http://www.audioline.it/catalogo/img/1588_1294244570.jpg
got my girl this for xmas. really lovely on guitars and vocals!
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 12:19 (eleven years ago) link
heard good things, but never really delved into the wampler stuff.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
not a fan
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
Glad you connected with cbread at last. Super good dudes. They're coming out with a tapey delay that's def got my interest.
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
btw dude did you see that my long attempts at catalinbread have finally been realized
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
talked to mike (assuming thats the same mike) for a while on the phone and he seems like a good dude.
initial order is:echoreccallistomerkin fuzzdirty little secretformula 5semaphore taproyal albert hall
anything missing in there that i am sleeping on? order hasnt shipped yet.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
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
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
Just never demo it into a clean amp :)
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
haha oh yeah, i know the drill
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
― 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!
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 7 February 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
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
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
isn't the Carl Martin Compressor one of CM Punk's finishing moves
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
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
― dry rub come save beef (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Crackle Box, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
i am officially out of control, just added these to the mix:
http://www.henrettaengineering.com/Henretta_Engineering/Products.html
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
I should actually learn how to reliably play my guitar before I start buying these things, right
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
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
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
cf www.danarmstrongeffects.com
Dan each fx added makes u a better player by 1 belt level. FACT.
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
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
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
totally! dig the notion of booteeky armstrong boxes.
note to self: reading/posting from phone makes me sound like a crusty killjoy itt :(
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
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
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
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
― arby's, Friday, 22 February 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 22 February 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
haha and 40 on backorder what the hell is wrong with me
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 22 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
walk away from the pedals, jjj
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Friday, 22 February 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
NEVER
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 22 February 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
jjj you ever think about zvex? they are local, my friend hannah handpaints them. coolest looking pedals ever
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
did not know z'vex were local
― arby's, Friday, 22 February 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
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, 22 February 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 22 February 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Friday, 22 February 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
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
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 22 February 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ehx.com/products/45000_
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 22 February 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
eep. i imagined that being able to remove loops would be the tough part...
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 23 February 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
Lemme dig a little deeper before I ruin your day
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 23 February 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― i hold the kwok and you hold the kee (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 23 February 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
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
― i hold the kwok and you hold the kee (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 23 February 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah this is actually a fairly reliable source of info, who would've thought
http://looperpedalreviews.com/
― i hold the kwok and you hold the kee (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 23 February 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 24 February 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― i hold the kwok and you hold the kee (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 24 February 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link