I'm a boring guy, I can't have a sparkly guitar with a psychedelic headstock.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
Even the black hollowbody Galaxie 4 is pretty flashy: https://reverb.com/item/513452-di-pinto-galaxie-4-deluxe-2015-black-white
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
I could mmmmmmaybe pull that one off.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
I actually don't like the natural/normal ones, but I understand why they did it.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
Any recommendations for a tremolo pedal?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
Dead set on picking up a EHX Super Pulsar after my net paycheck
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 December 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
That looks intense.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 4 December 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
Straight up tremolo? Probably the Black Cat mini trem. If you want harmonic tremolo I love the Catalinbread Valcorder. If you want to go full on crazy, the Chase Bliss Gravitas.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 7 December 2015 06:48 (eight years ago) link
FYI Elvis, if you want that EHX I will hook you up, just give me time to order it.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 7 December 2015 06:50 (eight years ago) link
the super pulsar looks fantastic, definitely on my list of future pedal acquisitions
picked up a thorpyfx muffroom cloud over the weekend - holy shit, this thing is incredible, basically the platonic ideal of a big muff-style fuzz.
― hand of jehuty and the blowfish (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 December 2015 09:26 (eight years ago) link
jjusten - sent you an email this morning...
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 December 2015 05:08 (eight years ago) link
Follow-up, my wife got me the Earthquaker Hummingbird tremolo and I can't tell how I feel about it yet. It doesn't really have any subtlety or transparency at all, though I realized it's supposed to be that way. I tried the Valcoder at the guitar store too and wasn't crazy about it. The guitar store guy had me try the Moog MF Trem and that was better but I was confused by the relationship between the controls in the limited time I tried it.
I also tested out the Zvex Mastotron fuzz, which I've been curious about for a long time, and I LOVED it. Gnarly sounds but you can always still hear the notes. I've been using the Fender Blender for crazy fuzz leads for a while but you can't really use it on chords because it just turns into BLXLCHCLSHCLHLCHSKKSHKS. Is there anything else in the Mastotron vein I should be checking out before I buy that? I know there are 8 billion fuzz pedals out there.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 11 January 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
Z.Vex $6000 candle-powered phaser/tremolo:
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-definition-of-gear-lust-is-this-6-000-candle-power-1760794913
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
ha I was just coming here to post that
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 25 February 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
It would be cool at gigs to hear "candle" rather than "9 volt," as in "aw crap...hey, do you have an extra candle I can borrow for my fuzz? I'll give it right back after the set."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 25 February 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
candle pedal almost as unreliable as a germanium transistor pedal
― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 February 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
xp - can't these ppl just get one spots and stop wasting money on batteries
― sarahell, Friday, 26 February 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
There's a ZVex pedal (the Super Hard-On, I think) with a spare transistor taped inside the case. Maybe this has a spare candle taped in the case for when the main candle (*pun approaching please mind the gap*) burns out.
― bored at work (snoball), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
just got a boss DD-500. think i may be sorted for delay sounds for a while with this.
― Justin Townes' URL (haitch), Saturday, 27 February 2016 03:19 (eight years ago) link
just ordered a hungry robot 'the wash' pedal - psyched for the ambient madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlppMGxKhug
― BEEFSQUEAK (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Still thinking of getting a Mastotron but if anyone has similar alternatives I should check out first let me know.
I tried out the EHX Soul Food. It sounded pretty bad to my ears but I feel like it's impossible to really test an overdrive using a guitar and amp I'm not used to.
The guitar store had some of these Electro-Faustus pedals/instruments that look crazy but they had just gotten them in and couldn't tell me much about them: http://www.electrofaustus.com/ Most of them seem pretty impractical but I want a Drone Thing.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 7 March 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
i had a soul food a for a little while and didn't get on with it - it had a trebly shrillness with my guitars i just couldn't quite get rid of.
ended up getting a j rockett archer to fill the klon-clone gap - ut sounds pretty good on its own but i really like the way it stacks into drive and fuzz
those electofaustus pedals look like a hell of a lot of fun
― the uniqueness of our billionaires (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
Soul Food sounded super mid-range-y to me.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
Found a deal on the Mastotron yesterday so I pulled the trigger, I now have the most obnoxious guitar tone.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/03/37-year-old_portland_man_trave.html
Sad news.
― how's life, Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
(founder of Catalinbread)
― how's life, Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link
ugh, horrible news
I recently bought the Belle Epoch tape echo sim. It's really nice.
RIP
― U.S. (brownie), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
holy shit. nic was a friend, h0w4rd and m1k3 on his crew even moreso... i can't even begin
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 11 March 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I've been posting about it on the 2016 obit thread, but this was prob the better place, idk. It's brutal.
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Friday, 11 March 2016 03:03 (eight years ago) link
you guys, what is the sickest phaser out there?
― Justin Townes' URL (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
For crazy does everything and more vibes, definitely the Chase Bliss Wombtone.
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
http://youtu.be/OJMgy1_yB4w
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
new analog delay from ibanez (the es2) just showed up and it is totally fucking amazing.
i just bought this on impulse to run synths through and use as an effect with my DAW, hope to get some useful sounds out of it.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
If hiatch is looking for a more trad phaser (because let's face it, all the Chase Bliss pedals are OTT) then I'm a sucker for the EHX Stone series.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:48 (eight years ago) link
Blackout Effectors Whetstone is a pretty wild phaser as well, but the Chase Bliss still probably has it beat for versatility.
― how's life, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
There's also this
http://www.mrblackpedals.com/products/gilamondo
And this
http://skreddypedals.com/skreddy_pedals_little_miss_sunshine.php
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
Oh and this
http://www.alexanderpedals.com/shop/la-calavera
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
This weeks moment in incoming nerd obsession:
http://youtu.be/h7GSdXqfyXU
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
oooh, lotsa good options, thanks all. chase bliss sounds crazy!
must admit I forgot about this one from when I was thinking about getting a euro case last year, that's probably a whole other can of worms (lol @ the boss burn at the end too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TPMHVHsp14
― Justin Townes' URL (haitch), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
not sick, but after trying a zillion phasers i'm down to the good old one-knob script phase 90 and a BJF tiny orange
hardest one to let go was a Maxon PH-350, which does trad phase sounds like a champ but also gets pretty crazy if you want it to
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
i need a boost pedal for my bass. what should i get?
doesn't have to be clean, just loud. if it does other weird fucked up sounding shit (i.e. cool features), that would be great.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
update to the update i posted on the other thread:
i tried using this echo pedal as an outboard effect with my DAW, and after i got the routing figured out, i was getting way too much of the dry signal back from the pedal (even with the mix knob turned all the way up). ideally i want a true 100% wet signal that i can mix with the original dry track, but maybe that's not how guitar pedals work?
i was able to get the end result i wanted by putting the resulting track through a Soundtoys echo plugin, but having the pedal earlier in the chain gave it some cool texture and pitch-bend effects.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
Can't stop won't stop. On their way.
http://www.alexanderpedals.com
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/wgUuScoevGQ
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
JJJ do you know these guys?
http://www.redpandalab.com/
― écorché (S-), Thursday, 11 August 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
They have a dealer right up the street, so I don't want to crowd anybody, but yeah, they're cool. If anybody here ever wants their stuff, I've got an agreement w/the dealer for when I need it.
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
Oh man the Digitech Dirty Robot is the synthy filter matrix bizness
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Thursday, 18 August 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
These are the things I step on most of the time:
http://i67.tinypic.com/358xic6.jpg
It has the sounds I need but it is not QUITE right.
Basically, I want to have a very simple board with one clean, one dirty, and one weird sound (flange, phaser, delay) - all with the same perceived loudness. Then I need to be able to boost each one a predictable amount (for solos or fingerstyle). So, six sounds total.
Right now it goes tuner, then boost, then the Weird sounds. It gets a touch of reverb at the end (because I hate my amp's onboard reverb). Currently the Blonde pedal is serving both as amp emulation/DI (for situations when I'm running direct) and as the main source of distortion! This is untenable.
I would like to reliably add a tasteful, musical amount of crunch without altering the apparent volume. In this quest, I am often frustrated by how many pedals are heralded for being responsive to dynamics - that is, when you play harder or louder, you get more of whatever it does. That is the opposite of what I want! What I want to do is play the same weak-ass way I normally play, while having the effect produce its, y'know, effect.
I have had lots of pedals that seem to require a lot of signal to Bring the Weird (Q-Tron for example). I can get there by putting a boost in front of it, diming the guitar, etc. But then when I stop wanting that sound, and wish to switch back to clean, the levels are all wrong. I do not want to try to manage this transition in a gig setting.
― some people call me Maurice Chevalier (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
uups
http://i64.tinypic.com/34ya7nl.jpg
― some people call me Maurice Chevalier (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
Puffin, it's funny you mention that you dislike when a pedal responds to dynamics. I recently started to get a lot more serious about developing the idea of creating my tone — or at least what I get in my head as the ideal sound that I'm going for. When I first started playing, I was going for economy, so I tracked down a Boss RV-3, which combined digital delay and reverb. I like playing almost all the time with at least some delay and always 100% of the time with a significant amount of reverb, so I used it a lot. It was really my first experience with any sort of effects pedal, so I didn't have any gauge for anything at all in the area of dynamics or ranges of sound. I wanted it to make an echo sound and it did. The deeper I got into playing, the more I wanted to get away from a clean, un-effected tone. I tried a lot of different things: distortion, flange, phase, chorus, etc. Maybe it was because Robert Smith praised them so heavily, but I was always drawn to the Boss pedals. I definitely like their design and housing, for they are practically damage proof. But, one day, and I'm not sure what prompted it, I decided to start researching different delays. The Carbon Copy was the one to really catch my ear. I loved how thick and muddy it was and it was so dynamic and responsive — everything the RV-3 wasn't. In the end I decided to keep both and I sometimes stacked the delays, but I always used at least the reverb only settings on the RV-3. Over time, I started to really get annoyed with the Boss pedals I had (and, by this point, I had accumulated quite a few) where they were supposed to alter my tone. Especially with the RV-3, it didn't matter how soft or hard I hit the strings, it would just blurt out this stagnant wall of stock reverb. It was a nice sound, but not at all unique. Even with some of the more flamboyant effects like their Phase Shifter, I found myself feeling like I was playing inside a factory preset. This was definitely not limited to just Boss pedals, as I found the chorus and flange pedals by TC Electronics to have similarly limited palettes — though each manufacturer definitely has their own "vibe" to them.
So, recently, I decided to revamp my pedals and it's really prompted me to pick up the guitar a lot more frequently. Here's what my pedals look like now:http://i.imgur.com/XrWxugB.jpg
And I ordered the Echoplex Delay and am awaiting its arrival (I'll decide after playing with it whether I want to keep the Carbon Copy or not).
Unlike you, I feel like I need pedals that respond differently to different playing because, although brands like Boss or TC Electronics make very good gear, without that responsiveness, I feel pretty stifled and uninspired. That being said, I did hang on to the Waza Craft Blues Driver because I do feel like it pushes the M300 Reverb and the Analog Chorus into even more possibilities.
― Austin, Thursday, 8 September 2016 07:47 (seven years ago) link