ThorpyFX Pulse Doppler settings

digitalkettle

After my 'Camoflange' thread, here's another to share settings for this extremely tweakable phaser.

Here are the six settings from the manual (approximately)...

Sound FX:

• Enhance: 05:00
• Manual: 01:00
• Depth: 01:00
• Blend: 11:30
• Toggle #1: dual
• Toggle #2: normal
• Rate: 02:00
• Vib/Phase: on

Classic Phase:

• Enhance: 03:30
• Manual: 11:00
• Depth: 10:00
• Blend: 11:00
• Toggle #1: dual
• Toggle #2: normal
• Rate: 08:00
• Vib/Phase: off

Thin/Hollow:

• Enhance: 05:00
• Manual: 11:00
• Depth: 11:30
• Blend: 01:30
• Toggle #1: dual
• Toggle #2: pulse
• Rate: 09:00
• Vib/Phase: on

Faux Trem:

• Enhance: 00:15
• Manual: 08:00
• Depth: 03:00
• Blend: 00:30
• Toggle #1: infinity
• Toggle #2: normal
• Rate: 01:00
• Vib/Phase: off

Fat Pulse:

• Enhance: 01:00
• Manual: 10:30
• Depth: 11:45
• Blend: 01:00
• Toggle #1: dual
• Toggle #2: invert
• Rate: 00:00
• Vib/Phase: off

Slow Vibrato:

• Enhance: 09:00
• Manual: 11:00
• Depth: 11:30
• Blend: 01:00
• Toggle #1: dual
• Toggle #2: invert
• Rate: 08:30
• Vib/Phase: on

(settings given in clock positions)

Note 1: small tweaks of the 'Manual' control really affect each setting

Note 2: if 'Vib/Phase' is on, the 'Blend' control is redundant

Keefy

Univibe:

Enhance 4
Manual 4
Depth 4
Blend 5
DUAL
NORMAL
Speed to taste
Works in both PHASE and VIB modes

digitalkettle

More Betterer Classic Phase:

• Enhance: 02:00
• Manual: 11:00
• Depth: 09:00
• Blend: 00:00
• Toggle #1: dual
• Toggle #2: normal
• Rate: 08:00
• Vib/Phase: off

Fuengi

digitalkettle said:

More Betterer Classic Phase:

• Enhance: 02:00
• Manual: 11:00
• Depth: 09:00
• Blend: 00:00
• Toggle #1: dual
• Toggle #2: normal
• Rate: 08:00
• Vib/Phase: off

This is a great setting with a bit of drive, add some analogue delay for the start of a War On Drugs tone. 

digitalkettle

Fuengi said:

This is a great setting with a bit of drive, add some analogue delay for the start of a War On Drugs tone. 

Excellent...glad it's of use..."bit of drive, add some analogue delay" is generally where I live

Tbh, there's so much scope with this pedal...but I don't find it very intuitive...so I tend to dial in classic phase and leave it alone ;-/

Was hoping other contributions to this thread would educate me.

digitalkettle

Grand Orbit:

• Enhance: 03:00
• Manual: 11:00
• Depth: 00:00
• Blend: 01:00
• Toggle #1: infinity
• Toggle #2: invert
• Rate: 07:30
• Vib/Phase: off

Tried this into some gain with some big high bends...reminded me of Brian May!

Fuengi

digitalkettle said:

Grand Orbit:

• Enhance: 03:00
• Manual: 11:00
• Depth: 00:00
• Blend: 01:00
• Toggle #1: infinity
• Toggle #2: invert
• Rate: 07:30
• Vib/Phase: off

Tried this into some gain with some big high bends...reminded me of Brian May!

This is fabulous. 

Moe_Zambeek

While I do have mine for sale, I’ve been enjoying mucking around with it still. So many sounds, some of the great ones listed here, and also the weirdness of having some settings that do…nothing too  

I think it must have a very good buffer in it too, like my Zvex Sonar just having it on adds a certain presence and shimmer. Very nice. 

Fuengi

Moe_Zambeek said:

While I do have mine for sale, I’ve been enjoying mucking around with it still. So many sounds, some of the great ones listed here, and also the weirdness of having some settings that do…nothing too  

I think it must have a very good buffer in it too, like my Zvex Sonar just having it on adds a certain presence and shimmer. Very nice. 

Yes. It makes everything shine doesn't it? 

tone1

Does it do Univibe well? 

Moe_Zambeek

@tone1 it’s possible to get a univibe-esque noise out of it, as with many phasers, but if you’re a big fan of univibe it’s not as good as a real photocell vibe - nothing is IME. 

I do like univibe but personally can never find a use for it in a band, and in my hands even a real univibe never sounds the way I want it to - like Trower and Hendrix really - but then I don’t play like them in any way either, nor do I have a rig like theirs.

My favourite settings with the PD are where phaser meets tremolo really. It does some cool pulse sounds.