[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR]

ALAN CHAPUT: Hey. What’s up? This is Alan from Eventide and you’re watching Gearwire.Com. We’re here today with the Modfactor, the newest stompbox from Eventide, and I’m just going to go through some of the features and show you all of the fun things that you can do with this pedal and all of the cool sounds that you can get out of it.

Modfactor has over 25 great effects and you can definitely get a lot of cool stuff out of this, so we’re going to start out with tremolo and show you some of the things that you can do with that effect.

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, TREMOLO EFFECT]

That’s kind of a [STRUMS GUITAR WITH TREMOLO EFFECT] classic tremolo sound.

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, TREMOLO EFFECT]

And what you can do is you can take a classic sound like tremolo with Modfactor and add some nuances that you can’t do with a traditional actual tremolo. I’m going to show you what I’m talking about here. Say, you take the speed knob, right?

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, TREMOLO EFFECT, TWEAKING SPEED]

And you want to move the speed knob up and down...

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, TREMOLO EFFECT, TWEAKING SPEED]

...just to give a kind of a speed ramping effect, just kind of a – I don't know – it’s different than what you’d expect out of an amp tremolo type of effect, but you don’t have somebody that is going to stand there and going to do this with the speed knob the whole time. What the bottom row of knobs does is it turns knobs for you, so for example the S-Mod knob controls the speed knob in the same way as if you were rotating it back and forth like that.

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, TREMOLO EFFECT, SPEED BEING MODIFIED AUTOMATICALLY WITH THE S-MOD KNOB]

Hear that? The speed is now ramping up and down by itself because all I did was turn the S-Mod knob up. In the same way, you can use the D-Mod knob to make the depth go up and down, so you have the S-Mod and D-Mod altering the values of the depth and the speed knobs...,

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, TREMOLO EFFECT, SPEED AND DEPTH BEING MODIFIED AUTOMATICALLY WITH THE S-MOD AD D-MOD KNOBS]

...and you get something that’s completely different than what you started with just by cranking like those two knobs, and from there you can start to create new sounds that are really unique and different than traditional effects like that.

So we’re still in tremolo, and one of the other things that you can do with Modfactor is change the wave shape of the effect. You can do that with very effect and it’s something that really changes the overall sound of the effect. So like I said, there’s over 25 different effects and then for each of those, you can have different wave shapes and there’s tons of possibilities, so let’s check out what you can do if you set tremolo to respond to how hard you play. You can do that by changing the shape knob to ADSR so like that, so.

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, VOLUME SWELL EFFECT USING WAVE SHAPING FUNCTION]

What it’s doing is fading in the volume every time I play a new note, which is kind of fun. It’s the same thing as if you were to do that with your volume knob on the guitar but it’s like an auto-swell type of effect.

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, VOLUME SWELL EFFECT USING WAVE SHAPING FUNCTION]

Another cool waveshape for the tremolo effect is square wave because square wave really chops up your sound.

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, VOLUME SWELL EFFECT USING WAVE SHAPING FUNCTION, SQUARE WAVE]

It’s a much more drastic sound than what I was using before with tremolo, which is a sine wave. And what you can do with the square wave...

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, VOLUME SWELL EFFECT USING WAVE SHAPING FUNCTION, SQUARE WAVE]

...is you can sync the sound to a beat or a drum machine. You can tap using the tap button here...

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, VOLUME SWELL EFFECT USING WAVE SHAPING FUNCTION, SQUARE WAVE]

...basically turning your sound on and off, but it’s a cool effect.

[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE MODFACTOR FOR THE GUITAR, VOLUME SWELL EFFECT USING WAVE SHAPING FUNCTION, SQUARE WAVE]