It has been awhile since I have done anything with Zoia, a few weeks anyway. I started playing with my guitar and very quickly decided to work with pitch shifting. I have also been exploring distortion pedals recently with distortion covering the whole broad category. I remembered the distortions in Zoia sounding not great but I wanted to hear them again as I have a new tube screamer and have been using my Zoom MS-100BT for exploring and comparing.
I am not sure if it is just my ears or what but at least the fuzz effects on Zoia are decent. I would like to get a good fuzz pedal so I used that.
The patch is as follows:
Audio In > efuzzy > tone control 1 > tone control 2 > 3 channel audio mixer
tone control 2 > pitch shift 1 > 3 channel audio mixer
tone control 2 > pitch shift 2 > 3 channel audio mixer
3 channel audio mixer > 32s audio looper
3 channel audio mixer > 2 channel audio mixer
32s audio looper > 2 channel mixer > audio out L
Hopefully that all makes sense to you.
When I first made the patch, I was using headphones coming from a Roland Microcube, 2W amp on the JC Clean setting – a Jazz Chorus emulation. And I quite liked the sound. It seemed like a good level and fairly smooth. Later, I tried playing the patch through the amp speaker and there were some mid range tones I did not really like all that much. It made it sound almost a little out of tune or something.
I thought about what might be going on with the difference between headphones and the amp speaker. I am using a cheap pair of Sony open back headphones for regular listening. They are in the $30 range so nothing spectacular. I figured they were taking out some range of frequencies.
I added a second tone control which I used to reduce frequencies around 442Hz. The details are in the diagrams of the patch. Sorry for the messy chicken scratch.
If you use it with an amp or through a set of speakers or just want a different sound, you can start with the two tone controls. The pitch shifting is currently set to a major 3rd and perfect 5th above the note played. I think one of the reasons I like the sound so much and do not have a problem with latency in the pitch shifting is the use of the fuzz effect. I believe it produces an output close to a square wave so produces some nice harmonics which help fill out that initial sound before the pitch shifting kicks in.
