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Laurence Payne
2008-07-20 09:55:00
Re: Best effect to ballsify thin synth sounds?
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:27:24 -0700 (PDT), Keoki <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On the pitch shifting front, I pulled out an old TC Electronic
>(Helicon) Quintet that I had around the studio for ages immemorial, to
>see if it maybe can fit the task.
>
>I never used this box for anything since the 6 years I had it because
>I could never make sense of it how it's supposed to work. On any
>normal effect I ever saw, you pump in a signal, you dial through the
>presets and hear what they do. Not on this one. You dial through the
>presets, you hear no change, only the numbers blink. You open the
>manual PDF to see what the @#$%! one is supposed to push to hear & see
>something happen on this stoopid box, you find no explanation.
It's on p.7 of the manual
DATA WHEEL
Edits the value of the current
parameter from any menu or
mode.
In recall mode, turning the
wheel previews presets (top
level preset information is
flashed on the display but
preset data is not loaded until
RECALL is pressed again).
Author:
Date:
Subject:
Keoki
2008-07-20 13:26:44
Re: Best effect to ballsify thin synth sounds?
On Jul 19, 10:55 pm, Laurence Payne <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:27:24 -0700 (PDT), Keoki <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >You dial through the
> >presets, you hear no change, only the numbers blink. You open the
> >manual PDF to see what the @#$%! one is supposed to push to hear & see
> >something happen on this stoopid box, you find no explanation.
>
> It's on p.7 of the manual
>
> DATA WHEEL
> Edits the value of the current
> parameter from any menu or
> mode.
> In recall mode, turning the
> wheel previews presets (top
> level preset information is
> flashed on the display but
> preset data is not loaded until
> RECALL is pressed again).
I saw this information, but I don't see the juncture where it relates
to the problem. One can turn the TC Quintet's data wheel till the cows
come home, and no sonic change happens, whatever mode the unit might
be in (I don't know). When I pressed RECALL, I only got stuck at a
different screen, with no sonic change when I wanted, and lots when I
didn't. I'm typing this from memory, the Quintet is already unplugged
& out of rack, readied for eBay. (Finally I'll get something good out
of it. My money :-)
On the other hand, I found a plugin that blows Avox Choir (and most
likely, this TC) right out of water, when it comes to thickening
timbral change. It's IK Multimedia's Amplitube. On its "Stomp" page, I
put a Chorus-1 box, added four slightly detuned pitch shifter modules
after it, and - wahoo! The hugest sound change ever, especially with
tube distortion added from an other page. (Vintage warmth? Check.) My
original Yamaha FM programming trick would only get me half this far;
this plugin could turn an anemic clavichord into full-blown Motörhead
even, which is well beyond my target. :-)
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