Everything PLL (Shumann, Broughton, Dimehead, ELTA, etc)

#102
cosmicevan said:
Although my once glorious PLL collection has dwindled, I still have the PurPLL and the Broughton...I can try feeding them into each other. I'd say I'll post clips, but I have a list of stuff I need to post clips of and I'm still working out some gain staging ghosts in my setup.
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davelowell2 said:
Ima try this!

I can try the Broughton and PurPLL, too, if @cosmicevan doesn't get to it.
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Did either of you manage to try colliding one into the other? Still very interested in the resulting chaos!

Thanks.
 
#105
I had the opposite results. I set up the PurPLL into the Broughton w the settings I that I had last used (PurPLL almost a synth octave down and Broughton explosive fire tone) and they sounded great together. Granted they are dialed in kinda to work well like this w the PurPLL alone being a PLLish octave w some sputter. The fundamental still shone through so it worked. Go figure.
I don’t think it’s worth the real estate for a pair to get that sound but it is pretty menacing.
 
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#106
cosmicevan said:
I had the opposite results. I set up the PurPLL into the Broughton w the settings I that I had last used (PurPLL almost a synth octave down and Broughton explosive fire tone) and they sounded great together. Granted they are dialed in kinda to work well like this w the PurPLL alone being a PLLish octave w some sputter. The fundamental still shone through so it worked. Go figure.
I don’t think it’s worth the real estate for a pair to get that sound but it is pretty menacing.
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Great to hear. Thanks so much for the feedback!
 
#107
cosmicevan said:
I had the opposite results. I set up the PurPLL into the Broughton w the settings I that I had last used (PurPLL almost a synth octave down and Broughton explosive fire tone) and they sounded great together. Granted they are dialed in kinda to work well like this w the PurPLL alone being a PLLish octave w some sputter. The fundamental still shone through so it worked. Go figure.
I don’t think it’s worth the real estate for a pair to get that sound but it is pretty menacing.
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I’ll try that. I had Broughton into PurPLL. And I didn’t really mess with knobs, just used what settings were there.
 
#108
It’s about to get weird in here.

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#115
davelowell2 said:
Ooh, tell me about the ELTA!
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Sounds great, hard to fit on a pedalboard. It's one of my favorite fuzz pedals. Probably the least confusing and well labeled of the handful of PLLs that I've tried. The sound is very consistent with the Schumann as are the controls in general. The addition of the multiply and divide switches give it a ton of extra control (as with the PurPLL). Extra on/off toggle for the Fuzz signal is probably superfluous. I think of it as a unique fuzz engine that works great across instruments.

After about and hour with the PurPLL so far, I spent half of my time just playing the pedal with the drone oscillator, rolling pitch, and managing arpeggiations across the the divide and multiply channels. The layout is a bit confusing and I'm not sure how I would have approached this without my previous experience. The loop buffer thing on the front end is wild and will bear serious inspection. Each control seems very well considered in the control and functionality - need to put it on the amp and make it loud to really get a feel for the fuzz. The
 
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#117
cosmicevan said:
PurPLL is the most fun to play with. The Broughton is probably the most intense one I’ve played with. These days I only still have the Broughton and PurPLL…let go of the Elta, Data Corruptor, and Glou glou. You are gonna love the PurPLL. If you have a Charlie Foxtrot those go together like PBnJ
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Can you summarize Charlie Foxtrot vs Count to 5 for me, please?
 
#118
I can’t try…I mean they are apples and roller skates as far as being different.

count to 5 is a delay based loop thingie where you get 3 modes per firmware and there are 2 different firmwares to choose from…so it’s 6 different pedals. My favorite is the first mode on the OG firmware which is a delay that lets you select forwards/backwards and speed/pitch mixed together with feedback that sums so it can get that classic cartoony thing. Count to 5 invented that sound. The other modes are looper based where you get a copy of your loop that you can pitch and chop into little pieces and then ultimately reorder those pieces…aka granular.


Charlie Foxtrot is a straight up glitcher. I haven’t messed with it a ton because I found a setting I LOVE and haven’t touched the knobs since but it seems to grab a small portion of my audio and glitch the sh.t out of it making it stutter and random and be crazy for a moment. I really like to use it with PurPLL or a drone because it makes that drone super interesting and wild for a moment. So totally different from count to 5 which isn’t a glitcher but more of a delay.
 
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