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

so I am about to add this dudes stuff to the mix, super reasonable and imo super fucking cool low rent handbuilt fuzz box/overdrive/feedback loop stuff. but i am audio fatigued/overwhelmed having listened to fuzz samples all day, so if i could enlist yer advice that would be cool.

www.noisemakereffects.com

mod is dumb w/html

http://noisemakereffects.com/Noisemaker_Effects/Home.html

also on the futurity list hopefully

http://www.catalinbread.com/Pedals
http://www.subdecay.com/

consider vfe pedals. great, extremely well priced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ5fi4HKuHo&feature=share&list=PL2466C0B24FB63E4A

this is high on the list of why subdecay is on the list btw

Vfe looks interesting for sure - what I really need is mod stuff more than distortion/od/fuzz at the moment, so idk if they would be down with me cherry picking all the mod stuff or not. I will contact them tho

Ok this dude is also going on the list - idiotbox effects.

http://sinkholetexas.com/idiotbox-lo-fi-electronic-instruments-effects

oh shit just ordered 11 noisemaker pedals.

back and forth emails/phone calls made me pretty sure this is the kind of dude i want to support - he's definitely in it for the love of making pedals, and pretty committed to the idea that his stuff shouldn't cost more than reasonable labor + parts. the pedal community could use more people like this, and i wish more independent stores could make the leap from understanding what it's like to do what we do to supporting the manufacturing equivalent of that.

order for the curious:
3.14
crush fuzz
donner party
noise invaders (this is so so awesome)
chimera
four horsemen
five
soviet
arbiter
a-ok boost
infinity loop

really wished i could buy the "dead hipster" based on name and graphics alone, but i wasn't that crazy abt how it sounded

no dead hipsters?

lol xpost

I heart these guys a lot: http://walrusaudio.com

also why the fuck aren't more pedal dudes dumping youtube and doing the soundcloud clip idea? makes so much sense, sounds better, and i need another clip of some dude visually rocking out in front of an amp like i need a hole in the head.

i know this isnt a measure of pedal, and i hate the handpainted artisinal blah blah blah collectors market, but dammmmn those walrus pedals look good.

speaking of which, apparently the noisemaker dude does all his own graphics and according to one guy i know who did some snooping is all of 23 years old.

goddamn kids.

fyi if peeps know local peeps that do good stuff and want to start spreading their wings, this is my goal for the next few years. well that and not starving. and finding a location that doesn't still have the patented mr. movies carpet that we inherited when we moved into the shithole where we currently reside (this is also in the works. i have said too much.)

Those Subdecay pedals are really wild. Thing about things like that they look really fun to mess with but trying to get them into tunes and use them live isn't quite as easy to do.

It's definitely not a total unknown company but the pedal I am currently all geeked on is a Keeley Nova Wah I got used a few months back off the Bay. You can make some cool nasty guitar tones with that box.

Really geeked out over this guy: http://skreddypedals.com/skreddy_pedals_lunar_module_mini_deluxe.htm

that skreddy dude is a really good upstanding guy too, he knows his stuff.

also i just ordered every pedal that earthquaker makes why because i am insane

http://www.earthquakerdevices.com/

Earthquaker! Local Akron boys make good. I have their Ghost Echo reverb. thumbsup.gif

Earthquaker Grand Orbiter will be my next purchase once paychecks start rolling in again

I'd really like to get my mitts on an Organizer. That is a crazy goddamn pedal.

Those Earthquaker pedals sound and look really cool.

I want the Hoof fuzz pedal and the Tone Job pedal looks like could be really handy. That guy gets a cool Tony Iommi tone with the two together in the one demo.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/542057_401474583251529_409196440_n.jpg

STEP ONE

i guess i wont be getting much done this morning.

guys, the organizer. holy shit.

I've been wanting an Organizer so bad. I'm going to probably have to sock away money every week to do it. What do you like best about it? What are your impressions?

that thing is crayzee

the lag control is kind of where the magic happens, seems to delay the effected signal while passing the direct signal through untouched. also, they managed to pull off the magic POG thing where chords roll through it with no glitching whatsoever, but its a very different beast than the micropog. one thing to note is that even with the choir control all the way down, there is still some swirliness to the up and down octaves.

i might take another go at the rainbow machine here in a bit, the first time i tried one i was more baffled than anything, and i like weird stuff!

ha was going to ask about that one. it's called rainbow machine!

i saw a vid of it one time and my first thought with it was what it could to do non-guitar stuff

i think i am a little closer to decoding it but man, that thing is crazy. non-guitar use might be kind of interesting actually, too bad i turn stupid the minute i touch anything w/o strings on it.

haha wow, a crate of new pedals pretty much = me not getting a damn thing done at work apparently. feel pretty solid abt all of these now that ive had some time with them. speaker cranker is one of the best dirt boost/od one knobs ive heard in a long long time.

and in a few days, we get to do the whole thing over again with a box full of noisemaker pedals.

also protip for other manufacturers: if you include a pound of your brands locally roasted coffee blend with your orders, you can probably have all of my money forever.

like seriously "earthquaker blend coffee" stamped right on the damn bag. someone up there was from ohio, its from a coffee shop named bent tree i guess?

the coffee roaster is in Kent, Ohio. Never had it! Let me know how it is.

https://benttreecoffee.com/

!!! http://walrusaudio.com/products-page/pedals/janus/

earthquaker blend seemed like pretty decent coffee until my wife said "this is good but theres a weird taste of hot dogs to it" and now i cant untaste that idea.

OH LOOK

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/431588_404472012951786_895742628_n.jpg

another thursday down the drain

ok so right off the bat, the 3.14 is one of the best muff-style fuzzes i have ever heard, the noise invader is awesome, and the donner party is batshit fucking crazy.

ok arbiter is also killer

and...i apparently cant stop myself, so I am working up an idiotbox order over the next week.

want them all

http://sinkholetexas.com/idiotbox-lo-fi-electronic-instruments-effects

/r/pedalshots

sold out of the rainbow machine and the disaster transport already, sold the chimera from noisemaker the day i got it in, perhaps i am not insane only time will tell

xpost is that cool person code i do not understand

um okay I want the Pac-Man one just because it has Pac-Man on it, I don't even know how to play well enough to even consider introducing pedals into my guitar universe

xp: it was a bad reddit joek

see this is my level of ignorance wrt reddit! which i am happy about. and yeah the pacman graphic is awesome, also dig all the star wars references and the fact that the guy is not wandering down the old bullshit path of pedal buzzwords.

The -D4 is a straight-up distortion pedal. Muthafucka say wha? That ain’t cool and booteek! It should be a non-coloring transparent overdrive or some other bullshit internet forum descriptor. Well, this is exactly what it says.

my kind of guy

look I only learned about subreddit designations in the wake of the outing of the dude who was moderating the ones where ppl were posting pics of random teen girls for others to put in their wank bank, I'm not very deep into this particular rabbit hole

just bought one of everything from idiotbox effects.

i swear that after this i will be done

although these dudes: http://www.stationaudio.net/

goddamnit

new cbread echorec-in-a-box looks to be p sweet if u like hot delay action

hah once again, catalinbread has fallen by the wayside because those motherfuckers just dont ever respond to emails

wtf with those guys? seriously idgi mike is there like 24/7.

smdh

ha did we go through this the last time that i approached catalinbread like 6 years ago?

love their stuff, but between you and me, the graphic redesign they did is srsly nagl.

we did. kills me.

the new graphics are definitely the most polarizing in pedaldom. some folks really seem to love them. some folks won't touch them now no matter how good they sound. tgp panties twisting on the regular. the designer is a phenomenally good guy who does great work in general so I'll go with some i like some less so.

speaking of brilliant redesigns...

http://files.effectsdatabase.com/gear/pics/klon_ktr_001.jpg

holy shit thats great

wait hold on is that a klon centaur?!

worlds most butthurt motherfucker:

http://www.zacharyguitars.com/Klon.htm

ok holy shit, i think i need to devote a thread to this dude, he is amazing

yeah that's apparently the new "klon ktr" -- love the labels on the buffer switch

holy shit we just took in a gold box klon centaur 15 minutes ago from a dude

oh word? how much did you give him for it?

hes a regular customer, so we are doing it on consignment. you might want to sit down before i tell you how much blue book value is.

i'm listening.

According to the 2012 book, $1300. O_O

well shit

that's so awesome. have to wonder what a pedal like that would do for my playing.

I know what it would do for mine! (nothing *sob*)

is it as transprent as they say?

recent ebay sales hovering around $1450 this world we live in i cant even

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.

lol xpost. yes! hope it's a long and beautiful partnership. M1k3 is a great guy. N1c and H0w4rd, too.

One thing missing from that list imo is the Naga Viper. People misunderstand the "treble booster" but the Viper kinda perfects the rangemaster and if you put one in front of a DLS anyone who digs a thick, greasy, saturated tone will get it immediately.

ill prob get a naga viper on this order (it was right on the cusp) but if not, it will def make the next one

Just never demo it into a clean amp :)

haha oh yeah, i know the drill

not a fan

― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Wednesday, February 6, 2013 10:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what didn't you like about it? i think it's pretty tasty on guitar + vox tbh! i have to be v careful when running synths through it, i tend to do a reverse DI to get into to it, responds much better that way.

i mean, ~BRAGGIN~ i've got the space echo re201, a couple of 70s eventide units and an echoplex (now broken wahh) and while it doesn't sound like any of those it's got it's own thing going on and i really like it!

sorry, should have been more clear. i'm sure it's a rad echobox, just longstanding general wampler beef that's probably should have been water under the bridge a long time ago

didn't intend to poop on your new pedal day, btw. i hadn't clicked the link, just saw JJ's reference to wampler and shot from the hip.

hey, btw, anyone tried the carl martin compressor? i have a customer thats interested in one, and i want to tell him that $270 for a comp is str8 up crazytown, but i dont want to totally dismiss it w/o hearing it.

isn't the Carl Martin Compressor one of CM Punk's finishing moves

Wampler should partner with Disney/Lucasfilm and come out with a Wampler Wampa that sounds like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQzo6YpVbcs

Not really up their alley though.

i also in a only semi-related note prob need to find a decent way to start doing online sales now that im the only dude selling half of these pedal lines in the midwest. anybody have any experience with that stuff, prob talking abt less than 500-1000 skus i imagine.

The truly great thing about this pedal is that it’s not only Telecaster style guitars that it works so well with, it brings the best out of your Strat or anything you may have loaded with humbuckers.

Love this description from Wampler's website.

Carl Martin stuff sounds good but also runs at strange wattages and have their own built-in AC cables. I tried using their pre-amp and it sounded great on its own but was noisy when interacting with other stuff. I'm not sure if it's the same thing with the Compressor; website says it runs at 2.8 watts. A friend of mine uses a Quattro and the compressor sounds very good but there are maaany more obvious, cheaper options

i have a list of my fav pedal manufactures somewhere but i can't seem to find it, from the top of my head:

http://www.fredric.co.uk/ - north london hand made stuff, well nice

http://sitorisonics.com/ - again, hand made, tested, quality stuff

http://zvex.com/ - do lots of interesting things i haven't seen elsewhere

http://deathbyaudio.net/ - uh, yeh more nice stuff

i am officially out of control, just added these to the mix:

http://www.henrettaengineering.com/Henretta_Engineering/Products.html

I like that all the controls are inside. I want to set up a great sound and leave it there and not have to worry about knocking something out of place.

I should actually learn how to reliably play my guitar before I start buying these things, right

yeah, it's really clever imo, and he seems to have geared his build choices to stuff where that makes kind of obvious sense (both boosts, and the compressor) or more and more sense the more you think about it (fixed sensitivity on the filter, fixed volume on the octave up, and fixed speed on the tremolo). the only one that gives me a little pause is the fuzz, but whoa it is a badass sounding fuzz, so i cant really complain, esp since it's a set gain w/volume and presence controls inside.

xpost hah tell that to half my customers

wait no dont

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/31897_461315193934134_1389551036_n.jpg

quarter, pick, and mxr for size reference. so tiny!

Just had a terrible idea to make pedals shaped like bento boxes. You could tweak a piece of sushi for depth or a brocolli for rate.

cf www.danarmstrongeffects.com

Dan each fx added makes u a better player by 1 belt level. FACT.

oh yeah, there are def clear dan armstrong antecedents to this stuff (esp the orange whip/orange squeezer) but having heard the da stuff, this has the advantage of being way lower noise, and in the case of the comp just plain sounding better. plus hey, i get to give money to a dude that lives in the same city as me

totally! dig the notion of booteeky armstrong boxes.

note to self: reading/posting from phone makes me sound like a crusty killjoy itt :(

i should post some gut shots, these things are beautiful inside - dude appears to be an EE by day, which explains a whole lot imo. just popped open the clean boost and there is a 10 way dipswitch row that allows you to have it buffered or non buffered, and engages 2 trim pots that adjust bass and treble cut and boost, plus a third trimmer for output level

lol you're gonna run outta room in there.

this has me wanting a choad blaster (demo toward the end):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pvkrI4cUpPk

yeah i am on the verge of either buying another showcase or building some sort of 100 foot wall mounted shelf. at last count i had 273 pedals in stock.

haha and 40 on backorder what the hell is wrong with me

walk away from the pedals, jjj

NEVER

jjj you ever think about zvex? they are local, my friend hannah handpaints them. coolest looking pedals ever

did not know z'vex were local

i have srs problems w/the pricing on zvex stuff and (no offense to your friend) kind of a knee jerk negative reaction to the whole handpainted pedal thing. Screenprints on pedals can look super cool, why you gotta make it a l33t one of a kind artisnal blah blah imo.

like the super duper 2 in 1 is a pair of stacked clean boosts in a pedal for over $300. thats fucking crazy! component parts in that would run you about oh (and i am being very kind here and assuming that you are not buying in bulk) $45?

hey geekz I need u on what should be a pretty simple matter - I have fun with the 5.6 or so seconds of looping my DD-6 allows but am annoyed by its limitations, so I'm looking for a loop pedal that'll let me do loops of a few bars, add loops and delete loops and have loops come in and out of the mix, yknow the kinds of things the layman like me would imagine a loop pedal for solo performance to do. What's the best and more importantly cheapest thing for fulfilling these functions? (I'd be using it mostly for guitar and keyboard but possibly also whatever else comes to mind.)

removing loops adds considerably to the cost - i am a fan of the new eh 45 looper, but once you buy it and a footswitch, yer talking abt $600 USD

http://www.ehx.com/products/45000_

eep. i imagined that being able to remove loops would be the tough part...

Lemme dig a little deeper before I ruin your day

What you're describing, Merdeyeux, is pretty complicated and specific only to the EH 45 (or their discontinued and awesome 2880) and the Boss RC-50. You can do something similar with a Boss RC-30 though! I think it has one step of undo/redo and two mono channels with sliders.

The RC-30 is generally pretty well priced for what it does, it has some superfluous "lo fi" functions and stuff. There's a Digitech one, the Stereo Jamman, that is OK too, but it's got those noisy "true bypass" style switches that are frustrating for long periods of loop practice

Oh yeah this is actually a fairly reliable source of info, who would've thought

http://looperpedalreviews.com/

Ah, thanks a lot. (What I'm basically looking for is to imitate what you do live, except cheaper and with a millionth of the musical ability, so your specific advice is v much appreciated.) Thinking about it I imagine the RC-30 (or maybe even the RC-20XL, it seems) could more or less do what I have in mind, and much of my desire to have elements drop in and out is probably more a desire to actually play as little as possible so I minimise the chance of fucking up as much as possible. On that matter, I guess I could just become a better musician.

RC-20XL is such a good entry point. The reason there were so many loopy acts 2002-2005 was that pedal. Once you figure it out and gain some performative ability w/it you'll have a better idea of what feature set would best suit you.

alright, I'll do it!

well some more stuff came in - got the Earthquaker Hoof Reaper fuzz in (Hoff + Reaper + Octave in one admittedly large box) and man, i know it's hard to swallow the idea that a modern production fuzz box could be worth $295 but this one might be it.

also added another pedal line (yeah I know) but it is a small line and Minnesota based.

http://www.ramblefx.com/

He hasn't gotten a Ranier in here yet, and is sort of pondering whther to continue with that model or work on something new, but the dual tone bender is cool as shit, and the Plexi pre thing called the Marvel Drive is just plain outstanding. $150 for the bender, $140 for the marvel, which seems pretty reasonable to me.

jesus at this point i should probably just list the pedal brands i stock so people can ask abt shit if they want to, they're sort of sprinkled all through this thread at this point

mxr
way huge
dunlop
electro harmonix
idiotbox
noisemaker
earthquaker
stalefish effects
henretta engineering
danelectrlol
visual sound
valco
ibanez
build your own clone kits
bbe

coming soon:
grind customs out of canada
the hayden/ashdown doctor green stuff
secret things i can't talk about yet

oh and a shitload of vintage stuff

jjj what's the best vintage fuzz sound you have? (fuzz like the on Stones' Satisfaction)

I am a huge fan of the Mosrite Fuzzrite (sold the one we had already), that crazy ass honey fresh sounds crying baby fuzz we had in a while ago (the one that turned into the super fuzz eventually) and the foxx tone machine. but shit they cost craptons of money - if you don't want to kill yourself for $$$, def check out the catalinbread merkin fuzz, or honestly, maybe the ramble fx tone bender i listed up there.

thanks! that merkin sounds good.

oh i forgot to do true due diligence - the actual effect used on Satisfaction was a Maestro Fuzz Tone. there is this clone http://www.north-effects.co.uk/primitive but the 1.5 battery thing is annoying to me (use a charge pump you lazy bastards!), and I know some people clame that one of the settings on the Bozz FZ-3 is a maestro clone, but I find that sorta doubtful. My first choice would still be the Merkin tbh.

good lord, "clame" wtf @ me

wow, that primitive sounds great

i have srs problems w/the pricing on zvex stuff and (no offense to your friend) kind of a knee jerk negative reaction to the whole handpainted pedal thing. Screenprints on pedals can look super cool, why you gotta make it a l33t one of a kind artisnal blah blah imo.

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, February 22, 2013 2:28 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i dunno much about them. all that shit is way out of my price range, still for her as an artist/music gear geek it's a dream job...and they look cool as hell, she just posted one they made for nels cline:

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/485914_542645264011_835659490_n.jpg

oh her stuff looks super cool, and i get that people want their shit to look cool (for example i am sure that some of the stuff i stock wouldn't sell nearly as well w/o having grabber graphics and w/e.) really my issue is with the pricing on zvex stuff in general. if i have a pedal that costs $300, it better do some pretty amazing stuff.

just got contacted by these dudes:

http://www.elreyfx.com/index.html

anybody heard anything good/bad/indifferent abt them? idk that i really need more fuzz in here considering ive got 35 or 40 at the moment, but i always dig it when someone finds us and makes the first move.

So I really want to know - have you ever hooked all 35 or 40 up in a row? What would happen?

http://www.mwob.co.uk/gadget-news-reviews/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Back-To-The-Future-Amplified-Speaker.jpg

anybody know anything about these dudes - http://www.tsvgpedals.com/? Also putting out initial feelers to mojohand and would be curious about what people think about them. http://www.mojohandfx.com/

iirc mojo hand brad is a good guy and folks seem to dig their fuzzes and the analog filter.

he was also the business guy behind the legendary-to-me Ultra Lord Fuzz. Man I shoulda grabbed one of those when I should...

ok another one - anybody have a chance to actually hear any of the mooer micro pedals?

they sound like cows

lool

it keeps happening. walrus audio shot us an email today. http://walrusaudio.com/products-page/

also the station audio dude and I talked for like half an hour on the phone about all sorts of shit, thats pretty much a done deal. his shit is so fucking badass looking, acid etched boxes.

http://www.stationaudio.net/uploads/2/9/1/8/2918147/8212996.jpg

http://www.stationaudio.net/

Walrus' stuff is so great. Just ordered a Voyager from them - can't wait to get back home to try it out.

new analog delay from ibanez (the es2) just showed up and it is totally fucking amazing. 30-1000 ms analog delay with tap tempo, modulation, and a feedback switch for $150 street - it's pretty unbeatable and all of you should buy it.

ha I was going to revive this thread to say a public THANK YOU for the TARDIS blue pedal upthread, which I am buying a cable for tonight

Yeah, the Ibanez looks/sounds dope.

I love love love that DJP just dove right into straight small-batch pedal geekery. No mass produced Eddie Van Halen-endorsed crap for this dude.

no problem man! i will sell pedals to all these ilxors.

i just spent the last hour with that ibanez. it's a complete game changer.

between this and the echorec idk why people would ever buy anything else. seriously.

game changer.

argh this phrase

but i am v interested in this ibanez

yeah, the echorec is still way out of my price range, but the ibanez is... still way out of my price range this month at least, but a lot closer to my budget, but very impressive given other entries in that price range.

price range x 3

haha i agree on the game changer phrase but i couldnt think of any other way to put it. the oscillation is bizarrely pitch shift based instead of being a chorus, so on extreme settings it sweeps maybe 5 half steps above and below the original signal. never heard a $150 pedal with this much crazy built into it, esp when you throw an oscillation mode and a tap tempo in there.

in other news, sold a henretta choad blaster to a guy today for use on bass and it sounded fantastic.

you sold a what

is that even legal

i was hoping that said chord blaster.

haha he makes one with the same guts named a chord blaster for people who get weirded out by the name.

http://www.henrettaengineering.com/Henretta_Engineering/Products.html

did i mention that one of his endorsers is Charlie Singleton, the lead guitarist for CAMEO. who says endorsements can't be cool as hell.

i want to hear reports on the mad doctor stutter once dan gets a cord. just fyi, the rate and ratio controls are supposed to be highly interactive, so don't get freaked out when that happens (like i did until i talked to the dude from idiotbox).

Last weekend I had a chance to try out the Earthquaker Organizer and ended up picking it up. Amazingly great sound, but am not quite sure that it works well with others.

FWIW, my pedal line looks like this now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/8629222231/ - I suspect I'm a couple of steps closer to being one of those "One Man Ambient Guitar Band Guys On The Internet" dudes now. I can see how being a pedal geek pokes out of the same area of the brain that gets people into collecting Magic cards. Sounds righteous though.

Have you tried it in front of the fuzz?

Just thinking that the odd harmonic stuff rolling out of lunar module might go a little wacky when run through the organizer. Is the skreddy buffered tho?

Oh yeah geek talk, it's ON

Still testing... will report back soon.

so...if anybody had any questions on the mooer pedals, i just got a shipment of 14 of them.

no they don't make cow sounds so shut up DJP

insert tiny knob joke here

aw yeaaah

how do people feel about pigtronix? they just called me.

what if I want a pedal that makes cow sounds

i can
probably do that for you actually

hmmm autofilter + whammy

lemme think about this, just text me your credit card number and i will ship you the solution

man, my wife is gonna kick you so hard in the nuts love you

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/shroud/MilkBox_FX84.jpg

ha ha i used to have the "buzz box" (octave distortion) from that line, it sucked for guitar but was fantastic on keyboard/synth

this buzz box?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/dod-buzz-box-/251282108108?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item3a8194aecc

yeah the buzz box and meat box and gonkulator modulator from that time period all go for crazy crazy money on ebay now

Which is the one that Sonic Youth makes fun of in 1991: The Year Punk Broke?

probably the grunge pedal from dod, which is worth basically nothing in the collector market

these mooer pedals are BADASS by the way, i knew they would be cool and small and cheap, but i didnt expect them to sound nearly this good irl. def exceed the hamfisted youtube demos floating around out there

you are making me want to bring my guitar back out to MN so I can play around with these things

although you are in a shop full of guitars

^i've got some conspiracy theories you can share

how do people feel about pigtronix? they just called me.

I have their Class A Boost, which is very nicely built and is a key component in my Angus Tone.

yeah the buzz box and meat box and gonkulator modulator from that time period all go for crazy crazy money on ebay now

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:37 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Really?! I have a Meat Box that I got for $20 used about 10 years ago. Limited applications, but I kind of dig it.

I'll check the blue book on Monday, but yeah, I'm guessing $125-200

Anyone know a pedal that sounds like a Klemt Echolette tape delay?

hmmm. let me do some research, that's a pretty crazy tape delay. off the top of my head, im wondering if the catalinbread echorec would do it.

http://www.catalinbread.com/Echorec

It certainly looks like similar in color, though not sure about sound based on the videos. is the skreddy echo in the ballpark too?

The good news here is that this video

http://youtu.be/jUxr4RZL6IQ

Is from catalinbreads feed. That's probably as much as I am willing to say.

And hey if you aren't feeling patient, the earthquaker disaster transport sr hits a lot of the right notes I think

http://youtu.be/RDPQX0_9aCI

Really the easy answer is that you should buy a plane ticket to mn from wherever you are and try them all out at my store :)

Got a chance to use the Disaster Transport SR and it's indeed fab. If I wasn't so hung up on the Moog delay I use now, I'd be saving up for it

Oh. My. God.

http://youtu.be/bKqZvqvn-sc

Wait for it

The Janus in action...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HgxLXqpR_U

I was just thinking about the walrus audio stuff last night, I should call those dudes and get an order in.

been seeking somebody that does upscale wahs, so i am considering these dudes http://wilsoneffects.com/

any thoughts imm peeps?

I'm not a wah connoisseur but he's a regular on that other board these days (along with cbread m1k3) and he seems like a super good guy who knows his wahs.

ah shit, i need to get back on that board but i cant for the life of me remember the name! shoot me an email when you get a chance so i can find my way back there

Ok this month, I pull the trigger on devi ever stuff I think. Been a huge fan since the effector 13 days, and fuck it, she deserves the money. Unfortunately, I am having a baffling time picking out which to go with - anybody have thoughts? http://www.deviever.com/fx/

Also, I have to admit this was a bit of a motivator:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/devi-ever-s-fancy-new-vagina

Being a trans person in the music gear industry has to be a goddamn nightmare given the shitshow gender politics that continue on forever.

been seeking somebody that does upscale wahs, so i am considering these dudes

Very happy with the Area 51 wah: http://area51tubeaudiodesigns.com

Looks cool, but I think they are direct only

can i use this as a general pedal talk thread since i can't remember what any of the old ones were called? i mean i should probably just scrap together enough spare change for a new pedal and go play @ jjj's candy store for an afternoon but does anyone have impressions on that crowther hot cake thing? i had seen demos and stuff in the past and they didn't leave much of an impression but what the dude is doing w/ the tele's vol knob in this one makes me think i would keep it forever.

haha trust me, actually having money is not a requirement to play shit at my shop, this fact is proven every day.

hahaha. but i want to come home with a new toy! august is triple paycheck month otherwise i wouldn't be looking at any pedals anywhere right now so soon probably

so added the budda pedals to the shop, now getting together an order to add the devi ever stuff. which is daunting because she makes like 45 different fuzzes. anybody have any faves they want to recommend?

http://www.deviever.com/fx/category/pedals/

haha and thx to recent dad brain i didnt realize that i already posted something abt this in the thread. sigh.

i am of a mixed mind abt the budda pedals - they sound great but man, they have that terrible graphics disease i think. not that it should matter but hey, it matters:

http://www.budda.com/gear/pedals/index.cfm

oh and also i got in the new idiotbox dimension x and it is, per usual, batshit crazy:

http://idiotboxeffects.bigcartel.com/product/dimension-x-delay

My favorites of hers are the Bit and Hounds Tooth, but those might not necessarily be the ones with the broadest appeal.

i was planning on buying the bit, and i really like the houndstooth as well, so those both probably will make the list. basically my starter list right now is

aenima
bit: legend of fuzz
disaster fuzz
hyperion
rocket
shoe gazer
soda meiser
devine hammer
never drive
krackle fuzz
houndstooth

but i probably need to cool my jets a little bit on ordering 11 fuzz pedals

catalinbread belle epock is looking like a ton of fun

oh yes, i already have it on preorder and am stooooooked

this is an interesting thing that we are probably going to stock:

http://www.brimstoneaudio.com/crossover-distortion.html

i am actually more intrigued by the upcoming ouroboros (its in the laboratory section) - crossover separated dual effects loops sounds like it could be both super functional and super crazy.

This is my new favorite pedal demo ever:

http://youtu.be/9YvjPUxsXYQ

damn that is an awesome sounding pedal -- dude has that nervous bouncy knee thing going that drives me crazy when I have to watch it

And just added 2 new lines

Devi ever (!!! Been waiting to do this for years)

And super promising upstart Vick Audio. Rams head muff clone with tone mod for $99! Reissues of pedals that no one gives a shit about other than me (Jordan vico vibe)! A fucking Sam Ash/Astro Fuzz clone! Colorsound fuzz for $69! Only one other dealer in the world (literally) that seems to be a shitheel that doesn't bother to actually stock any of his shit. I am overcome by geeeeeeek.

http://vickaudio.distinctiveturnings.com/index.php#container

Plz note, his YouTube demos kind of suck but the stuff sounds awesome IRL. Graphics are not awesome, but handwired perfboard versions of $$$$ pedals for $100 or less? Crazytown.

New Moog Minifoogers seem cool, especially the delay: http://www.moogmusic.com/news/announcing-minifooger-analog-effects-guitar-bass

Love how the tremolo is set up to have an expression pedal. I've been interested in something like that for a while.

Dunlop used to make one:

http://files.effectsdatabase.com/gear/thumbs/jimdunlop_tvp-1_001.jpg

Colorsound fuzz for $69!

That's insane! When I was in the market for one I couldn't find it for less than $250. Ended up going with a Guyatone (tiny orange dealie) which worked out great.

Love how the tremolo is set up to have an expression pedal. I've been interested in something like that for a while.

I've got a similar set-up going with an expression pedal and a Strymon Flint. Def. a sound worth exploring.

what's the main difference between that delay and a line 6?

idiotbox mad doctor and the catalinbread semaphore have exp pedal in as well. plus the semaphore has tap tempo.

Yeah, I did some googling yesterday and found a bunch of trems pre-rigged for expression pedals.

got in 4 of the Catalinbread Belle Epochs and sold them in less than an hour. btw, they sound stupid good.

I've used my week off work building my own pedals and think I've reached the limits of my ability. Harmonic Percolator? Check. Crossover Distortion? Check. But the MXR Blue Box? There's a lot of very tight, very precise soldering in there - I finished the board with the last of the light today and am kind of dreading completing it tomorrow, there are a couple of really vulnerable-looking diodes that apparently have a really high chance of you cooking them and I have a horrible feeling that I've given them too much heat.

It's unbelievably sad how awful I was at building/modding pedals when I gave it a go. You see these forums full of dudes just all like "yeah, I just swapped out my op amp" or whatever, but I evidently lack the dexterity to solder even the most basic radio shack like, blinking led light kit or whatever. lol

And I was right to worry. Doesn't fkn work.

I mean, where do I even start fault finding this?

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2870/10382909694_a21f9cd2b8.jpg

I've got it wired up at the moment to check and it just acts in bypass, the board seems to have no function and the pots don't change the tone at all. :-(

Is the board from a kit supplier? Most of those dudes are pretty helpful if you hit them up with a problem.

Does the led engage when you put it into circuit?

Also do you have a variable temp/wattage soldering gun? With tight stuff like that I usually crank it down quite a bit and just wait longer to get solder flow.

I normally leave off the led until I'm putting the switch in, it's just got a test rig at the moment with a battery clip and the jacks and it should work in that configuration. Because it bypasses through I've got a good feeling about the soldering throughout, but your point about the power might actually be a good one. Multimeter gets broken out tomorrow, and I'll drop the board maker a line.

If you let me know who the board builder is I can hit up some of my builder friends and see if they have experiences w/that board/problem

It's a British one - poodle who runs pedalparts.co.uk

I'll send out some emails

You're a gent.

No luck with any of my guys, unfortunately. Did you hear from the board builder?

Been busy all week and want to do a bit of basic fault finding before I speak to him. Thanks for asking though.

So, I got this working. Embarrassingly, the battery I was using to test it was slightly run down - not massively, because it was still good enough to power other pedals, but seemingly enough because a new battery did the trick.

Then I soldered in the switch and put it in the enclosure. At which point it didn't work again, only one of the pots has an effect and it seems to be in 'always on' bypass. I suspect I have made a basic error while wiring the switch in, not least because I did the last couple of posts in the near-dark. I'm going to have my next chance to look at that part of it on Friday afternoon, but at least I now know the circuit board is good.

In other news, has anybody ever made/bought a harmonic percolator clone that doesn't have a huge volume drop and can point me in the direction of the circuit/fix?

In other, other news I bought a Tyrant by Nine of Swords cheap on ebay and boy, is it ever sludgey. I am really tempted to buy another of their pedals just to see whether they're all as good (ymmv whether sludge is yr thing).

ive checked around re: the harmonic percolator clone and no dice. could you just do a two in one box with a clean boost after the circuit?

ok, acquiring more pedal lines for the shop, currently talking to skreddy and strymon. any thoughts on either of those?

Got a Strymon El Capistan a few months ago. LOVE IT. Best/most fun delay I've ever used. It has a tape crinkle simulation setting!

love both. they're kinda opposite propositions vibewise.

strymon = digital fx mad scientists, pack a ton of great-sounding features into a bombproof stompbox package. very pro as an outfit afaik.

skreddy = one of the last great golden ears/hand-selected mojo parts guys. thing is, he really does have golden ears and puts a trendies amount of thought and care into his builds. one man operation, super good guy. come for the muff variants, stay for the crew driver mini deluxe. heard good things about the one-knob phaser too.

trendies = tremendous fu iphone/fu zing touch

Have both a Strymon Flint and Skreddy's Lunar Module Mini Deluxe. Both are mandatory for me now.

Got a Strymon El Capistan a few months ago. LOVE IT. Best/most fun delay I've ever used. It has a tape crinkle simulation setting!

this sounds amazing! want one

picking up a strymon bigsky this week. 5 seconds of chorale reverb demos and i was throwing money at them

Whoops I think I just added a synth mangler to our devi ever order because I want to play with it. Anybody want to buy a $300 fuzz pedal?

by the way, in a gesture of thanks for everybody giving me thoughts etc throughout this thread, i am more than willing to hook peeps up with better than usual pricing on gear we sell if you ever need any of it at any point in the future. hit me up via the store email eclipse at eclipsemusic dot org.

Devi ever shipment just showed up and I am getting my sweaty little hands all over them as we speak.

holy shit was this ever worth the wait

Oh shit guess who's a Skreddy dealer

In my typical fashion, I ordered uh everything

cool! I heart the Lunar Module so much

Devi Ever:fx is sold, btw. As always, I have the weirdest timing. Not a shock, but Dwarfcraft Devices is taking over, which should be alright.

Tbh, it's a bittersweet moment for me - I know that Devi has been a polarizing figure to say the least, but getting to know her on the phone, she's a pretty great person, sucks that the console kickstarter pretty much took her out. If I get time, I will crosspost my stream of consciousness Facebook reviews of her pedals in memorium. I might just start posting my pedals reviews here in general, because I think they are fun, and why the fuck not

haha well this is going to start some fights:

http://www.ehx.com/products/soul-food

read the description

LOL, well it wouldn't be the first pointless pedal EHX have made.

Running the Soul Food through the Blockhead.

Skreddy has arrived and lives up to its huge reputation. Any worries I had about the $229 phaser (little miss sunshine) were erased in the first minute of plugging it in. It's the best phaser I have ever heard. Seriously.

get this one, obvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trMGE3MWI50

Oh, so already ordered, now worries

Just won a £25 amzaon voucher at work and am thinking of putting it towards a pedal but i'm not that sure what i ought to get. what is essential for getting a good sound? I have a wah, a tuner and a Boss distortion pedal, oh and an RC-loop pedal (which I'm still getting my head around). Really, I want something that's just going to get me a nice overall sound that is a bit more interesting than my usual dry sound. Something that gives the guitar a bit of boost or edge during choruses and makes lead sound a bit better. Should I use overdrive? Compression? Or just get a pedal board for what I have already and save a lot of hassle when setting up? If the latter, what sort of board should I get?

just ordered all of the Hayden/Dr. Green pedals

i get a lot of use out of my tremolo pedal but i guess it depends on your style.

overdrive makes a lot of sense, or a clean boost. doubt you could get a pedal board for anywhere near that price, unfortunately.

went for the bad monkey. our style is sort of tight art-punk a bit like Talking HEads or w/e e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn1oeQZIjBk

added the Hayden/Dr. Green pedals last week (although i dont think they will ship for another month or so) and also picked up not a pedal line, the Framus stuff. Anybody played the vintagey import ones they do? seemed intriguing so I bought uh all of them, so I hope they don't suck.

Earthquaker reposted a short review I did of their new Terminal fuzz on their page today so that was pretty cool.

Framus vintage line is FUCKING AWESOME btw. Waaaaaay better than even my high hopes.

ohhhhhh yeah, just got a chance to play around with the Devi Ever Bit Mangler for a few days before shipping it to Canada and HOLY FUCK. Actually got my first Dwarfcraft built Devi shipment and I hate to say it, but the quality jump is insane (in the positive direction). Devis circuits are great, but her build quality dropped the more pissed off and checked out she got imo. Probably going to bring in some of the insano Dwarfcraft stuff because hey I wanna and also nothing is better than plugging someone into something baffling. also they came by the shop and hung out for an hour and are seriously just the nicest people you could imagine, married couple that are pedal geeks to the core.

http://www.dwarfcraft.com/pedals.html

oh duh and also i added another pedal line, lotus pedal designs. crazy build quality, and a good simplicity aesthetic that probably does a good job of counterbalancing all the crazy shit ive been bringing in. THD + N and the Iceverb are pretty mindbogglingly good, I'll have a chance to check out the rest of the stuff tomorrow or Friday when it shows up.

http://www.lotuspedaldesigns.com/collections/all

i swear that after this i will be done

― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Saturday, October 20, 2012 5:30 AM (1 year ago)

oh lol at me

it's a golden age for gear tbh

A guy I'm in grad school went to high school with the Dwarfcraft dude, I think. I was playing around with his BABY THUNDAA the other day, I think he's got a couple of other ones as well.

adding the Lehle switchers, because hey somebody must want a $160 A/B box right? Right?

normally stuff priced that far above parity sets off every bullshit meter i have but man, i got a sample and they are really something. tech is totally legit, switch life should be just about infinite, literally ZERO bleed from side to side. hope im not the only dude that gives a shit about that sort of stuff.

Also have some pretty dope pedals on special buy this week. Batteries included.

https://www.aldi.com.au/en/special-buys/saturday-08-march-2014/saturday-detail-wk10/ps/p/guitar-effects-pedals/

hahaha

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1920267_10152267178838917_2116111836_n.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyXcBpg20Ls#t=46

so many new pedal lines, so many awesome new vintage weirdo things

now doing tc electronics, about to add old school effects, talks in process on greenhouse, wren and cuff, dr. scientist, dr. no, cusack, mojo hand.

also just took in an ibanez ot-10 octave and HOLY SHIT now i get why people freak out about these things, its the bastard son of the pearl octaver mixed with a vintage EH microsynth. its going to be really really hard not to buy this for myself.

oh yeah and also just got in a v3 mosrite fuzzrite. and a malekko lofi 616 mkii. and a first year SIB mr echo. at some point i am just going to have to just convert fully to being a pedal only shop if this keeps up.

jjj i am very curious about that new TC delay. any experience?

The flashback or the flashback x4? Either way, it's going to be about a week before they appear

um... sorry... i was thinking of a different new release that starts with t

http://static.squarespace.com/static/5241856be4b07f248a5a2804/52f4cfc4e4b05d1230beec45/52f4d095e4b08f72cd95023d/1391775893941/ReplayBox-RIGHT.jpg?format=1000w

in my defense i'm recovering from surgery and so i'll just blame the meds. carry on :(

I will totally pimp for Mojo Hand though. Brad is a great dude and he's on a real tear lately. I really dig the 442/443 analog filter and (oh the shame) the new dumbl. Haven't tried the Rook or the Iron Bell but they are well loved on the boards and should be solid bread and butter sellers.

Also, have you looked into these guys at all? Think you would dig how Philippe rolls: http://carolineguitar.com

what's a good volume pedal? the ernie ball ones seem to be the standard but they're a bit expensive for what seems a fairly simple task, all i want to do is smoothly orient my way around all volumes from 0 to 100 is it so much to ask.

I am weird and picky about volume pedals so I am probably the wrong guy to ask, but I like the Big Joe Volume (although largely because of the 3 mode and adjustable sweep shit that you don't need). The Fender volume pedal (now discontinued) was great too if space is not a concern. Are you looking at the ernie ball jrs, or the full size ones? Jrs are much cheaper, and although slightly more expensive than the dunlop crybaby chassis ones, much better imo. Anything less is going to be a plastic housing and pretty mediocre, honestly.

Also Caroline would be high on my list but I think they already have a dealer in town and I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

thanks, that's useful. i suspect it's something i'd find myself being picky about too so i wouldn't want to go budget and end up with a pedal that has annoying limitations. fender seem to have a new one on the market - http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Fender-FVP-1-Volume-Pedal/X3M - know anything about it?

might also be worth looking at that crazy electro harmonix volume pedal, the one with no moving parts, ive heard good things

this tc electronic flashback x4 is crazy crazy good, like a hugely improved line 6 dl4 or a strymon that doesnt cost 10 billion dollars. at $249 it's absolutely amazing. HUGE though, basically the same footprint as the dl4

I've recently acquired a CS-3 Compressor/Sustainer and an NS-2 Noise Reducer. How can I get the best out of these?
I take it I would have something like Wah > CS-3 > Distortion > NS-2 > Delay ? But are there any nice setting combos for these?

Hello again. Can someone give me a bit of a primer on pedal boards?

I've recently acquired a number of new pedals and I'm getting fed up of having to set them all up each time I want to practice. I don't really know a lot about pedal boards, how they work, which ones are best to get, how to accommodate a number of pedals and what to look out for.

Currently I have a Diageo power supply and daisy chain (which weren't cheap) but it only accommodates about 6 pedals. I take it it's not safe to use a double daisy chain. If I get a powered board, will I even need to use the supply any more?

its totally safe to continue daisy chaining, as long as you have a power supply with enough milliamps to do it. figure that a 1600 mA supply can probably easily handle 8 pedals without any sweat. diago makes one thats 1000 mA and one that's 3000 mA iirc. any idea which one you have?

also i just picked up their line of pedal boards and i am pretty impressed for the price. i personally hate the limitations of boards with built in supplies and avoid them like the plague.

oh and also you basically want to place the ns-2 right after whatever is creating noise in your chain, so if you are primarily dealing with guitar sourced noise it would go in the front, if the distortion is the culprit, right after that, etc. comps can accentuate noise quite a bit (remove nerd info) so keep that in mind as well.

Cheers jjjusten. So I was looking at the Boss board but if you reckon powered boards are a no no then I might change my mind. I'll take a look at my power supply.

I found out if I put the CS-3 after the majority of my effects it works out a lot better. The distortion pedal was very often playing a lot quieter than the clean guitar which was no good, so I've pretty much got my effects then the compressor, then the NS-2 which I'm not sure is all that orthodox, but what they hey.

Just checked my receipt (I'm at work) and it's a Diago PS10 Micropower9 Pedalboard Power Supply with a PS02 Deluxe Daisy Chain. Not sure what that means for me.

Only 1000ma according to the site, so that's a bit shoot considering I plonked down £25 for it. Oh well.

oops I went crazy and bought an Electro-Harmonix Cathedral reverb on impulse, RIP my bank account.

Heh. I've been really close (mentally) to making a disastrous pedal purchase.

what is it? GO FOR IT. My perhaps sketchy justification is that as I got it fairly cheap on ebay I can always sell it again for around the same price.

I passed up a terribly cheap used pedal that I want on Guitar Center this morning (Earthquaker Depths for $119). But I don't want to support them, so I didn't give in.

What I want to pull the trigger on is some really nice versatile fuzz with a lotta dials but I know I have to put it off until at least mid-summer (for various reasons). Like, even just BUYING IT NOW!/PAYING FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE! on the credit card won't work because I know I have some upcoming household purchases I'm going to have to make. : (

Was gonna say, if it's a Meat Box, DO IT.

PARENTAL
ADVISORY
EXPLICIT
NOISE

Dr. Scientist is a done deal. What an awesome dude.

Also about to get my first shot at the Skreddy Bloody Knuckles as soon as the shipment arrives. Stoked.

For the unfamiliar:

http://skreddypedals.com/skreddy_pedals_bloody_knuckle.htm

And maybe the coolest pedal website in the world:

http://www.drscientist.ca

Oh holy shit, the bloody knuckle is already discontinued. Well, guess I won't be dealing on the price on that one then.

that website kicks major ass.

do not sleep on the not-discontinued skreddy hybrid fuzz driver

Oh trust me, I don't.

Skreddy Lunar Module mini deluxe is mandatory around these parts.

Still pretty confused about pedal boards. They really do vary wildly. I'd build my own but pfff... What does everyone else use?

A piece of wood. They're currently secured with Velcro, but I've found I don't really like that. They tend to flop around and the Velcro itself gets really dirty. Someone (either on here or some other board) recommended securing the pedals to the board using bicycle chain links attached to y the screws on the bottom of the pedals. Been thinking about trying that approach.

http://www.christopherhopper.com/2013/06/jason-rodgers-pedalboard-and-the-bike-chain-link-method/Example

http://www.christopherhopper.com/2013/06/jason-rodgers-pedalboard-and-the-bike-chain-link-method/

With a non-powered board, how are you powering the pedals? My Diago thing only goes up to 6 pedals I think, and I'm planning to get a couple more. I've seen things like the Voodoo Lab Pedal Power +2 but these strike me as expensive and probably for people who are a bit more pro than I am. But I don't want loads of hiss etc...

I just use a OneSpot, but mine is strictly for at-home use.

ah right... i'll be playing local shows and taking it to practice rooms etc.

Nothing wrong with a one spot or similar really. Power bricks often have other voltage options (18v, voltage sag, etc) and sometimes better isolation (although not always, T. Rex has a couple non ISO bricks which is, well, scammy and stupid).

Skreddy Lunar Module mini deluxe is mandatory around these parts.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Same here tbh. Most versatile/addictive fuzz face i've ever played.

Plus Marc from skreddy is literally one of the nicest dudes in the business, so giving him money feels good.

What I want to pull the trigger on is some really nice versatile fuzz with a lotta dials but I know I have to put it off until at least mid-summer (for various reasons). Like, even just BUYING IT NOW!/PAYING FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE! on the credit card won't work because I know I have some upcoming household purchases I'm going to have to make. : (

― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life), Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:33 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Heh, I didn't even last a week either. Found a solidgoldfx Formula 76 (a four-knob Super Fuzz-ish box) for super cheap and lost the will to resist. Anyone have opinions on solidgoldfx?

Still pretty confused about pedal boards. They really do vary wildly. I'd build my own but pfff... What does everyone else use?

I'm building my own from instrumental panel facing I found at an aerospace junkyard.

I'm also thinking about getting a delay pedal (assuming delay is generally more useful than reverb). Is the Boss DD series a good start or are there better options out there? Analogue?

everyone has their favorite delay and there are a zillion different flavors but imo the Boss stuff is classic for a reason and a great place to start. personally, i find i prefer analog or analog-voiced delays because they usually have fewer parameters to control and they're easier for my little brain to grasp, but not because they're better,

My advice with delay pedals (I mean really all pedals) is seriously, go to a store and listen to as many as possible, trust your ears, ignore everyone else. Well, except me.

I know that sounds tongue and cheek but seriously, pedals are just like guitars, there is no one size fits all solution anymore - this is why, despite all rational business sense, I have no online store, despite the fact that I expect we will have close to 1000 pedals in stock by the end of this year (and despite the fact that I do a lot of national and international business). I try to at least be an intermediary either via email or the phone, because I can direct people to accurate demos, find out what they are trying to get a pedal to actually do, get reference points for tones they are looking for etc.

why they shut down the guitar shop near me is beyond me. there isn't a decent music shop for miles now.

but no that makes sense jjjusten. guess it's a trip up to denmark street for me.

I feel like imm is immune to a lot of the recommendation problems, honestly, which is why this is the only gear geek forum I really post on, outside of clowning worship leader strymon/jhs/altoid pick tin lovers on the gear page

Soooo many of those people play in church bands!

I love the Idiot Box Dimension X delay and it's super versatile (including doing some things I've never got another pedal to do), but availability of them (especially in Britain) is a nightmare unless you buy direct from Matt.

Just FYI Aldo, you know I'm one of idiotboxes 5 dealers or whatever right?

I kind of remembered you saying you had a D4 distortion (which is another great pedal which works in a different way from most others of the same effect type) but hadn't put two and two together to have you as a dealer.

Love Matt's stuff, never had a bad thing from him.

The Frequency Mangler might be my favourite effect of his.

I love the dimension x, but it's definitely an odd beast, very lofi and hard to tame. Matt is out of it at the moment iirc.

I think he has one uk dealer, joes pedals or something like that? And yeah, the frequency mangler is awesome.

I had noticed nearly everything is out of stock, that explains it.

Have you tried the Voivod pedal? If so, what's it like?

It's pretty heavy, less fuzzy than the dungeon master but despite being a purported bass pedal I've mostly sold it to guitar dudes, esp baritone guys. The acid etch also looks awesome. I try to keep all his stuff in stock, but he only does batches of 10 at a time, so it can get tricky. I have a standing "I will buy anything new you make and I don't care what it is" understanding with him, so I've heard everything he's made so far, and it's all pretty amazing.

Awesome. I might just have to buy it.

FYI: Tell Me All You Know About Delay Pedals

Still love the Moog delay. If I was buying new right now, I'd probably get the Moog Mini delay.

Uh oh might have just added another pedal line (sorta). Looks like dwarfcraft is a done deal.

Also a guy brought a bunch of these into the shop:

http://www.oldschoolfx.com

Not crazy about the graphics (yeah I know I shouldn't care but...yeah) but they seemed super well built and sounded pretty solid as well. Pricing is beyond fair. Do I buy a thing?

and by buy a thing i mean add them as a dealer, not buy this dudes collection, because he isnt selling, he just wanted to make me aware of the stuff. which i always find very cool when it happens, pedal geeks unite etc.

deindexed this for totally self-serving reasons. nothing bad! just caution abt tipping my hand on pedal line stuff since this thread has crept up the googlerank on a few things a little bit further than i would like

I got a bit of a bonus at work and have treated myself to a WMD Geiger Counter for my noise setup. Everything points to it being exactly what I want/need but a couple of reviews of people that couldn't master it gives me the fear slightly.

Oh hey guess who just added one, possibly 2 new pedal lines today.

I'll share the first one although there is still some paperwork hoop shit to jump through - we're about to become a Hammond organ dealer, with no expectation of selling b3s, but because they sent me one of the Leslie pedals and it. Is. The. Shit.

Oh also added greenhouse effects. And now that I have deindexed this thread and won't look like a backtracking shitheel, feel free to ask me why I might be about to add zvex.

Hint: can't stop obsessing with the fuzz probe a dude brought into the shop.

I went to Denmark St and went for the Subdecay Anamnesis modular delay, which I'm very pleased with so far.

Wow. Just listened to a demo of that. It sounds sick as hell and at a great price.

yeah it's great fun and it's a nice mellow echo

Uhoh shittons of pedals this week. And I haven't built my new pedal display yet, so I actually have nowhere to put them. Which means I've crossed the 600-700 count. By a long ways. Putting that a different way - I just did a quick calculation with our inventory program, and if the monopoly dude walked in and bought all our pedals at market value, it would cost $150k.

Might be time to actually start an online store I think.

Kinda drunk, kinda freaked out atm. In a good way! I think.

Oh ha shit I didn't include used pedals in that calculation.

I'm just going to lie down for a bit and breathe into a paper bag brb

i would buy pedals from you via mail order

fwiw i did and it felt good

my pals from dwarfcraft/devi ever are coming into town tomorrow to hang out, so if anybody has any questions for them, let me know. im grabbing the first of some of the dual mode pedals from them (brown/lp and the torn's peaker/aenima) and a couple of one off test models that arent staying in production (war horse and the wolf). then we're going to nerd out and take apart some weird unobtanium pedals ive got in the shop and hang.

also, looks like my friend aaron and i are going to start doing some pedal demos starting in june, thanks to pretty much hating 99% of the pedal demos that currently exist. i'll let you all know when they go live.

jjj, have you ever played with a Geiger Counter by WMD devices? My treat to myself turned up this weekend and I broke it out a couple of hours ago. It's... quite something. I'm not 100% it's much use to anybody except the extreme noise crowd (which was why I wanted one) but it does sound manipulation on a scale I've never heard before. It's a completely daunting pedal, it has so many options, but already found a couple of favourite wave tables.

there's a guy in town here who installs the Geiger counter right into your guitar if you like, cool mod, his place is a little shop but has some good stuff

Music Gear Guys & WMD on-board Geiger Counter dem…: http://youtu.be/JMiWyJ0WLZI

never had a geiger counter in my hands, but ive been curious for a while. i may have overfilled my insanobox quotient with dwarfcraft/devi/idiotbox at this point but its definitely on my radar.

and we are now officially a zvex dealer

Might be time to actually start an online store I think.

I would buy from the jjusten store too.

Hey just for my sanitys sake - tons of dudes asking me to contact Diamond Pedals. I hate to be this guy, but they look boring as hell - that isn't a deal breaker, but is there something cool there that I am missing, or is this the new flavor of praise and worship guitar dudes or something.

Geiger Counter by WMD devices? My treat to myself turned up this weekend and I broke it out a couple of hours ago. It's... quite something. I'm not 100% it's much use to anybody except the extreme noise crowd (which was why I wanted one)

went to their page and listened to the samples and holy shit that is awesome

Out of curiosity, have you contacted http://www.acidfuzz.com ?

Hey, I took a bunch of photos after a day of organizing the pedal cases, so gaze upon my madness.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m134/johnjusten/D63DB8CE-20EC-46A2-9B42-5CAEB04CCAE2.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m134/johnjusten/F2AF4CBC-6B50-42EB-BECD-258C5498345B.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m134/johnjusten/1C9D46EE-4524-436E-829C-AE396CC4D0F9.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m134/johnjusten/29056737-3265-44F9-B9CB-013B45C39B19.jpg

Sorry to peeps getting double loaded thx to my store Facebook feed

I don't think there are any other Chicago people who read this thread but if there are, I went into Rock and Roll Vintage on Lincoln recently and they've done a massive expansion so they're now about three times bigger than they used to be, and they now have a pedal selection that rivals, maybe even surpasses, Chicago Music Exchange. Apparently the expansion was like two years ago so I guess I hadn't been in there in a long time.

Excuse me, "Rock N Roll Vintage"

Haw. I love "WEIRD!"

that is a crazy impressive number of pedals

does anybody here make their own pedals? if so, does anyone know a good and reputable place on the web where you can buy these Mitsubishi ICs that show up in nearly every Boss schematic?

What's the ic part number? I've got a ton of parts in stock, and I know people that know people.

M5223AL?

I'm interested in making the tremolo just because it has some cool parts that I have experience with already:

http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/s/tr2-tremolo.php

So the heart of it is the M5207L01, which is a voltage controlled amplifier IC. But I'd also be interested in the M5218AL low noise op amps, though I expect it's easier to find a substitute for those.

it's hard to even find spec sheets for a lot of these so as to even determine a substitute

(and I do plan to do something cooler than just replicate a boss pedal after. just have to start somewhere.)

So very much want to build a Wobbulator clone that can also handle the Vox-style repeater sound.

woah, that vox repeater effect is nuts

Not sure if this has been posted before, but what the fucking fuck:
http://www.ejccustompedalsandguitarworks.com/pedals.php

You know, I usually really like when people put their pedals into unconventional housings and that obviously took a lot of work...

Guys

The Dr. Scientist stuff

Holy shit

Your facebook writeups are excellent. I get what they do and you make me want them all.

Thanks man! I keep thinking my writing skills could be well suited to pedal reviews, but every guitar gear magazine is horrible and full of garbage.

Write for Tape Op.

hmmmmmmmm

c&ping this from the guitar newb thread.

Speaking of reverb, jjusten (or anyone else) how do you like the Dispatch Master? It looks like a nice, simple-to-operate pedal with the added benefit of being two effects. Does it lose anything in its simplicity? How does it stack up against other delay/reverb combos like the Boss RV-5 or whatever?

― how's life, Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:31 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh hi

I think the dispatch master is the best small format verb/delay I've found, but I have heard better verbs and better delays for sure. Great board space solution, but if you are picky about either of those 2 effects (they are both better than or at least parity with average) you might want to look at individual pedals.

Tell me about T. Rex please people

They've made me a pretty awesome incentive offer to hop on board, but I've weirdly never touched a single pedal they make

also, I need to pcik some brains about Caroline Guitar Company, which we briefly talked about up thread

I don't really know anything about them, but lolled at the first search result for T. Rex on guitar geek:

http://www.guitargeek.com/mark-tremonti-creed-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-2009/

Yeah the tremonti factor is unsettling.

Became a dealer for old school fx today because they sound good and I was bored. Still think they look kinda meh, but I've heard them in person thx to a local dude with a board full of them, and the price is pretty awesome. Couldn't peel them off and look at the guts, so hopefully I'm not about to be super pissed when the box shows up.

http://www.oldschoolfx.com

The foo look pretty rub.

Get some white strikers made with appropriate cutouts and you can seek 'design your own pedal' kits, get some stick-on rhinestones and you can do blingee pedals.

Caroline makes cool stuff and has a good attitude. Philippe posts on another forum and demonstrates a jjj-friendly philosophy wrt the biz and gear and gear people.

I am curious about their delay but have sworn off purchases for a while.

harmonic decoder http://www.sunsineaudio.com/Harmonic-Decoder-045.htm

Uh oh.

Holy shit.

Does that dude have dealers

That looks COOL.

Looks like the guy sells his pedals through Guitarleys.com (At least youtube indicates that)

Wow. That...wow.

the harmonic decoder is a real obnoxious/uncontrolled beast when used on guitar and i think it probably needs a cv input for best use but i haven't figured that out yet

not for public release right at the moment, but since i deindexed this, we just confirmed with Caroline.

nice!

ok, Old School FX stuff looks waaaaaaaay better in person. still clearly a "one dude in a garage slip decal" sort of vibe, but very clean work, lacquer over the decal etc. first impressions, everything is good to very good, standouts are the rootless tree, fat penguin and black lung, invisible robot is way weirder than expected, i think i kinda love it, but not the muff variant i was expecting, full of off harmonic whistles and a general impression of being just short of the breaking point. Miss Turpentine is not an earthshaking 2399 based delay, but sounds really pleasing on short settings (better than many) and noises up a bit on long settings, which i tend to like, but not everyone does.

added bonus: i hear absolutely zero tubescreamer in any of his overdrive stuff. the fat penguin is a snarly little 2 knobber, the rootless tree is a really surprisingly good sounding low gain od with a really nice tone circuit, and the black lung is chunky and mean-spirited, could def hit the non fuzz doom/stoner stuff sweet spot, which is something i dont hear as often as i should.

ok. another question. who wants to tell me about empress stuff?

i had their vintage superdelay, great sound, well made, seemed well thought out. i sold it because i found it increasingly less useful for synthesizers with all the racks i've been accumulating but i'd totes recommend it for guitars

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/10401440_650753965001018_7180855025285318233_n.jpg

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/creatology/files/2011/12/Wain_cats_6.jpg

yes, I'd like those pedals as well.

as my pedal collection grows the battery + power supply situation is getting a bit messy, what's the best (cheapest) way to power multiple pedals?

one spot imo until you're ready for a brick

One spot works fine for me.

looks perfect, thanks!

Just became a dealer for Chase Bliss Audio, maker of the Warped Vinyl and wow you all need to track one of these down and try it.

Aw man, the Warped Vinyl is on the top of my "to check out" list.

I do have a conundrum to fix though before I introduce another element into this... Right now my effects line looks like this:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2912/14544992476_1f4f0fd463_z.jpg

The hangup I have is with the Whammy. I basically only use one setting on it - the harmonic and even then I only really use it in the octave up or down setting. Great warbly sound to it, especially when going through the reverbs, but doesn't have that cliched "shimmer" that everyone seems to be showing off right now. The downside is that it's a HUGE pedal. I like that one octave sound a lot, but have been dissatisfied with the few octave pedals I've tried. Any recommendations out there? Would love to sell the Whammy and recover some space.

should mention that the octavers I tried are the MicroPOG and the Boss super octave (yuck). Curious about Foxrox Octron

ET is that an ampeg next to the vox? good taste in amps imo.

Yah, it's an '62 Ampeg Reverb-O-Rocket 2. I fucking love that amp and have owned it for years. I've always maintained that Ampeg's blue diamond guitar amps are very underrated. The various Jets and Rockets are all dynamite and a steal in price compared to whatever the equivalent Deluxe Reverb is. I'll even vouch for the mid-90s reissues up to when Crate/Mackie or whoever the hell they are now bought the brand.

I had an early freakout about now being the sole guitarist in a band (plus hangup on not taking vintage gear to gigs) so I tracked down a Super Rocket 2x12. Even more underrated though I understand they're getting scarce now because one of the clods in Kings Of Leon plays through one.

The AC30 is the greatest guitar amp in the world.

I have a 66 jet that's not going anywhere unless the right 65 reverberocket shows up.

for years it sat next to an AC30 that I finally gave up a couple months back due to: i live in an apartment and band days aren't coming back and my gf moved in and damn that thing is big and heavy.

Guy just traded in a strymon flint and a loud button balls deep so I guess I finally get to hear what all the fuss is about myself

Would love to hear input on Elvis Telecoms question. Thinking my next pedal purchase will be along those lines.

I'm still pretty sold on the micro pog/pog 2 side of things for clean octave gen. If you want warble, hard to beat the earthquaker organizer/pitch bay.

And in further uh oh maybe can't resist, this dude just contacted me:

http://www.raingerfx.com/index.html

Anybody ever touched one of these in real life?

The Frankensteins! I just want a pedal with that switch on it

I want one of those Freakenstein's Dwarf pedals so you better get them.

Wonder if I could play the Igor pedal by clamping it in my mouth...

oh by the way, guess who got brought in to do a pedal symposium at a guitar festival in saint paul

symposium is such a fancy way of saying "nerding out in front of a crowd re: pedals"

Aaron?

Just kidding. Hope you tape that shit!

just ordered all of the Hayden/Dr. Green pedals

― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Friday, January 31, 2014 5:30 PM (5 months ago)

so not going to happen. pulled the order because those dudes can not get their distro together at fucking all. plus honestly i got less interested the more i listened to them

and in todays moment of blasphemy spent a bunch of time with the strymon flint we got in and uh. idgi. something in there hits my ear very very much in the wrong way. similar feel to the dispatch master like i mentioned upthread - cool to have both in a single box, neither side measures up to alternate stuff i have in stock (ok, the verbs are decent, but the trems are subpar. maybe im just spoiled, idk.) no offense to dudes that dig it, just does nothing for me.

and hey while we are on the subject, any vibes on the rockbox boiling point etc pedals?

oh duh and also stone deaf:fx out of england, zero chance of hearing them w/o buying them in this part of the world, but that fig fumb has my curious

I know you can't judge by youtube clips, but I really dislike the sweep sound on both the Fig Fumb and Trashy Blonde. I like the idea though.

However, by that same poor metric the PDF-1 is a really nice recreation of that Moog MPF-1 sound.

strymon
idgi

feeling this

I can't help but hear the name Strymon in a cod-Jamaican accent. Earthquaker Afterneath Otherworldly Reverberator sounds completely nuts. A little heavyhanded on the naming side of things though.

I'm at John's store and I'm trying not to drool.

*droooooollllll*

haha it's pretty great huh

He undersells it's awesomeness.

honestly John's store is one of the things I miss most about MN and a) I wasn't a guitar player when I was a kid, and b) I didn't spend that much time there growing up

Advice please. If you were looking to increase sustain, what pedal would you pick? Something like the Doctor Green's Life Support seems to look like a good effort, but I'm not sure about the autocompression. If heading down the compressor/sustainer route, is there anything to be gained beyond adjusting distortion pedals elsewhere in the chain?

Has anyone ever tried a Sustainiac?

i dig opto compressors, do you have a mooer dealer in your area? the yellow comp is pretty awesome

I have a nice MXR compressor pedal that I've never understood how to use properly.

also liking the tweakiness of the earthquaker warden

xp to NA - is it the dynacomp? those things are pretty brick hammer effecty compressors, they do the sustain thing but are very audibly compressed.

It's the '76 vintage Dyna Comp, don't know if that's any better.

Do compression pedals go at the beginning or end of the chain, generally?

placement is to taste and depends on your chain and what you're going for. I know of players who keep a comp on both ends (not nec both on at the same time)

Guess I need to play around with it more.

Mooer Blue is a CS-1, yellow is a Diamond, right? Feels like it might work. The Warden looks great but I think $200 is probably more than I want to spend on a compressor.

Dyna Comp is noisy (in a bad way) and not what I'm looking for.

So, I just need to find a Mooer dealer. I think eBay has showed me in the past that China and (bizarrely) Australia tend to be the cheapest.

I kinda want one of these

Oh man

This Caroline stuff is so soooooo good.

shhh you. I have no money.

Kilobyte delay is made out of goddamn magic

I got a loan of an AdrenaLinn (original model) from a friend and it seems... interesting. Though I have no idea how to use it. Maybe a month of playing around with it will allow me to do something other than accidentally trigger drums and occasionally produce wacky sounds.

oh hey, greenhouse effects showed up too, so if anybody has any questions on their line, fire away.

actually, since I keep innundating this thread with rambling nonsense, I'll just post the current list and people can ask me whatever:

Catalinbread
Devi Ever Fx
Caroline Guitar Company
Dr. Scientist
Lotus Pedal Designs
Chase Bliss Audio
Idiotbox
Henretta Engineering
Greenhouse Effects
Ramble FX
Lehle
Vick Audio
Old School FX
Dwarfcraft Devices
Z.Vex Effects
Big Joe Stompboxes
Stalefish Effects
Dragon Dog
Skreddy Pedals
TC Electronic
MXR
Mooer
VHT
Earthquaker
Way Huge
Electro Harmonix
DOD Reissues
Noisemaker Effects
Budda
Ibanez
Valco
Digitech
Visual Sound
Danelectro
Dunlop
NE Cable Company
Lava Cables and Pedalboard Kits
Diago Pedalboards and accessories
Chemistry Audio Werks Holeyboard Pedalboards​