NPD: 856 for Zellersasn

Paul_C

I have had a number of Count To 5s, but as they were selling for a reduced price, I thought I'd give Montreal Assembly's 856 for Zellersasn a go. (The £60 I had to pay for import duties was a bit painful though)

The name comes from a torn label found on a box when they moved into a new unit, apparently.

As usual with MA, it arrived in an unbranded box with nothing more than a bit of bubble wrap, no manual, no stickers.

There's a manual on the website, but no specific indication as to how to connect it up so it took two goes to get a signal, again, nothing new there

I tried prodding buttons and twiddling knobs at random, which enough to convince me that, a bit like my first play with the Blooper, I'm going to have to read the manual before I have any chance of getting much out of it

I've currently got it connected up just before the Blooper in my chain, but once I get a bit more of an idea of what it can do I might move it around a bit.

BintyTwanger77

What does it do? Is it a hyper-complicated looper?

Sassafras

That all looks very logical and super intuitive.

BintyTwanger77

Sassafras said:

That all looks very logical and super intuitive.

Any pedal that has a UI that looks like the controls for a Soviet-era nuclear reactor just screams "user-friendly", doesn't it?

Paul_C

BintyTwanger77 said:

What does it do? Is it a hyper-complicated looper?

It is a (possibly over-complicated, only time will tell) looper.

As you can see by the manual, some of it is fairly straight forward, some of it is a bit more random. .

http://mtlasm.blogspot.com/p/856-for-zellersasn-firmware-update.html

As with a lot of what I buy, if you play in a covers band, or a blues band, or pretty much most bands, it's probably not for you.

If you like making weird noises with only a vague idea of what you're doing most of the time, then it's ideal

BintyTwanger77

Paul_C said:

BintyTwanger77 said:

What does it do? Is it a hyper-complicated looper?

It is a (possibly over-complicated, only time will tell) looper.

As you can see by the manual, some of it is fairly straight forward, some of it is a bit more random. .

http://mtlasm.blogspot.com/p/856-for-zellersasn-firmware-update.html

As with a lot of what I buy, if you play in a covers band, or a blues band, or pretty much most bands, it's probably not for you.

If you like making weird noises with only a vague idea of what you're doing most of the time, then it's ideal

I like doing both and everything in between, pretty much. 

soma1975

BintyTwanger77 said:

Sassafras said:

That all looks very logical and super intuitive.

Any pedal that has a UI that looks like the controls for a Soviet-era nuclear reactor just screams "user-friendly", doesn't it?

Needs a couple of Farndurk pedals either side of it to finish off the aesthetic.