Snazzy FX The Tracer City

via Snazzy FX.

"If you are a DJ, producer, sound designer, keyboard player, bassist, or a guitarist in a band; if you are looking for one piece of original analog hardware to transform your creative setup - the TRACER CITY is the box.

SNAZZY FX designed the TRACER CITY to provide a whole range of new textures, from envelope follower effects to filtered tremolo, from aggressive filter sweeps and subtle coloration, all the way on through completely bizarre tones which have little to do with the incoming signal. This box is made to suit your musical personality with enormous room to grow.

Featuring a true analog multi-mode resonant filter and powered by Synth level power rails, the TRACER CITY is perfect for tweaking drum loops or live drums, synths, bass, field recordings, or anything else you feel like putting through it.

TRACER CITY has the ability to handle line or guitar levels and enough gain to drive the signal into smooth overdrive. With control of cutoff, resonance, linear or Exponential modulation, this is a box you can get great sounds with - even if you have never used an analog synth before. There are two, yes two, modulation sources; an envelope follower with up and down modes, and two external CV or Audio (FM) inputs, each with their own Depth and Expo/Lin switches.

There is very little that the TRACER CITY can't do, be it beautiful, weird or wild, you will always have truly unique sounds. This is a hands on device offering a wealth of possibilities with enormous potential for sound shaping.

You can plug in a drum loop, set the filter, start turning up the modulation, and if you really want to have some fun, you can plug in two more sources! One could be a CV source from your modular or analog synth, and one could be another drum loop or guitar part. The CV source will modulate the signal just like the built in modulation sources, and the external audio will cause Frequency Modulation of the signal.

The TRACER CITY features +/- 15 volt rails (similar to the rails found in analog synthesizers) powered by a standard barrel connector 9 volt DC adapter. This means greater head-room, which translates into a better tone. And like all SNAZZY FX products, it features True Bypass and a Seriously Heavy Duty Box with SNAZZY Graphics that will not only stand the test of time, but will turn heads wherever you take them."

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Snazzy FX pedals explored by Artur Punte poetry

Published on Aug 1, 2018 Erica Synths

"Artur Punte takes different approach to Snazzy FX pedals.

Setup:
1) Voice record goes to the Wow and Flutter's input
2) Output signal from the Wow and Flutter goes to the Tracer City
3) The same voice record* signal splitted to The Mini-Ark as well
4) Square-wave output from The Mini-Ark goes to the Expression pedal input of the Tracer City
5) Signal from CV output of The Mini-Ark the CV input of the Tracer City
6) Output form the Tracer City, The Mini-Ark and voice record* go directly to a mixer

Record from the mixer's monitor output as it is – no effects, no postproduction or mastering.

* Poem "Today I Understood" by Artur Punte (translated by Kevin M. F. Platt), voice: Jayde Will

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Manufactured in Latvia by Erica Synths now pedals are put in more compact heavy duty boxes with solid build quality keeping the authentic sound of the SnazzyFX pedals from the original run and will not only stand the test of time but will turn heads wherever you take them. Effects are great to use not only for guitar & bass players but experimental musicians and synthesists as well both in live and studio set up.

More from Artur Punte/Orbita:
http://www.orbita.lv"

SNAZZY FX:Tracer City Env Follower...with piezo pickup

Published on Nov 22, 2014 snazelle

"All sounds are created by the "pulse" of the piezo pickup ( monoprice guitar pickup -$4.00) hitting the Snazzy FX Tracer City's adjustable envelope follower...which causes the resonant filter to move..making "synthy" or percussive sounds( with a lot of nice low end bass) The env follower is adjustable for up or down cutoff as well as lag and later in the video the other tracer cv sources are brought in as well...this all is going through a delay pedal. The tracer city is long out of production ( soon passing it's torch to the Tidal Wave ) but it's still a fun box. with little more than a can or stick to bang out, it can single handedly provide lots of sound exploration."

Snazzy FX Vids via Kayzer

Snazzy FX - Tracer City

YouTube via xtimehascomex | June 29, 2010 | 4:11

"http://www.effekt-boutique.de - The Tracer City combined with various effects like fuzz, delay and an oscillator! From wired noise to sweet filter sweeps and right back to whale songs..."

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Future Retro Revolution Videos by n3bsvid

YouTube Uploaded by n3bsvid

Playlist:

1) Revolution + Tracer City + B:Assmaster + XBase 888 = Sunday afternoon acid - "Just a quick little acid jam. Slight post work in ableton live. Hardware: Future Retro Revolution 2 Snazzy FX Tracer City Malekko B:Assmaster Jomox XBase 888 Plugins: Ableton Live standard reverb PSP Vintage Warmer 2"

2) Future Retro Revolution + XBase 888 + MF-103 - "Hardware: Future Retro Revolution Jomox XBase 888 Moog MF-103 Software: Ableton Live filter delay + amp"

3) Revolution + XBase 888 + Ableton Live = The light - "Just a quick jam. Hardware: Future retro revolution 2 Jomox Xbase 888 Novation 25SL MK2 Software: Various effects from Ableton Live"

SNAZZYTINY SYNTH 1.mov

snazelle | August 09, 2010

"An old 80's Casio synth with the TRACER CITY, and the WOW and Flutter.
Sound was taken from the the casio's headphone out, which though less than ideal, is one way of getting the sound out of the synth and into the pedals.

This video demonstrates some of the fun you can have just picking ANY random sound source, drums being a particularly good source of fun. The envelope follower section of the Tracer City is in use, as are some of the pitch warbling properties of the Wow and Flutter. This is going through a guitar amp, which adds a lot of grit."

SNAZZYFX BASS 1.mov

YouTube via snazelle | August 09, 2010

"THE FIRST SNAZZY FX BASS GUITAR VIDEO...FEATURES ALL THREE SNAZZY PEDALS, BEING USED WITH THE DIRTY CHANNEL OF A GUITAR AMP. (and later clean channel)

more bass videos to come (yes, you can get TONS of low end out of these boxes) they are perfect for use with bass or bass synth."

Snazzy FX Pedals (Tracer City, Mini-Ark) With Synth & Guitar + Contest To Win A Wow & Flutter

Published on Feb 6, 2019 Perfect Circuit

"Comment on this video [on Youtube] before Midnight Pacific Standard Time 2/13/2019 For a chance to win this Snazzy FX Wow & Flutter delay pedal (we will pick a random comment as the winner). The contest is only open to US residents. Make sure you check back into the comments section after the 14th to see if you won, we will respond to the winning commenter letting them know that they won.

This video shows all three of the Snazzy FX pedals made by Snazzy LV with both a Make Noise 0-Coast synth and a guitar. The Wow & Flutter is a delay with the sound of a worn out wobbly tape machine. The Tracer City is an analog state variable filter with both envelope follower and LFO modulation options as well as external CV inputs. The Mini-Ark is a monophonic tracking synth pedal that works with bass or guitar and has a crazy and chaotic sound.

Available here: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/snazzy-lv

Official Rules:
1. You must subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
2. You must comment on this video before Midnight PST 2/13/2019.
3. The winning comment will be chosen at random.

This contest is sponsored by Perfect Circuit & Snazzy LV and is in no way affiliated with YouTube. For more information about contest rules check out YouTube Community Guidelines https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/poli..."

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NAMM: SNAZZY FX TRACER CITY DEMO AT NAMM 2010

YouTube via snazelle
"Dan from SNAZZY FX gives a quick rundown of THE TRACER CITY from their booth at NAMM 2010. You can find this and other SNAZZY FX products at http://snazzyfx.com .

GET READY TO FREAK OUT "

SNAZZY FX: Tracer City 3- Costa Rica-Charlie Lindsay

YouTube via snazelle

"This is a short film shot in Costa Rica by artist, videographer, and SNAZZY FX co-conspirator Charles Lindsay. The soundtrack is a combination of field recordings, and cello fed through the Snazzy FX TRACER CITY
To see more of Charles Lindsay's work go to http://charliesexperiment.com . For more information about SNAZZY FX products - go to http://snazzyfx.com."

Snazzy FX: Mini-Ark, Tracer City and Wow and Flutter

via Kayzer on Harmony Central

"I picked these babys up on Friday from Thilo who is running the German Pedal shop effektboutique, props to this guy for getting me the Snazzy Landmines from the very first batch! Its probably the heaviest New Pedal Day of my life since these Boxes are Gigantic and Heavy as f**k! They are very well made and will properly withstand a 3rd world war…

The Mini Ark is an analog harmoniser, synth style pedal that adds up to 3 harmonies to your guitar signal, variouse vibrato shapes and noisy soundscapes, infinite hold of harmonies via infinity switch (while still be able to play over the hold note), sustain mode holds the note you are playing until you play a new one that will be hold and so on… The Mini Ark also has a CV out, that means you can connect it to the CV in of other pedals and control these. That’s a pretty sick feature and I will get a demo of this up as soon as possible… The Tracking is quite nice and the sound is very thick n chewy…!

The WOW and Flutter could be described as Envelope Pitch Vibrato Delay! It can be used as a normal delay or delay with a nice amount of modulation but where the pedal really shines are sick twisted down pitched repeats depending on how hard you pick… While playing some nice delayed and slightly picked stuff you can change your picking style and hit the strings a bit harder and stop the chord to achieve down pitched vibrato repeat insanity!

The Tracer City is probably the Pedal with the most knobs and switches I ve ever seen in my whole live. I will come up with a demo of this beast later since time was short and I focused on doing demos for the other 2 pedals! Feel free to subscribe to my youtube to dont miss these upcoming clips...

Dan Snazzle watched my videos and asked me about sharing his thoughts and additional infos with you. Here we go:

Quote:
"'Hi this is Dan with some answers to questions

1. The wow and flutter is a digital delay that is analog voiced. You can set it to do very basic normal delay.

2. The mini-ark can work for fast input signals (nintendo sounds, drum beats, etc) BUT you have to set the gate/sustain switch to GATE and mess with the INPUT SENS control. (all sources act a bit differently) and put the magical selector into preset one.

Also, you want to turn the HOLD knob to zero in those cases. The knob labelled HOLD is a normal octave down that is taken BEFORE the Octave and Interval switches. So it is much dirtier and is great for having an octave once you kick in the infinite turn on but often just adds grunge to the input (which is sometimes a great thing and sometimes makes it harder to get clean tracking)

I noticed in Dennis's videos that it was turned up. There is nothing wrong with turning it up BUT you get a much different sound when you turn it down. I also like to mess with using mainly dirty input and just a hair of octave and interval. There are so many ways you can change your sound buy just using the mixer section.

Also, depending on how high you set the octaves, you get a much more "normal" sound that responds differently. Presets 2-8 are meant for vibrato and will not track as quickly since they arent meant to.

thanks so much guys!!! and thanks dennis for the great videos!

dan'"

see this post for the videos

via Analogue Haven's flickr feed.

"Three new pedals from Snazzy FX have arrived! For more details: www.analoguehaven.com/snazzyfx/."

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SNAZZY FX WOW AND FLUTTER 1.mov

YouTube via snazelle.

Synth connection: this one came in via the synth diy list and had some help from Mark Verbos. Also click here and scroll for prior snazelle videos posted here on MATRIXSYNTH. The SNAZZY FX Wow and Flutter is one of the first three products coming from the newly formed SNAZZY FX and is thus a little bit of synth history.

Video description:
"here is a quick demo of the Snazzy FX wow and flutter. This is one of the three products I am releasing at NAMM in 2 weeks. it is a pretty full featured box, with super heavy duty steel box, with beautiful graphics, and an extremely versatily set of controls. I like this box a lot because you can sit around with it for hours and keep getting intersting sounds. from sort of chorus/or comb filtering stuff to delay, to weird messed up tape effects (which are a lot easier to hear on a mix then they are on a guitar) to pitch shifting.

this box can take line or guitar level and can go from clean to slightly overdriven.

retail price will be announced at Namm.

for pre-orders contact

overlord snazzyfx.com"

via dan snazelle on the sdiy list:

"As some of you may have noticed lately i have been a bit absent from the list. this is mainly due to how damn busy i have been trying to get my three products ready for NAMM, with my new company, SNAZZY FX.

mark verbos has been a super big help throughout the development of these products (all the circuit boards were designed by him)

i wont get into too much detail at the moment about the three products and i must apologize about the poor audio quality of this video, but i will be posting a few more links in the next week or so, and giving more information on the three products.

the wow and flutter is at this moment the least knob laden of the three boxes. the tracer city has over 20 controls. the mini-ark (based on the tracking section from the audio ark) has about 10 controls, but one of these is a "magical selector" 1-8 preset rotary switch.

as you can probably imagine, things are crazy for me right now, assembling boxes, getting orders of parts in, and picking up boxes from the silkscreen shop. these are are what i will be taking to NAMM but i might make a few changes such as paint type,etc when i go into production (i think the final boxes will be powder coated)

by the way, the two more complex boxes both run off of TRUE 12 or 15 +/- rails with a 9v (though not recommended on the tracer city do to current drain) batt or 9v dc adapter (boss adapter recommended)

anyway...just thought id let you all know that I will have three products out in Jan 2010.

i will be posting some more stuff soon

thanks!"

Tracer City Demo #2

YouTube via snazelle
"Here's another demonstration of The Tracer City by Dan Snazelle of SNAZZY FX. For more information, go to http://snazzyfx.com."

tracer wow filter sludge.MOV

YouTube via snazelle | August 10, 2010

"here is some afternoon rock on the tracer city and wow and flutter"

Update:

WOW DIST PITCH1

snazelle | August 10, 2010

Superbooth 2018: Snazzy FX pedal range

Published on May 5, 2018 Future Music Magazine

Wow and Flutter - tape, glitch, noise!
Tracer City - crazy analogue modulation.
Mini-ark - guitar-synth (not only for guitar players).

NOT NAMM: miniark.mov

YouTube via snazelle

"here is a very basic video of the 2nd snazzy fx product- the mini ark

(some of you know about last years audio ark)

(you can hear a bit of the actual dry guitar because the camera was so close to my guitar)

anyway, lots and lots of people asked me to make a box based on the audio ark. and this is what i came up with. It was originally designed for guitar, cello, and field recordings.on guitar it sounds much more like a tracking system/harmony pedal. on drums, bowed instruments, field recordings, and noise, it gets very unpredictable and you can always rely on it to create something unique. Right now this is my favorite to play with.


here is the product description

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Snazzy FX Pedals are Back

"the snazzy fx pedals are getting rereleased.

the old supercool crazy psychedelic cult stompboxes.

www.snazzyfx.com

designed by new york techno & abstract electronica artist dan snazelle
https://soundcloud.com/loss1234


the Wow and Flutter 300 EUR + vat + shipping
tape glitch noise pedal

the Mini-ark pedal 350 EUR + vat + shipping
guitar-synth (not only for guitarplayers)

and the supercrazy Tracer City 390 EUR + vat + shipping
analog modulation pedal

release-date: 25/4/2018

the rerelease is manufactured by rigabased company "erica synths" in cooperation with snazzy fx.

all 3 pedals are for synthplayers, guitar- & bassplayers, experimental musicians, souddesigners, beatprogrammers for studio and on-stage use."

Erica Synths Announces MUSIC FOR PEACE WE STAND WITH UKRAINE Campaign

via Erica Synths

SUPPORT UKRAINE BY PURCHASING INSTRUMENTS

Erica Synths continues to stand with the people of Ukraine and we will donate all of the income - both manufacturing costs and profit - from our sales of several instruments to humanitarian aid organizations helping in Ukraine and providing support where it is needed the most.

Donations will be made via the biggest charity agency in Latvia - ziedot.lv and for full transparency we will publicly inform about the donations made. This will involve the following instruments - Black Digital Noise, Black Dual EG/LFO, Sequential Switch II & Snazzy FX - Mini Ark, Wow & Flutter, Tracer City.

The campaign will be on-going until all stock is sold out and ABSOLUTELY ALL INCOME will be donated.

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Moog Little Phatty & DSI Prophet 08 Videos by n3bsvid

YouTube Uploaded by n3bsvid

Playlist:

1) Moog Little Phatty + MF-104z + MF-102 - "A little ambient improv with the little phatty running through a ring modulator and analog delay."

2) Little Phatty + Prophet08 + XBase888 = Latin Phaser - "Drums: Jomox XBase 888 Bass+Chords: DSI Prophet 08 Lead arpeggio: Moog Little Phatty through MF-103+MF-104z and Snazzy FX Tracer City. The little phatty's filter cutoff is being modulated by a CP-251 LFO."

3) DSI Prophet 08 + Moog Little Phatty progression - "Delay and reverb from Ableton Live."

4) Prophet 08 + MF-101 + Goatkeeper 3 - "Prophet 08 going through a goatkeeper 3 (this provides that gate sequencer effect). It's then routed through a MF-101 whose cutoff is being modulated by an LFO from the CP-251."

5) Moog Little Phatty + XBase 888 = More Delay Please - "Delay + Reverb from Ableton Live."

6) Little Phatty + Prophet 08 + Xbase 888 = Ambient improv - "Hardware: Moog Little Phatty Stage 2 Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08 Jomox XBase 888"

MSHR - Liquid Conglomerate Presence Cycle

video by FACTmagazine

"MSHR is the audiovisual performance collective of artists Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy, a collaborative project focused on the building and exploration of sculptural electronic systems, cybernetic sessions that are captured as AV compositions, installation work and live performances. For the last decade they have toured the world with their unique, improvisational live show, centered around self-built analog synthesizers that use feedback from light and movement to create dense sonic landscapes. This innately somatic approach to synthesis is complemented with reactive visuals that form city-like circuitscapes, which are themselves extruded from diagrams describing the signal flow of MSHR’s electronic musical systems.

“The physical design of our musical interfaces comes out of our installation practice. It is important for the interfaces to have a poetic logic and facilitate deep, intuitive playing,” they explain. “This work explores the intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using digital chip conglomerates run as analog circuits and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects.”

Liquid Conglomerate Presence Cycle marks 10 years of their singular performance practice, serving as a multimedia document of both the sound and visuals of their live show. The film is split into four chapters, Symbiotic Vocal Weave, Knotted Presence Tracer, Light Pulse Formation and Liquid Hand, with each chapter featuring a different improvisation with its own cybernetic framework. Recorded during a residency at the sound art organization Sonoscopia in Porto, Portugal, Cooper and Murphy describe Liquid Conglomerate Presence Cycle as a “a prism for the live set,” one that showcases the improvisational, exploratory DNA of their performance practice.

“In performing this composition, we act as agents within a synthetic ecosystem,” they say. “Improvisation inside a light-audio feedback system feels like moving stones in a river, interacting with an environment to shift the flow of its elements. These recordings capture the sonic dimension of raw electricity surging through a morphing constellation of analog computer chips, flashing bulbs and extreme (in)human presence.”

“This exploration comes out of an ongoing fascination with the emergent complexity displayed by the interwoven biological, ecological and technological structures that frame our experience as embodied humans today.” they continue. “Constructing and exploring our own synthetic generative systems is our way of engaging with these unperceivable fundamental forms.” Editing glimpses of live footage into the refractive textures of their lysergic circuit landscapes, MSHR visualise the emergence of the human from within the machine.

As much a response to their unique approach to improvisation as it is to the complex spatial theory that is central to their work, the pair have developed a reactive visual language to interpret the insertion of somatic gestures into electronic forms. Over its four chapters Liquid Conglomerate Presence Cycle represents a comprehensive statement from the duo in this language, tying together the many facets of their varied audiovisual practice.

Liquid Conglomerate Presence Cycle will be released collaboratively by Sonoscopia and Ehse Records. The sounds Liquid Conglomerate Presence Cycle of will be available via Ehse Records on May 14."