Effects and Processors

Do you like the Aural Exciter and the Big Bottom from Aphex? Then you'll probably like the Aphex 204, a processor that has two channels with both devices on each one.  

Alison Chesley, aka Helen Money, plays her cello a bit differently than most cellists. She slapped a Fishman pickup on her cello and has been sending the signal through some interesting effects pedals ever since.  

In the latter portion our two part look at the TC Electronic M350 Reverb and Effects processor, Bob DiFazio checks out the reverb section and notes the especially sweet halls.  

In this walkthru video, Bob DiFazio examines the TC Electronic M350, a delay and reverb processor with some other built in effects. This segment focuses on the delay and effects, so true grit reverb fanatics will have to wait for the next installment.  

DJ Puzzle continues his exploration of the Alesis Bitrman, an intuitively designed effects box that allows you to get a number of experimental sounds through permutations and combinations of six effects in six configurations  

Allen & Heath announces the iDR0, the latest addition to the iLive Digital Line. The iDR0 provides all processing features for iLive systems over networks.  

To demonstrate his setup, DJ Puzzle combines the powers of the XBase-09, Bitman, XioSynth, and Quasimidi 309. Check out this video to hear how these four units work together to create some very tight sounds.  

DJ Puzzle Jason Donnelly shows us a neat little piece of gear called the Alesis Metavox. It's a standalone vocoder that brings out the wackier side of DJ Puzzle as he makes his way through the different kinds of waves you can select from on the Metavox.  

We continue sitting in on Dorkbot's meetings where Michael Una talks about alternative MIDI control methods. This clip features Mike talking about using Auto Hot Key with Ableton Live.  

Crosstalk 36 says goodbye to Drew Krag, who parted ways with Crosstalk to pursue other venues, and though he will be missed, we welcome guitar tech Henry Bianco to the team. Big number 36 also takes a look at vocal harmonization with the Digitech Vocalist Live 4 and discusses more vocal effects.  

After hearing the DigiTech Vocalist Live 4 in sweet, man-on-microphone action, the Crosstalk crew reacts to the sound. From there, they veer off into AutoTune tales and the sound of "poo in a bucket."  

More powerful than the One Ring, perhaps, is the T-Rex Engineering Fuel Tank Junior. This power supply can power most of your 9V pedals and with included cabling, your 18V effects as well.  

Frank Gerace and Cheryl Wanner of Boston's Dreamchild have released three full length CDs -- Gates to the Sea (now out of print), La Fée Verte and Lullabies for the Dead. Previously they took time to talk to Gearwire...  

O.H. Lee, one of the founders of Santa Barbara California’s The Right Hand recently took time to talk to Gearwire about the band's studio set up. We also chatted with him about some specific--and in some cases unusual--gear...  

The Slave Drum are a Philippine band (based in Manilla) that started playing together in 2001. With a few personnel changes since then the band consists of Jerome Velasco on guitars and keyboards, Ramon Mayor on vocal,...  

The Lexicon PCM96 is a high quality stereo reverb processor that brings a nice mix of classic and new reverbs to the table. Taking into account the increase of digital media in today's audio recording world, the PCM96...  

The Lexicon MX500 Reverb Processor is - get this - a hardware plug-in. This innovative idea from Lexicon allows their top of the line MX500 to plug into your computer via FireWire and appear in your DAW as an insert without...  

Lexicon's PCM96 takes center stage at Lexicon's booth at AES, introduced as a professional quality stereo reverb and effects processor. The PCM96, first and foremost, enriches your sound with Lexicon's renowned reverb...  

The modeling gurus over at Line 6 have been keeping busy with the launch of the POD X3 and POD X3 Live units. These are the most powerful POD units yet and boast the most amp models they've ever had, expanding their range...  

A-Designs Audio will be premiering their new HM2EQ HAMMER tube EQ unit at AES after two years in the works with meticulous testing by Peter Montessi and the rest of the A-Designs Audio team. The HAMMER is a dual mono channel,...  

Gretchen Hasse interviews Chris Taylor of Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear about the effects he uses on Grizzly Bear's dreamy acoustic music. Chris is a multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer to boot, so he knows a thing or...  

Nowadays, it seems like everyone is a guitarist, but Ted Furman, aka Spacebrewer, has never been a guitar player. Truth be told, he has no need to be as he has a penchant of manipulating his horn to produce crazier sounds...  

As the saxophone player for Yakuza, Bruce Lamont must find a tone to fit with his band's hard hitting, droning sound. Digitech's JamMan, Vocal 300 processor, and Ibanez's Digital Delay III are the tools he uses.

Bruce...  

Judging from his work on the Vox Tonelab, Frank Rosaly could feasibly be considered a sonic mad scientist. Frank joins us again from Myopic Bookstore where he plays with feedback.

Rosaly uses a Vox Tonelab to...  

The beauty of the tape echo unit, known in some recording circles as original-gangsta delay, is just as much mechanical as it is auditory. A simple loop of tape passes play and record heads. Put gain knobs and signal...  

In a pretty neat development for vocal harmonizer boxes, DigiTech offers a way for your guitar signal to control what harmony to add to your vocal. The Vocalist Live 2 floor unit takes vocal input (obviously). What isn't...  

all my faith lost, from Italy, started making music in 1998. After the almost inevitable line-up changes the band releases an ep on a small Italian label. In 2005 they released their first full length, as you're vanishing...  

South Floridians XvorteX can be found online, but the band never became the household name--or at least the subculture household name--that they deserved to be. The band consisted of Paul Galgoczy, Fade, and Marcela Aguero....  

In our never ending quest to ferret out new and old applications for gear from the past, Gearwire spoke with Ashkelon Sain, the man behind the trippy dark rock band, Trance to the Sun. Sain is now a member of Portland's...  

Menton Matthews has worked in the musical underground for years in projects ranging from industrial rock (Allegory) to trip hop (Sunday Munich) to indie movie sound tracks. He does seem to be a little bit in denial about...