Re: Hexfuzz (was Re: Fretless MIDI guitar)

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

>I think that is the point of the PolyOctave, but I could be wrong. 
>Speaking of
>Hexfuzz, some of the most beautiful fuzzy tone comes from Matthais' 
>little self
>made box.  I don't know much about it, but the tone he gets is pretty 
>amazing.
>I wonder why he hasn't tried to commercially produce it.

I did, 1984 in Frankfurt. And I really tried hard to explain that it 
can be used to play chords, but still, the ones that would be able to 
play polyphonically said: "I will never try any distortion" and the 
ones interested in distortion did some quick solo line and were 
disapointed that it did not sound as dirty as the Marshall.

I did not just build 6 filters and 6 distortiors, but the clipping is 
dynamic, so strings with different volumes will still have thoses 
different volumes after distortion, so you can make a melody stand 
out of a chord.
And you all heard it at Loopstock :-)

And its on my site, you can build one.


>
>Mark Sottilaro
>
>Mark Hamburg wrote:
>
>>  on 1/2/03 10:46 AM, Richard Zvonar at zvonar@zvonar.com wrote:
>>
>>  > RMC also makes the Freakout Box, which provides individual audio
>>  > outputs per string. This presents interesting possibilities for
>>  > surround sound and for string-specific effects processing.
>>
>>  I don't want most of the modeling on the VG-8/88 so I haven't been 
>able to
>>  justify getting a hex pickup and getting a VG-88, but I really could 
>be more
>>  tempted by a hex pickup if I could just get a good hex fuzz for it. 
>The RMC
>>  breakout box plus six fuzz pedals, however, does not seem cost 
>effective.
>>  Maybe the Boss PolyOctave does that but it certainly isn't clear from 
>the
>>  online information as to whether the distortion is per string or not.
>>
>>  Mark
>>
>>  P.S. As a poor man's hex-a-fuzz substitute, has anyone tried the PAiA
>>  Quadrafuzz?


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