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«  For guitarists patients or noisy »

Published on 10/05/12 at 13:52
The ring thing has 4 different modes. The first 3 are similar and offer modulations "in ring". I will not go into details because I do not control, far from it. The fourth mode is a pitch shifter.

Each mode is editable through a series of five pots, and / or optional expression pedal (attention, it plays only on one parameter, which is not selectable). 9 presets allow you to keep track configurations.

UTILIZATION

The pedal is not easy to use. Instead, take time before creating a series of presets. At first glance, the resulting sounds are not musical and difficult to use.
on the other hand, we give some examples of what can be achieved with, and then, after some time, it becomes interesting. Basically, we can recreate much of modulation effects needed to toolbox guitarist from this pedal chorus, tremolo, vibrato, flanger, phaser, pitch shifter.
All these effects are achieved by working on the same principle (except pitch shifter, which is part) of ring modulation, and we can also obtain intermediate effects (tremolo modulated, for example ...)

SOUND QUALITY

The resulting sounds are warm and organic, "typed EHX" somehow. Personally, I use it in concert for a range of modulation effects in the hand (2 different tremolo, chorus, flanger, tremolo, octaver, ...)

OVERALL OPINION

Not easy to give a full review on this pedal, so the possibilities are endless and everyone will find (or not) something useful for his game I guess it is a dream for pedal hackers, but this is not my use. In my case (I play blues rock), she is 2 years of dedicated multi-effect modulation, which I appreciate the organic side and all in one, but I do not use the sound "synthetic" that it is capable of outputting.
It is suitable (among others ...) to a guitarist who wants to turn his x modulation pedals of his pedalboard without feeling frustrated ...

I wish I could select the parameter variable with an expression pedal, have more presets available.

It is unique, to my knowledge, is difficult to judge the ratio Q / P