Feature request: More control over hiss and crackle please

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#1

I received mine today. This is a very feature-packed pedal, but I really wish you had allowed more control over the noise and crackles.

Two things I miss the most:

  1. A low-pass filter to shape the hiss / crackles, probably 6db/oct would be enough. You might as well make it a dj-style combination of low/high pass, but I personally would probably only cut the highs. A more “lively” noise would also be welcome, as the hiss seems quite static compared to for example the Generation Loss mk2.

  2. Control the interval/frequency of the crackles. I think they attract too much attention, and it sounds unrealistic to me at this rate. The crackles are also very similar, which doesn’t help.

In general I think the hiss/crackles are just not very realistic to me. To make them usable I close the available LPF quite a bit, but since that filters everything, it means that all of my sounds are always very filtered, which is limiting the usefulness of the pedal.

I wish you had made the control over hiss and crackles volume independent. You can have soft hiss, or soft crackles but not a combination of both. In the middle, either the hiss or the crackles are too loud for me.

I hope you can consider controlling these things at least via MIDI if there is no room in on the device.

Thanks for listening!

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#2

Thank you for the critique. We haven’t made any updates to the noise parameter since its inception and I suppose you’re right - it’s a bit vanilla compared to most of Ribbons other settings, which have more nuance. The idea was that you could use the filters, wow, flutter, and crinkle to shape the noise.

I’d prefer to come up with a more thoughtfully curated noise setting rather than add bells and whistles to change it. I can add this to our list of things to investigate for a future update.

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