Good VIBE....pour les amateurs d'UNIVIBE & co.

Je suis soulagé, j'ai enfin trouvé un réglage qui me convient plutôt bien avec la Vibe Machine V2 - pour le moment.

Je vais recevoir une Effectrode Tube Vibe

Hello,

In answer to your questions, the revisions for the Tube-Vibe are as follows. Upgarding from to TV-1 to TV-2, bushings were inserted on the front panel to prevent lateral movement of the pot. shafts and strengthen them. I also I began using a higher quality porcelin tube sockets at this time.

Upgading from TV-2 to TV-3, I began experimenting with quite a few different waveshapes for modulation of the filament lamp/photocells which influences the "throb" or character of the vibe response. As a result of this work, the TV-3 has four selectable waveshapes, crossover (super-linear), smoothed triangle, sine and rounded-square. During this period, I was also working on a new circuit to drastically reduce the well known "thump" problem that true bypass pedals suffer from. So a few of the TV-3s had this modification incorporated in them.

Regarding the TV-4, I changed the front-panel layout to make it a little more conservative (in line with the original Uni-Vibe) with an "Intensity" control rather than the "Blend" control. I'd had feedback from many users, who preferred this more "traditional" configuration. However, I really did like the "Blend" control, as it allowed for a wide pallette of tonal textures and I did not want to loose it, so I put it inside the pedal as preset trimmer, so the Tube-Vibe still allows Vibrato and chorus effects to be blended continously for interesting new effects. Additionally, I took what I'd learned from the TV-3 waveshaping experimentation to heavily optimise the vibe throb of the TV-4. The "speed" control adaptively affects the waveshape. At low sweep rates it produces a smooth triangle wave for open, natural chorusing. As the "speed" knob is rotated clockwise it progressively introduces a psuedo-squarewave (rounded sqaure) component to the traingle wave component, which has the effect of making the vibe throb thicker and "swampier" at higher modulation rates. Finally, the "speed" knob can also be used to stop of "freeze" the sweep when reotated fully anticlockwise. This makes it possible to introduce substantial mid-cut in the frequency response for some interesting "hollow" sounding textures. Incidentally the Boss EV-5 and EV-7 expression pedals work very well to to control the speed manually and they have a trim pot on the side of the pedal which lets you fine tune the range of the sweep. That was a real bonus for me!

Anyway, that sums up all the changes I've made over the last three years. Toi summarize, all the Tuve-Vibe models are audiophile, hi-fidelity pedals they introduce minimum loading on connected instrument, extremely low-noise, wide frequency response, and great transient repsonse with no "clipping" artifacts when using high output pickups or playing hard.

I hope this all makes sense.

Best Regards

Phil Taylor (Effectrode Audiophile Pedals)