This sounds awesome!baremountain wrote:Oh man, that's a big one to tackle. To give you a short answer, I've been using it for guitar almost entirely, but I plugged my Organelle into it yesterday too (no Euroracks here, so the CV in hasn't been utilized yet). The pedal is incredible to put it simply. While I have found settings that aren't very musically useful, all of those settings are at least fun to screw around with. There are a few videos on my instagram (@EvanGordon) of some killer settings I've found. Here's a little breakdown though:sylnau wrote:So... how is the hapiness and what are you using it for?
-As a stationary filter (LFO depth dialed at noon) this thing sounds killer. The high pass filter can do that whole "grandfather sitting on a porch eating lemons in sepia" thing from the Knobs Bitquest demo - I haven't spent much time with a stationary LPF though. LFO off + expression on the filter knob is absolutely killer; throw some fuzz before the LPF and you can do some killer swells and whatnot.
- Engaging the LFO is the most fun part of this pedal though. The shape knob really lets you experiment with a plain LFO and can get some crazy sounds without even engaging the scramble circuit. This also opens up the chance to run a 1/8" CV output to the expression input of another pedal. Doing so with my roommate's Tonal Recall has led to some wild sounds that I can't even begin to describe. I've also run it to my Pitchfactor and Count to 5 with success.
- The scramble circuit is really the icing on the cake though. You get wild rhythmic pulses. You can dial in whether those pulses are in a short repeating pattern (typically when the scramble speed is faster than the rate), or you can make really long-form patterns by turning the LFO rate and scramble speed just barely out of sync. All kinds of sounds come through when you do that, especially when the LFO is running CV on another device. Hooking an expression pedal up to the filter freq with scramble on lets you do some really out there stuff as well.
My only complaint, and it's not very serious, is that it's a bit noisy when no input is going through, but such is the nature of a whacked out filter I suppose. It's not hum noisy, it just often sounds like there's a extradimensional snake whispering sweet nothings into your ears. Some people might complain about the resonance going into oscillation territory past noon or 1 o'clock, but you just gotta be mindful of that.
I've been pretty underwhelmed by big ticket purchases like this, but it would take a lot for me to consider getting rid of the Happiness. I've spent 3-4 hours playing with it so far, and I still feel like there's a whole world to explore - enough so that I bought StrangeTales's 8-Step Program to try some new experiments.
TL;DR - the Happiness may be the world's most appropriately named pedal, as it has brought me nothing but bliss (except that time I cranked the resonance knob and it brought me an earache).
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If I run the LFO out as CV it will continue working when the pedal is bypassed, right?
Is there a way to use the LFO out but not have it affect the Filter? Basically I want a LPF with expression, but I'd gladly take a cray LFO if it can be unhooked from the Filter.
