The video has served it's purpose in that regard then, shown you what the module is enough to make the decision. So I'm glad to hear that. Hopefully there's patch ideas in there to try out with things you already have.
Mini drive is so excellent. I use it to create huge beefy walls of distortion. It saturates so nicely. Especially physical modelling sounds. My fave signal chain with it rn is: BBD -> Mini Drive -> Clouds -> Desmodus Versio.
I appreciate that idea brought to life, a simple essential utility for a modular system (mixing, attenuating, inverting, offset voltages ... not sure why I'm telling you this!) with a nice visual added. If it's not in the cases in the future then I'm pushing the cases up to their power limits and needed to claw back some current somewhere.
my recent obsession is playing with gain staging to get a more nuanced timbral variety in patches where there are only a few voices going on. right now i'm working on a nice swirly crunchy drone using ruina versio. using distortion to process the reverb/delay fx is something that i don't think i've tried yet, and fits right into my current area of interest. will have to rack up my trshmster to get some more juicy sounds happening. thanks for sharing your knowledge as always ben. happy new years.
thanks, always a pleasure to share this stuff and then discuss it further. Distorting FX is fantastic, I love the separation that can create to a dry sound, or just general oomph and weight. Distortions in feedback loops (as I seem to have done a lot recently) is also a personal favourite.
@@DivKid I have a good amount of mixers in my system (one of which I won from you years ago during the divmas giveaways) and they're always occupied. A matrix mixer has been at the top of my list as a next purchase for dedicated feedback explorations.
it would have been but as it's just input level I'm happy with a VCA before the module to get CV-Drive behaviour. You can also try mixing CV signals into the second inputs which can lead to some interesting results.
Looking forwards to this. I’ve a few drive modules, but I don’t know if they’re supposed to be doing the clipping themselves or driving a VCA/filter for best effect.
Hey, did you happen to find one more to your liking between the mini drive and the twin drive? IT kind of seemed like London Drive was your favorite, but between the other mini and twin did you find something that stood out to you?
The Twin for stereo things gets a fair bit of use. Between the others I'll try both and use which I prefer, or make stereo images out of the two different distortions (nice panned a bit of as mid/side signals). Long answer to say, no I don't really have a favourite.
Any idea about the following: I played around with London Drive this sooperbooth and reeeally liked it, so I got myself one, soldered it together and put it in my eurorack. So far so good. What im wondering is: the output is redonkulusly hot. Even around 1, my clipping LED on my mixer flashes brightly red and the meters on my interface are screaming 😅 Its to the extend that i put an attenuator before and after the module to keep the levels somewhat acceptable. Is that supposed to be like that? Sure, its a drive module, probably the cranking of the voltage is part of what it does... But its to an extend that i almost feel uneasy to feed back the signal into my system and fry it 😅
doesn't sound right to me at all. It can kick out hot signals (as you say, it drives things) but not beyond what you'd expect really. Maybe a wrong resistor value or something?
Can anyone tell me how clean is a Twin drive when set to 0? I want to use it as a master saturator and wonder how it will color the sound when set to minimum. Is Drive param work as a blend control? And what is suited better for the Master - London or Twin? which is more subtle?Tnx :)
Mini/Twin drives turn off to silence with the knob at 0. London drive is clean at 0 and drive added beyond. Both are suitable for full mixes or on the output stage as they can be cleaner, warming thickening type devices before they get into what I'd consider distortion characters.
My thinking is always that I don’t need to reproduce things that can be done elsewhere in a modular - that’s why Turing doesn’t have internal clock for example
keeps these affordable and friendly less intensive DIY builds too. @andrew - a filter before is nice too, so tone changes before it's driven. Or try putting CV into the second input on them for some interesting results too.
Hello, yes I am. I composed that the Google audio service that is the RU-vid Audio Library. It's called that as I just used the synth 'Impulse Command' from Analogue Solutions.
