Frequency Analyzer or Gonkulator?

[mitchum]

What say you?

thanks,
mitchum

[RevCheesehead]

1. Definitely the Gonkulator.

I see nothingk... nothingk!

[mitchum]

2. Thanks for the feedback

:)

[swag]

3. Use a noise gate.

Or better yet, use two.

[mitchum]

4. Only 2? But what if I have an input and an output and a ...uh...uh...midput?

[swag]

7. Use two for each thingy you gots.

[mitchum]

12. That would work...

I must confess that I'm actually not torn between either a frequency analyzer or Gonkulator. I just wanted to post a thread title that would make most people reading it ask, "What in the hell is he going on about?"
However, I have acquired a couple of new toys in the past few weeks:
A low pass filter. I spent this afternoon running a contact mic and tape loops through it.
and
a Moog. Which I found in a thrift store. I was convinced that I would die in a car accident on the way home.

Yes, I am a gear queen.

[swag]

14. Moog in a thrift store.

Now I have heard everything.

Serious congratulations.

[mitchum]

17. It has always been one of my three thrift store holy grails...

the other two being a Les Paul and a first edition of the Alcoholics Anonymous big book.
Somehow I don't think the postman will ring twice. Or thrice.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Both, in series or parallel.

Series!

[mitchum]

6. Seriesly1

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Which one has vacuum tubes?

Use that one.

[mitchum]

13. I would use a vacuum tube tuner if they made 'em

[Gold Metal Flake]

26. I still have a McIntosh MR-71 tube FM tuner.

They sound fantastic.

Or did you mean a guitar tuner?

[leeroysphitz]

9. What is the difference between a gonk and an immature tweek? nt

[mitchum]

24. About $3000 on the collector's market

those nuts!

[Lethe]

10. if you are recording get a frequency analyzer

it will show you the spectrum of your recording

[mitchum]

18. That is true

[harmonicon]

11. depends what you're after, and what you're running into it, what else is in the effects chain...

...etc. I think the gonkulator is a lot cooler, but isn't really nearly as good at being a simple ring mod. I've got the moogerfooger ring mod, and I absolutely love it. It's a great ring mod, and also makes for a really good, though bizarre, tremolo. You may also want to check out the ring mod that frost wave makes. I've never used it, but when I've heard their effects, they also sound very nice, and it has great features.

[mitchum]

15. Oh, the moogerfooger is a nice piece of gear

I am envious

[harmonicon]

19. it's great, but I haven't really used it in ages

almost all of the music I play now is acoustic. I have the moog ring mod and filter, and I love them both. What sort of thing are you looking for this pedal to do for you, or are you just after a new toy? Now that I think about it, if you have a chance to get a gonkulator cheap, you should pick it up, because I think they haven't been made for many years now. Times were when you could get them for $20 - 40, but I think they've actually appreciated in value, since they're just so damn strange. Electro Harmonix hasn't discontinued anything for a long time - I think the FA will still be made in a year.

[krispos42]

16. Both are worthless without an interocitor

Unless you want to turn an integrated circuit into a pile of smoldering silicon and molten solder!

And remember, use only Genuine Interocitor™ Parts from your local stocking dealer!

[mitchum]

20. Wouldn't it be okay to substitute a metafabulator for the interocitor?

[krispos42]

25. Only if you have a late-model one

You need ones that conforms to ISO 9407, you'll be okay. But an awful lot of them were made in Japan to JIS S 5037 and don't have the option of switching between ISO 9407 and JIS S 5037.

If you have an American or European one or a switchable Japanese one, you're okay. If you don't, get one.

[Blue-Jay]

21. Which one has a more natural-sounding reverb?

[mitchum]

22. Neither one...one...one...one...o

[madinmaryland]

23. That's fucking HUGH! SERIESLY!