Nice sound exploration! I also found that my Microcosm reacts better to the UA Dream 65 placed after it. However, Microcosm also benefits with some booster before in the chain, which improves tracking.
@@guitarpedalhub the Okko Coca. It's a peculiar compressor, because instead of limiting the sound upper levels, it raises the lower ones. This helps for a steadier signal with tracking based pedals like the Meris Enzo or the Microcosm. The Okko Coca doubles as buffer and booster, with tone control as well.
After a lot of trial and error, I am now with this setup: Fender Jaguar guitar > Okko Coca compressor/booster/buffer > Parallel mixer (Keith McMillen K-Mix). That mixer is great, because apart from one instrument input (in which the Okko Coca enters the mix), and an additional Mic input, it also has three independent aux send/return loops. So I can route the guitar to any of those three loops, and mix them in parallel. In my first aux loop, I have a Red Panda Tensor, followed buy a Guyatone mini reverb. In the second loop, the Microcosm is going to the Left channel input on the UA Dream 65. And in the third loop, the Meris Ottobit is followed by a AWOL Vyrus micro fuzz, and then enters the UA Dream 65's Right channel. So one guitar sound is split into three very different sounds that can be mixed in parallel to achieve really weird and surprising textures. I must note that this is a setup more suited to desktop knob fiddlers in the experimental music realm.
Nice! I'd be curious to hear the thinking behind your signal chain, as, coincidentally enough, I have the opposite one on my board: Microcosm -> Dream 65 -> Aeros Loop Studio (although I also have the Chroma Console at the beginning, which I'm using for tone, and then the Dream 65 as a clean amp sim).
The intent of your experiment is interesting. I tried this type of use of the pedal and didn't get anything very interesting. It's basically a pedal for ambient music, for synthesizers, that plays alone or that requires the musician to abandon the instrument after recording a loop and then start "playing the pedal". I've heard some really nice things done with this pedal, but it's definitely not for me.
Yeah that’s why I tried this different approach! Definitely thought the reverbs and chorus were already worth keeping the pedal! This week I will finish the chroma console demo which I think is a much more guitar (non ambient) oriented pedal so stay tuned!
I know what you mean, but this thing makes a bunch of random bloops and bleeps and that’s just what it does. I feel like I can hear it. You have to read the description of the modes and see which mode it’s in, then read what the activity knobs does etc.
