Nux Pedals - more cheapies

UnclePsychosis

Anyone seen these on eBay? 

I picked up the "time core" for £35 delivered and it arrived today. The spec is mental for the price:

7 delay modes: 40s looper (!), reverse, modulated, pan, ping pong, analog, digital, and tape. 

Tap Tempo

Does that "trailing echos" thing when you switch it off

Stereo Outputs

True Bypass (apparently). 

To top it all off its tiny. Looking at it, it looks like its based on a TC Electronic Flashback but the controls are different so maybe not. 

Anyway, I had a (very quick) play with it earlier. Initial impressions are a mixed bag but 80% positive: I think it sounds great and there are a good mixture of wacky noises and very usable normal delay sounds. The bad thing is that working the tap tempo seems a bit confusing. I'm also not sure how much abuse the switch can handle, but mine is just intended for bedroom noodling so I'm sure it'll be fine. Definitely recommended at £35! I'm quite tempted by the "mod core" now.

I did a quick demo. I literally just plugged stuff in and started playing, so the levels are a bit odd and the playing is just stream of consciousness stuff. There's a few seconds of the bypassed sound and then I switch the delay on. Everything from that point on is just me, the guitar, and the delay pedal. 

https://soundcloud.com/unclepsychosis/nux-timecore-demo

monquixote

£23 here

http://www.donnerdeal.com/nux-mod-core-guitar-effect-pedal-blue.html

UnclePsychosis

monquixote said:

£23 here

http://www.donnerdeal.com/nux-mod-core-guitar-effect-pedal-blue.html

Crikey. At that price I'm tempted to get one even though I don't really need any more modulation...

Sporky

True bypass with trails? That seems improbable.

UnclePsychosis

Sporky said:

True bypass with trails? That seems improbable.

Yes I realised that after typing it. You can switch off the trails, maybe its true bypass when you do that. Not that I really care, it sounds perfectly acceptable in bypass mode. 

EricTheWeary

Scratching my head where I had seen Nux before. Argos.

stonevibe

Cool. I just ordered one, for that money could be a useful.

Sporky

UnclePsychosis said:

Sporky said:

True bypass with trails? That seems improbable.

Yes I realised that after typing it. You can switch off the trails, maybe its true bypass when you do that. Not that I really care, it sounds perfectly acceptable in bypass mode. 

Aye - no point being cork-sniffy about it.

You could do TB and have trails by splitting the bypass and having a timer-based relay to go TB once the trails had died away, but frankly that'd be daft.

Grumpyrocker

If it's anything like the TC Electronic Toneprint pedals you can have trails but it changes from true-bypass to buffered. On the TC pedals you can also choose buffered and have trails off.

chrisj1602

Look at this one...

Nux Time Force

digitalscream

chrisj1602 said:

Look at this one...

Nux Time Force

Ooooo....that looks interesting. The manual's rather amusing, though. Here's the list of models:

It looks like somebody did a find-and-replace of "mod" with "Time". In any case...the only mode I was particularly interested in is the "Multi-Head", but they seem to have confused that with a tremolo-based setting.

chrisj1602

Interested in trying the PING PANG.

On a serious note though, I'm tempted by the Mod Core...

£27.40 delivered. It's from Hong Kong, via eBay/Paypal so not concerned about that.

BadBoyKane

chrisj1602 said:

Look at this one...

Nux Time Force

Even cheaper here:

Works out roughly £40 delivered (will be 2-3 weeks delivery though)

HERE

This is the one I remember Argos used to sell, dunno if they still do or not:

It was a little portable thing:

BadBoyKane

chrisj1602 said:

Look at this one...

Nux Time Force

Even cheaper here:

Works out roughly £40 delivered (will be 2-3 weeks delivery though)

HERE

This is the one I remember Argos used to sell, dunno if they still do or not:

It was a little portable thing:

EricTheWeary

yep, that's the thing they had in Argos, although not in the current catalogue. There is a Nux Modcore on eBay, was about £15 when I spotted it earlier. Although really I want a Time Force just so I can use Ping Pang.

digitalscream

Demo here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9X5_RMiZ2Q

Looks like the multi-head mode might actually do what I want it to. I'm not expecting this to be a Timefactor or Timeline substitute, but if it can get most of the way there...

MattG

Just managed to scoop up the timefactor for £25 delivered off of ebay which is ideal as i only need it for the odd rendition of monster by the automatic and for the intro to welcome to the jungle!
i'll let you know how it is when it arrives

RedRabbit

chrisj1602 said:

Interested in trying the PING PANG.

On a serious note though, I'm tempted by the Mod Core...

£27.40 delivered. It's from Hong Kong, via eBay/Paypal so not concerned about that.

Just ordered one.  I'm a cheapskate so opted for the free delivery - £23 in total.

Provided it works and sound half decent it should be ideal for me.  I don't need modulation effects often so I don't want a dedicated pedal for each.

Si_

That Time Force looks really interesting for the price.. would be ideal for my little spare board.

benmurray85

im not a modulation fan at all but at £30 that seems like a no brainer

Si_

Just ordered one of the Time Force pedals, seems a steal for the price.. £47 inc shipping.