Zvex Machine
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Most every noise artist is familiar with the limitations of putting one fuzz or distortion into another... losing the detail but perhaps gaining that fun "shutdown" effect as one overloads the other. The Machine is actually a dual frequency-tripler circuit that uses crossover distortion for the first time in any pedal, ever. It generates the distortion of the wave in the sloped part of the cycle, instead of the peaks and valleys like all other distorters and fuzzes.
User Reviews of the Zvex Machine
- Submitted by AULOS from Hereford Uk (488 points) on Dec 9, 2009
- This is an incredible beast. Ripps up your amp and shreds on bass. If you dial it all the way up it makes a static hissing mess but if you dial it in right you get a synthy ripping distortion. Really never heard anything like it.
- Good Points: UNIQUE FAT HUGE ON BASS MENTAL ON GUITAR
- Bad Points: Price...
- Price Paid: US$0.00
- Purchased At: Gift.
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- Submitted by spit + smudge from Savannah, GA (214 points) on Jun 4, 2004
- Interesting pedal actually. Inside you'll see a BS170 (used in the super hard on) and a 2 combos of some transistors as zach of zvex says on his website are (dual frequency-tripler circuit)to give you that fuzzed sound. In controls the amount of drive the signal has, out is how LOUD it'll get and it will get loud. Limit clips the signal. By itself it has a cool fuzzed out sound but when you use another distortion pedal in conjunction with it, that's where things begin to get interesting.
- Good Points: Adds character to your signal both with or without an external distortion. It's pretty loud when OUT is cranked! All in a nice MXR style hammond enclosure. Did I mention it's loud?
- Bad Points: A bit pricey. Nothing else really.
- Price Paid: US$0.00
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- Submitted by tapesss from Brooksville, FL (344 points) on Oct 20, 2003
- This is one strange pedal. If used alone, it makes a machine like fuzz sound, with lots of high end. Hence the name, Machine. If used in conjunction with other fuzz pedals, it thickens the sound up considerably. It seems to insert distortion into the empty spaces in your tone...creating a very wild distortion indeed. Flangers and chorus pedals increase the maniacal genius of this pedal. a good buy for any noise musician! (if you have the required money, that is)
- Good Points: very intersting fuzz sound, limit knob
- Bad Points: very pricey
- Price Paid: US$250.00
- Purchased At: can't remember
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- Submitted by Gus from San Francisco, CA (282 points) on Feb 24, 2002
- This is one harsh distortion pedal. As it does not clip the peaks of your signal like other distortion pedals do, it doesn't produce the overly compressed sound that other distortions do. The sound is quite blown out, and it tends to make even the best equipment sound broken. This is a good thing... It reacts well with other pedals as well (especially modulation type effects, and other distortions). I like to put a fast, square wave tremelo in front of it, and the low pass filter of my cs-05 right after it. Any signal run through this set up will devolve into pixalated, insectoid, buzzing cloud of mayhem. Again, it's a good thing...
- Good Points: Ultra brutal distortion that refuses to be lost in the mix.
- Bad Points: Expensive
- Price Paid: US$275.00
- Purchased At: Real Guitars, San Francisco
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