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Post by nick8801 on Nov 25, 2023 8:32:39 GMT -6
www.hologramelectronics.com/chroma-consoleAnyone see this yet? I pre-ordered. Mostly going to try to use it for my live trumpet rig, but looks like it will be a fun mixing tool as well. Lots of cool fx that you can rearrange and automation for the knobs as well. It can be calibrated to handle all kinds of levels.
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Post by Tbone81 on Nov 25, 2023 9:12:08 GMT -6
I’ll have to check that out. I had the Microcosm for a short while, it was cool but very difficult to use. Totally unintuitive to me, with multiple layers of functions per knob that confused me. I quickly sold it as I didn’t want an RX box that took 35min to tweak to get half decent sound. I want instant gratification from my pedals.
Still, it was a cool concept. I hope the Chroma Console is implemented better. It could be really cool too.
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Post by nick8801 on Nov 25, 2023 11:03:54 GMT -6
A bit of a rant, slightly off-topic:
I've come to dread seeing a Hologram pedal on someone's board at a studio. 9 times out of 10, when we're trying to chase down a noise problem somewhere in the chain, it's their pedals / PSU. Plus, the guitarist is always fiddling with their pedals trying to dial it in perfectly the entire session until we just take it out and everything moves faster. For the previous pedals (not the Console), there are a lot of VSTs that can approach the same territory and it will probably sound better and make more sense because it's on top of the instrument track and not being mic'ed from a speaker. Autochroma, Velvet Machine Phonolynth, Soundghost Scatter, Daniel Gergely, Kentaro Suzuki, on top of many Ableton devices. I think a lot of that comes from user error. People buy these kinds of pedals based on influencer YouTube demos, and then spend no time actually learning how to use the thing. I did think that plugins could get me close to what this does, but for live purposes, I like having some knobs to turn on my board. |
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