1 Topic by adcard (edited by adcard 2011-12-16 13:22:13)

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Topic: Schism pedal by Badger Effects

Anybody have any experience using one of these to blend pedals together?
I stumbled upon Badger Effects while searching for other Echoplex EP3 pre-amp style makers.  I am very intrigued by his version of this preamp, the Badgerplex It apparently is made with the exact original schematic and NOS TIS58 FET transistors.  Very anxious to get one and compare it to my EP Booster.
Anyway, while at his site I saw something called a Schism pedal.        http://www.badgereffects.com/paraxv.html     I was a little confused so I emailed him about it and here is what he said:

Hello,

The Schism lets you run your floor effects in parallel instead of the usual series connection.
There is a mixer at the output that combines all three channels back into one.
It goes a step beyond a standard blender.
Not only does it allow you to blend wet with dry, you can blend one effect with another (wet/wet) or even two loops and dry signal.

Ex1
Lets say you love the bottom end of one distortion pedal and another has a screaming banshee treble.
Running both in parallel will give you a single effect that shines all over the neck.

Ex2
Blend a compressor with its original input.
With a compressor in one of the loops you can have incredible sustain while the parallel dry channel preserves you original attack/string feel.
Bass players use it to maintain their low end in the same manner.

Ex3
Combine multiple Delays
Each can have its own repeat time, feeback, vol, etc.
Delay trails remain even after the loop is bypass when the toggles are set to "return"


I like to think of it as effect stacking.
The more variation between effects, the crazier it gets.



So anybody have any experience with it? I am very curious to get one and try some things.  Nothing too crazy.  I would like to try maybe blending the mid rangy cutting punch of my Tube screamer with my sustaining saturated distortion of my Suhr Riot or the tube screamer with my Xotic AC booster one darker one brighter.  I don't know, I was hoping somebody on here has one of these and can chime in.
Thanks