Great Eastern FX Co. XO - Just Add Pedals!

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In today's video, Paul Drw and James Ivey from The Studio Rats check out the new pedal from The Great Eastern FX Co called XO.
This cleaver crossover pedal is a creators dream allowing you two effects loops to be controlled in many different ways to get some never heard before guitar tones.

Link to The Great Eastern FX Co website

Here is what The Great Eastern FX CO say about the XO.
ABOUT THE PEDAL
Thank you for purchasing the XO Variable Crossover, a unique pedal with some unique capabilities!
The XO is a variable crossover and dual-band effects loop. It splits the input signal into high and low frequency bands that can then be processed separately via two independent send and return loops.
What is a crossover?
At its simplest, a crossover is two �lters – one high-pass and one low-pass – that are designed to overlap at a speci�c frequency.
Crossovers are commonly used in hi-� speakers and PA systems to ensure that speci�c speakers receive only the appropriate portion of the audio signal.
A low-pass �lter (LPF) allows only the low frequencies to pass to the woofer, while a high-pass �lter (HPF) sends only the high frequencies to the tweeter. Both speakers are happy and, provided the crossover is properly designed, the listener hears only the whole, coherent mix.
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
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Parallel processing is a wonderful thing, I have a home-build modular system with a pair of active splitter-mixers units. On their own, capable of many fascinating sounds when combining two different effects. The inclusion of frequency division, however, just ups the game considerably, as does inclusion of phase-reversal.

One of the things I've experimented with is combining two fuzzes/distortions, and inserting a very short delay (1-9msec) in series with one of them. The brief delay results in different forms of cancellation when the two parallel fuzzes are combined at the mixer. If you're familiar with the "Filter Matrix" option in the old EHX Electric Mistress Flanger, short fixed delays can introduce interesting comb-filter effects. The "phase" switch on the XO does some of that.

But enough digression. The XO is a smart pedal that encourages effect users to become smarter, and think in a more "systems" fashion about FX, which I think is an admirable and desirable goal. Thanks for the demo!

markhammer
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A very useful pedal. I find a crossover is particularly effective with acoustic guitar and a solo performance. I've used a Rolls mini crossover with my acoustic to pass lower frequencies to a small bass amp unaffected while the higher frequencies go to an acoustic or electric amp with any effects. This keeps the bass notes clean and more defined. This pedal would definitely add some functionality. Just my 3 cents.

Garflips
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Just got this and your examples are stellar. Thanks as always!👏🏻👋🏼👋🏼

esmoroglu
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A great only-TSR-can-du-it review of a hybrid studio/guitar great tool review!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

esmoroglu
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An inspiration box if ever there was one!

Adventuresingearland
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Another video with the Rats 😊

That pedalbox seems very interesting

Good sound and playing as usual from Paul.


Thanx dudes. 👍

PXR-PXR
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I'm always looking to fill the part of both a guitar and bass player have tried different options, even adding a 2 string pickup with an independent output going to a octave pedal, I wanna try and see how usable this could be for me...

pedrocrush
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This looks petty neat.
I wonder if it's possible to do a similar thing on a modeller with multiple paths, by splitting the path and sticking an EQ at the front of each split.

It would have been cool if they had an expression pedal input to control the crossover frequency.

KeithMilner
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Could you please post something on improving your tone using a modeller?

chrisdaviesguitar
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So is this different than other crossover pedals? I’ve never used one before

seangrey
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I can hear the next U2 album in there somewhere 😂

eoinc_Ire
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Why do Nerds wear Propellers on their heads? Is it to cool off their large overheating Brains?

squirelova