and I'm consistently surprised and mesmerized.

That being said I've gotten some amazing tones with the filter totally out of the circuit, just by playing with the EQ and gain settings. No bass cut + high gain clipping on the first stage = a truly nice heavy tone. And I love me a good James stack.

[kboman]

Ok, so, right. Bowled over.
- fantastic looking pedal
- so much fun to play around with!
- totally rad t-shirt
- great looking LP (haven't had time to listen to music today yet)
- I randomly mentioned a preference for serial #11 and I got it!

Clips? Yes, two Instagram quickies so far:

1. Some birdtweets (PY) and sustained lines (Zap Machine + OT10) looped on the Echoplex, the PY is mangling a sampled slide on the B-string played backwards/randomly by the Count To Five: https://www.instagram.com/p/BKTMnSeABDO/

2. Self oscillation! Light ambient delay courtesy of the Deluxe Memory Boy: https://www.instagram.com/p/BKTNpxoAEs0/