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yes it is too bad that Electrix didnt keep it up... and i am selling my Mo FX as we speak (tears rolling down my cheek) Hey Rick by the way bro you have an amazing collection of FX at your place!are u planing on keeping them to some day build an FX museum;-? but what i find funny is that in your collection i didnt see many 60s and 70s efx,were you not interested in FX back then? www.myspace.com/luisangulocom --- On Fri, 3/6/09, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > From: Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> > Subject: electrix MO-FX > To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 12:25 PM > Michael wrote: > ".....i had never messed with the "band" > buttons in the past but with a bit of experimentaion this > turns out to be a very useful tool, kept me off the streets > for an evening!.....so make a loop and send it into the MO > and change up the "band" buttons and see what > happens.....perhaps i'm the last person to discover > this, if so, i'm sorry to waste your time but if you > haven't played with this, give it a shot, you may find > it useful....." > > > Yeah, equalization is a really powerful sculptor of > sound. > Frankly, I'm surprised that more stomp box pedals > aren't made that just have interesting twists on > equalizing things in real time. > There is a dearth of equalizers that can be used > rhythmically in real time. > > I used to record a constantly swelling , dark, deep > 20" crash cymbal into my Electrix Repeater and then > turn the volume off, > radically switch it's eq on my Mackie 1402VLZ board and > then swell the sounds up just to mute them on downbeats. > > It's a great and simple effect and gives one, in > essence, a constant 'noise' source to play with > rhythmically. > > I especially love that the Electrix MoFX and Filter Factory > had huge drum machine style buttons, intended to be hammered > on that > would either mute the effect when it was turned on, or > temporarily turn the effect on when it was turned off. > > There's an endless source of 'drummistic' > possibilities to be had by rhythmically playing an effect in > this way. > > I was sad that the Electrix EQ killer was never made into a > larger unit with that type of functionality. > > Usually melodic instrumentalists don't explore this > kind of territory because it precludes being able to play > your axe with > two hands but when you put the effect after your looper > then it's a great trick to use, especially if you have > a 2nd looper later in your chain. > > Currently, I"m running a DL4 at the start of my > pedal board , a DL4 at the end (for resampling or using as > a digital delay) > and then all of that into the Looperlative for major > mangling. > > In between, I have my DOD Buzz Box and my Zvez Fuzz > Factory and frequently I just toggle these rhythmically > with my feet to create cool new rhythmic loops. > > In fact, in my Aether Engine, noise and rhythm project > which I'm debuting live this coming Monday (boy, am I > nervous!!) > I'm mostly using distortion, EQ and rhythm to make the > lions share of the music. > > I allowed myself a marching bass drum and a marching snare > drum and some assorted pieces of metal > to augment my Strat and my Robelli 12 string electric bass > guitar. > > Let's hear it for equalization.