Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

OK, hold on to your hats! I purchased a pedal!! Yes, it's big news for me since I'm really not very technologically inclined! It's a Punch Factory by Aphex. I know a bunch of guys here use them so I went to their website to see what they actually do. it all made sense and I figured I'd ease myself into the world of effects slowly. This seemed like the logical first step.

Any tips on them or things I need to know? Next up is a fuzz and maybe a tuner pedal. We'll see how this works out first.

Sepp

Sepp is it the original orange one or the new silver art-deco kinda looking one?
I have the orange one. I just dial it in to what sounds good to my ears.

rickenbrother wrote: I just dial it in to what sounds good to my ears.

This all that is really needed, these compressors sound excellent. The only thing I did, after setting the drive using my ears and the LED meter to see approximately how much gain reduction I was getting, was to switch between the bypassed and compressed sounds to get a general match for the volume (gain make-up) control when plucking with a fairly normal attack on the strings. Of course, this not necessary, as you can add more gain to make yourself louder if you want.

rickenbrother wrote:Sepp is it the original orange one or the new silver art-deco kinda looking one?
I have the orange one. I just dial it in to what sounds good to my ears.

Joey,

It's the newer silver one. it seems the case has gone through a redesign. There are three dials on it now, I think there use to be only 2, and the db scale. It looks to have a bigger foot print than the orange model. There was a great price on it on ebay from a music store so I jumped on it.

I saw that you own one as do several other members so I figured it's got to work well with Rickenbackers.

Jeff, thanks for the info. There is a good tutorial on it on the Aphix website so I hope that too will assist me in figuring out where it sounds best.

Sepp

I see they added a compression ratio control, too bad it does not have calibrated markings on it.