Bliss Factory by Chase Bliss and ZVex Effects

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Everything’s on. All right. Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I’m here today with the bliss factory, a collaboration between chase bliss and ZVex effects both based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. So we’re getting a little Midwestern in here today. You bet ya. Oh yeah, sure. That’s gosh, I love, I love the Midwest.

[00:00:26]So this is the bliss factory. It was a collaboration between the two to celebrate or promote the pedal movie. That’s coming out probably in late March, late March, early April reverb.com led endeavor. So I’m really excited for that. But that’s not really what you’re here. To learn about you’re here to learn about the bliss factory.

[00:00:48] This is, this was a limited run. That sold out pretty much immediately. A bunch of people got upset. They didn’t get it. So now it’s going to be a second run in a different color. And so I thought, Hey, would be a great time to, to do a demo about this, this pedal. That is an Teamable. Beast actually, you can, you can tame it.

[00:01:12] I have, I have faith in you, but let’s talk about the controls. Like any good chase bliss pedal. It has a bunch of dip switches up here. Let me focus in that a little bit. So I actually, I will mess with the dip switches a little bit, but not too much. Let’s get back to getting that and focus. Great.

[00:01:38] Hey, I hope it’s in focus enough for y’all. I think it should be pretty close Papa on and off camera. Like a, a real, I hope it off to reshoot this, but I’m here are the controls. You have volume. Self-explanatory you have Gates or ramp kind of depends on whether or not you have the ramp set. If you don’t.

[00:02:01]This is the dip switches assigned to ramp any controls. This controls the ramping. Otherwise it’s it controls the gate. And so if you’ve never played a fuzz factory before they are pretty crazy, pretty wild. They there’s going to be a lot of squealing, a lot of unwanted noise turning the gate is one way to quell the noise.

[00:02:29]So there you go. We’ll talk about that, but add people like people like gated, fuzzes. This is, if you don’t like it, it fuzzes in, what the hell are you doing here? So you’ve stabbed, that’s like stability. I’m pretty sure all the way to the right that’s clockwise for more classic fuzz and you know, less squealing and turn it the, turn it to the left for a squishier sound.

[00:02:55]Sorry. Comp is a compression. It adds characteristics when turn to the left, it’s softer to the right pinches tone when it’s all the way to the rave. Yeah. Lower the stability to see what happens is controls, what it says. And then manual there’s a low pass filter with a couple toggle curb options.

[00:03:18] All the way down left counterclockwise is going to cut like all the high frequencies, thus low pass filter all the way the right is pretty much open, no filter. There is a. Drive the amount of drive. We already talked about stability and then there are, are three toggles in the middle that will give you normal fat or fatter options.

[00:03:44]That controls the amount of sub frequencies and Well, we’ll talk about that. We’ll talk about that in a little bit. And then you have this ox function, which controls, what happens when you hit this auxiliary button here, you can have it set to max or minimize stability the low-pass filter or the gate.

[00:04:02] And just for the sake of this demo, for the most part. I’m going to have the OGs set to stability and a big reason for that will be so that if I have to say something it will take away any, any squealing that’s happening. So now we’ve talked for a while. I’m going to tune my guitar on camera so that nobody says I didn’t tune my guitar.

[00:04:37] All right. I’ve tuned my guitar. So let’s play some

[00:04:47] I’m playing the Stripe and Iridium round B setting a drive at noon room at noon. Yeah, nothing, nothing too special.

[00:05:19] let’s first mess with the low pass filter. I feel like that will Be the least intimidating place to start when to keep the drive at noon there. So all the way down, literally nothing coming through on, on Mr. Sixth screen here. Oh. Until I flipped the toggle to change the curve.

[00:06:59] so I’m just going to do a big sweep of the other control while playing an open E chord.

[00:07:52] if you’re wondering why I assumed to be playing closing time. It’s because closing time might’ve been the first like hit song to use a fuzz fuzz factory.

[00:08:18] you heard your first fun noises there.

[00:09:04] one thing that I think is fun. And then I’m about to do is I would set the auxiliary function to the low pass filter to max out when I hit the ox function.

[00:09:43] more so on the the middle and rights toggle

[00:09:52] So that’s where I like the low pass filter. Let’s mess with the, the drive knob and see how. How much that changes. How the fuck is that?

[00:10:30] More swelling. Again, this is a wild pedal. There’s going to be weird sounds. And frankly, like there’s too much in this pedal for me to appropriately show you every sound in it, period. No matter how much time I got, I all think I could do it. Please understand that before you leave a litany of comments on this pedal,

[00:11:08] well, I feel like there’s a big difference when you turn the knob. It kind of depends on how the other settings are set for lack of a better way to say that. I think you could hear how it responded differently when the low-pass filter was in different places. This is, this is truly a pedal you have to experience to believe I’m going to keep going.

[00:11:30] And I’m going to Do these middle toggles here to kind of show you. So this is, you’ve just been on normal. Next. I’m going to go to fat. So this is normal.

[00:12:10] and this is fast.

[00:13:12] so I think you get the hang of that. I’m gonna mess with compression next. That might be

[00:14:17] So two really different flavors right there. Whether or not you liked the compression, it shouldn’t surprise anybody that compression engage, interact, because after all a gated feature just means like after a certain volume or frequency or whatever’s being gated. It cuts off. That’s what gated reverb is.

[00:14:38] So I’ve kept the gate open pretty, pretty much. And you just heard like a screech

[00:14:53] and that’s what the compressor, the way up and the gate, all the weights. That was with the compression all the way up in the gate, all the way down.

[00:15:09] I was playing in the wrong place.

[00:15:18] and that was with the compression down and the gate down. Compression up gate up and down gate up.

[00:16:14] So you really hear that sputtering us when the, both of the gate gate and the compression are up. Compression at noon gate Mac

[00:17:14] That’s the kind of sputtering us I was talking about. So I’m going to keep those both at noon and despite my better judgment, I’m going to turn the stability now have left stabbed knob left slash counter-clockwise. I’m a little afraid of it, honestly, but I’m going to do it anyway.

[00:17:39] That’s why I’m afraid of it. That is what happens when you turn the stability knob. But if you want to reduce that there are a few more, there are few ways to do it, or you can kind of tune it. Mostly using the gate and the compression a little bit of low pass filter action. Could filter out some of those higher frequencies.

[00:17:59] So there are ways to tame it. The, the S the, the manual for this pedal does get into that. So I’m going to try, I’m so freaked out. This is so

[00:18:15] you can turn the gate up all the way, and that will filter out the

[00:18:33] compression.

[00:19:16] And then so that was with the stability that on the normal setting and it sounds different and fatter and fatter. So let’s hear it.

[00:20:36] yeah. You see what I mean there? Now I actually am going to get into the toggle some, and this is going to be a little complicated, but One fun thing to do with this. And if you didn’t get the Iowasca, you’re going to like this. I am going to, and I know that’s out of focus and I try to focus it a little bit better.

[00:20:53] I am going to turn on bounce. I am going to have it effect the volume one, and I am going to have it fall instead of rise. And this is going to be kind of a fun one. And I think you could also probably do this with the low pass filter to get more of a wall sound. But check this out. If you think at the Iowasca you might, you might be able to like, get the sound you’re wanting here.

[00:21:28] Yes. It’s a tremolo.

[00:22:53] Woo. Woo. Woo. That was a lot. That was a lot. All right. I’m not going to refocus. I want to try that with the low pass filter and I’m going to have it fall. I only have a book. You didn’t see that.

[00:23:46] so how it works is it rises or falls from where it’s set. And I think that just basically controls the speed. So if it’s set to fall, it’s going to go between that middle position there and the bottom. Just like constantly. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

[00:24:18] Wow. Wow. Wow.

[00:24:24] Wild wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild. Why,

[00:24:33] why?

[00:24:38] That’s interesting. That’s pretty fun.

[00:25:00] Yeah,

[00:25:04] it sounds most like a wall kind of in that middle toggle, I think. And that’s, that’s really like I’ve done this. I’ve been doing this for 25 minutes. I I’ve barely scratched the surface of what this pedal is capable of. I haven’t even tried it on base. And I just. Straight up might not have the time and or energy to but I wanted you all to, to kind of get a feel for what this pedal is capable of.

[00:25:30] And the answer is pretty much, I think anything you would, you want it from like a gated fuzz or fuzz factory type pedal like this, this has it. I mean, It can be a tremolo for God’s sake. It can be a tremolo. It can be a fuzzy Ottawa. It it’s. It’s impressive. I can understand why anybody who didn’t get it on that first run was, was upset about that.

[00:25:58] I’m really glad they’re doing a second run. I do think that this should just be like available to more people. Of course, like it’s not a cheap pedal. There’s a lot of stuff going on. There was probably a lot of research and work put into this pedal, which is why they’re, why they’re expensive and it’s Mitty capable.

[00:26:17]Yeah, it has you know, you can do the manual setting is in the middle there, and then there’s two presets. Let’s just hear what the two presets for.

[00:26:29] Volume

[00:26:39] And the other presets of tremolo. So I’m not gonna, yeah. Yeah. Well please check these out there. Sign up for whatever mailing lists that reverb.com has. If you’re watching this, like before the rest have been released, if not like in your buying, it used or planning on buying it use check out our affiliate links to reverb.com in the video description.

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