Nooooo dont let everyone in on th secret of BBE Pedals haha! Ive been collecting and have a spreadsheet with all the different variations and revisions of them!
Hi, just thought I'd revisit this video once. You really did a great job, addressing stuff totally ignored by other guys while not getting boring or tedious. Keep up the great work!
The all-seeing hypno-wheel! This channel is very excellent: the pace, presentation, creative phrasing, tunes, information/entertainment balance, ease, visuals, sonics, etc. Dammit, man, I was trying to cut back on pedal spending...
This is even more informative than what I was looking for since a couple of months ago! I got this pedal and it sounds really good, but I'm now tempted by the EHX Good Vibes. Great video!
I definitely like the added flexibility of the Good Vibes, but make sure you watch my video about it... it's got an issue with the power supply that might be a deal breaker.
@@StompboxBreakdown I already watched it, thank you :) I think the power supply issue it's not a deal breaker for me, but I can't decide because they both are great. The Soul vibe is my first univibe pedal. Do you think that added flexibility is worth it?
Off topic, but CONGRATS on your appearance on Emily Hopkins’ channel!! It was such a nice surprise to see you repping the Bubbletron. 🎵 Movin’ on up! 🎶
Emily and Russ are the kindest, most talented and most inclusive people in the world. When they put out the call, I just had to answer. Love them almost as much as I do the B.B.TRON
I so agree, univibe is univibe, not phaser. It’s not just the organic sweep to me, it’s that strange, non-symmetrical wave pattern that only the slow increase of a bulb coming on, and the quick decrease of a bulb going off that makes it sound so special. That organic, geometrically complex waveform is so smoove compared to the polished sine and sawtooth waves of phasers. So glad you answered the question of lightbulb versus octocoupler, super cool. Also, really appreciate sharing some thoughts on the way vibe versus rotary labels have been used over the decades. And super agree, they are very different. I love univibe, and appreciate that it might have been created to stand in for Leslie, but golly that’s not a great Leslie sound. (I immediately picked up an RT-20 after watching your video and I’ve been very happy with it. Thanks for that!) Speaking of loving univibe, I’ve gone through a search of them for sometime, and it’s super worth trying out the Dry Bell Vibe Machine. It’s just outstanding. Version 3 has multiple external trim pots, excellent standard controls to dial in your vibe, and an expression pedal out to make it sound like a pretty decent Leslie. (Still nowhere near as good as the RT-20, but hey, what is.) Awesome video, thanks!
Thanks for always giving me your honest feedback, and I'm super glad you like the RT-20. Mine almost got "lost" to a keyboard player, and I legit had to track them down Carmen Sandiego style to get it back, so mine is extra-special to me. Yeah, I feel like when it comes to modulation effects, it's like talking about muffins and cake and bread and biscuits and cookies; there are benchmark examples that most people would say "That's obviously a cake" (regional dialects notwithstanding) but change the size or shape or tweak the recipe just a little bit and the overlap starts to become apparent. I've thought about diving into it as an episode, but I feel like I might come out looking like the Pepe Silvia scene from Always Sunny, and it'd probably just result in people getting angry and fighty int he comments. I keep hearing good things about the DryBell Vibe Machine as well. As usual, Andy's demo makes it sound indispensable. Before I get too many more pedals, I need more storage space, though... a good problem to have, I guess.
Thanks for posting this! I spent the last couple weeks wanting to pull the trigger on a vibe pedal but also obsessing over finding one that is authentic to the original but within my price range. Saw this video, looked into the pedal, found a good price on eBay. Expecting it today or tomorrow!
@@StompboxBreakdown got it last night, couldn’t stop playing it. It sounded pretty nice at first when I only had it in front of my Klon Klone, but when I put another drive before it, that’s when it really came to life and started giving me that swirling, dirty, Ghostbusters positron collider sound. I have an MXR Hendrix fuzz face copy coming specifically to run into the vibe, and then I’m going to boost that sound with my overdrive. Good stuff.
I love that pedal. I regret selling mine during my Uni-Vibe hunt a couple years ago. I don't think it really does the Uni-Vibe thing though. It's its own type of effect I think. It's not as chorusy as a Uni-Vibe.
Definitely a Uni-Vibe/Phase thing, NOT a Leslie. But whatever it is, it really sounds NICE! And it has a really sweet wave form. BBE never makes junk. Excellent video.
The DE7 always adds the ‘right’ delays - I recently used mine to ‘tune’ a more hi tech, more expensive delay because the DE7 gives the instant reference point.
I got those pedals too.. microvibe and the BBE..I like them both..but you described them spot on. Im trying this one over the voodoolabs on my main board just to test it out and changing stuff around from time to time and yesterday I took it out to a 4hour rehearsal for a blues show we have coming soon..I find the voodoolabs more chewy and that it seems to sink the guitar sound a bit more into the background... but the BBE while a bit less "chewy" for a lack of a better word, seems to work great for a lead guitarist...as you pointed out. And that trimpod is great for fine tuning to the pedalboard position: when it's after a fuzzface univibes tend to sound shrill so it's nice to attenuate that by turning the trimmer a bit to the bass side. nice little tool. About bulbs.. that's more marketing than anything else -technology had come a long way and we should use our ears not our eyes or ego. Great video.. I might make one about a few pedals and this one would definitely be on the list. keep up the good work
Only you can take a 2-knob pedal - of an effect that you've already covered pretty extensively, and recently - and not only talk about it for 13 minutes...but also make it really interesting. Great job! As for the pedal; it sounds great, but I'd definitely want top jacks on a pedal that size, so I'd probably go for that VoodooLabs one. Or, more likely, the Horrothia Effects Berkeley. 😙👌
Thank you so much! Appreciate all of your support. I like my pedals spaced out on my board, so the top mounted jack thing isn’t of much concern to me, but that Berkeley has been catching my eye for a while now
Great video and examples as usual. I’m a vibe over rotary any day, kind of guy lol. I have a Damage Control Blue Nexus for my tiny practice rig, and the Uni-Vibe emulation is on 100% of the time, to some variation of wet/dry. Just adds a nice depth to a boxy sounding little 15w combo. Something standard phaser and flange just don’t catch or offer really.
YES! ive been waiting for this video. No one talks in depth about this pedal on youtube, thank you, i needed that info. So, opto couplers are the same as photocells? after playing with the inside trim, i love it around 3 o clock.
Also, my dream vibe is the Retro Vibe from Jam. But cant afford it, so im thinking on getting the microvibe. What do you think? is it an upgrade from the bbe? (in the sense of a more classic vibe sound)
Hard to say, I think each has something really nice going for them, and I've never played an actual Uni-Vibe, so I can't really compare. There were times I wished the Micro Vibe was a little thicker, but it always sounds just right in the mix when I'm playing with the band and using it to add a bit of modulated flavor. The Soul Vibe starts to shine with the intensity up high. Sorry, I know that isn't an answer. An optocoupler is used as a way of connecting two circuits without actually connecting them via a wire. Typically this is done so stray voltage and hum and other weird stuff from one circuit won't make its way into the other circuit. It's a method of isolating them since the only "transmission" between them is light. It's just an LED on one side, and then some sort of light-sensing photo-resistor or phototransistor or photocell (I think they're the same thing, but I'm sure I'd get yelled at by someone who knows better if I said that). There's a black shroud connecting them so the LED can shine squarely on the sensor without any outside light affecting things. Some pedals place an actual light bulb and the sensors inside a little metal box, so it's the one light source and (usually) 4 sensors around it, but since that requires some additional nonstandard manufacturing steps, most mass-produced pedals will just use a couple of all-in-1 optocouplers. In a pedal that uses an actual filament-equipped bulb (as opposed to an LED) there's the added characteristic of how that bulb will take a little longer to get to full brightness and then fully go dim afterwards, so the LED-equipped Uni-Vibes (The Depths, Soul Vibe) can go a lot faster then the Micro Vibe. I think I might have done a demo of that aspect in my The Depths video. Oh dear, this is a long post, lol
@@StompboxBreakdown wow this is exactly what I can’t find anywhere else. I’m a big fan of your channel and how you explain everything so well even though it might be a difficult subject. Thank you, I love my Soul Vibe, I thinks there’s a mystery to it. However, I think I’m trying the micro vibe for a different flavor. I was aiming to the jhs unicorn but the depth sounds a little too exaggerated on the videos. Any ways, thanks for this amazing information, I appreciate it. Keep on making these great videos
thanks for another fantastic exploration. i love learning, and i learn tons here. me: questing to find Dean Ween's modulation of choice. it's a mystery, and i have a few clues to go on, but like the police once told Spinal Tap " ...best to leave it unsolved, really." i know my RT20 can get me most of the way there, and the Phase95 can... well, as Nigel Tufnel once observed "...really push it over the cliff." thanks for the fun!
Glad you enjoyed it, JammyPants! I really need to listen to more Ween, every time Spotify puts them on my weekly discover, I'm like "ooh, who is this?". I also really need to rewatch Spinal Tap. I was messing around with some wireless gear the other day, and was kind of hoping I'd pick up some police radio chatter.
It sounds like it's own thing. Honestly, my own univibe experience is limited to a Vibronaut, but the Soul Vibe sounds different than what I have come to appreciate in that type of effect. In no way am I dismissing it as something less, but it's definitely different.
The original Univibe really was an attempt at a Leslie in a box. They fell way short, but guitar players liked what it did do. I bet BBE put "Rotary simulator" as a tip of the hat to The Original. Thanks for pointing out the internal control. My experience says they know what they're doing. But if the shift is too wide, I'm glad it's in there. Is there noise? A Volume drop?
I've been working on a pedalboard and can't decide if I want to go for an EQD Depths or something more classic like this. Either way, I love that there is so much great variety out there.
Ooh, decisions decisions. I think my biggest problem with The Depths is that from a practicality standpoint, it's 5 knobs that are likely going to get bumped around in transport, and even if I mark them with stickers (as I normally do) I'd rather have something with minimal controls that's fairly easy to diagnose and fix. Once upon a time, I saw a pedal with more knobs as having more value... these days I tend to appreciate a pedalmaker who establishes a fundamental sound for their pedal and gives a thoughtful amount of adjustment. This opinion is subject to change week-to-week, though :)
Most of the BBE pedals were great. I'm hanging on to my "Boogie Nights" Soul Vibe! I've got the Freq Boost, Opto Stomp, Green Screamer and G Screamer too.
@@StompboxBreakdown omigosh that's right. Four compressors actually! The Orange Squash, which I don't have, and also the Bench Press, which I forgot I have (never use that one). And a Vari Comp, which I didn't know about but it came up in a google search. The latter might be one of the others with a different name and box.
I've been told that my MXR phase 45 and whatever rotary effect I use should go through the effects loop. I have faithfully complied. Then I recently heard someone say that I shouldn't be doing that. I haven't yet experimented but I will because I haven't liked anything I've used so far. I've tried a vibe whose name I can't remember, then I bought the Pigtronix Rototron, and now I have the EarthQuaker Devices The Depths. They always feel like I'm changing the tone way too much (to something worse) when I switch them on. Any thoughts?
The argument for time-based effects like chorus, delay, and reverb in the effects loop of your amp is that those effects are meant to add spaciousness and dimension, and they should be working on a signal as close to what's coming out of the amp as possible. The counter-argument is that the the difference is pretty minuscule, and people have been running time-based effects up front for decades, and that putting delays *after* the preamp is more of the "90's pro studio" type sound, where everything up front is more natural and organic. A Uni-Vibe is closer to a phaser circuit than anything else, and a phaser uses a series of all-pass filters to notch out a certain set of frequencies and sweep that notch back and forth, kind of like a filter. For the second demo jam there, I put it after the distortion pedal, so it's sweeping through all of the harmonics generated by that Supa Cobra, making it more dramatic. Putting it before the distortion makes it a bit more subtle and watery. TL;DR - If I'm using a phaser/univibe to add dimension and just be a little swirly, I'll put it up front, before any distortion. When I want it to be pronounced and thick, it goes right after my biggest source of distortion. As with most things, people will swear by whatever they like, but I've seen plenty of players doing it "wrong" who have tone I'd kill for.
@@StompboxBreakdown Right. Good point about 'wrong'. Well thank you so much! I'm extremely grateful for you taking the time. I'm going to try a number of things now that I'm freed up from the confines of the effects loop doctrine. :)
Huge problem with a lot of those pedals. I can usually get them working by spraying contact cleaner on that switch and clicking it for a while, but it's what keeps the PD-7 Phat Hed off my bass pedalboard. Too many misfires.
@@StompboxBreakdown yep my DE7 goes on and off my board in conjunction with its hit rate. My local music shop had the pink one that I ogled constantly but could never bring myself to buy because I was sure it would do the same thing. I’ve never hit it with contact cleaner though and I have the good stuff - should definitely try the ol’ click n spray n s click ‘n spray :)
it was an accident. the original univibe was meant to recreate the effect of russian propaganda phasing in with japanese radiowaves which the inventor of the univibe heard as a child. he tried to recreate that effect for guitar
I hear what you’re saying, it does! I think that’s because raising the intensity further pronounces that “whump” which makes the sweep begin landing a bit earlier. It doesn’t affect the blinking of the light, though, and that seems to be in sync, though. It is a mystery!!
I have a Boss RT20 that stayed on my board for 12 years. tried to replace it with 100 pedals but it's still the best. The Univibe model is pretty terrible but cute of them to put it in. My MD-500 can match it but not beat it except for the UV sound.
Marine Park. I haven’t been down there in a while, but I just remember the summer festivals and fairs. It just seemed like when we it was nice out, I’d drive into Red Bank and find something to enjoy.
Nooooo dont let everyone in on th secret of BBE Pedals haha! Ive been collecting and have a spreadsheet with all the different variations and revisions of them!
its a cool little vibe.
Hi, just thought I'd revisit this video once. You really did a great job, addressing stuff totally ignored by other guys while not getting boring or tedious. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much Dean! That means a lot.
I like this informative Breakdown between the sound presentations. The perfect way to connect theorie with entertainment.
Thank you so much!!
The all-seeing hypno-wheel! This channel is very excellent: the pace, presentation, creative phrasing, tunes, information/entertainment balance, ease, visuals, sonics, etc. Dammit, man, I was trying to cut back on pedal spending...
The Nux roctary is another great rotary effect that has all the bells and whistles plus a Pog style octave circuit
Can confirm. Love that thing, and virtually nobody talks about it!
If only they'd reissue them....
fantastic video, excited to check out more of your vids
Killer bass licks in that tune you played, really good mix too sounds top notch 🎸🎵🎸
Thank you so very much!!
This is even more informative than what I was looking for since a couple of months ago! I got this pedal and it sounds really good, but I'm now tempted by the EHX Good Vibes. Great video!
I definitely like the added flexibility of the Good Vibes, but make sure you watch my video about it... it's got an issue with the power supply that might be a deal breaker.
@@StompboxBreakdown I already watched it, thank you :) I think the power supply issue it's not a deal breaker for me, but I can't decide because they both are great. The Soul vibe is my first univibe pedal. Do you think that added flexibility is worth it?
Love the music and the riff, vibe and rotary is my fave
Off topic, but CONGRATS on your appearance on Emily Hopkins’ channel!! It was such a nice surprise to see you repping the Bubbletron. 🎵 Movin’ on up! 🎶
Emily and Russ are the kindest, most talented and most inclusive people in the world. When they put out the call, I just had to answer. Love them almost as much as I do the B.B.TRON
I so agree, univibe is univibe, not phaser. It’s not just the organic sweep to me, it’s that strange, non-symmetrical wave pattern that only the slow increase of a bulb coming on, and the quick decrease of a bulb going off that makes it sound so special. That organic, geometrically complex waveform is so smoove compared to the polished sine and sawtooth waves of phasers.
So glad you answered the question of lightbulb versus octocoupler, super cool.
Also, really appreciate sharing some thoughts on the way vibe versus rotary labels have been used over the decades. And super agree, they are very different.
I love univibe, and appreciate that it might have been created to stand in for Leslie, but golly that’s not a great Leslie sound. (I immediately picked up an RT-20 after watching your video and I’ve been very happy with it. Thanks for that!)
Speaking of loving univibe, I’ve gone through a search of them for sometime, and it’s super worth trying out the Dry Bell Vibe Machine. It’s just outstanding. Version 3 has multiple external trim pots, excellent standard controls to dial in your vibe, and an expression pedal out to make it sound like a pretty decent Leslie. (Still nowhere near as good as the RT-20, but hey, what is.)
Awesome video, thanks!
Thanks for always giving me your honest feedback, and I'm super glad you like the RT-20. Mine almost got "lost" to a keyboard player, and I legit had to track them down Carmen Sandiego style to get it back, so mine is extra-special to me.
Yeah, I feel like when it comes to modulation effects, it's like talking about muffins and cake and bread and biscuits and cookies; there are benchmark examples that most people would say "That's obviously a cake" (regional dialects notwithstanding) but change the size or shape or tweak the recipe just a little bit and the overlap starts to become apparent. I've thought about diving into it as an episode, but I feel like I might come out looking like the Pepe Silvia scene from Always Sunny, and it'd probably just result in people getting angry and fighty int he comments.
I keep hearing good things about the DryBell Vibe Machine as well. As usual, Andy's demo makes it sound indispensable. Before I get too many more pedals, I need more storage space, though... a good problem to have, I guess.
Thanks for posting this! I spent the last couple weeks wanting to pull the trigger on a vibe pedal but also obsessing over finding one that is authentic to the original but within my price range. Saw this video, looked into the pedal, found a good price on eBay. Expecting it today or tomorrow!
Hey, what great timing! I think you’re really enjoy it, it’s a very well designed pedal.
@@StompboxBreakdown got it last night, couldn’t stop playing it. It sounded pretty nice at first when I only had it in front of my Klon Klone, but when I put another drive before it, that’s when it really came to life and started giving me that swirling, dirty, Ghostbusters positron collider sound. I have an MXR Hendrix fuzz face copy coming specifically to run into the vibe, and then I’m going to boost that sound with my overdrive. Good stuff.
@@Araqnidm That’s AWESOME!!! You’re gonna be all set with that fuzz, too. Glad it worked out for you!
great demo as always but that bass tone was GREAT
Oh thank you so much!
Gorgeous first jam dude. Would love to make some musics with ya.
That could be cool! Shoot me an email at stompboxbreakdown@gmail.com if you wanna plan something.
I love that pedal. I regret selling mine during my Uni-Vibe hunt a couple years ago. I don't think it really does the Uni-Vibe thing though. It's its own type of effect I think. It's not as chorusy as a Uni-Vibe.
Definitely a Uni-Vibe/Phase thing, NOT a Leslie. But whatever it is, it really sounds NICE! And it has a really sweet wave form. BBE never makes junk. Excellent video.
Thank you! Saw this vid just in the nick of time. Ebaying off the backlog of old pedals and almost let this go without revisiting it. Thanks again!🤌👍
Gotta hang on to that one!!
The DE7 always adds the ‘right’ delays - I recently used mine to ‘tune’ a more hi tech, more expensive delay because the DE7 gives the instant reference point.
I got those pedals too.. microvibe and the BBE..I like them both..but you described them spot on. Im trying this one over the voodoolabs on my main board just to test it out and changing stuff around from time to time and yesterday I took it out to a 4hour rehearsal for a blues show we have coming soon..I find the voodoolabs more chewy and that it seems to sink the guitar sound a bit more into the background... but the BBE while a bit less "chewy" for a lack of a better word, seems to work great for a lead guitarist...as you pointed out. And that trimpod is great for fine tuning to the pedalboard position: when it's after a fuzzface univibes tend to sound shrill so it's nice to attenuate that by turning the trimmer a bit to the bass side. nice little tool.
About bulbs.. that's more marketing than anything else -technology had come a long way and we should use our ears not our eyes or ego.
Great video.. I might make one about a few pedals and this one would definitely be on the list.
keep up the good work
I bought a NUX Monterey Vibe to see if I like the effect & I’m surprised by how good it sounds.
Only you can take a 2-knob pedal - of an effect that you've already covered pretty extensively, and recently - and not only talk about it for 13 minutes...but also make it really interesting. Great job!
As for the pedal; it sounds great, but I'd definitely want top jacks on a pedal that size, so I'd probably go for that VoodooLabs one. Or, more likely, the Horrothia Effects Berkeley. 😙👌
Thank you so much! Appreciate all of your support. I like my pedals spaced out on my board, so the top mounted jack thing isn’t of much concern to me, but that Berkeley has been catching my eye for a while now
It sounds very interesting in a mix - really vibes ))))
Great video and examples as usual. I’m a vibe over rotary any day, kind of guy lol. I have a Damage Control Blue Nexus for my tiny practice rig, and the Uni-Vibe emulation is on 100% of the time, to some variation of wet/dry. Just adds a nice depth to a boxy sounding little 15w combo. Something standard phaser and flange just don’t catch or offer really.
YES! ive been waiting for this video. No one talks in depth about this pedal on youtube, thank you, i needed that info. So, opto couplers are the same as photocells? after playing with the inside trim, i love it around 3 o clock.
Also, my dream vibe is the Retro Vibe from Jam. But cant afford it, so im thinking on getting the microvibe. What do you think? is it an upgrade from the bbe? (in the sense of a more classic vibe sound)
Hard to say, I think each has something really nice going for them, and I've never played an actual Uni-Vibe, so I can't really compare. There were times I wished the Micro Vibe was a little thicker, but it always sounds just right in the mix when I'm playing with the band and using it to add a bit of modulated flavor. The Soul Vibe starts to shine with the intensity up high. Sorry, I know that isn't an answer.
An optocoupler is used as a way of connecting two circuits without actually connecting them via a wire. Typically this is done so stray voltage and hum and other weird stuff from one circuit won't make its way into the other circuit. It's a method of isolating them since the only "transmission" between them is light. It's just an LED on one side, and then some sort of light-sensing photo-resistor or phototransistor or photocell (I think they're the same thing, but I'm sure I'd get yelled at by someone who knows better if I said that). There's a black shroud connecting them so the LED can shine squarely on the sensor without any outside light affecting things.
Some pedals place an actual light bulb and the sensors inside a little metal box, so it's the one light source and (usually) 4 sensors around it, but since that requires some additional nonstandard manufacturing steps, most mass-produced pedals will just use a couple of all-in-1 optocouplers.
In a pedal that uses an actual filament-equipped bulb (as opposed to an LED) there's the added characteristic of how that bulb will take a little longer to get to full brightness and then fully go dim afterwards, so the LED-equipped Uni-Vibes (The Depths, Soul Vibe) can go a lot faster then the Micro Vibe. I think I might have done a demo of that aspect in my The Depths video.
Oh dear, this is a long post, lol
@@StompboxBreakdown wow this is exactly what I can’t find anywhere else. I’m a big fan of your channel and how you explain everything so well even though it might be a difficult subject. Thank you, I love my Soul Vibe, I thinks there’s a mystery to it. However, I think I’m trying the micro vibe for a different flavor. I was aiming to the jhs unicorn but the depth sounds a little too exaggerated on the videos. Any ways, thanks for this amazing information, I appreciate it. Keep on making these great videos
thanks for another fantastic exploration. i love learning, and i learn tons here.
me: questing to find Dean Ween's modulation of choice. it's a mystery, and i have a few clues to go on, but like the police once told Spinal Tap " ...best to leave it unsolved, really."
i know my RT20 can get me most of the way there, and the Phase95 can... well, as Nigel Tufnel once observed "...really push it over the cliff."
thanks for the fun!
Glad you enjoyed it, JammyPants! I really need to listen to more Ween, every time Spotify puts them on my weekly discover, I'm like "ooh, who is this?". I also really need to rewatch Spinal Tap. I was messing around with some wireless gear the other day, and was kind of hoping I'd pick up some police radio chatter.
It sounds like it's own thing. Honestly, my own univibe experience is limited to a Vibronaut, but the Soul Vibe sounds different than what I have come to appreciate in that type of effect. In no way am I dismissing it as something less, but it's definitely different.
The original Univibe really was an attempt at a Leslie in a box. They fell way short, but guitar players liked what it did do. I bet BBE put "Rotary simulator" as a tip of the hat to The Original. Thanks for pointing out the internal control. My experience says they know what they're doing. But if the shift is too wide, I'm glad it's in there. Is there noise? A Volume drop?
Thanks, Dean! Haven’t noticed any noise or volume drop with this one.
nice demo mate..u should open the pedal a tweak a bit..more options on
That sounds fantastic 😀
Red bank? Do you know Kevin Smith? Ever been to quick stop?
Never made the pilgrimage to the Quick
Stop, but I did see Kevin Smith at the comic book shop once.
I've been working on a pedalboard and can't decide if I want to go for an EQD Depths or something more classic like this. Either way, I love that there is so much great variety out there.
Ooh, decisions decisions. I think my biggest problem with The Depths is that from a practicality standpoint, it's 5 knobs that are likely going to get bumped around in transport, and even if I mark them with stickers (as I normally do) I'd rather have something with minimal controls that's fairly easy to diagnose and fix. Once upon a time, I saw a pedal with more knobs as having more value... these days I tend to appreciate a pedalmaker who establishes a fundamental sound for their pedal and gives a thoughtful amount of adjustment.
This opinion is subject to change week-to-week, though :)
1st tune very cool
Ooooo, I should buy this. I mostly play bass and I have two chorus pedals I don't like. Need something that modulates.
Most of the BBE pedals were great. I'm hanging on to my "Boogie Nights" Soul Vibe! I've got the Freq Boost, Opto Stomp, Green Screamer and G Screamer too.
All good pedals! I love that they put out TWO compressors and TWO boosts. It's a very practical lineup, and for some people, they get slept on!!
@@StompboxBreakdown omigosh that's right. Four compressors actually! The Orange Squash, which I don't have, and also the Bench Press, which I forgot I have (never use that one).
And a Vari Comp, which I didn't know about but it came up in a google search.
The latter might be one of the others with a different name and box.
I did it. I ordered one. :)
Awesome!! I really hope you enjoy it, I think it’s got a great feel, and univibe on bass is one of my favorite modulations.
The bassist’s yellow beanie must be in the laundry
He lost it for a little while. Thankfully, it was just in the car.
I've been told that my MXR phase 45 and whatever rotary effect I use should go through the effects loop. I have faithfully complied. Then I recently heard someone say that I shouldn't be doing that. I haven't yet experimented but I will because I haven't liked anything I've used so far. I've tried a vibe whose name I can't remember, then I bought the Pigtronix Rototron, and now I have the EarthQuaker Devices The Depths. They always feel like I'm changing the tone way too much (to something worse) when I switch them on. Any thoughts?
The argument for time-based effects like chorus, delay, and reverb in the effects loop of your amp is that those effects are meant to add spaciousness and dimension, and they should be working on a signal as close to what's coming out of the amp as possible. The counter-argument is that the the difference is pretty minuscule, and people have been running time-based effects up front for decades, and that putting delays *after* the preamp is more of the "90's pro studio" type sound, where everything up front is more natural and organic.
A Uni-Vibe is closer to a phaser circuit than anything else, and a phaser uses a series of all-pass filters to notch out a certain set of frequencies and sweep that notch back and forth, kind of like a filter.
For the second demo jam there, I put it after the distortion pedal, so it's sweeping through all of the harmonics generated by that Supa Cobra, making it more dramatic. Putting it before the distortion makes it a bit more subtle and watery.
TL;DR - If I'm using a phaser/univibe to add dimension and just be a little swirly, I'll put it up front, before any distortion. When I want it to be pronounced and thick, it goes right after my biggest source of distortion. As with most things, people will swear by whatever they like, but I've seen plenty of players doing it "wrong" who have tone I'd kill for.
@@StompboxBreakdown Right. Good point about 'wrong'. Well thank you so much! I'm extremely grateful for you taking the time. I'm going to try a number of things now that I'm freed up from the confines of the effects loop doctrine. :)
I love how Bass Man is always wearing a toque. 😅
And I just learned a new word for “beanie cap”
DE7 DE7 DE7! Wish mine worked consistently but I still love it.
Huge problem with a lot of those pedals. I can usually get them working by spraying contact cleaner on that switch and clicking it for a while, but it's what keeps the PD-7 Phat Hed off my bass pedalboard. Too many misfires.
@@StompboxBreakdown yep my DE7 goes on and off my board in conjunction with its hit rate. My local music shop had the pink one that I ogled constantly but could never bring myself to buy because I was sure it would do the same thing.
I’ve never hit it with contact cleaner though and I have the good stuff - should definitely try the ol’ click n spray n s click ‘n spray :)
Killer pedals from bbe @ very reasonable $
You're funny on Impractical Jokers, when are new episodes coming? BTW you sound good!
Thanks! We'll start putting out new episodes as soon as the next Hitman comes out. :)
@@StompboxBreakdown That could be 2-3 years!
it was an accident. the original univibe was meant to recreate the effect of russian propaganda phasing in with japanese radiowaves which the inventor of the univibe heard as a child. he tried to recreate that effect for guitar
It's weird it sounds like it speeds up when you increase the intensity
I hear what you’re saying, it does! I think that’s because raising the intensity further pronounces that “whump” which makes the sweep begin landing a bit earlier. It doesn’t affect the blinking of the light, though, and that seems to be in sync, though. It is a mystery!!
rotaries sound very flangery and much more like a phaser + a traditional chorus pedal. a univibe is just a very weird phaser
I have a Boss RT20 that stayed on my board for 12 years. tried to replace it with 100 pedals but it's still the best. The Univibe model is pretty terrible but cute of them to put it in. My MD-500 can match it but not beat it except for the UV sound.
I would want the RT-20 on my board just for the light show. Agreed on the univibe sound though
@@StompboxBreakdown LOL! I had a lot of people in the bars walk up and ask what it was!
Had a BBE Freq Boost (treble booster) BUILT LIKE A TANK
Ooh I’ve heard good things about that one!
Red bank!!..marine park??..or Riverside park??..jacks music, guitar trader..!
Marine Park. I haven’t been down there in a while, but I just remember the summer festivals and fairs. It just seemed like when we it was nice out, I’d drive into Red Bank and find something to enjoy.
I have this pedal and the Deja Vibe, the Deja Vibe is better, but not 3 times better (price )