Also, I owned a Battalion, and I don’t remember it sounding that good. Not bad!
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Parking it for tonight! Gonna listen later with decent headphones.
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Yeah this channel annoys me. I stopped watching it a while ago. I wasn’t feeling like I was getting any useful info from them.
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Ironically, this one is worth watching 
I liked the dUG Pinnick one a lot. It was annoying though that some of them were at upper register parts, some at lower stuff. But all right. I didn’t care for the Humbolt Simplifier much at all. The X Tubes and Pinnick were really close.
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Well … after a test, I’m not so sure. I have to try it with a guitar, but with a bass that’s not the tone I like.
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Did you try rolling in the dry tone with the blend and using the filter?
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Yes but it’s not great. The wet tone is so much different that it does not mix well with the dry signal, in my opinion. I will do other tests obviously, but the first impression is not so good.
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I’ve been looking at these…
MXR M85 Bass Distortion
This is probably the coolest pedal promotional video ever created. Worth a watch even if you don’t like the pedal.
IdiotBox Blower Box
IdiotBox Dungeon Master
The first two are Rat style distortion. This one is part Muff, part Super Fuzz, part HM-2 and 100% gnarly doom sludge goodness!
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you sure about that…?..
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My favorite promo videos are the ones Elektron did back in the day for the Octatrack and the original Analog Four. It was this ongoing series set in a dystopian future starring someone named Hector. Pretty wild production values for even a boutique groovebox maker 
But I digress XD
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Hah, awesome - total Blade Runner vibes on that first one!
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Sounds more like a fuzz, but that is no wonder if you put it in front of an SVT. 
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Hector parrots a line from the movie but changes the sense from sight to hearing.
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Today’s pedal : an ISP Decimator. I love this pedal since the first time I tried it, when it was released. It’s a noise gate, so not an effect at all … more an utility pedal, like a tuner or a buffer.
I plan to use it with guitar as I don’t really need it with bass. The Bass POD Pro already includes a very decent gate, which is enough for the gain I use with basses. But the Decimator is way better and can handle heavy saturated guitar tones with single coils. This is the best noise gate I’ve ever tried.
This Decimator is the first version and I had it for a very good price, with the original box and papers. It’s in great shape and works perfectly. The newest versions add some linking feature that are not interesting to me, so the first iteration is perfect.
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Reminds me of Terminator 2
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By linking features, do you mean the loop out so you can gate certain pedals in the loop and not gate the rest after the loop?
I have this on my Boss NSP, and I really like it for my mini what pedal and compressors, that can get a bit noisy, and leave it off for my octaver, drives, fuzz, filter and reverb, etc …
I know it’s not necessary, but it’s a nice feature to have IMO
Cool. I have no need for a gate on bass but definitely do on guitar with most sounds I am going for.
there are two versions of “linkable” Decimators, the Decimator 2 and the Decimator G-String. the 2 allows to link more than one unit, so that the gate applies at the same time at different locations in the signal path. Like, one unit detects the threshold in the begining of the pedalboard, and another one cuts the signal at the end, after the other pedals.
The G-String has a loop that connects to the effect loop of the amp, and applies the gate here (so, very lately in the signal path) to also cut the preamp noise, all this based on the envelope detection made early in the signal path. The Decimator (1) that I have just detects the threshold and cuts the signal at the same location, which is very efficient already.
… if I understood well all this linking thing 
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