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The ottobit looks amazing

Just got the Ottobit a few days ago and having a blast.
Wondering if anyone else is having issues with the bit crusher.
I get almost no reaction when turning it from 5pm (full off) to around 12pm and then it makes a big jump anywhere past 12pm and doubles or triples in volume.
Makes it a bit unstable for any live use.
Other than that, It's very cool indeed.

Yeah, mine is the same. Also I get a little bit of a volume drop with the sample rate all the way down, which is a shame as it's a nice useable fuzz otherwise.

For me the sweep of the bits control is really bunched up between 11:00 and 12:00. I'd almost prefer that area was most of the sweep of the pedal.

I'm switching presets with a DMC3XL and its cool but it seems like the Ottobit doesn't load a preset just because the DMC3 is on that preset. I have to activate the preset with the DMC3 and that means holding the switch and waiting a second. Kinda kills the dynamics of playing a bit. Is anyone using MIDI and getting better results?

My Ottobit top row knob ranges are all off too. Really fighting the volume drops. No real boosting. Mine is probably going to leave me.

I was interested in the Mercury7 until the volume drop was mentioned for that too.

These quirks can be annoying for sure but overall, I'm still loving this pedal.
I'm guessing/hoping that these small problems can be worked out with firmware updates.
If someone from Merris could chime in, that would go a long way.

If we could have just not talked about dicks and pedophilia or whatever for one thread I'm sure they would. Small businesses love when their SEO results link to a discussion about Jesus Was A Robot and his boner.

Never change, ILF.

codetocontra wrote:
I was interested in the Mercury7 until the volume drop was mentioned for that too.

That's only when it's fully wet because it cuts the dry signal completely. Haven't had any volume drop issues with it personally (I never use fully wet verb though, only close to fully wet).

Yea I have no volume drop issues unless it's fully wet as well, which honestly, I'd never use a verb full wet unless I was slamming it with a hot high signal, so very little drop off in that respect. At least for me.

The Ottobit is awesome, I just need more time to sit down with it. I've actually been busy lately and haven't had a moment to even play but one day this week. Not used to this. LOL

I love these pedals and I'll be hanging onto them and getting more Meris stuff in the future. I'm hoping they fix some of the minor quirks here and there with updates though. Other than that, these things are impressive. Especially for the price of the boxes.

Fair enough. I always thought the RV3 did a great 100% wet sound but it may have had a slight volume drop too, IIRC. Was planning on picking up a Space again in the future but I like a lot of what I am hearing from the Mercury7. Resuming wet robot boner now.

All of the above is true with mine as well:

a)loving these pedals. The Ottobit has changed my music and I like it

b)The range on the Bit knob (and also Sample Rate knob for that matter) could maybe use some adjusting. It's funny, I don't hardly change the top knobs ever. For me, the sweet spot for all three is about 11:00. It's the bottom three that I move with every part, never repeating the same exact sound twice. I am starting to wish I had a midi controller on my guitar just for those three knobs.

c)The Mercury7 volume drop is like pretty much all reverbs 100% wet. It's stupifyinballs 100% wet and have just put a pair of Ibanez mini analog delays on my board going into it and it is even better.

d)Still would be nice to have a Master Volume on both of them. One of the reasons why I am loving the Nemesis after the desktop editor was released is because I can adjust the master volume in the editor

e)looking forward to whatever Meris does next

f)mmmm, robot messiah secks

I'm not too familiar with bit crushers; the only other bit crusher I had prior to the Ottobit Jr was the BIT setting on a Dr Scientist Bitquest. I noticed on that as well that there was a fairly wide range on the knob where I didn't get any sound.

I know two test subjects doesn't make for a conclusive experiment, but perhaps that is just the nature of bitcrushers?

I'm definitely past the initial honeymoon phase with my Ottobit, and I'm still loving it and getting a lot of use out of it. For me also, it has changed my music.

I do have my own little things where I'm like ugh wish this was a little different. But design is always about compromises, and for an initial foray into pedals, at a $300 price point, in this tight little package, I think Meris got so much right.

My main wish is that they had borrowed the idea of little preset button/placement from the Nemesis. I would rather have paid a little more for a device with some preset ability built in, without have to take up extra board space for a switch or Faves or Disaster Area box. Presets seem so essential for something this complex.

Haven't much been using the bit knob, but yeah I guess that because I wasn't getting much range of effect out of it. I do think bit crushing has an inherently steep curve. Sample rate gets me where i want to go anyway.

Haven't noticed volume issues but I'm running it on an aux off a mixer so its irrelevant. The thing that drives me a little bonkers is the dry kill. "With DRY MUTED, the pedal delivers wet only in active mode; in bypass, the entire pedal is muted". Like whyyyyyy would you mute everything in bypass? I get that there are cases where someone might want that, but that seems like a 2% use case. 98% of the time you still want the pedal to pass the dry signal through when its bypassed. What it means for me in practice is that I can't have any other pedals in a chain on this aux channel. I have to devote one to the Ottobit alone, which it's good enough that I'm doing but it's still regrettable. This just seems like a design flaw to me, especially when it would have been possible to have a third configuration in the setup menu. Can has update plz?

Speaking of which, is the firmware update-able on this ? No USB port.

Like a lot of chaps here I'm having a great time with this (where else would I find these features in stereo in such a pedalboard friendly layout after all?). However, I would also second most of the frustrations - the biggest gripe for me is that as soon as you engage any stutter, the outputs sum to mono.

On the volume issue though, I'm finding that the filter knob has a really interactive relationship with the bit and sample controls. What seems like a weak and anaemic signal suddenly comes back to life when you roll off the filter. I found that quite counter-intuitive at first, but perhaps those more familiar with bit crushers are well used to this phenomenon?

I agree about the Stutter being mono though they made everything else dual mono so there must have been some technical limitation that made it difficult for the Stutter to be dual mono as well.