Anyone out there tried the Frostwave line of pedals? Would love to hear your reviews.

I have not personally played any of them , but the soundclips are fascinating.

I have 'known' Paul Perry of Frostwave online for a few years, and his repuataion for outstanding quality is good.
I have the Funk-a Duck on my short wantlist.

I use the Frostwave Blue Ringer ringmod, and I couldn't be happier with it. I've always treated ring modulators as a freakish, special-effect atonal bend, but this machine can actually be very beautiful. It doubles as a tremolo for my live rig, as well.

Thunderpuppy, do use the Frostwave Ring Modulator through an amp effects loop? Or do you plug it into your guitar to amp chain?

Mesadude

It's in the chain... I built pedal boards out of suitcases, and my effects run: True Bypass Loop (switching off a compressor, Digitech Whammy, and MXR Blue Box-- my "pitch section") to a ZVex Machine, to the Frostwave Blue Ringer, MoogerFooger Phaser, Trus Bypass (loop on/off, and selector between a ProCo Rat and a Big Muff), Moog Filter, Akai Headrush... to the amp.

Having the phaser beside the Blue Ringer is convenient because I can use its LFO Out to sweep the ringmod carrier, or I can use it as a carrier itself, with a low enough rate to be a soft tremolo.

With a CV controller, you send a negative voltage into the CV IN of the Frostwave and get a lower carrier freq that way, too, dropping it into trem range. The MOD MIX knob can lessen the amount of the carrier, making the trem subtle and pretty. You'd have to make your own square waves, though...

Mostly, the I use the ringmod as a ringmod, though. The trem stuff is just gravy.

That sounds cool thunderpuppy. I use a Big Briar Mooger Fooger ringmod in almost the same way although I utilize it's "tremelo" quite a bit. I don't really remember/understand the technical reason for it but I can get a "dual" trem going that is voltage controlled. Big box, AC only, and it's pre-amp is always engaged. What's the size and power requirements of the Frostwave? Thanks.

Dual trem is doable, but you'll need to CV-lower the carrier and blend in a second LFO in the INPUT B (that's how I do it). I use a CV pedal for one and the CV and the Moog LFO, and that's how I get my dual trem. I also like being able to CV-sweep from trem to ringmod... great in live settings.

Anyway, the Blue Ringer (like all frostwave gear) is true bypass. The preamps (input a and input b) are really nice, when the effect is engaged. It is an 18vAC effect, which is very strange, but it ships with with its own wall wart, no less ***bersome than the Moog. The box itself is about half as large as the MFs, and it has two audio inputs and a CV input... no CARRIER OUT.

gotta run... classes are leaving the computer room...

I also use the Big Briar Mooger Fooger Ring Modulator. My biggest problem with it is that it can't take the 'loop signal' from my amp. I do have output adjustment controls on the 'loop out' but I have to lower my signal enough live (especially when using Ch2 thru Ch4, higher gain channels) on the amp that the MoogerFooger is almost useless. It's great for the clean channel. But I typically am using the other channels (Mesa Road King amp). I am looking for a Ring Modulator that I can use live, that will work in my 'loop chains' without being overdriven.

I was hoping that the Frostwave version would work. Sounds like it might.
Mesadude

You should probably try it out. The Frostwave boxes all have amazing amounts of headroom (I don't use mine in a loop, but I've never made it clip)... I've noticed one of the things I don't like about some MoogerFooger products is that, in the desire to give that classic, vintage, overloaded tone, Moog sometimes doesn't give us the option of pristine sound.