Pepe wrote:You're right! The "only true sound" is that of the horizontal model with the blue squares. And that's how the new ML222 sounds. During a collaboration with Ugly Casanova Rhys put a lot of time into achieving that sound again, plus he improved the whole circuit.
Do you happen to know how the ML223 differs from the 222?
It has side jacks and I like that over my 222 that has jacks on the face of the pedal but if it’s a huge departure in sound I will probably stick with my 222.
Rhys has done a new incarnation of the great Octave Drone! It can be bought at Reverb (EDIT: the Octave Drone at Reverb was sold already!), but if you want to support Rhys, please buy it directly on his website for very fair 150 USD with free shipping:
Most effects that dramatically change a guitar’s sound have a synth-like feeling when you play through them. The Octave Drone is very different. It feels rather like you’re hybridizing the instrument with sympathetic resonators. The knobs on your guitar, along with the way you play, will dramatically alter the sound.
The latest version has a cleaner octave up sound with less compression but all of the gonky clang of the original.
Should it sound only half as good as my old Octave Drone that Rhys built in his early Diamond Skeleton era, then it's an awesome pedal!
EDIT: Rhys has put up a new listing at Reverb and I just see that he used my Diamond Skeleton Octave Drone Demo Video!
Today I had a few minutes to try out the sounds of my new Rhys I (Seppuku) Loome!
It shares a good bit with the Dynamic Echo Modulator that I love to pieces. I have yet to try the CV input. The "Slide" knob can transform the Loome into a totally chaotic sounding noise source. More soon. Demo as well.
My demo video is finally finished! The Loome will be reissued under the Seppuku flag soon. Modulated delay with an envelope for time, volume and repeats. Some wild sounds can be found inside, as well as pretty convincing BOSS SG-1 Slow Gear tones!
an amplitude/time2 samples are fed as voltage data into a revolving 44kb register. the AMPLIFICATION, PASSBAND, CLOCK and REGEN altogether vary the density and burst periods of the ‘voltage spray’
CORROSIVE
the abstracted voltage signal (derived from the input) is used to create am distortions to the audio with a phototronic pass gate. gating on clean and overdriven signals accentuates the brash dynamics of the effect and a depth control blends the dry signal into the mix.
DYSTORTION
the audio has both a clean and a dirty channel with drive control – pre modulation. This chaotic and inspiring effect pedal is a unique take on distortion, low bandwidth radio, and garbled tremolo ie. glitching.
Your demo of the Loome is wonderful! Some of the stranger sounds it makes (not the stuff at the start) could be very interesting to play with - especially those laser sounds and the auto swells and the broken repeats. Did you add reverb to some of these or is that part of the pedal? I know a PT2399 chip can be forced into a reverb sound, but I dont know if it can do that reverb at the same time as the other effects in your demo. Thanks for making it, I enjoyed that
I built myself a semi clone of the Memory Loss this Summer (there is no full schematic of this anywhere, but some clever people reverse engineered something that sounds similar from looking at photos of the PCB I guess) and that is great fun, if rather hard to control (geting the glitch effect to activate really requires careful volume / picking technique). Is the original also difficult to control?
Also the Eroder description sounds like something I would love!
