Premier Guitar Article on Bill Ruppert's "Effectology" !!!!

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Premier Guitar Article on Bill Ruppert's "Effectology" !!!!

http://digital.premierguitar.com/premierguitar/201005_1#pg44


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This is a MUST Youtube Channnel to Subscribe to:
Bill's Effectology Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/Effectology/featured

Learn all about guitar sound design by watching Bill's Effectology Videos and learn new techniques and signal routing strategies - many can be directly applied to the VG-99


have a feature on the Electro Harmonix blog called "Effectology".
I introduces a new interesting effect sound every two weeks using just a regular guitar and effect pedals.
I also go in detail of how the sounds were produced.
I thought some here in the Hi-Tech group would enjoy the series.
There are many new fun sounds coming up in the near future.
Thanks for listening!
Bill Ruppert

Below are the last four:
Effectology, Vol. 1: Electric Guitar plays Blues Harmonica
http://www.ehx.com/blog/effectology-blues-harmonica
How-to
http://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/1124/


Effectology, Vol. 2: Dark Side of the Moon
http://www.ehx.com/blog/effectology-...de-of-the-moon
How-To
http://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/1208/


Effectology, Vol. 3: Cello Concerto for Guitar and Effect Pedals
http://www.ehx.com/blog/effectology-cello-concerto
How to
http://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/1288/


The HOG Does The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again"
http://www.ehx.com/blog/hog-nails-th...t-fooled-again


feloniouspunk

great link, thanks!  I miss Bill, it isnt the same 'round here without him.
Lots of Gear. :)

aliensporebomb

Yeah.  I want to see/hear his reaction to my latest patches.  Oh well, checking the article.
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

s0c9

Quote from: feloniouspunk on April 19, 2010, 01:37:42 PM
great link, thanks!  I miss Bill, it isnt the same 'round here without him.
He's lurking somewhere... replied to one of my threads the other day :)

aliensporebomb

Yes, he also did a new effectology not very long ago - "fanfare for the common man" on processed guitar!
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

Elantric

Latest from Bill Ruppert




Electro-Harmonix Epitome Pedal Demo by Bill Ruppert


I love the "Shimmer" Switch!

Bill's Effectology Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/Effectology/featured

Learn all about guitar sound design by watching Bill's Effectology Videos and learn new techniques and signal routing strategies - many can be directly applied to the VG-99


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Epitome?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=none&gclid=CP313dDG_bUCFelaMgodHHYADw
The Effects You Want in One Pedal
The Electro-Harmonix Epitome multi-effects pedal marries the Micro POG (octave), Stereo Electric Mistress (flange/chorus), and Holy Grail Plus (reverb) into a single pedal. Use all three together or separately. Dedicated, straightforward controls eliminate need to scroll through tedious setting menus, giving you the stompbox simplicity you expect from ehx. You can even totally change the Epitome's overall character via the shimmer button, which re-routes the effects signal chain by swapping the Holy Grail reverb with the Electric Mistress and adds an analog delay to the POG. The range of tone you'll get from the Electro-Harmonix Epitome is nothing short of staggering!

Electro-Harmonix Epitome Multi-effects Guitar Pedal at a Glance:

    Flexible effects let you color and enhance your sound
    Lush digital reverb for any occasion
    Add an octave or two to your guitar or bass with the Micro POG
    Incredible modulation effects in stereo


Flexible effects let you color and enhance your sound
The powerful effects palette of the ehx Epitome lets you combine effects for new sounds or use them one at a time. Just want to add a splash of reverb to your guitar, or a little chorus to the song's bridge? Epitome lets you turn on and off any effect you want at any time. The signal chain runs from right to left - POG into Electric Mistress into Holy grail Plus. if you want to change it up, just hit the shimmer button which swaps the Electric Mistress and the Holy Grail. It also turns the Holy Grail into a delay with the POG running in its feedback path.

Lush digital reverb for any occasion
The electro-harmonix Holy Grail Plus reverb updates and refines the original with the addition of Room and FLERB settings. Just when you thought the popular ehx reverb pedal couldn't get any more divine, along comes this improved unit with even more cool features. The Holy Grail Plus puts you in complete control of your reverb.

Add an octave or two to your guitar or bass with the Micro POG
electro-harmonix's Micro POG polyphonic octave generator can make your guitar sing like a 12-string, emulate an organ, and get some truly unique sounds without glitches. It works great with bass, too, giving your bottom end even more bottom, and some truly funky options to tweak your tone! You can dial in one octave up or two octaves up with the Micro POG's Octave Up knob, while a Sub Octave knob adds a lower octave. A Dry knob blends in the amount of effect you want.

Incredible modulation effects in stereo
Add out-of-this-world chorus and flange to your sound with the electro-harmonix Stereo Electric Mistress pedal. This modulation effect lets you manually flange your signal. You can achieve some truly incredible modulations using the Flanger and Chorus controls together. Controls include Rate, Flanger Depth, and Chorus Depth.

Electro-Harmonix Epitome Multi-effects Guitar Pedal Features:

    Three iconic ehx effects pedals in one pedalboard-friendly chassis
    Stereo Electric Mistress flanger and chorus
    Holy Grail Plus reverb
    Micro POG octave effect
    Shimmer button re-routes the effects chain and adds a delay to the POG


aliensporebomb

Sure would save space on my pedal board if I opted to go for that - I think it sounds great.  Once again his audio examples are great.  You can learn a lot just by looking at his fingerings.
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

Kevin M


aliensporebomb

One of the effects that box does gave me an idea for something to try on the VG-99.  I'll try it tonight.  I had a burst of insight while fending off traffic while driving back to the office from lunch.
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

Elantric

Bill informs the VG-99 can achieve many of these functions - break out the VG-99 Owners manuals and / or  navigate the VG-99 Editor for more ideas.

Elantric

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published on Mar 31, 2014
Effectology Vol. 28 "The Far East"
Settings are here:
http://www.ehx.com/blog/electro-harmonix-effectology-vol.-28-the-far-east

http://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/7024/

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See all Bill Ruppert Effectology Videos here
https://www.youtube.com/user/Effectology


Study Bill Rupperts approach !

mbenigni

I LOVE the Effectology videos, and even Bill's more "conventional" demos are more informative than most.  I'm presently GAS'ing for an EHX OD Glove, having randomly stumbled on this:


aliensporebomb

Watch his fingerings.  His technique is "right on".  Wish I could be that consistent.  He's a pro though so....

Yep.  The 99 can do it all and then some.
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

admin

Speaking for Bill:
"btw-I posted short clips to give people an idea of some things the 99 can do.
It was my hope it would encourage people to dig into the instrument and find new things for them selfs
Be creative not just a user."
Well for these quick clips of the VG-99 I am using the VG-99 driven by
the GK-3 pickup.
I have been recording these little bits in to an Electro-Harmonix
Stereo Memory Man (with Hazarai)looping pedal.
I am just using the 30 second looper section of the pedal with out
effects and its one pass to show the VG-99 nude with out a overdubs.
The Overdrive track had an overdub.
Later I will post some serious multi tracking looping in which the
VG-99 just shines.
(The new stereo memory man pedal is a GREAT item and if you go into
its effect section it does some VERY sick things typical of Electro
Harmonix. All in Stereo!)
From the straight loop I just squirt it in the computer throw a fade
on it and then bounce to MP3.

As how the patches were done I LOVE to talk about them and how I got
there.
A programing dialog is what must guitar boards need!
Thanks again for your kind words Martin.
Bill Ruppert

http://www.gearwire.com/ehx-memory-man.html


http://www.ehx.com/ehx2/Default.asp?q=f&f=%2FCatalog%2F01%5FNew%5FProducts%2F01%5FEH%5FDVD

http://www.ehx.com/ehx2/Default.asp?q=f&f=%2FCatalog%2F001_XO_Line%2F50_Stereo_Memory_Man_with_Hazarai

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chrish

To create thunder I like to  trigger a thunder sample for the initial attack crack and at the same time trigger  analog synth white noise though the  low pass filter modulated towards the low end of the filter. The sustain parameter is turned down on the adsr filter envelope.

The white noise gives the initial sample thundercrack the low-end rumble which very often accompanies Thunder.

Since I'm using a guitar string envelope as the trigger, there's no need to adjust the synth amp envelopes because the string envelope naturally fades in amplitude just as Thunder does.


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ELECTRO-HARMONIX

Product development & marketing aimed at inspiring guitarists drives top pedal maker's business .

ACCLAIMED GUITARIST BILL RUPPERT recalls approaching the Electro-Harmonix booth at his first-ever winter NAMM Show, in 1972 Chicago. Just 18 years old, he'd asked to try out the company's newly launched Black Finger compressor. Ruppert had only played a couple of notes when Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews, sporting "long wild hair," burst into the demo booth and yelled, "'Hey man, let's jam!' and started wailin' away" on an acoustic spinet piano. "There I was, jamming with this wild man! That was my first experience with Mike." Casablanca-like, it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, melding two formidable talents that have helped turn Electro-Harmonix into an industry icon.

Among other new pedal collaborations, Ruppert came up with the concepts for all of Electro-Harmonix' enormously popular 9 Series pedals—the B9 and C9 Organ Machines, Key9 Electric Piano Machine, Mel9 Mellotron Emulator, Synth9 Synth Machine, and, most recently, the BASS9 Bass Machine. After hashing out each prospective product's commercial viability with Matthews and the EHX marketing team, Ruppert partners with the company's third savant, super-designer David Cockerell, who creates the digital "workstation" from which Ruppert designs.

Like Matthews and Cockerell, Ruppert approaches product design from a musician's perspective. Something of a studio music legend, he is credited with playing nearly 10,000 sessions over his 30-year career. Many of the gigs involved television and radio commercials for every brand imaginable, from GM and Toyota to 7-11 and Budweiser. Album work included dates with the likes of Phil Collins, The Beach Boys, Richie Havens, Chuck Mangione, and Bryan Ferry.

Outside his native Chicago studio and gigging scene, Ruppert is best known to guitarists as the guy who puts new Electro-Harmonix pedals through their paces on dozens of demonstration videos. On their most basic level, the spots are primarily instructional, indicating pedal control settings to achieve particular effects. But they also entice guitarists to buy more EHX pedals. Consumer reaction to the videos, plain to see on YouTube, can be fairly summed up with the following actual recent viewer comments: "Bill Ruppert rocks!" and "Sigh. Here's my wallet." One asked Electro-Harmonix for a direct deposit routing number.

The videos serve additional purposes no less positive for the industry: They educate and inspire creative exploration. "We're telling [guitarists]," says Ruppert, "'You're not limited to doing what was done in 1960—what's "normal." Your guitar is unlimited: experiment!'" This appeal, on steroids, is on display in the Effectology series videos, all of which feature Ruppert using nothing but a guitar and a variety of EHX pedals (and the occasional pocket AM radio).

It is a testament to Electro-Harmonix pedals—and Matthews' and Ruppert's vision—that all of the effects are presented not in isolation, where they might be dismissed as gimmicks, but in valid musical contexts. In many cases, Effectology's effect combinations simulate other instruments, from Caribbean steel drum to Irish uilleann pipes, or seminal works originally performed with keyboards, synthesizers, and other non-guitar instruments including Pink Floyd's "On the Run," or The Who's landmark organ/synth-driven "Won't Get Fooled Again," and the timpani and trumpets of Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man—all without samples, synths, or special cables.

Ruppert has been pushing the guitar's definition for much of his adult life. In college he was enthralled with a Moog synthesizer lab in which three bays of synth modules were patched together with cables. He cut his audio exploration teeth there, endlessly plugging in cables, listening, and recording. Years later it occurred to him that experimenting with a guitar and multiple effect pedals involved essentially the same process and reward—a logical but unobvious extension of the electric guitar's nature: "The minute you plug it into an amp and get distortion," he says, "you've left what a guitar is; and when you plug into pedals, you're basically playing a synthesizer."

He draws the line, however, at what he calls "bloops and bleeps" pedals that, when a single note is struck, generate an afternoon's worth of spacey sounds. "At that point," he suggests, "you're turning on an appliance. I want to create tools musicians can steer." (He adds, "How did we get from Earth Wind & Fire onstage to someone spinning a record?")

The new BASS9 Bass Machine, which effectively transforms a guitar into nine distinct types of basses, is a good example of EHX pedals that are both boundary-busting and musically practical. Its target customer is "any guitarist who isn't comfortable playing bass, doesn't want to carry one to the gig for just a few songs, or wants give the bass player a chance to play keyboards or front the band." It will also be loved by the growing number of guitarists who are using loops for recording, songwriting, practicing, or even gigging. Requiring no special pickups, cables, MIDI, or instrument modifications, the BASS9 employs the same technology powering all EHX 9 Series pedals but features a new algorithm optimized for transposing one to two octaves down with superior dynamic range and tracking. The pedal's nine programs include: Precision pays homage to the iconic Fender P Bass; Longhorn emulates the Danelectro six-string bass, ideal for baritone guitar-like tones; Fretless features both electric and standup fretless basses; Synth pays tribute to the classic Taurus Synthesizer; Virtual lets the user adjust the bass's body density and neck length for a variety of bass sounds; Bowed delivers the classic bowed bass or cello; Split Bass makes it possible to play bass on the lower strings and chords or melody with the higher strings; 3:03 is a polyphonic salute to the iconic Roland TB-303 vintage bass synth; and Flip-Flop is inspired by EHX's Octave Multiplexer, providing a '70s-style logic-driven sub-octave generator that tracks without glitches. Independent Effect and Dry volume controls let guitarists precisely tune their mix at the Effects output jack; plus an always-active Dry output jack outputs the input signal at unity gain. Controls 1 and 2 adjust specific parameters for each of the nine programs.

Once you get past the plain coolness of the BASS9's sounds, the practical value of its low latency, facilitated by fine-tuned algorithms and a faster processor, kicks in. "For a guitarist," says Ruppert, "trying to sync up with the drummer [while dealing with high-latency effects] is horrible, like trying to run with lead boots on. With the BASS9, I didn't have to move a single track on the demo. I could see [the tracks] in Pro Tools, and they were spot-on with the drums." And of his favorite Synth sound, he adds, "there are no drop-outs or mis-triggers."

"The market's appetite for great new sounds is insatiable," says Matthews. "The BASS9 is one more example of our brilliant design team giving guitarists new ways to be creative. Rock 'n' roll!"

http://www.ehx.com/

aliensporebomb

Cool article and love the cubs cap!  I figure being based in Chicago it's only natural!
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

ffata

Definitely a cool article, and in the photo the VG-99 is still lurking over Bill's shoulder!!