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

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.