Pedal geeks i need u (help jjjusten make decisions about awesome pedals for his store)

is it $700 over blue book transparent?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/KLON-CENTAUR-original-early-90s-/121000926617?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item1c2c379d99

will it Nels Cline-ify me?

for $2K, it better make ME transparent (a la the invisible man)...

goddammit i wish i was rich

I've been mostly amp distortion but I got a couple of cool distortion pedals used in the past month.

EWS Little Brute

Zvex Distortron

Very different pedals but both sound really cool.

The Little Brute is pretty much a modern high gain amp channel in a little pedal (that's literally kind of heavy for it's comparitive size). It's got output out the wazoo. Cool thing is that you got two trim pots in the pedal, one for controlling the pedals total output and a second for controlling the total amount of highs in the pedal, which does alter the sound quite a bit. It's real smooth and hi-fidelity sounding.

Zvex Distortron is quite different. It's supposed to be based on a cranked old marshall sound. I don't know about that, but it definitely has a raw raunchy sound that I quite liked, especially since it is a distortion sound way, way different than anything I can usually get with my amp's distortion.

ha i just realized that i proclaimed that i was ordering the idiotbox stuff 2 weeks ago and then forgot to send the order in. doing that monday. dude just dropped the prices on all his stuff, so everything is now $75 or $100, including that mad doctor stutter optoisolator, which is O_Owesome.

heres a custom one for DJP:
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/306543_428635580531450_1620169917_n.jpg

Time And Relative Dimensions In Stompboxes

it is apparently in tardis blue as well

Wau

Checked out the fuzzbox girl demo of the mad doctor. I like the idea of a tremolo that comes hardwired for an expression pedal, but it seemed like when she moved from one rate to anther like there would be a huge jump instead of a smooth transition. Was I missing something? Still really cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6wzE8bkvXA

Yo jjjusten, you got any comment on that?^ I was thinking about tremolos and expression pedals again this morning.

i dig it - one thing that it took a while to wrap my head around is the fact that the ratio and rate controls are very interactive (ie changing the ratio will also change the speed). called the dude to make sure it was working right, and he said thats inherent in the design. on any given day the mad doctor or the earthquaker hummingbird could be my fave chop trem in the store. I haven't been motivated enough to get an expression pedal in the mix, but i will try to get to it in the next week or so and see what i think.

related note: death ray frequency mangler is all time awesome, if you like your fuzz batshit crazy. d4 distortion is hugely versatile, lazer fuzz is a one stop bit crushing dream come true, energizer is more subtle than most clean boosts but crazy quiet, blasteroid is prob the most normal of his fuzzes, apply if you want a more whacked out big muff, and the mono cyclops is badass for $75 if you dont need all the tweaky tweaky of the mad doctor. basically everything this dude does is gold, and none of it sounds much like anything else, which is rare in the modern pedal era

i dig it - one thing that it took a while to wrap my head around is the fact that the ratio and rate controls are very interactive (ie changing the ratio will also change the speed). called the dude to make sure it was working right, and he said thats inherent in the design.

Yeah, this is essentially the way that my ehx pulsar works.

spent some more time with the mad doctor, and once you get the hang of it, its a fairly incredible pedal - because it's an optoisolator, it sounds amazing in front of a fuzz, because the off position is full silent instead of having that tiny signal pass you get from a square wave unit. this idiotbox dude is the business, these are def circuits that he has designed from the ground up (well except for the blasteroid, but no one else was going to repro the earth sound research fuzz, so good for him).

in related pedal geek news, i just got an email from the noisemaker effects dude, and he is launching 9 (!) new pedals by the end of the year, including a delay.

ok so in the "so crazy rare i have never even heard of it" category, a dude came in the store today with a Honey Fresh Sounds Fuzz from 1968. The company that preceeded Shin-Ei (who built the Univox Super Fuzz and Univibe, among others) and is so rare outside of Japan it's crazy.

here's a link to the only one that has ever sold on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160699832368&item=160699832368&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466

O_O

I will give you $4.95 + shipping

ha out of boredom i contacted the dude that sold the last one and he says he put it up for buy it now at that price and it sold in 15 minutes

are we bidding for this right now?

$5.00

$5.01

FUCKING MONEY BAGS

Time to get real: $13.01

Yer killing me

sorry i missed the klon talk a couple months back--i find the klon dude really intriguing. he used to live like one town away from me (not sure if he still does), i always kind of wanted to track him down.

hahaha never change fender, never change

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/Daily/News/Fender_Releases_Competition_Series_Effects_Pedals.aspx

http://iheartguitarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Fender-Competition-Series-Distort-279x300.jpg

its like the winner of a "how ugly can we make a pedal" competition

was thinking, why did the Tigers change their uniforms

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSePO71vjT9ZLc4hFrKOh7qWeGg_sOEVER4Y7YLB8UBAWtF7K2qCxY3V6r0

hahaha good call

bahahahahaha

don;t you get it, jjjusten? guitar players want pedals to look like an ironic bowling shirt. 2013 is gonna be the 1996 of the 2010s!

Nice to see that all those unsold Zunes were recycled.

And what will all the unsold Fender pedals be recycled into? NAMM is going to be another unadventurous pile of 'so what?' again this year (aside from the new Moog synth).

some other people i have been wondering about- anybody have any opinions on jhs pedals? the usa ones, not the brit john hornsby skewes stuff.

http://www.jhspedals.com/

basically my love of supro thunderbolts was drawing me to the superbolt. seems like dude has made the all-time mistake of responding directly to accusations of copying/bad build on harmony central, which is concerning to me

He apparently was ripping off Devi Ever pedals?

http://www.deviever.com/fx/oldforum/viewtopic.php?f=192&t=13311

ok thats definitely not cool

and that's not the only low-down business he's pulled. avoid.

yeah that's a bummer.

in a weird bit of serendipity, proguitarshop just did a fb post advertising their new line of jhs pedals, devi ever shared it advertising them as $200 Hyperions, both of em got in a bit of a comment tiff, then both posts got taken down.

alright, what did you get this time?

this guy he's crazy with the pedals and the boxes

lol

I'll give you a hint - felineprincedrumcashmoney

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4UUJZrorsY4/TpXL6W_OoGI/AAAAAAAAG7M/WOahDV_pfqo/s400/FBG-41-iTunes.jpg

Ok it's official, we have catalinbread on the way, including the Echorec. So fucking cool.

http://www.audioline.it/catalogo/img/1588_1294244570.jpg

got my girl this for xmas. really lovely on guitars and vocals!

heard good things, but never really delved into the wampler stuff.

not a fan

Glad you connected with cbread at last. Super good dudes. They're coming out with a tapey delay that's def got my interest.

btw dude did you see that my long attempts at catalinbread have finally been realized

talked to mike (assuming thats the same mike) for a while on the phone and he seems like a good dude.

initial order is:
echorec
callisto
merkin fuzz
dirty little secret
formula 5
semaphore tap
royal albert hall

anything missing in there that i am sleeping on? order hasnt shipped yet.