POD Farm 1.01 – Model Gallery

Bronze Master

Originally designed for bass, but equally cool on guitar... the Maestro® Bass Brassmaster is considered by many to be the Holy Grail of bass distortion units, and ultra-rare bird designed in the early ‘70’s for Maestro® by synth genius Tom Oberheim. It showed up on Chris Squire’s gear list in a mid-70’s Yes tour program. In fact, the Brassmaster was the first distortion unit we can think of designed primarily with the bassist in mind, and man, did Mr. Oberheim get it right! The original has a fairly elaborate set of controls, include two separate volumes and toggles for accentuating different harmonic voicings. We weren’t able to make an exact duplicate of some of that complexity when creating the Bronze Master for POD Farm, but you’ll find that this model does give you a luscious palette of super-sweet bass fuzz in the style of the Brassmaster, with righteous distortion that doesn’t take away that all-important low end. For guitar players, think of it as somewhere between an Octave Fuzz and a synth. You can get positively freaky with this one.

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Sub Octaves

All bassists know that in just about every musical situation, lower can be better! But we couldn’t just let bass players have all the fun, so we’ve included an Octave device that’s inspired by the very popular Boss OC-2. Your Sub Octave gets you down into booty-shaking territory mighty quick. Use it to create additional voices, 1 octave and 2 octaves below what you’re playing. Remember, lower can be better, especially when it makes the booty shake!

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Female De-Esser

The Female De-esser should be your first choice when taming the Sss and Shh sounds of female vocalists, although as with all things musical, you may find many uses for it and may find that for some male vocalists it works better than the Male De-esser. For general information on De-essers, see the What is the De-esser section. Technically-savvy users will want to know that this de-esser performs its gain reduction only on the selected frequency band, unlike the more typical insert-style De-essing of the Male De-esser.

Male De-Esser

The Male De-esser should be your first choice for controlling the Sss and Shh sounds of male vocalists, although as with all things musical, you may find many uses for it and may find that for some female vocalists it works better than the Female De-Esser. For general information on De-essers, see the What is the De-esser section. Technically-savvy users will want to know that this is a standard insert-style De-esser, performing gain reduction on the full bandwidth audio signal.

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