Perfect! A couple months works for me, as I have to get the money together anyways! Just added myself to the list, thanks!
That's great! I'm glad you like it. I hooked up a Captain Coconut 2 a couple nights ago, first time in a long time. Definitely a fun pedal - brought back memories of 15 years ago when I quit my day to make pedals full time.
Honestly, it is so well built and sounds so good, I'm looking to add a Festival and/or a Zim right now. Paradox down the line... Just very high quality stuff. Thank you.
No Festival?
Just got my #8!
Hey to each their own. I have found every attempt at DSP replication of TZF rather weak IMHO (including the Tunnelworm, Line 6, and yes, Zero Point). I did like the pos mode of Zero, but little else. I wonder if you were able to put your Paradox ramping through all of its paces before moving on. Perhaps you did and it just was just not for you. I had a bit of a difficult time getting it until I both put it into the loop of my amp and turned the manual and envelope almost or all the way off. I can get everything that the Zero offers, but with the ability of both having a much stronger effect, or not, and a ton of options including speed, etc. As I wrote, to each their own. I am flipping my CB Wombtone MK2 because for me, I just prefer the other phasers/vibes that I have for what they do (Faye Sing 2, Aquavibe, Retrosonic) Theoretically, the Wombtone can do most of that, but not for me.
Dave.... Its time.... Bring it baaaack!!!
Ugh, that sucks. I got on the list about a week after the start of this thread back in July. Was hoping my name would come up soon. I guess it just wasn't meant to be...
Funny - that occurred to me last week while testing TZF2's. The one I was testing had a problem - the fixed delay wasn't coming through, so instead the unit was behaving like a vibrato pedal. And the vibrato was really sweet sounding, and with speed ramping it's even cooler.
When designing TZF2, I tried a slower rise time in the manual ramping and I didn't like it. Using it at gigs, I would get impatient because I didn't like waiting for the swoosh. So I changed it so there would be a fast rise time that overshoots the through-zero point. I found one great way to use it is to press down the Ramp button when you feel the urge for a swoosh, and leave your foot on it. When you want the swoosh, take your foot off so it can ramp down. Since it's already past the through-zero point, you get the illusion of a rise/swoosh/fall. The manual knob sets the low point that it returns to, and it also changes the angle of the downward ramp. I hope all this makes sense - try it and let me know what you think. Overshoot and then release.
Another great use for manual ramping is to go from chorus to flanger sounds. You can dial in a chorus sound with long delay (manual set low). When you step on manual ramp, it shortens the delay and puts you in flanger territory during the rise and fall.
The two controls (depth and manual) are naturally interactive to some degree. As the delay time gets longer (lower manual knob setting), the depth gets magnified. I borrowed this block of circuitry from an old MXR flanger because I really like the control. Once you pick up on the relation of controls it won't seem weird.
That's great! I love when someone really gets it.
I'm going to try that. Hopefully you can offer a mod if your idea works out!
Yup, That's how I use it. It took a little bit, that's the trick.
Dave great that you're posting some tips and tricks here
Start by turning Depth, Manual and Envelope all the way down. Press, hold and release the ramp button and you will hear it doing it's thing. From there you can turn up the manual knob to set the bottom point that it returns to when you release the button. When you dial in more depth, the range that it covers will lessen the change that the manual ramping makes. This is also influenced by where the LFO sweep is when the ramp button is hit.
It's a fixed setting. I set it to what sounds good to me and decided against internal adjustments. Separate delays ramping at different rates would create a more convincing Leslie effect, but for what it is, I think TZF2 does a good faux Leslie. Better than a lot of Leslie sim pedals I've heard.
This was the "ah-ha!" moment for me, and once I realized it's a balancing act, the more I felt I had control. Any chance of a block diagram to show what's going on signalwise? Being a modular synth nut, I'm always curious about how these things flow. Any chance it could be modded with a TRS jack for expression or CV if that's easier over speed or manual?
Dave, now I get it, I've heard it and felt it and now have a starting point to work with
