Z. VEX MACHINE
One of Mr. Vex’s boxes that never got a Vexter
version is the Machine, an ungodly cacophonous dirt
box that confuses almost every player with which it
comes into contact. Much like the Jen HF Modulator
discussed earlier, nobody buys the Machine to run
it singularly; its biggest strength is in its stacking
prowess. You see, the Machine is called a “crossover
distortion.” This means that instead of distorting the
peaks of a waveform like 99 percent of dirt boxes
out there, it distorts only the stuff “in between” the
peaks, such as the ramps up and down. When using
the Machine by itself, players can hear the clean signal
sort of “floating” over the distortion, and this is why.
Stacking the Machine with any dirt box distorts the
entire waveform and obliterates one’s tone in the
best way possible.
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