Conference napalm::commusic_v1

2005.0. "Boss Micro Studio series" by KALLON::EIRIKUR (Civilization and its Disconnects) Wed May 24 1989 13:27

    This note is to follow-up on my question from the Hot Price Quote note
    as to whether any of the half-rack Boss Micro-Studio series beyond the
    RCE-10 (COMMUSIC Chorus Unit of Choice) were any good.
    
    Answer: yes!
    
    I picked up both the phaser and the flanger.  Both are absolutely
    noise-free, and sound ultra clear and clean.  Unlike the multi-effects
    boxes that I have heard/played-with, these allow all kinds of
    incredibly drastic effects, very very slow sweeps and lots of feedback
    bordering on oscillation.  They also have a modulation buss that can be
    used as a control input.  One app. note suggests using a volume pedal
    to sweep.  The modulation buss is supposed to be used for synching
    units for stereo work, but you can drive it from two units at once and
    get complex modulation waveforms.  The 12-stage phaser is so good that
    I think it is more powerful than some flangers that I have heard.
    
    These things are a steal at the $99.00 blow-out price at E.U.
    Wurlitizer  (Massachusetts).
    
    I saw some more RCE-10's in a case in the guitar department at EUW in
    Boston.  db didn't actually get the last one!  I may have gotten the
    last flanger there, though.
    
    BTW, I now have four Boss boxes running off of one of the 200MA Boss
    wall bugs via the daisy-chain cords that come with them.  Don't let
    them sell you the power supply, it only takes up space and unless you
    have >4 units, it doesn't seem to be needed.  I'm nominally 20MA "in
    the red" (beyond the rating of the wall bug) but that's within 10
    percent, and it is working fine.  The wall bug doesn't even feel overly
    warm.
    
    	Eirikur
    
    Roomate #1: "Ok, Eirikur, that sound is giving me severe flash-backs,
    but what kind of music could support it?"
    

    Re: "severe flashbacks"
    
    By any chance is this the same roommate we bedazzled with the SHS-10
    feeding the Quadraverb while we modulated the QV parameters over
    MIDI?  :-)
                           
    	-Bill
    
    

    I wasn't sure where else to put this (only 2 Boss topics), but is
    anyone familiar with the Boss CE-300 chorus unit?
    
    Mike

    re Boss CE-300 chorus; I'd like to know, too.. I still miss my old Boss
    Chorus Ensemble (had ugly vibrato, too) with the smoothest, nicest
    stereo chorus I could ever want.. if the circuitry in the CE-300 is
    anywhere close, I'll take two.  Half-rack size, right ?
    
    Great for stereoizing mono signals without much 'whoosh'
    
    karl