Hello! I am in love with this pedal but I’ve observed a few characteristics that leave me curious.
First, a question about the behavior of the low-pass and high-pass filters. On my pedal the knobs seem to affect the signal from the “wide open” position until noon-ish in both examples. In other words, filtering of the signal occurs in a range reflecting nearly half of the knob’s range of motion. Is this typical?
Second, there are a few Touch modes that seem to refuse to operate in a “full wet” state. For instance, Magnetic Dance, Disintegration Loop, and even the Looper all pass the original sound source with the Mix at full wet. I would expect those modes to have the option to operate at 100% wet.
Thanks in advance for your guidance.
It’s a mix control, not dry wet blend. So it allows you to mix the amount of effected signal with your original sound source.
From the manual -
“For example, at 100% mix you can get a tape-like vibrato, at 50% a lush chorus, and at zero you’ll get no effects at all** — just your dry signal.”
So you’d expect to hear both the magnetic dance plus whatever is playing over it.
There is an option to add trails.
BUFFERED BYPASS WITH TRAILS
Another silent option where your input signal will no longer be affected but the device still acts as a sound source, so you’ll continue to hear certain effects being generated (reverb tails, Magnetic Dance loops, 4-track loops, etc).
Hope this helps explain.
Regarding the filters, they work together. So if you have the highpass already turned up to noon, and then turn the low pass left of noon, there is no more signal to remove. You can use them together to create a bandpass filter, in this way.
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Didn’t want to clutter up the forum with a new thread, so I’ll piggyback on this thread if that’s ok:
Has anyone else tried Ribbons in the wet section of a wet/dry/wet guitar rig?
I run a guitar signal straight into the dry amp with a post-power amp direct out that feeds Ribbons, whose stereo signal arrives at an Aspen Pittman CenterPoint Stereo SpaceStation v3.
Set up with its Mix wide open, LPF wide open, HPF zeroed out, and Wow/Flut to taste…
My God, Ribbons…
How do I even attempt to explain the universal embrace of this sound?
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