for the micro synth, there are some people who prefer using the bass microsynth for geetar instead. Tracking and response better
so i heard. I did try out the bass one on geetar from friend sometime back, fun is the word. But i cant really compared with the geetar one cos didnt really tried the geetar one b4
Its a funky kewl modulation efx imho. Wont go wrong having one if wanna play with sound and changing the characteristic of your instrument.
Other than micro synth, another effect from EH that change the geetar sound to bell chime, reverse volume swell, pseudo hammond organ thingy, is the HOG. Its a over the top octave pedal. Can do whammy, pseudo hammond organ sound, bell chime, octave vol swell thing and some other more. Its fun, as long as you wanna change geetar sound. Oh another weird irritating pedal from eh, flanger hoax! Its a flanger and phaser, but it will irirtate the hell outta most trying to get a working flnaging sound or phasing sound if never read the manual. This one will do weird sound by itself even without geetar signal going into it
For ring mod, if you are really serious bout it, try the moog one. Some ring mod has a limited range of frequency setting and controls. Moog one has a huge range, different waveforms, cv control of all parameters on the pedal via expression pedal, carrier in input plus some other features which are not found in lotsa pedal. Other than the ring mod, combining moog ring mod, phaser, low pass filter plus utilising all the cv input, lfo out, carrier in thing, you can get wacky sound outta it. Its more to analog synth then geetar playing, but if wanna sound, more sound to play, this one is hard to beat, in term of using pedals to get weird sound.
If wanna up the moog ring mod, look for lovetone ringstinger. Its even more quirky then the moog one. Unfortunately, its been discontinued for long and the price of lovetone modulation pedals, are way too too over the top to get on ebay.
Other than ring mod, theres another one which is quite cool imho. Its more musical compared to ring mod and usual found in vst plug in. Bit crusher/down sampling. So far theres not much of these in single pedal format. Copilot efx has an offering that does this, some diy people came up with circuit that does this as well. It can be found in one of the patch on digitech spacestation(i love their version in space station coz the ability to blend clean signal and wet signal). Can be found in alesis ineko as well.
If you wanna weird shit, the alesis ineko is worth tracking down(been discontinued as well). It has lotsa effect to alter your geetar signal. Only thing is it aint for geetar actually, so the bypass really sucks
. But if want different sound, this one can do some signal changing to geetar.
another one not really just weird, but has some patches which are highly tweakable and totally changing the geetar sound, is the yamaha magicstomp. The modulation effect(octave, multiple delay, ring mod, envelope filter) in it can be tweaked a lot to get some cool sound. Just need to sit down, connect to comp and tweak to heart content
heh, if still wanna up for more weird shit, ditch all the above efx, go for max/msp and do some weird script for geetar processing. Unfortunately, i have no experience on it, other then trying some shot time testing the program and deciding i shud stick to pedals instead of feeling like studying all over again(which i really hate)
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