Count To Five

[leaves turn]

I've been running Ct5 into clean octave down+dry (Drop) into fuzzy overdrive (clean gain side of TAFM) and it sounds amazing. The more I use it, the more I want a second one. Mode 2 has nearly killed my Anti-Nautilus gas. I am a mtl.asm fan.


Got some ideas for future firmware tweaking:
1. Have the Exp toggle double as a power-on quantize setting.
2. Hold the second footswitch down in mode 1 to lock the Len drifting into a smaller range for more standard modulated delay functionality.

[cloudscapes]

the samples at 8:50- are indescribably great!

[kbit]

mine came in the mail & i'm completely blown away. i had to switch to playing through my bass amp to hear all the insane low stuff this pedal is capable of.

Oh man oh man oh man I missed this one. Low end grumbles

I might have to pull the trigger on this after I get off work.

[Sparrow]

http://youtu.be/PKOHav7zGsY
http://youtu.be/4oLEyDxVaCM
http://youtu.be/dnG_81ohNsg

cool videos Stephen!

[Tristan]

Indeed, great stuff, really like the Godin Duet with the Count To Five!
Count To Five -> Revolver II is also a winner for sure, too bad I blow really badly at recording and video's and I don't really have the gear for it or I'd make some too.

[fishtankdork]

pm'd i need this so hard.

[Stephen]

cool videos Stephen!

Indeed, great stuff, really like the Godin Duet with the Count To Five!
Count To Five -> Revolver II is also a winner for sure, too bad I blow really badly at recording and video's and I don't really have the gear for it or I'd make some too.

Thanks! I'm sure that there is a better way to represent the quality of the pedal than using crappy ipad microphone/video function, but that's all I know how to use at the moment.

This new one is entitled "Glitch in Three Flavours" and has the Count to Five running into a Superego with a Zoom Ms50g in the loop, running into the Hexe Revolver. If I had time to do another take I would have set the Revolver a little louder, but it's effect can be heard through headphones, I think.
If you want to skip the preamble then the Count to Five joins the party at 1.50 ish

http://youtu.be/HtrkV_oDhbE

[weed_killer]

that sounded really cool.

[multi_s]

yes, nice demos Stephen!

Got some ideas for future firmware tweaking:
1. Have the Exp toggle double as a power-on quantize setting.
2. Hold the second footswitch down in mode 1 to lock the Len drifting into a smaller range for more standard modulated delay functionality.

yes there are a few things i want to tweak as well,but any user feedback is really appreciated. I think instead of power on Exp select I will just do power on as to what was when powered off. The second suggestion maybe needs a bit more explanation/consideration but I have some other patches I want to put on this thing as well. Expect some updates end of Jan 2015.

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[nevada]

Despite how awesome it sounds, is a Ct5 plus Arpanoid scenario pretty redundant? OR: which do I want?

[ChetMagongalo]

CT5 is obviously way cooler than an arpanoid

[multi_s]

Despite how awesome it sounds, is a Ct5 plus Arpanoid scenario pretty redundant? OR: which do I want?

I would say they are pretty different beasts. The CT5 is a sort of unorthodox echo and looping pedal. The arpanoid is an arpeggiator so you set a sequence, and it will shift the pitch of what you play according to that sequence, at some rate you can control with one of it's knobs. Both seem cool but I've never had an arpanoid. So in the end I guess it;s not redundant to have both.

[goroth]

Ok, was using it on mode 2, reverse at 1.0 speed. Play a chord, capture it just after the initial attack has died. Set the lens to around 11 o'clock and pump the random. It's great - you get this randomly pulsating frozen chord. I much prefer that sound to the freeze I had, as the random variation makes it a lot more alive sounding.

[nevada]

I would say they are pretty different beasts. The CT5 is a sort of unorthodox echo and looping pedal. The arpanoid is an arpeggiator so you set a sequence, and it will shift the pitch of what you play according to that sequence, at some rate you can control with one of it's knobs. Both seem cool but I've never had an arpanoid. So in the end I guess it;s not redundant to have both.

Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. Do you think the looper functionality of the CT5 will be difficult in a MIDI setup?

[multi_s]

Well the pedal does not have any midi control at all so i guess depending on what you are trying to do, yes it may be difficult to sync it exactly. One of the looper modes chops up the signal and you can trim the length of these smaller slices pretty easily using a knob so syncing manually might not be that bad, but the other looper, you just hold down the button to sample and release to start playback. So syncing that might be trickier and more dependent on your foot skills then anything else.

What ive been doing is going the other way, where i have a midi capable drum machine (Dr Groove, thank you Joe Gress!) and it has a tap tempo on it. So i get a loop setup on the CT5 then i just sort of tap in the rhythm. Again its not perfect because over time it can drift and is dependent on my tapping ability, but at least you can retap on the fly to bring it back together.