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

I know. I swore I wasn't adding any lines this month. I lied. Just became a dealer for function fx, who only have one pedal out (right now) but it's awwwwwwwesome.

http://www.function-fx.com/products.html

i had to fast forward through that demo because i really wanted to see what that "8 bit" knob did

Don't typically think of myself as a big "pedal guy" but I spent a while at the local super-fancy guitar store playing around with pedals yesterday and it was so much fun and now I'm like "I think I need a chorus pedal!??!!?". I'm going back after work to get a used Earthquaker Ghost Echo which seems very niche but a niche I think I fit into, also I want all the other Earthquaker pedals, so crazy-sounding and -looking.

Oh you want a chorus pedal? I just bought this from jjj and it literally is the most glorious thing I have ever heard in my entire life:

http://digitech.com/en-US/products/luxe

I have very mixed feelings about chorus, it is such a dated sound (I guess most effects are dated but chorus sounds like music/eras that I'm not as interested in replicating), but I'm looking for ways to play around with my non-distorted tone. I had fun messing around with a couple of chorus pedals yesterday.

The Luxe pedal sounds nice.

I like the Small Clone chorus that I have.

The Ghost Echo is awesome.

lol cure fetish

(luxe sounds great btw. fwiw i've been using a jacques meistersinger for years and never felt a need for another chorus after that)

My chorus go tos are the catalinbread Callisto, the Dr. Scientist Cosmichorus, the Mr. Black Doublechorus, and the Greenhouse Stonefish. The only reason the luxe isn't on that list is that it is technically not a chorus. More on that if people want to nerd out.

The big MXR analog chorus is also cool.

I've added so many lines. Sorry I've been absent. Black Cat lands next month.

Also if anyone has any questions about Stomp Under Foot, hit me up. Or the Supro amp reissues, because that's also about to happen.

i am vv curious about the Black Cat wah

I've been considering the Black Cat super fuzz lately. I'll have to see if I can come up with the scratch.

Does next month mean August or September?

August

I have the Deluxe Mona Wah on the order, and I was still going back and forth on the Super Fuzz. I'll add it, and if you don't want it, someone will.

Cool! I've just got to clear the purchase with mrs. life. I'll hit you up.

so many pedals

The Black Cat Mona features a special custom tuned Black Cat inductor, as well as the newly engineered Black Cat wah pot, which is like nothing else on the market. These features allow the Black Cat Mona to be used as a sophisticated tone-sculpting tool instead of a mere novelty quack machine.

but I WANT a mere novelty quack machine

I mean, a quacking guitar, who doesn't want that

I've been without a wah since I made the mistake of loaning my old V848 to a friend for a gig lol.

covet the Mona. so spendy but so pretty...

jjj, sent you an email via your work address.

Got it! I'll get back to you with info.

but I WANT a mere novelty quack machine

I mean, a quacking guitar, who doesn't want that

― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, July 29, 2015 1:38 PM (2 days ago)

the more novel, the better imo

not pedal related, but eclipse related, just got in our first DiPinto Galaxie 4 and omg

― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:03 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've been curious about these forever but they don't have a dealer anywhere near me. So when I was in DC last week I made a special trip out to the suburbs to a weird small guitar store at 10 a.m. to play around with the Galaxie 4. I like the hollowbody deluxe model more than the solidbody but all of the hollowbody colors/finishes are way too flashy for me. So then I get back to Chicago and yesterday I wander into the local fancy guitar store and of course NOW they are carrying DiPinto guitars too. I think I like the natural mahogany finish the best, even though it's probably the most boring:

https://reverb-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_progressive/c_thumb,g_south,h_296,w_296/xeempsbgb3aln1ejqmk9.jpg

I'm a boring guy, I can't have a sparkly guitar with a psychedelic headstock.

Even the black hollowbody Galaxie 4 is pretty flashy: https://reverb.com/item/513452-di-pinto-galaxie-4-deluxe-2015-black-white

I could mmmmmmaybe pull that one off.

I actually don't like the natural/normal ones, but I understand why they did it.

Any recommendations for a tremolo pedal?

Dead set on picking up a EHX Super Pulsar after my net paycheck

That looks intense.

Straight up tremolo? Probably the Black Cat mini trem. If you want harmonic tremolo I love the Catalinbread Valcorder. If you want to go full on crazy, the Chase Bliss Gravitas.

FYI Elvis, if you want that EHX I will hook you up, just give me time to order it.

the super pulsar looks fantastic, definitely on my list of future pedal acquisitions

picked up a thorpyfx muffroom cloud over the weekend - holy shit, this thing is incredible, basically the platonic ideal of a big muff-style fuzz.

jjusten - sent you an email this morning...

Follow-up, my wife got me the Earthquaker Hummingbird tremolo and I can't tell how I feel about it yet. It doesn't really have any subtlety or transparency at all, though I realized it's supposed to be that way. I tried the Valcoder at the guitar store too and wasn't crazy about it. The guitar store guy had me try the Moog MF Trem and that was better but I was confused by the relationship between the controls in the limited time I tried it.

I also tested out the Zvex Mastotron fuzz, which I've been curious about for a long time, and I LOVED it. Gnarly sounds but you can always still hear the notes. I've been using the Fender Blender for crazy fuzz leads for a while but you can't really use it on chords because it just turns into BLXLCHCLSHCLHLCHSKKSHKS. Is there anything else in the Mastotron vein I should be checking out before I buy that? I know there are 8 billion fuzz pedals out there.

Z.Vex $6000 candle-powered phaser/tremolo:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-definition-of-gear-lust-is-this-6-000-candle-power-1760794913

ha I was just coming here to post that

It would be cool at gigs to hear "candle" rather than "9 volt," as in "aw crap...hey, do you have an extra candle I can borrow for my fuzz? I'll give it right back after the set."

candle pedal almost as unreliable as a germanium transistor pedal

xp - can't these ppl just get one spots and stop wasting money on batteries

There's a ZVex pedal (the Super Hard-On, I think) with a spare transistor taped inside the case. Maybe this has a spare candle taped in the case for when the main candle (*pun approaching please mind the gap*) burns out.

just got a boss DD-500. think i may be sorted for delay sounds for a while with this.

just ordered a hungry robot 'the wash' pedal - psyched for the ambient madness

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

Still thinking of getting a Mastotron but if anyone has similar alternatives I should check out first let me know.

I tried out the EHX Soul Food. It sounded pretty bad to my ears but I feel like it's impossible to really test an overdrive using a guitar and amp I'm not used to.

The guitar store had some of these Electro-Faustus pedals/instruments that look crazy but they had just gotten them in and couldn't tell me much about them: http://www.electrofaustus.com/ Most of them seem pretty impractical but I want a Drone Thing.

i had a soul food a for a little while and didn't get on with it - it had a trebly shrillness with my guitars i just couldn't quite get rid of.

ended up getting a j rockett archer to fill the klon-clone gap - ut sounds pretty good on its own but i really like the way it stacks into drive and fuzz

those electofaustus pedals look like a hell of a lot of fun

Soul Food sounded super mid-range-y to me.

Found a deal on the Mastotron yesterday so I pulled the trigger, I now have the most obnoxious guitar tone.