Re: electrix MO-FX

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

yes it is too bad that Electrix didnt keep it up...
and i am selling my Mo FX as we speak (tears rolling down my cheek)
Hey Rick by the way bro you have an amazing collection of FX at your 
place!are u planing on keeping them to some day build an FX museum;-?
but what i find funny is that in your collection i didnt see many 60s and 
70s efx,were you not interested in FX back then?

www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> From: Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>
> Subject: electrix MO-FX
> To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 12:25 PM
> Michael wrote:
> ".....i had never messed with the "band"
> buttons in the past but with a bit of experimentaion this
> turns out to be a very useful tool, kept me off the streets
> for an evening!.....so make a loop and send it into the MO
> and change up the "band" buttons and see what
> happens.....perhaps i'm the last person to discover
> this, if so, i'm sorry to waste your time but if you
> haven't played with this, give it a shot, you may find
> it useful....."
> 
> 
> Yeah,   equalization is a really powerful  sculptor of
> sound.  
> Frankly,  I'm surprised that more stomp box pedals
> aren't made that just have interesting twists on
> equalizing things in real time.
> There is a dearth of equalizers that can be used
> rhythmically in real time.
> 
> I used to record a constantly swelling , dark, deep
> 20" crash cymbal into my Electrix Repeater and then
> turn the volume off,
> radically switch it's eq on my Mackie 1402VLZ board and
> then swell the sounds up just to mute them on downbeats.
> 
> It's a great and simple effect and gives one, in
> essence,  a constant 'noise' source to play with
> rhythmically.
> 
> I especially love that the Electrix MoFX and Filter Factory
> had huge drum machine style buttons, intended to be hammered
> on that
> would either mute the effect when it was turned on, or
> temporarily turn the effect on when it was turned off.
> 
> There's an endless source of 'drummistic'
> possibilities to be had by rhythmically playing an effect in
> this way.
> 
> I was sad that the Electrix EQ killer was never made into a
> larger unit with that type of functionality.
> 
> Usually melodic instrumentalists don't explore this
> kind of territory because it precludes being able to play
> your axe with
> two hands but when you put the effect after your looper
> then it's a great trick to use,   especially if you have
> a 2nd looper later in your chain.
> 
> Currently,   I"m running a DL4 at the start of my
> pedal board ,   a DL4 at the end (for resampling or using as
> a digital delay)
> and then all of that into the Looperlative for major
> mangling.
> 
> In between,  I have my DOD Buzz Box and my Zvez Fuzz
> Factory and frequently I just toggle these rhythmically
> with my feet to create cool new rhythmic loops.
> 
> In fact, in my Aether Engine, noise and rhythm project
> which I'm debuting live this coming Monday (boy, am I
> nervous!!)
> I'm mostly using distortion, EQ and rhythm to make the
> lions share of the music.
> 
> I allowed myself a marching bass drum and a marching snare
> drum and some assorted pieces of metal
> to augment my Strat and my Robelli 12 string electric bass
> guitar.
> 
> Let's hear it for equalization.