Well, it’s made for any instrument or line level signal, in fact explicitly not just for guitars since they themselves demo it for drum machines, synths, and full mix use.
I get that it’s a bit much to expect it to be audiophile-friendly on a master bus, and this isn’t to detract from the pedal as a whole (which is incredible and will see a ton of use in my studio in other forms). Nonetheless, I don’t think it’s that finicky to want to process a stereo line/instrument signal without unwanted flanging or chorusing.
Though these occur in lofi-associated hardware they are not lofi-specific artifacts, and the premise of this pedal is to have discrete control over the various traits of the medium you’re emulating. I don’t think it’s a common premise of lofi-oriented signal processing that you shouldn’t expect to have control over the phase coherence of your signal.
I was joking/underlining an apparent contradiction. But you’re right. It seems producers are way more exigeant than guitarists, and I guess CBA has noticed.
They’ll need bigger boxes. I thought the tonal recall RKM should have a stereo mode (given it has for MN3005’s!) but then I opened it. Couldn’t fit a sardine in there.
I’ve spent some time yesterday evening jamming with a friend.
Digitone through GenLoss2 is so beautiful, the pedal adds some kind of fragility and grit that I really love!
I played some of my patches on my Ambika through it last night and it was incredible, especially with Valhalla VintageVerb and Delay on sends. I wish I still had one of my old school romplers cause I imagine I could get some fantastically eerie/cinematic stuff going.
that’s such a good way to put it. a lot of those 90s rompler sounds feel a certain way in retrospect. when you hear them clean out of the synth it’s a bit different cause it’s not off a VHS of a movie or a cassette recording of a radio broadcast or something. GL2 seems pretty ideal for recreating how things like that sound in your mind.
it’s like our brains are tape recorders and our sound-memories degrade over time and we have to match that degradation in the real world to catch up.
Question: does anyone understand the dry type dip switch on the back? I read the manual, but I don’t understand it. Is it a dip switch that ‘bypasses’ the wow and flutter? why is that useful? you could just turn the wow and flutter all the way counterclockwise with the rotary knobs?
The signal flow on page 44 helps to understand it: with the dipswitch set to “off” your dry signal is untouched by the pedal’s fx, if you set it to “on” all fx except Wow and flutter are applied to the dry signal as well.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I imagine mixing that with the wet signal should create some weird chorusing effect.
I think they mean the dry signal when the pedal is engaged and you have the Dry toggle set to Small or Unity, but I haven’t tested it so I could be wrong.
also: I’m comparing the batch 1 to batch 2 models.
and yes, even with the pedal disengaged, the dry signal is affected by the batch 1 model, less bass noticable (with bass heavy sources). But this should be something that theoretically should only be the case using DSP bypass? or also true bypass?
what I’m a bit ‘worried’ about is that with the batch 2 model, the more bass heavy dry signal will go through the models too. And I believe the models were tested extensively when designing this pedal, but I doubt they were adjusted when designing/applying the mod (to fit the more bass heavy signal?).
Might be better off just keeping my batch 1 model and using true bypass.
If its just in dsp mode, I wonder why so many people were complaining, whats wrong with setting it to true bypass and keeping the pedal as it was intended?
Because when you actually turned it on, the bass was gone. To me that was a big problem because I wanted to run full mixes through it and it completely destroyed the low end, no matter what model I chose.
The new version is exactly what I expected the original to be, I can run everything through it without sacrificing the low end - unless I want to of course, in which case I can choose a model that cuts the bass or switch to classic mode and filter it there.
This could be a reason to keep the unmodded one for some people.
But then you’re probably one of the few who had the chance to compare them side by side and could notice this.
I think i would still prefer the modded version but on the other hand i don’t like muddy mixes so…
