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The Rocktron Hush pedal is a noise reduction pedal with a super simplistic design and if used for the right type of noise it can be pretty effective. The Hush pedal is not a noise gate so it shouldn’t be confused with one. Unlike a noise gate. the Hush doesn’t clamp down on noise around a specified threshold, it attempts to remove the actual noise from the signal with what I am assuming is some type of phase inversion. On slight humming or dirty pickups this is pretty effective. Using the threshold knob you can determine the amount of noise reduction applied and up to about 75% you can remove noise with little audible loss to the signal. Past 75% the is a definite loss in tone in higher frequencies. This pedal is best applied directly out of the guitar before any other pedals. The Hush sitting post-distortion is entirely ineffective. This won’t solve any grounding issues you may be having either. If you are suffering ground related hum look elsewhere. I get the feeling a lot of people look to this pedal for the wrong reasons and post some pretty negative stuff about it but for what this pedal is intended it does its job extremely well. |
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Rocktron Hush, The Pedal
Rocktron Big Crush
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The Rocktron Big Crush is a fairly standard compression pedal with a basic set of controls including output level, attack and sustain. It can run off of one 9-volt battery or an external power supply. If you are looking for a transparent noise free compression this does a pretty good job with that. There is a moderate amount of noise with the sustain pushed past 85% but a lot of that is dependent on the signal you are feeding into it. If you are looking for a compression with “character” this is not the pedal for you as it really is mostly transparent aside from the obvious restricted dynamics of the signal when the sustain is pushed. When bypassed there was no appreciable tone loss. Build-wise this pedal is an absolute tank as most Rocktron pedals tend to be. The jacks and switches are all surface mounted with metal nuts and the knobs are mounted on potentiometers with metal shafts. Even with abusive stomping I can’t imagine any of the components on this breaking anytime soon. The blue LED is annoyingly bright but it doesn’t leave any room for question regarding its power state… when it’s on IT’S ON. |
Bauhaus “1979-1983 Volume I”
Bauhaus
“1979-1983 Volume I”
Official Website
(4/5)
Bauhaus formed in 1979 as Peter Murphy and Daniel Ash. Not long after they invited Kevin Haskins and David J to join the band (originally called Bauhaus 1919). In 1982 the song Bela Lugosis’s dead was featured in a Tony Scott film called The Hunger starring David Bowie. After four years and four albums together they officially broke up after a tour, in August of 1983. Each member of Bauhaus went on to do various projects. Fifteen years later Bauhaus reformed for a ‘resurrection’ tour in 1998. Their first all-new track in seventeen years is on the Heavy Metal 2000 soundtrack.
And One “VIRGIN SUPERSTAR”
And One
“VIRGIN SUPERSTAR”
Label: Virgin 2000
Official Website
And One is a fairly popular EBM group whose tunes are heard across the world on goth/industrial club nights around the world. It’s not surprising, because it’s very difficult to listen to And One without some part of your body wanting to move around. Sure, being EBM some of their stuff is a little too techno for my liking, but they are quite good overall.
KORG DS-8
Korg DS-8
The Korg DS-8 is a 61-key FM synthesizer produced by Korg in 1987. It is a 4-operator 8-voice, 8-part-multitimbral synthesizer with a 61-note keyboard that has velocity and aftertouch sensitivity. It has no filter and only the basic delay, chorus, flanger, and double effects. It was released to compete against synthesizers such as the Yamaha DX7 and TX81Z. Read More
MONOKROM “tales of rabbits and hares”
MONOKROM
“tales of rabbits and hares”
(Ant-Zen)
Official Website (4/5)
Relentless… grinding… seizure inducing walls of noise guaranteed to clear those clogged arteries and to blow out any and all pending brain hemorrhages. Monokrom’s release “tales of rabbits and hares” is far from the pleasant sounds you’d expect from the bunny-laden cover art. Read More
