WOUNDED PAW
EFFECTS LOOP BLENDER V3
In the world of blender pedals, Wounded Paw
offers what amounts to a supercomputer in
the V3. Its line of blenders are truly weird
science experiments unto themselves and
allow you to have nearly full control over all
aspects of the signals in, out, and through
the blender. Want to have your delay trails
leak into the bypassed signal? Want to blend
one channel against another, then blend
those against the dry signal? Want control
over three different effect loops? There's
knobs and switches for all of it, if you're
interested in truly exploring them. This
kind of control is most fun for the table-top
player, synthesist or noise maker, because
quick turns and tweaks of the various levels
can creature some truly wonderful havoc.
TRY THIS: run a drum machine or sampler
into the instrument input of the Wounded
Paw V3. Put a distortion pedal in one channel
and a chorus in the second channel. Make it
a goal to adjust every knob and every switch
at least once as you rip up, double, filter,
and distort the beat.
While all of these pedals accomplish the basic goal of blending your dry signal with
an effected one, they each have their own quirks and advantages. If you're into a bass
making far out sounds, you owe it to yourself to try a couple of these and see which
one makes the most sense for you. Your band will probably thank you for throwing
them a little clean tone during your truly far-out pedal explorations!
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