Changes you made to the Eventide Timefactor to make it more user friendly.

[themusicboxstudios]

Tell me about the changes you've made from the factory settings on your Timefactor in order to make it work better for your use.

1. What change did you make?
2. Why did you make the change?
3. How did you make the change? (or which page in the manual can the info be found?)

I'm talking about any and all the looper, tap-tempo, bypass, etc. tricks that you've figured out.

Also, how do you make the tap tempo read in MS ... and not BPM?

Jon

[Angle Loss]

Originally Posted by curehardy

Also, how do you make the tap tempo read in MS ... and not BPM?

Jon

When in "play" mode press the encoder to switch between bpm/ms on the display.


I'm going to build either a single or dual footswitch for tap tempo and possibly the infinite repeat depending on whether they fix the volume issue with the infinite repeat. I leave the actual pedal in bank mode on the second tear of my board and am going run the tap tempo down on the first row/front. I'm loving this pedal a whole lot!

[radcliff]

I had catchup mode on, which can be nice for finding out where your knobs were set to on your presets....it can be changed in the System Menu

The tap external is great, and so is the Exp pedal out....a 25k Ernie Ball works great, nice and sturdy too.

I have an issue with Eventide because three of the best presets have this nasty pitch modulation sound when you adjust your tap time....they need to make that optional, it sounds like ass when you tap adjust the Vintage, Mod, or Tape settings in a band scenario

I turned off most of the banks, and only use 3, giving me 6 presets, which is alot when you also have an Exp pedal set up

[BTBAM]

i changed the presets to things i use. it makes a wondrous difference now.

[radcliff]

Originally Posted by BTBAM

i changed the presets to things i use. it makes a wondrous difference now.

Almost every factory preset was useless.

[Angle Loss]

I've programmed a bunch of new ones (a little more subtle for ambience mainly) but found handful of the presets are great if you understand how they are to be used. 4:1 sounds incredible for pinky swelling your volume knob--if you try to play regular notes with that one it doesn't work so hot, but its purpose was for swells. I also enjoyed the stock filterpong patch and 1:1 for lucious chorusy washes of delay.

Taking the modulated delay patch and turning the delay to 0ms (or at least fairly short) allows you to tweak the unit for some interesting chorus sounds. It can be done with the filter pong as well. Using their preset chart with the knob settings can be helpful when you first get it to see how they programmed it--especially for the multi-tap settings for reverb. Most of the time I am tweaker and not generally someone who cares about anybody elses settings, but I did find it interesting with this pedal.

I did make the mistake of running it in stereo (oh damn--dual filterponging swirlies!). Kinda makes me wish I didn't run mono all the time

[radcliff]

I agree, the reverb preset was pretty rad

[Alex Law]

A Digitech FS300 and a Boss FV500-L go a long way to making the TF a blast to play.