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Posted 6/29/2009
Welcome to the third installment of the EHX Effectology series. Today Bill Ruppert presents "Cello Concerto for Guitar and Effect Pedals" (pedals used: for the 'cello' it's just a HOG and Holiest Grail, and for the backing pads Bill also uses a Black Finger, POG, Stereo Polychorus, and Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai).
I especially liked how Bill used the HOG to pitch-shift his guitar down into the register of a cello. That plus the slow attack makes this one especially fun to try, and quite easy to reproduce.
Please note: Bill will be in the EHX Forums to discuss his sounds, settings, and process. We hope you join us there.
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Stay tuned, more Effectology episodes coming soon! Posted 6/2/2009
Welcome to Electro-Harmonix's new "Effectology" series. Over the next several months we're going to play a remarkable collection of EHX-assisted sounds, and explain how they were made.
In the first episode, effect pedal wizard and Chicago studio musician Bill Ruppert transforms his regular electric guitar into a blues harmonica (pedals used: HOG, Micro Synthesizer, Wiggler, Holiest Grail).
Please note: Bill will also be in the EHX Forums to discuss his sounds, settings, and process. We hope you join us there.
The EHX Effectology series was originally inspired by Bill's recreation of the synth intro to The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" (see here). Stay tuned, more Effectology episodes coming soon! Posted 5/11/2009
Sam Ash recently posted this clip of Dan Miller demonstrating the HOG from inside our NAMM show booth. It's a neat quick show of the range of deep synth sounds you can get from the HOG.
Posted 5/6/2009
Cheers to Jack Conte for "This Disaster," his latest 'videosong' -- I spotted a HOG, a Big Muff Pi, and a Tube Zipper (and for EHX shirts, check out the merch shop).
btw, Jack's videosong rules are: 1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice). 2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).
Posted 4/23/2009
This video knocks me out. Studio musician (and EHX Forums contributor) Bill Ruppert used his HOG, with a little help from his Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai, to reproduce one of the most instantly recognizable sounds in Rock & Roll history: the intro to The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."
In the video Bill shares his settings and performace notes, and adds: "All done with a regular guitar, a regular pickup, and a regular cable!"
Posted 4/10/2009
Be sure to catch John Frusciante's comments on the English Muff'n in the April 2009 issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine: "The Electro-Harmonix English Muff'n tube fuzz has some really extreme EQ and a big, thick and meaty sound. I used it on the solo for 'Enough Of Me.' I turn the EQ up, but leave my  guitar tone knobs down and use either the middle or neck pickup so the original source sound is really dark and plain. If you blast the tone controls on the effect, you get a really thick, beautiful sound that reminds me of an exaggerated Eric Clapton tone in cream, where you have this really smooth fuzz."
In addition to the English Muff'n, John has also toured and recorded with the Micro Synthesizer, Big Muff Pi (both USA and Russian), POG, Metal Muff, HOG, Holy Grail, and Deluxe Electric Mistress. That said, I'm sure you fru-heads are still going to email and tell me what I left out. Posted 9/22/2008
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Flawless polyphonic glitch-free tracking across the entire range!
Controllable harmonic intervals: -2 octaves, -1 octave, Original note, +5th,
+1 octave, +1 octave +5th, +2 octaves, +2 octaves + 3rd, +3 octaves, +4 octaves.
Works directly from your instrument's output
Expression pedal (included) with 7 selectable expression modes: +/- 1 octave and 1 step pitch bend, freeze + gliss, volume, wah and filter frequency
Pitch Bend expression mode turns the HOG into a whammy pedal
Freeze expression mode is a new guitar effect never heard before. Freeze allows the musician to freeze a note or chord so you can play over it or slide to new notes just like a keyboardist would do when using portamento
Dedicated resonant filtering with sweepable frequency control
Amplitude envelope control allowing the musician to lengthen a note's attack, for swell effects, or to increase a note's decay speed
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