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

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)...

Does the ping pong ting too

https://www.thomann.co.uk/mooer_d7_x2_delay.htm

Thank you!!

i think i want one of these reverse pedals. i have a DD-6 that had this functionality and it somehow disappeared, but the delay settings still work. i don't need more delay but it also seems like an investment for one cool trick. everything i've read says the Danelectro Talk Back does this trick the best, but it's actually more than just buying a new DD-8. Does the DD-8 do a completely wet reverse? any other cool reverse pedals out there?

I ended up getting the Flamma btw, seemed just a better suited and more colorful for my purposes. I've read you need to keep the gain staging under control for non-guitar uses, will report back after I try it on some gigs next week. :)

a modern, cheap classic for all kinds of reverb / delay / modulation (including reverse) is the Zoom CDR-70. The newer model is $110 right now.

sorry, the model is actually 70CDR (newer one is 70CDR+)

Maybe I should have gone with a different option, but I have a minor mystery. When I run my sample pad directly into the pedal, it works. But when I put it into the fx send loop (send from mixer > Kaoss pad > pedal > back into stereo aux return on mixer), I get zero fx from the pedal. The signal is clearly passing through and sounds fine, but the fx just aren't happening. All I can think is that the signal from the Kaoss pad isn't strong enough to trigger the delay pedal, no matter how much level I send. Does that make sense??

does the pedal work ok if it's the only thing in the loop?

Does the pedal have stereo out?

Yeah, it does. I'm not sure I tried it in the loop without anything else, I'll give that a shot (I was definitely maxing out the level I could send from the channel to the fx loop though, didn't seem to matter).

saw this on reddit btw:

pedalpicker.com

web app that can help pick out pedals for specific songs. Can't vouch for the veracity of every search but on more popular ones it seems to be headed in the right direction

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Current pedal collection as of today. The board up front is my current "gigging" board despite not having any gigs.

https://qc-ckb.s3.amazonaws.com/ilx/et_pedals_2025.jpg

Nice! I need a new distortion pedal to pair with my big mufff. Is the earth Quaker Hizumitas any good?

nice! rv3 and zoom ultra fuzz! you could probably buy a semi decent car for the value of those two Lovetones.

I took the Lovetones and the Sonic Boom when I had to evacuate for the Eaton Fire. I've had the RV-3 for decades and would immediately replace it with another if I had to.

Nice! I need a new distortion pedal to pair with my big mufff. Is the earth Quaker Hizumitas any good?

Isn't the Hizumitas the Wata pedal?

Yeah I believe so

i have the hizumitas. it's a fun pedal but it's actually got a lot in common with a big muff so it may be redundant unless you're a real fuzz sicko

Thanks CAD. Anyone have a particular distortion pedal they like to pair with the big muff? I used to have one of those boss octave pedals that had a distortion setting that sounded cool with it but it broke

I might be weird about liking common/classic pedals more than unique ones, but I think a plain old Rat or Turbo Rat sounds great into a Big Muff, if you don't crank the Rat too much. The Muff is a little scooped in the midrange and the Rat is the opposite, so you end up getting more presence and solidity from the fuzz. If that's what you're looking for.

Could do the same with any number of mid-heavy overdrives, distortions, or imitation Klons, though. Or any random thing and an EQ pedal. I am possibly just an oaf but I feel like half the things people agonize over with drives can be handled with a cheap EQ? People are out there talking about how they do or don't like $400 pedals for all these subtle frequency-balance reasons, and it's like ... I personally would stop and check if spending $30 on a used Boss equalizer took care of this.

I remember reading in the late 90s how one/both guitarist(s) in Hum used bass distortion pedals to “beef up their sound” but I never tried it out myself.

Xp yeah I found a Reddit thread covering the same question and a lot of folks were mentioning EQ. A cheap answer is a good one

This is a review of a distortion pedal with an EQ built in, but the same applies if you use a separate distortion pedal and EQ pedal (review starts at 5:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsSlfr4oBjI
I feel that nearly all situations where a distortion or fuzz doesn't have quite enough INSERT_FREQUENCY_RANGE_HERE can be fixed with an EQ in the chain.

not a pedal, but I've been using a Warm audio 1073 preamp/eq and man oh man, the EQ on that thing for guitar and bass. super musical and beautiful.

Alternatively, if you don't want to go with a dedicated EQ pedal some overdrives could fit in here too. Walrus' Voyagers are OK for boost, but terrific if you think of it as an always-on tone-shaper.