Brianzero - 16 January 2010 11:17 AM

I think it would sound great on voice ??

Sure, there’s a great tradition of using ring mods on voice:

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!!!

pencil-in - 15 January 2010 04:46 PM

I’m gonna take a stab in the dark guess here that when you play a note, press and hold the tune footswitch and the carrier auto-tunes to the note you are playing?!!!

This is correct for the Ring Mod, Upper Band and Lower Band settings.

Play a single note on your instrument. Then press and hold the PRESET FSW for a specified amount of time (we’re still tweaking how long that should be) and the Ring Thing will tune its internal waveform generator to that note. It makes retuning the Ring Modulator’s frequency very easy.

These diagrams show exactly what’s going in the Ring Thing while in RM (Ring Mod), UB (Upper Band) and LB (Lower Band) modes.

RM mode is the second diagram. In RM mode you will have both the upper and lower bands present, along with your original signal if mixed in using the BLEND knob. So if you have the Ring Thing to frequency shift your signal by 200 Hz and you put in 400 Hz, your Ring Mod output will be two signals one at 200 Hz and the other 600 Hz. Mix that with your dry signal and you have three frequencies present.

In UB mode (the third diagram), the lower band is eliminated so that the effect only produces the upper band frequency. In the above example you would only hear the 600 Hz signal plus your dry signal, no 200 Hz signal.

In LB mode (the last diagram), the upper band is eliminated so that the effect only produces the lower band frequency. In the above example you would hear only the 200 Hz signal plus your dry signal, no 600 Hz.

julian - 14 January 2010 03:07 PM

I wonder what the mod input is for

The mod input allows you to use an external carrier signal. So you could use one instrument to ring mod another instrument.

While in the UB or LB modes the Mono output will have whichever mode you are set to, the R output will have the other band.

For example, if you are in UB mode, the UB effect will come out of the MONO output, the LB effect will come out of the R output. Vice verse when you set it to LB mode.

can you hold down the tune fsw while playing to get a sort of continuous tuning of the internal oscillator?

julian - 19 January 2010 08:02 PM

can you hold down the tune fsw while playing to get a sort of continuous tuning of the internal oscillator?

Yes you can do this, it’s monophonic tuning though.

what will it do if I try to tune it to chords or arpeggios?  Can I get it to glitch?

julian - 20 January 2010 10:20 PM

what will it do if I try to tune it to chords or arpeggios?  Can I get it to glitch?

Tuning to chords can sometimes be glitchy sometimes not so much. Open chords seem to make it more glitchy. It’s generally unreliable when tuning to chords.

glitching can be desirable for me

Here’s me playing the Ring Thing with an ipod providing the carrier signal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tjc_zeoL2s

Another video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCI3yZdghSc

i have to ask you Flick, what did you mod that PolyChorus chassis into thats sitting behind the Ring Thing? and whats that Nano sized box with the RCA jack on it sitting on top of that?

Flick (EHX Staff) - 21 January 2010 05:22 PM

Here’s me playing the Ring Thing with an ipod providing the carrier signal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tjc_zeoL2s

I saw your other clip with ring thing and metal muff. The pitch shifting sounds cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA33GWbXieE this is the link, didn’t see it here also just had 8 views..

Mr.Grim - 22 January 2010 02:37 AM

i have to ask you Flick, what did you mod that PolyChorus chassis into thats sitting behind the Ring Thing? and whats that Nano sized box with the RCA jack on it sitting on top of that?

The Polychorus chassis is just an A/B box. It allows us to test two pedals to see how close they sound to each other. We do that kind of thing a lot, especially on re-issues.

The nano sized box with RCA jack is a future product that you will be seeing in approximately 6 months. I can’t say what it is. The final product will not have an RCA jack. The RCA was for our testing purposes.