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How are you digging the ModFactor overall? Like it?
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G'day Phil.

 

The jury's still out on the Modfactor. I used it tonight at a fairly large outdoor gig, through a PTP Bassman clone with a Clapton Strat, and its phaser and rotary weren't too bad, but I wouldn't rate it as outstanding. I'm hoping for warmth, a decent chorus, and general improvements with the update that's proving elusive (tonight) to access.

 

Its TimeFactor kin, on the other hand, is a class above, but is still battling for board position with the (IMHO) far more organic and musical sounding Subdecay Echo Box. Now there's a welcome stranger. :)

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I've used mine on two gigs now and think its great. I love the tremolo and rotary, I think the phaser sounds are very good, I like the uni-vibe-ish phaser preset (that I tweaked) a lot. Those are the sounds I was looking for and the sounds I use. For someone who doesn't like chorus much, the chorus is fine for me.

The sounds I used most on the gigs were: two different phasers, a tremolo, a rotary and a very mild chorus. I didn't start using the uni-vibe-phaser until last night and won't get a chance to try it live until Saturday.

The only problems I have are relative volumes. The rotary sounds are a little louder than bypass and the phasers with more than two filter stages are a little softer.

Other than the volume issues I really like it.

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I was curious if you guys could tell me what some of the modes do. What do the Undulator, PolyMod, and ModFilter modes do? I'm assuming one of them is a sample and hold? (oh please oh please :D)

 

I'm still on the fence about buying the Modfactor, but if you guys could help out, I'll probably pick one up.

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sample/hold is an option on most of the sounds. They took the Polymod off, apparently it was too big to fit in a pedal.

Overall I'm starting to dig it more and more. I finally had an afternoon on Sunday to just sit and mess with it. I a/b'd it with my retrosonic phaser until I got it pretty damn close. I tweaked the univibe to have a bit more of a pulse/throb thing going on. And in a happy accident came up with a pretty cool octavia setting with the ring mod.

definitely needs more tweaking than the TF, but I think the sounds are in there...

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I'm taking a fairly methodical approach to unlocking this box - I'm going to spend a few days on each algorithm to find settings I like. After some days just screwing aroudn with it randomly, I finally decided that there are some really good sounds to be had, but they will take some work to find.

I finally got it to do a chorus that I like - shimmer, full depth at around .4 hz with feedback at around 3 pm and intensity between noon and full on. Curious to know what other MF owners think about that setting.

Next up . . . phaser.

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