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It is, but honestly, it’s surprisingly musical.

It’s a PLL. A good description from Broughton Audio, who make a pretty accessible PLL: “PLL stands for Phase Locked Loop. In short, it is an analog synthesizer with three channels: Square Wave, Multiplier, and Divider. The pedal operates by taking your input signal and applying a massive amount of gain to make it essentially a square wave signal.” You basically have three voices you can blend together (or just use one or two of them), with two of them being a multiplication or division of the core frequency. Any of all of the voices can be modulated with an LFO, and various other processing can be applied as well, such looping the last thing played anytime you stop to crest a drone that always changes, or just activate a drone tone and play the pedal, rather than the input signal. Overall you get utter sonic chaos. It’s abrasive and nasty, but also has some elements of old school synth tones. I’m very impressed with what it can do and feel like it’s going to give me a lifetime of knob tweaking. Here is an example:

Damn - I was totally unaware this was happening... I just saw the post today! FAIL. Next time.

Sold my Xerograph to GR7G5TER. Easy transaction, great comms, super friendly - all good! Thanks.

Did a pedalboard swap… easy transaction and awesome comms. Many thanks!

Super excited to have this land today. Montreal Assembly PURPLL (but in white, not purple). PLL madness with a scary amount of control. It only landed an hour ago, so the jury is still out, but so far.... DAMN! This thing is a noise-makers dream come true. Given the way I approach bass playing and soundscape creation, I am pretty sure I'm going to be giving this beauty some serious love! Any other owners/users around BC?

That all makes sense, it is just far less common to see them in that order, so I was interested in the reasoning. The traditional combo of Octave - Dirt - Filter (in that order) for classic bass synth sounds is the most common approach, but of course, there are always exceptions (and fuzz after filter does have some interesting textures to play with). I honestly think that this is the first time I've ever seen an octaver at the end of a signal chain though. Out of interest, what kind of music are you using the board for?

Octave at the end and filter first!? What is this heresy!?

Can you compare it to anything? Some of my fav pedals (and big regrets over selling), were those with super simple controls - Fuzzrocious Ram the Manparts springs to mind.

Miss my OG Groove Regulator. Great filter. Prob in my top three envelope filters. Not a pedal you see crop up often either.

This video does a great job of making it seem very simple. Addresses each knob one by one and how they interact.

I’d love to love the Disorder, but it’s just too damn big!

It did. I spent some time A/B'ing them both. The Xero is more resonant and sounds a bit more pleasing as a regular envelope filter, but as a sweepable LPF, there is very little in it, though the Dusk utilises the full sweep of the expression pedal without any fiddling and has the included LFO section, which is a huge added bonus, giving it elements of the functionality I once had in the Moog MP-201. As a sweepable LPF, the Dusk has the edge due to functionality. As an envelope filter, the Xero has the edge. Given I never once used the Xero as an envelope filter, the move was a no brainer.

It's really confusing as there are two pedals called 'Broadcast'. I used to use the Copilot pedal years ago (it was bloody cool as well). I thought it was a new enclosure for it, then read your write up and thought, "eh? That sounds nothing like the Broadcast"! Link -> https://www.copilotfx.com/broadcast.html

I do a lot of delay stacking for long ambient pad-like textures. As soon as they updated the Collider so that two engines can be unlocked (so it can be 2 delays or 2 reverbs, rather than one of each), it instantly made so much sense for me - 4 delays or 4 reverbs, or any combination of them in any order. Love it.

2023 board update after swapping over a few long standing additions. Very happy with this set up at the mo... it's really got my creative juices flowing. Signal chain for those of you that geek out over that stuff... Input > Boss OC-5 Octave > Dr. Scientist Frazz Dazzler > Source Audio After Shock > Red Panda Bitmap 2 > GFI Synesthesia > Boss SL-2 Slicer > Dr. Scientist Dusk (+ Moog EP3 Expression Pedal) > Digitech Whammy Ricochet > Source Audio Collider (a) > Source Audio Collider (b) > TC Electronic Polytune2 > Output All mounted to a Pedaltrain Classic 2, connected with EBS flat gold patch cables and powered by a CIOKS DC7.

My picks would be… Red Panda - Everything they make is next level. Mantic Effects - The Flex is is crazy and they’ve been pushing the limits of stuff for years. WMD - Will’s designs are incredible. I think the Geiger Counter is one of the greatest pedals ever made and the Super FatMan is so insane that I blew three PA speakers in a nightclub with it once. That’s prob not a good thing, but it certainly was memorable! Dr Scientist - Awesome designs, great features and stunning service/comms. The Frazz Dazzler is an insane dirt pedal and the Dusk has so crazy tricks.