Fender&EHX4ever

 

No NPD threads? No pics? No reviews?

 

I'd love to hear what you think of both pedals.

 

The Key9 is on its way. I haven't tried it yet, but really looking forward to it.

I've mostly been using the BOSS SL-20 after the EHX Synth9. It's a mesmerizing combination. I haven't tried placing it in front of the Synth9 yet, but plan to soon. I'm curious how the Synth9 will respond to the attack of the Slicer - if it's more stable at slower rates and glitchy at faster rates, for example. The Mel9 also sounds great after the Slicer. When I get some time, I will experiment with combining the Slicer with a Digitech Space Station, a Digitech Synth Wah, and a Pigtronix Mothership. I anticipate some great things with all of those combos.

SL-20 Pros:

- wide variety of stereo options

- MIDI clock sync

- 50 fun preset patterns for instant gratification grooves

- Patterns offer a nice variety of rhythms (techno, swing, triplets, etc.)

- harmonic slicer with embedded filtering and pitch shifting on some patterns

- variable control over attack and wavelength (duty)

- nice light display around the encoder for keeping time

- on-board looper

SL-20 Cons:

- no way to multiply or divide the clock sync on-board (would have been handy to not have to adjust the master clock)

- no way to create your own rhythms beyond the 50 presets and harmonic slicer (odd, given the inclusion of a tap tempo switch that could have served a dual purpose)

- on some patterns the wavelength is not long enough, over-emphasis on staccato patterns

Overall, a really enjoyable and useful pedal for guys like me who love electronic music, and would rather play a guitar synth than a keyboard synth. I'm sure it can be used for more subtle duties as well, especially with the right blend of dry and effect signals.

Compared to the EHX Super Pulsar, for example? I love that the Super Pulsar allows us to create our own rhythms and is generally more flexible with wave shaping; but the interface is not intuitive and usually forces me to pull out the manual every time. The Slicer UI is less flexible, but it is very intuitive without needing the manual.

I joined HCFX in 2007, so for me 2008 was sort of the "heyday" of the forum. Hard to believe the stock market crash was 10 years ago. It's really sobering to think that everyone is now 10 years older. Even the 16 year olds chiming in back then are now probably working full time jobs, getting married, having kids, and not really buying a lot of pedals. I was already an old man then, so things haven't changed much for me. I'm still buying pedals :-)

In 2018 so far I've picked up a BOSS SL-20 Slicer and an EHX Key9.

This thread is 10 years old but still relevant. Boss pedals do not have true bypass. They have buffers which are always active and the bypass switch activates a set of transistors which bypass the effect. Problem is they default to an on condition when powering up and there isn't anything you can do about it besides redesign the circuitry and I'm sure the effect on condition was already thought through by engineers and thought to be the best option for that design.

 

Best thing you can do to circumvent the issues is yo either buy a loop pedals and use its true bypass to remove the pedal from the circuit or simply get in the habit of turning the amp on last, with the volume off on the guitar amp amp like you should be anyway. This would allow you to set the pedal for bypass before you power the amp up.

Interesting.

My PS-3s do this. I've always found it annoying, but not enough to stop using PS-3s. That pedal could poop on my foot every time I turned it on, and I would probably just live with it.

"Mind Mischief" is on current rotation. Such delicious harmonies

Definitely a milestone album... less bluesy Cream and Hendrix influenced than InnerSpeaker overall... more melodic and early 70s Glam. Definitely inspired me to pick up Todd Rundgren's A Wizard... A True Star, which I'd never bothered to listen to before.

Ordered... Oh yes!

https://shop.modularpeople.com/lonerismdeluxe/

But geez, for not much more than that price last year Neon Indian included a mini-synth with their Deluxe package.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/...1#post43851555

I was hoping Lonerism would come with a mini-phaser or something.

I listen to a lot of music... these days mostly hipster music, or anything with melodic hooks and a creative approach to studio textures. I love Washed Out, Tame Impala, Melody's Echo Chamber, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chairlift, Grimes, Austra, Neon Indian, Tycho, Real Estate...

But I grew up in the 70s and 80s, so I was raised on Classic Rock, 70s FM Rock, Art Rock, AM Pop, and MTV. Foreigner have rocking riffs. Their melodies are catchy. Lou Gramm is a helluva singer. Granted, their lyrics are crass, testosterone driven, machismo festering diatribes that rival Gene Simmons... but then so are a good percentage of the posts on this forum. So I cut them a little slack knowing that young dudes in 2012 still haven't gotten beyond the fascination of their own phallus. I just look the other way hoping that energy and intelligence will prevail.

Not that you asked, but I felt compelled

Shitting on someone else's music because your taste is so much better... it has similarities to cooler-than-thou hipster wank. Sucky way of expressing preferences. Sucky. Sucky.

All this Foreigner hate is starting to sound like cooler-than-thou hipster wank.

Great song! I love me a bit of pre-MTV FM Rock

"Mutt" Lange production, so most likely it's something relatively simple, but layered My guess is that there are two instruments of different texture playing the part simultaneously.

I officially retract my interest. Do not want.

I just read the product page. It is indeed a controller. I seriously dont have money to spend on more gear, but damn....

Nice soundclip!

Does the OP1 also act as a midi controller? If so, I might be interested in it!

Definitely sounds like they need to work on the groove a bit on this one... it's dragging, and it doesn't have that pimp-walk funk of the studio recording.

I'm hearing Stone Roses in "Solitude is Bliss" -- very Manchester circa 1990.

all my money is buried iv coffee cans in various places. My Father taught me well. He said one day the banks will collapse & you will lose the money.

The day when all of the banks collapse is most likely the day when all of your money will only be worth starter kindle for your bonfire.

So, by that logic, you're better off to fill those coffee cans with coffee, rations, and ammunitions than with money. Those will probably be worth a helluva lot more should the banks all collapse.

Lotsa this mentality in here:

Glad I don't play in a band with it.

I think distortion and fuzz are crutches for most of the guitarists on this forum. I love compression on a clean electric tone, and it has nothing to do with any inadequacies in my playing. It's the way I like a guitar to sound.

Yeah I think all Square Wave effects are a nod to the Nazis. It's all part of Godwin's Law :poke: