MF-102 Ring Mod - Your Favorite Settings

Just took delivey of the MF-102 and would really love to find a variety of some good sample settings to at least get me going so that I can develope my own. Do you have any that you would like to share? Is there a good reference pub on this? Any help would of course be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Check out GregAE’s ‘Lord of the Ring (Modulator)’ article on MoogSpace:

https://www.moogmusic.com/members/?section=files&file_section=4&cat_id=32&file_id=41&sortxxx=order%20by%20

Should help you with the RM.

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I like the subtle settings…low mix…high frequency…also…sometimes I tend to use it with very low frequency for vibrato or tremelo effects.

I like where the LFO resyncs & makes it sound like a double tremolo effect.

Thanks guys!! This really helps.

my favourite setting?

“ON” of course :sunglasses:

The RM is SOOOoooo versatile!

There are a bunch, but here are a few that I’m using a lot:

Very slow freq, to make a nice deep tremolo, and then just a touch of very slow LFO, so the trem speed is always varying a little. I find this adds enough variety to keep the trem from sounding too mechanical.

With fuzz guitar, I like to set the frequency just to the point where the effect switches from fast trem to a growl (where you can start to hear the sum and difference tones, but the overall impression is still a nasty fast wobble). Then I dial this in and out with an expression pedal plugged into MIX. It’s great for soloing, and I use it almost the same way I would a whammy bar. But this effect needs to be dialed in to the region of the fretboard you’re basing the solo around, because a freq setting that’s nicely on the edge in one register will not be right for much higher or lower notes.

I really love, with pianos or clean guitar, setting up bell-like tones. For me that’s usually with the freq about 1/4-1/3 up in the Hi range, and mix at 50%.

One last one … if you have access to an envelope follower (like on the MF-101 filter), it can be a lot of fun to modulate the carrier frequency with it. Sometimes I use this on LO frequency ranges for touch-sensitive trem speed, and sometimes on HI ranges for touch-sensitive scronk.

Excellent!! Thank you. Please tell me more about your “Bell Tone” settings.

Scott -

What instrument are you using with the RM?

BTW - Nice reference to Genesis in your signature.
:slight_smile:

I think of it in terms of four basic regions, and I like to call them: tremolo, growl, bells, and shimmer. Here’s a quick explanation of how they come about. This is all explained in terms of what happens when you keep the input frequency constant and slowly increase the carrier frequency. Also, the description below assumes you have MIX set to 50% (so that you are always hearing three pitches: input, sum, and difference).

For any given input frequency, when the carrier frequency is very low it will sound like tremolo. This happens because the sum and difference tones are so close in frequency to the input that they don’t sound like distinct notes of their own. You only notice them because they cause interference patterns (which is the trem effect). As you increase the carrier frequency, the sum and difference tones get farther away from the input frequency. At a certain point, it starts to sound like a rough growling effect, because you are starting to hear it as three different notes, but they are very close together. As you keep raising the carrier frequency past that, the spread gets greater and greater, so it really sounds like three different pitches. That’s the range I call “bell tones.” As you keep increasing the carrier frequency even further, you reach a point where both the sum and difference tones will be higher than the input pitch. For a while this still sounds like bells, because the spacing of the three pitches is still relatively close. But as you keep increasing carrier frequency, the sum and difference tones begin to get so high that they sound like a very high shimmering sound completely disconnected from the input. A lot of people like to crank the carrier frequency and keep the MIX almost dry, so they get just a little of this shimmer for ambiance.

I hope that clarifies things a little. Let me know if anything needs more explanation…

nice description, thanks.

I 2nd that! :smiley:

Guitar.

Yes this helps tremendously. Thank you very much.

Thanks for recognizing the signature. Not many people catch that or know what it means. I was one of the lucky ones to see them do The Lamb… in 1975. It changed my life and my whole approach to music. I also managed to snap a few good shots which I still have.