Mastro Valvola thread: My OFF1 and LEM

[Ander87]

Hey gang, decided to take the jump on something unusual. I was really thinking of a C4 by Source audio for my synth stuff but I know myself and I'm not the laptop fiddly kind. I wanted something more knob friendly. So, somehow I ended up with something I hadn't seen here at all... Mastro Valvola.

 

I went over to Joe's Pedals after being introduced to the shop via 'Andy Bassist' on YouTube and looked for Octave / Fuzz pedals, tempted to add some sort of modulation after to make my own synth like stuff. Lots of interesting pedals, but I settled (after measuring up and down and planning the board etc) on the Mastro Valvola stuff, specifically the Octave Fuzz Filter pedal and Lysergic Emotions Module (multi delay for ambiances).

 

Before I dive in, I'll say the treatment I got from Joe was fantastic - fair pricing, great advise and took p/x of some pedals I was parting with at a fair price - he also shipped them super quick so in no time I had them just as I came from my little holiday in Paris.

 

Check this short video out...:

 

 

The pedals are smaller than the pictures make them look, definitely less tall than, say, an Alpha Omega. Super well built, with solid knobs and brushed aluminium casing - made in Italy.

 

I was initially set for the OFF1 as I wanted that fuzz octave flexibility and this pedal had more knobs than most octave fuzz's I had seen. It has a mid scoop switch, an octave up switch (2 octaves down on knobs) and the filter circuit with resolution and cut off. Then I watched the videos of this combined with the LEM and all the synthy lead stuff really got me. The LEM has 8 ambiance types, even presets! dual modes etc - a mess of LFO, trails, shimmer, delays reversed, fifths up and double function buttons - I will definitely need to work on it but very, very interesting pedal - combined with the OFF1 is just trippy.

 

They feel like Strymon type of pedals but sensibly cheaper than those if that'd help. Huge amount of headroom and analogue circuitry.

 

I'll share more as I progress but these three videos really captivated me - they're on guitar but amazing nonetheless - also basstheworld did a very good review of the OFF1:

 

 

 

And of course, the updated pedalboard picture - I'll tell you more about the Alma Compressor some other time... - note I will need the Nano+ for the Jad Freer Capo