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Nice. For a period of time, he sold the regular (larger) GC in a 'bass version' too, and would even take back regular ones and mod them for bass. I understand that it just let a little clean through the signal. The GC regular and civi were never kind to low end, but then it's a bit crusher! It never bothered me as I ran mine (along with all the dirt effects) is an parallel loop along either a clean signal, or a sub octave. That said, as I prefer to play in projects without guitar etc. it's no issue to me to not always have huge low end.

The Pro came out after I'd stopped playing for a while - it looks insane, but I've never seen one in the wild. He does make some incredible toys though, I have no doubt that it rocks!

Thanks! I was pretty fond of that 2-board set up... it felt like a compromise at the time, but on reflection, it was still ALOT of pedals! I have a few pics of the last version of that...

There were two more at one point! One of my biggest regrets in life was selling the Cluster Flux. That pedal was the single most creative thing I've ever made noise with.

I used to be pretty active around here some years ago and ran a blog about effects etc... but I stepped away from bass after getting divorced and life getting messy. At that time, I sold my entire library of effects, including the WMD stuff (I used a Super FatMan from them as well). This very thread will have more pedalboards of mine in it than I care to remember, but here is the big touring board I used with Our Helical Mind, and where the WMD stuff was a pretty critical part of the sound... It's a 2-tier board, so there are a load of other pedals you can't see that were controlled by the GigRig Quarter Master, or in the loop of other effects. It looks cool, but try taking it on tour - it took 2 people to lift it (that board is 1.4m wide). I ended up refining this set up and stripping it down to two smaller Diago boards that I linked together, which revolved around making due with fewer tones and using an Eventide Pitchfacter to replace a LOT of the pedals (that thing is insanely good). Good times!

It was a few years ago, but in some capacity it played a part in almost every track you can find here - https://ourhelicalmind.bandcamp.com We were just live drums and bass, so all the instrumentation that you hear is the bass, loading with effects. The Geiger counter was one of the core elements of all the distorted and synth tones (mixed with filters, modulation and pitch shifting etc).

I love the Geiger Counter. I used to use the bigger version as part of my huge board and it ended up being one of the most used pedals I had.

If you google ‘Phase 90 Volume Drop’ I’m certain you’ll find discussion on it. I’ve got no direct experience. I just recall it being discussed a lot in the past. Given the number of awesome phaser options, it might be worth just picking up a pedal that does the job for you, rather than trying to force an existing one to work. Or, before you mod it, maybe just pick up a loop pedal with volume control (LS-2 or one of the million other options) and use that to bring it up to level. It’ll give you a chance to play with it for a while and work out how loud you actually need it to be before you change its level gain and realise maybe you wanted a small boost or something.

The Phase 90 is pretty reputable for the volume drop - just a quirk of that older pedal design. IIRC it is something to do with the resistor on the output (I think it's 150k) and replacing it for a 180k is enough to level that out. Also note that the very nature of a phaser makes it pretty hard for your ears to detect 'unity' gain, as such they tend to either sound a little quiet, or a little loud depending where in the phase sweep they are.

Indeed. This is a Pedaltrain Classic 2.

Refined set up for all things noisy/ambient/synthy. Pretty happy with everything overall and it'll certainly do me for the current project... The Vintage Microtubes isn't really my choice of OD sound (a bit too rock/metal) for the stuff I'm doing now, so I might swap that out some something a bit more ‘me’, however it does stack well with the Alpha Omicron. Also, the Xerograph is getting less use now that the Barbenera has taken prime spot for synth swells. It's a nice envelope filter, but it's not my favourite as a stand alone classic filter (that spot goes to the Subdecay Prometheus, which I miss very much!), so may be on the chopping block soon for something else. For those of you interested in the signal chain... Instrument input > Onto Nojs > Darkglass Alpha Omicron > Darkglass Vintage Microtubes > Bananana Effects Matryoshka Bass Synth > Iron Ether Xerograph Deluxe > Nemphasis Steam Bass > EBS DPhaser > Triungolo Labs Barbanera (+ Moog EP-3 Expression Pedal) > Source Audio Nemesis Delay > Neunaber Immerse Reverb > TC Electronic Polytune > Output to amp Everything is mounted to a Pedaltrain Classic 2, cabled with EBS flat patch cables (gold) and powered by a Cioks DC7 power supply (which is easily the best power supply I've ever used).

Traded a pedal with Lee. Great comms and easy transaction. Many thanks!

Bought a pedal from Peter. Good comms, easy transaction and super quick postage. Very happy! Shep

Sold Ian my FMeron. Easy transaction and a top guy! Thanks!

Thanks for this. This sounds pretty cool. I actually emailed Source Audio with my needs too and their suggestion of which way to go. Their reply is somewhat confusing... ”the Spectrum would do a much closer Moog LPF impression with its 4-pole Low-pass filter. The EQ2 isn't a resonant filter so it probably wouldn't sound very close to the Moog.” The website clearly states that you can control the Q of each frequency band, and the sound samples are clearly resonant. Odd.

Now I’m very interested. As the EQ2 can replace my tuner as well - extra pedalboard space! Have you seen a video/sound clip of it functioning in this manner anywhere? Would love to hear it with some fuzz and octave before it before taking a punt!

That’s interesting! However, I’m assuming the EQ2’s LPF isn’t resonant/have an resonance control?

Hi all, Question for those of you who have had hands on this... Is it possible to use the Spectrum as a sweepable Low Pass Filter (adjusting the LPF cut-off frequency with the expression input). I've heard multiple clips of it tone shaping in the style of the Moog MF-101, but I'my eat to hear a demo of anyone using it for expression sweeps, like it commonly associated with the Moog LPF. Can anyone comment on the functionality of that aspect, and most importantly, the tone? Thanks.

I think that Kev has enough feedback to convince you that he's a trusty person to deal with, but just incase... Purchased a pedal from kev. Flawless comms, well packed, posted quickly, arrived safe & sound. Couldn't ask for more. Shep