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AngryGoldfish wrote:New Subdecay:

Subdecay Facebook wrote:Here's a little something we've been working on. All analog, BBD based, and gushes swirly tone. Formerly referred to as The Paroxism.

Chankgeez wrote:

AngryGoldfish wrote:New Subdecay:

Subdecay Facebook wrote:Here's a little something we've been working on. All analog, BBD based, and gushes swirly tone. Formerly referred to as The Paroxism.

Oooohhhh!!! That looks fancy.

Due to the "enchant" control, I'm gonna go ahead and say it's a Tim clone.

goroth wrote:Boom!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq82hihCUbo[/youtube]

hollowhero wrote:Vibrato? I was hoping it would be this

goroth wrote:Boom!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq82hihCUbo[/youtube]

Back to my roots! (The Vitruvian Mod)
The inspiration behind the Vitruvian Mod goes back to when I first became interested in making and recording music. I didn't have much to work with at 15, so I used whatever I could find.
Looking back the most unlikely piece of gear was also the one that have the best memories of using. It was a Commodore 64.
At first I used the C64 to make backing tracks, which sounded video game-y and very 8 bit.
After a while I discovered the RING MODULATOR function that was built in to the C64. You could use two oscillators to create all kinds of sounds that most 8 bit computers just weren't capable of at the time.
Unlike a typical ring modulator effect where the carrier is static the C64 allowed you to control both the carrier and the note being modulated. By trial and error I found a lot of interesting sounds.
A few years later I tried out a ring modulator pedal at portland music. I believe it was some iteration of the frequency analyzer. I hated it. It really had nothing to do with the sound, but how much of a pain it was to use.
The static carrier and inability to really set anything without lots of fine tuning just made me completely lose interest. (I think I bought a Boss flanger instead)
Last year I saw a Jeri Ellsworth video where she'd hacked a bass guitar and C64 together. It got me all nostalgic about the C64 days and ring modulators.
The big ideal behind the Vitruvian mod is tracking the carrier to perfect harmonic ratios. It can be used more classic static carrier setting as well, but the tracking modes are the way I've always thought it should work.