I pulled this pedal back out of storage, in an attempt to make it work.
Has anyone solved the weird little chirp or whistle artifact at the end of the FreqOut “feedback”? It exposes its unnatural source. I have been tweaking knobs and settings, but it still surfaces. I can’t be the only one that hears it, unless mine is defective.
By the way, I decided to take another shot with the FreqOut, because the Dawner Prince Boonar sounds so flipping great in an Out-In loop. It isn’t echo. It isn’t reverb. It’s Gilmour.
The only way I've found to avoid the chirp is to use it manually in momentary mode, and even then I get glitches sometimes if I'm not off the switch fast enough before I release the note. Sometimes it seems to hold a bit beyond when the switch is released.
In the meantime, I am counting on all the super smart Fractal masters on this thread to get us closer.
+1 - It's a cool pedal, and probably the best at what it does (there aren't many pedals that do this), but flawed - if you are holding a note for feedback and do any bending within that, the FO freaks out - and forget about using a guitar kill switch for stutter during feedback as it will stop FO in its tracks - I have it in a loop, always on with loop attached to an expression pedal feeding to main signal before amp. With the right mix and pedal modifier settings it sound totally natural in small controlled doses - let it go on too long and it goes off the rails (I know compressor / delay etc can enhance FOs capability but the reason I got the pedal was so I would not have to use Axefx resources for that effect, so nah, I don't have a compressor/delay dedicated to it).feels like a 3 legged one trick pony.
Thanks - will have to revisit this.i just found the demo i made for the original preset i came up with in 2012 - http://www.simeonharris.co.uk/misc/feedback_sim.mp3
i like matt's tweak to automatically choose the pitch of the feedback based on the pitch of the note you're playing. that's cool.
+1 - It's a cool pedal, and probably the best at what it does (there aren't many pedals that do this), but flawed - if you are holding a note for feedback and do any bending within that, the FO freaks out - and forget about using a guitar kill switch for stutter during feedback as it will stop FO in its tracks - I have it in a loop, always on with loop attached to an expression pedal feeding to main signal before amp. With the right mix and pedal modifier settings it sound totally natural in small controlled doses - let it go on too long and it goes off the rails (I know compressor / delay etc can enhance FOs capability but the reason I got the pedal was so I would not have to use Axefx resources for that effect, so nah, I don't have a compressor/delay dedicated to it).
I had 3 pedals stopping me from going all axeIII (drop and freqout and a stutter) - with the pitch improvements this year I was able to drop the drop. Hoping this will be next someday!
Maybe the compressor is giving it too much juice? Is the compressor before or after the pedal?
I have mine as the first thing after the Input, nothing else in line with it and use a momentary switch to control it. I had to tweak the pedal itself, the offset and the gain, to get it to work as it normally would in front of an amp. I’d say it’s about 98% there. I’ll post up a preset/sound clip tonight. I actually just used it all over the place on a new song I wrote.
This is still a work in progress, if you go to 1:19, 3:23 you can hear it used for some end-of-note feedback swells (I‘m fading in with a volume pedal then hitting the momentary switch) then it’s all over the solo at the end, when you hear the notes shoot up an octave, almost like a whammy pedal, but there’s no slide up in pitch. Solo starts at 5:42.
Really nice song!
It's wonderful the rare times that happens.That entire song started with me picking up my Strat and the first thing that came out is the first riff you hear in the song. Once I recorded that, the rest of the song flooded in my head and I was on a mad dash to get all the ideas down before they disappeared.
It's wonderful the rare times that happens.
Anyway, I hear quite a bit of Floydian influences, am I right?
EDIT: I just saw the black strat in your avatar so.. stupid question
Thanks for confirming. As much as people want the pedal be great, this is a dealbreaker. But I’ll turn this positive:The only way I've found to avoid the chirp is to use it manually in momentary mode, and even then I get glitches sometimes if I'm not off the switch fast enough before I release the note. Sometimes it seems to hold a bit beyond when the switch is released.