It takes some taming to ride this beast, but once you've got broken in, it's one fantastic ride.
It will take some exploring before you get this thing dialed in, but it will all be worth it. It has a plethora of sound dynamics. Turn it on add set the attack and decay at at the off positions, turn on 'harmonix", set the mix to full filter, and you've got an awesome muff style distortion, turn that off, set the mix to 50/50, hit poly button(keep the attack and decay off) it it comes off as a chorus effect, rotate the attack back a bit from there and it turns a guitar into a cello--use it on a digital piano, and the effect is a beautiful warm woody sound, turn the poly off, and it becomes a backing texture sound.
Fiddle with the sensitivity until you can really control it, different effects and playing styles will have different sweet spots.
The real fun begins when you start adding things into the attack/decay chain. I have a cheap octave filter that that will lag in tracking, but in the chain with the attack dialed back it sounds great and creates these rising swells an octave up(or down) that wave in out, and once you get the sensitivity dialed in you can control them through your playing---but it will take some fiddling to get there.
Some other things I like to add in the effect loop are flangers and phasers, or a light bit of delay, or other modulation effects. With the poly on they take on the character of the effect, with the poly off it becomes a swelling pad sound that feels so natural you'll forget that it's part of what you're playing.
A note on the poly mode--it's not "poly" in the way you would normally think of it. When it is off the pedal will still play a full chord sound, but every time the effect triggers it will cut off the previous triggered instance, with poly on the effects overlap. This is why dialing in the sensitivity is so important--with poly off you can effectively use it to control the effect very naturally--it will become second nature.
Honestly, sometimes I'm not sure if I'm playing to it, or its reacting to my playing, but it's definitely locked in and once you get there with it you'll never want to turn it off--just fiddle the knobs for different effects.
It's almost always on in my effect chain, and the way it's set up allows you so many ways to dial it in and blend things up. You can make it go from screaming dives in the background to spacey rising pad sounds that are just barely there highlighting a clean sound,
and then go right back to a pure grungy grind all by hitting a few buttons and twisting a few dials. With a little bit of tweaking this thing can produce quite an impressive array of distinct sounds, and once you've got the sensitivity dialed in it will react to your playing quite nicely...
....but if you don't to take the time to really sync with it, and dial it in you won't be impressed. It's not a one-click sound effect toy, it's an in depth audio manipulation machine. Expect to develop a close relationship with it or don't even bother.
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