So cool! Really glad to see a video about this one. I've also heard recently that MOD are working on a new pedal called the DuoX, which includes more knobs and switches, for extra control.
This has been around for a while... it reminds me a lot of the Empress Zoia, in that you can create whatever you want inside of it. I do like the software interface. And I think if I'm not mistaken, you can add third-party LV2 plugins into it. I think it runs Linux under the hood.
Looking at the power of the new Mod Duo X, even though it's designed as a table top device, your midi switching solution could enable guitar players to make use of that too - with a great deal more processing power and and many more knobs on the unit itself. This device and the poly digit are signs of the future. For the first time digital multi-fx will be _more_ flexible than choosing individual stompboxes rather than less. You'll no longer be limited by the specific tape-delay that a manufacturer put in their multi-fx. If someone codes a better one, you just throw that in.
By all means hook the MOD Duo up to your midi switcher but have a think about using a Kieth McMillen Soft Step 2 with it. That would allow you literally limitless midi options with it. Steve Lawson uses that combination to great effect (pun intended).
I'd like to see a demo where some efx are demo'd besides reverb and delay. I like crazy efx; pitch shifters, choruses and flangers on extreme settings, digital distortion and aliasing, etc
Looks good Bill .. with your popularity couldn't you get a pedal maker to create a Chords of Orion stereo signature pedal for ambient guitarists .. a Blackface Fender amp, 4 x 12 Marshall cab, delays, reverbs, chorus, pitch shift, swell ... etc .. :-)
Haven't thoroughly investigated it but wouldn't surprise me if users of the Mod Duo can exchange their patches with one another, which would be great for educational purposes.
I have had this a while, it's brilliant, and saved me from buying all sorts of boxes! Fabulous. And I have the new and far more powerful MOD X due for delivery anytime. Planning that for synthesizer as well as guitar ... with FTP they blend into each other in my hands. Have fun ...
Very nice and relaxed video on promising artifact. Hope to see more of this! B.t.w. i saw your short story on facebook, didn't quite get it. Only want to say, please Bill take good care of yourself. Was a bit concerned about your well being, but this video again is right in a chords of orion comfort zone.
A dozen effects in a row is a cooler concept than it is a reality, lol. In my experience, it just sounds like indistinct mud when I try it, but I allow that I probably don't know what I'm doing. This Mod series of processors are getting really interesting to me! Who else has amp models of Alembic and Rickenbacker amps, that's crazy, lol. That's letting me know that this dev are really progressive and out of the box. I may just have to tell my landlord "later" and order one of these. I'll be responsible and "adult" later. 😁
So, on the guitar end of it, it's not unlike having Amplitude or Bias for example, in a stand-alone pedal format. Trouble is, Amplitude and Bias are sterile and anemic, with nothing living or breathing within - at least where amp/speaker sims are concerned. But none virtual effects pass for real or are comparable to hardware devices either, as of yet.
No need to play maj7 chords with a fifth above harmony activated, because you already have it / hear it when playing the straight major chord!!...just saying!!...
Hey Bill, a few questions for this device & in general: 1.) Could you demo how the MOD device would work with your other standard devices in your pedalboard like the Volante or other Strymon gear? 2.) Are you going to evaluate the Chase Bliss Mood and Boss SY-1 pedals? I'm curious of their ambient applications. Overall, this MOD pedal is making me wonder if I should hold off on getting a Kemper until I have the MOD first...
Oh I remember I wanted to order that thing but at the last moment I discovered smth wrong with tech specs or so, so I didn`t. I thought the device would be discontinued soon, nice to see it now on your channel
Great video! I've recently discovered these Mod devices and jumped on the Dwarf train. Then I started looking at midi controllers, and wondered how well the MeloAudio would work. You mention it in your video. So, what was your conclusion? Did you happen to make a video that I just can't find? Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Hey Bill, love your videos, you always share very useful content and your Ambient Guitar songs are great! In fact, I was wondering if you've been contacted yet by anyone to do a Soundtrack of a Movie or TV Series? Regards from México ;)
@@chordsoforion yeah, as a matter of fact your music and content helped me pinpoint where I want to steer my career and music to ;) And oh, I was just wondering, though. It'd be amazing if you did, I would definitely watch that film!
Hi bill, I second @Rick Stoley: In this video you seem pretty ecstatic about the MOD Duo, but you don't seem to use it anymore. What happened? I may have missed something, but did you discover any flaw in the device? Thanks!
I still use it and like it. Just haven't done any videos with it. I am currently trying to replicate UD-Stomp Allan Holdsworth patches with it. If I am successful, will posting about it.
I struggle to understand how this is anything more than a souped up Digitech RP360. Even the computer interface is similar. Cab / amp simulators and such are little use to me, my tube amp and cabinets sound fine and the DI out on the back works great for PA or studio mixing. So if I use a cab sim on a real amp and cabinet the results may vary greatly. Have you tested a SD Silver Lake reverb yet? I keep eyeing that thing with extreme interest. Great demo Bill- keep it up bro!
Hi Scott, I think there are many differences, but for me the one that is the most important is that with the MOD Duo you are not closed to Mod Devices plugins. There are many third party plugins, and their plugin store can grow and incorporate even plugins from well known plugin developers... Kind of the same difference you have between old nokia "smart phones", that had their set of apps, and modern smart phones with their App stores...
So cool! Really glad to see a video about this one. I've also heard recently that MOD are working on a new pedal called the DuoX, which includes more knobs and switches, for extra control.
Yes, I have seen some of the information for the X and it looks cool!
Guess I'll hold out till that one comes out!
This has been around for a while... it reminds me a lot of the Empress Zoia, in that you can create whatever you want inside of it. I do like the software interface. And I think if I'm not mistaken, you can add third-party LV2 plugins into it. I think it runs Linux under the hood.
Did u find out?
@@boimesa8190 It does run Linux, yes. And you can add plugins to it.
@@JeffHendricks but have u been able to add lv2 plugins?
@@boimesa8190 I haven't tried, I don't have access to one.
Looking at the power of the new Mod Duo X, even though it's designed as a table top device, your midi switching solution could enable guitar players to make use of that too - with a great deal more processing power and and many more knobs on the unit itself. This device and the poly digit are signs of the future. For the first time digital multi-fx will be _more_ flexible than choosing individual stompboxes rather than less. You'll no longer be limited by the specific tape-delay that a manufacturer put in their multi-fx. If someone codes a better one, you just throw that in.
Thanks for demoing this device. Your's is the first guitar-centric one I've seen.
By all means hook the MOD Duo up to your midi switcher but have a think about using a Kieth McMillen Soft Step 2 with it. That would allow you literally limitless midi options with it. Steve Lawson uses that combination to great effect (pun intended).
I've got a SoftStep 2. Very configurable with the editing software. Looks cool too.
I'd like to see a demo where some efx are demo'd besides reverb and delay. I like crazy efx; pitch shifters, choruses and flangers on extreme settings, digital distortion and aliasing, etc
Looks good Bill .. with your popularity couldn't you get a pedal maker to create a Chords of Orion stereo signature pedal for ambient guitarists .. a Blackface Fender amp, 4 x 12 Marshall cab, delays, reverbs, chorus, pitch shift, swell ... etc .. :-)
Haven't thoroughly investigated it but wouldn't surprise me if users of the Mod Duo can exchange their patches with one another, which would be great for educational purposes.
@@agerven It's possible: check pedalboards.moddevices.com
This is a really exciting box you can even write your own plugins for it.
I have had this a while, it's brilliant, and saved me from buying all sorts of boxes! Fabulous. And I have the new and far more powerful MOD X due for delivery anytime. Planning that for synthesizer as well as guitar ... with FTP they blend into each other in my hands. Have fun ...
Hi just noticed you use FTP ? Can you let me know how it sounds? Do you use with mainstage ?
can you have 2 different inputs in stereo and have them both out as a single stereo signal?
I would use separate amp/cab sim and go bonkers with the parallel processing.
Thanks for the demo! Keep seeing the ads. Now I'm sold!
Very nice and relaxed video on promising artifact. Hope to see more of this!
B.t.w. i saw your short story on facebook, didn't quite get it. Only want to say, please Bill take good care of yourself. Was a bit concerned about your well being, but this video again is right in a chords of orion comfort zone.
Nice selection of virtual pedals and the ones that were demonstrated sounded good.
A dozen effects in a row is a cooler concept than it is a reality, lol. In my experience, it just sounds like indistinct mud when I try it, but I allow that I probably don't know what I'm doing. This Mod series of processors are getting really interesting to me! Who else has amp models of Alembic and Rickenbacker amps, that's crazy, lol. That's letting me know that this dev are really progressive and out of the box. I may just have to tell my landlord "later" and order one of these. I'll be responsible and "adult" later. 😁
is there any sound gap when changing between saved pedalboards? and how would you rate the fx quality in this unit?
Hi, cool video, and cool device, let me ask you something, what about latency? Its perceptive? Annoyng? thanks
"hey look Bill No Computer Here"
😂😂
So, on the guitar end of it, it's not unlike having Amplitude or Bias for example, in a stand-alone pedal format. Trouble is, Amplitude and Bias are sterile and anemic, with nothing living or breathing within - at least where amp/speaker sims are concerned. But none virtual effects pass for real or are comparable to hardware devices either, as of yet.
We are living in the Golden Age of Guitar. It is just really more and more obvious.
No need to play maj7 chords with a fifth above harmony activated, because you already have it / hear it when playing the straight major chord!!...just saying!!...
Hey Bill, a few questions for this device & in general:
1.) Could you demo how the MOD device would work with your other standard devices in your pedalboard like the Volante or other Strymon gear?
2.) Are you going to evaluate the Chase Bliss Mood and Boss SY-1 pedals? I'm curious of their ambient applications.
Overall, this MOD pedal is making me wonder if I should hold off on getting a Kemper until I have the MOD first...
Great review. Thanks!
Oh I remember I wanted to order that thing but at the last moment I discovered
smth wrong with tech specs or so, so I didn`t. I thought the device would be discontinued soon, nice to see it now on your channel
What wrong did you discover?
@@8Junio76 I don`t remember exactly, it think it was some kind of routing limitation and maybe smth else, software related
Great video! I've recently discovered these Mod devices and jumped on the Dwarf train. Then I started looking at midi controllers, and wondered how well the MeloAudio would work. You mention it in your video. So, what was your conclusion? Did you happen to make a video that I just can't find? Thanks, and keep up the good work!
This looks like the ultimate fx tool. I wish I had $600 to spend.
Sure it is !! 😉
$261 right now on reverb
I just picked up a pristine duo for $350 from reverb...
Is this a replacement of your HX stomp on your pedalboard? Or do you still think the amp/cabs sounds on the stomp are better?
Bill, tomorrow is the launch of Kemper's Profiler STAGE floorboard. I would love to see you review it!
Edit: sorry, not tomorrow... Wednesday!!
"Hey,
Chords Of Orion, Bill here.
But what a modulation pedal really is?"
Hey Bill, love your videos, you always share very useful content and your Ambient Guitar songs are great! In fact, I was wondering if you've been contacted yet by anyone to do a Soundtrack of a Movie or TV Series? Regards from México ;)
Hi Ernie - glad you are liking the videos! And no, I have not run across any opportunities to do movies / soundtracks.
@@chordsoforion yeah, as a matter of fact your music and content helped me pinpoint where I want to steer my career and music to ;)
And oh, I was just wondering, though. It'd be amazing if you did, I would definitely watch that film!
Looks awesome! But I'll have to be fine with Bias FX for now :)
Hi bill,
I second @Rick Stoley: In this video you seem pretty ecstatic about the MOD Duo, but you don't seem to use it anymore. What happened? I may have missed something, but did you discover any flaw in the device?
Thanks!
I still use it and like it. Just haven't done any videos with it. I am currently trying to replicate UD-Stomp Allan Holdsworth patches with it. If I am successful, will posting about it.
Can you use it as a singular device?
Can it load also Vst?
My guess is that the next generation will have more CPU power!!...
I struggle to understand how this is anything more than a souped up Digitech RP360. Even the computer interface is similar. Cab / amp simulators and such are little use to me, my tube amp and cabinets sound fine and the DI out on the back works great for PA or studio mixing. So if I use a cab sim on a real amp and cabinet the results may vary greatly. Have you tested a SD Silver Lake reverb yet? I keep eyeing that thing with extreme interest. Great demo Bill- keep it up bro!
Hi Scott, I think there are many differences, but for me the one that is the most important is that with the MOD Duo you are not closed to Mod Devices plugins. There are many third party plugins, and their plugin store can grow and incorporate even plugins from well known plugin developers... Kind of the same difference you have between old nokia "smart phones", that had their set of apps, and modern smart phones with their App stores...
Plus, it has actual synth generators. That, by itself, is as if you’d purchased a keyboard. Essentially a music computer for the floor
Raspberry Pi....?
is this Davos from Game of Thrones? 😋