Took the bitquest off for now. This is the board and settings for the punk rock show tonight.

I bought a TC Electronic Polytune when they were first released. It was such an amazing piece of work.

Over time, as my other pedals got better, my power supplies became isolated, and my board became based around making my tone more than my amp did, i realized that the polytune was emitting a steady pulse of "light breathing" or a "distant waterfall" only when actively tuning with polytune mode active. Not enough to matter unless youre playing a gig and your cab is mic'd and all your drive pedals are still on. So i throw it in the drawer and replace it with a korg pitch black, a TU2, a TU3, and eventually just whatever tuner wasnt a polytune. I was mad.

I tried to sell it, because noise when youre supposed to be quiet is bad. And no one believed me. Well after numerous guitarists and bass players in my bands were made aware of the issue within their own rigs, i had convinced an army of players to ditch the polytune one. The problem was fixed in the polytune 2.

Anywho, i recently embraced the idea of "noise within the silence" because whats worse than unexpected noise between songs at a gig? SILENCE BETWEEN SONGS. So when i have pedals now that love to make noise and have allowed me to embrace and even take control of the noise, what is the best thing to have between songs when tuning? A pedal that makes a subtle pulsing breath of waterfall noise. Its consistent, predictable and it sounds cool as hell through a CT5 with the pitch knob cranked into a fuzz and an echo degrader.

The sound itself is very irritating by itself and apparently only the polytune1 does it.

The sandblasted finish and decal with matching barefoot button is merely my homage to Robocop. The coolest looking car since the Delorean and all they did was blow one up. Just like I wanted to do to this damn pedal for years. So glad i kept it.

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