Smoothhound trying to take on Helix / Fractal etc!

fretmeister

https://www.smoothhound-innovations.com/



Be interesting to see how this goes.

SmoothHoundUK

Now you put it like that ...

EricTheWeary

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/206128/smooth-hound-siva-multieffects-unit#latest

bit more there.

@smoothhounduk do have a log on to this forum.  

SmoothHoundUK

@EricTheWeary ;
Yes.

EricTheWeary

SmoothHoundUK said:

@EricTheWeary ;
Yes.

That worked! Now 'I wish I had a million pounds, I wish I had a million pounds...' 

SmoothHoundUK

EricTheWeary said:

SmoothHoundUK said:

@EricTheWeary ;
Yes.

That worked! Now 'I wish I had a million pounds, I wish I had a million pounds...' 

I hear ya.

fastonebaz

What does SIVA mean? 

SmoothHoundUK

fastonebaz said:

What does SIVA mean? 

It's one of a Gnu style SIVA Is Virtual Analogue or Smoothhound Innovations Virtual Analogue. You can take your pick really. I prefer the first, people who know stuff about marketing tell me to use the latter!

SmoothHoundUK

My wife doesn't like it because she says it looks like AVIS, Which it does accidentally.

sev112

Looks like Pac-Man is eating your effects chain

SmoothHoundUK

@sev112 ; ... no you've got me there.

Jonathangus

sev112 said:

Looks like a Pac-Man ghost is eating your effects chain

FTFY.

sev112

Jonathangus said:

sev112 said:

Looks like a Pac-Man ghost is eating your effects chain

FTFY.

You are indeed correct - my memory failed me.
at least someone else spotted it too

TeleMaster

Robot Wars. 

SmoothHoundUK

My pal Dave Barlow has made a video for me. Hope this hits some more notes here.

John_A

Dave is brilliant!  Really likeable, a good player, and the Siva sounds great in that video.

the ‘set’ could do with a bit more polish, like the made in UK angle, but it comes over a bit ‘made in a shed’. I know it's Dave's shed, but a demo in a better setting would be great

watching progress with interest 

BintyTwanger77

This looks really great, really promising. Is there an FX loop option for delay-mad eejits like me to add more delays/reverbs?

SmoothHoundUK

Yes, SIVA has two FX loops.

mark_jwedge

I’m watching this with interest, very keen to see some more videos. I dipped my toe into the modeller world with a HX stomp which has now become integral to my board. Even before lockdown the amount of gigs I could use my 50w valve amp at where getting less so I keep looking at all in one modellers. 

Jonathangus

"Bucks '76 : Stacked input stages for high gain master volume 50W"

<pedant> The 50-watters from that neck of the woods didn't get the cascaded preamp until 1977 </pedant>    

SmoothHoundUK

Jonathangus said:

"Bucks '76 : Stacked input stages for high gain master volume 50W"

<pedant> The 50-watters from that neck of the woods didn't get the cascaded preamp until 1977 </pedant>    

Very interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. It seems the schematic for this model number changed. The first issue I've found is dated 11/11/76 and, as you say, it doesn't include the cascaded preamp.