Yeah, I've seen a lot of people trashing the new TC "budget" stuff, simply based on the fact that it's essentially spruced up Behringer stuff. But honestly, I have two of them now (Skysurfer and 3rd Dimension) and I really feel like they're well done. Certainly built a hell of a lot better than the proper Behringers.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 29 December 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
Hey jjjusten, what do you know/what info do you have on Noisemaker Effects? I saw their Nebula delay pedal in the used case at Guitar Center yesterday and I couldn't resist. It's a really different kind of pedal. After really being into the whole idea of Malekko's Lofi analog delay, it's cool to find the Nebula, as it's essentially like a lofi digital delay.
Also, the Mimiq is a subtly awesome pedal. Having a hard time turning it off.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
I was a dealer (technically still am) for Noisemaker. The builder is a really nice dude, the pricing just didn’t work very well from a dealer perspective, but I’ve got nothing bad to say about him.
― jjjusten, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
Is a doubler like the Mimiq any good for a synth? And where do you normally put it in your chain?
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
I don't know what the Mimiq (or similar device) would be like on a keyboard instrument. But, I do know that TC designed the Mimiq specifically with guitar in mind.
Like I said, it's a very subtle, but noticeable, effect on my Telecaster. Granted, I only went for the mini version, so it only adds one double; the full version can add as many as three "dubs." I've put mine second in my chain, right after my tuner.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 06:34 (six years ago) link
i don't really get how the mimiq is different from any delay pedal set with the feedback low enough for it to repeat only once and the delay time set low.
― na (NA), Thursday, 4 January 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
Basically, but with some extra hoonja-doonja thrown in there.
http://pedals.thedelimagazine.com/new-fx-guitar-double-trackers-tc-electronics-mimiq-and-keeley-30ms/
― how's life, Thursday, 4 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
For me, the actual sound of it is closer to a chorus set on a very low rate and depth.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
Chorus is a short delay.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 5 January 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
I’m assuming it’s doing a slight pitch shift and delaying the signal a very short time as well. Basically the Digitech Luxe with slightly more delay.
― jjjusten, Friday, 5 January 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
So...not that useful if you have a multiple voice keyboard that can detune
― jjjusten, Friday, 5 January 2018 02:52 (six years ago) link
MAGIC
― El Tomboto, Friday, 5 January 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
Having played with the Luxe pretty extensively this past summer, I can say, even at its most conservative settings, it's still way less subtle than the Mimiq.
The Mimiq just has a really different vibe to it.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 5 January 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
I've always steered clear of chorus and similar things, on the theory that my musical skillz are so rudimentary that the LAST thing I need in there is deliberately wrong notes. One time I turned on the Carbon Copy "mod" switch and the result was too sour even for my low standards.
― failsun ra (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 5 January 2018 12:56 (six years ago) link
I like fucked up and "off" sounds.
**shrug**
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 5 January 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
yeah the "extra hoonja-doonja" was clear to me in the demo video - I understand the principle but the link that how's life posted helped me feel less dumb
I would love to run a detuned unison synth patch through the mimiq on 3 and see how fucked up it sounds tbf
― El Tomboto, Friday, 5 January 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
oh there's totally youtubes of nerds doing this but with boring patches
― El Tomboto, Friday, 5 January 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
Actual LOL at "boring patches."
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link
Some months ago, I traded in my MXR Reverb pedal and pretty much regretted it ever since. Reacquired one today and really fucking relived to have done so. Such a well-rounded and perfectly crafted reverb box. Had to trade my Afterneath for it, but enh, who cares. The "Epic" mode on the MXR is basically their version of the Afterneath, anyway. Fewer controls, but that's an even trade, because the MXR has five other excellent modes to play with.
So, I'm back to four reverbs now: MXR, Keeley Abbey Chamber Verb, Earthquaker Levitation, and Earthquaker Ghost Echo.
Also, ordered a Malekko 616 Dark and awaiting its arrival. Super excited to get that one dialed in.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 14 January 2018 05:01 (six years ago) link
So, I bought an Arpanoid. And, erm, huh.
I, uh. . . have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
You're buying a lot of things with fiddly little knobs on them.
― claude rains down in africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
It passes the time.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 03:35 (six years ago) link
I'm going to get an Empress Zoia as soon as it gets released. It's gonna be the king of fiddly pedals.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link
^^^ This... MIDI over 1/4" jack though?
― mor frog bs (S-), Thursday, 1 February 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link
I don't know how it works but if it does than cool.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 1 February 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
So, come to find out that my Arpanoid was defective and it did the "up and down" thing in both the middle and right position on the toggle switch (the right position is supposed to be for "down" only).
Contacted Earthquaker and they were very quick to send me a postage paid return label with the promise that they would either repair or replace it after diagnosing the issue. Still waiting on their response upon getting the pedal back, but so far, the service has been pretty rad.
Got the new pedal itch again after sending my Arpanoid off only a day after I got to play with it, so I traded my Ghost Echo and Levitation for a Transmisser.
And, even though it's a ton less initially intimidating than the Arpanoid, I'm still pretty in awe of just how little nuanced knob twisting changes the way the pedal acts entirely. It's fuggin' awesome.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:12 (six years ago) link
Anyone interested in trading something for a Walrus Descent? It's a great pedal, but can't fit it into my current plan.
if Reddit can have a trading forum, perhaps we could too?
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
Oh hey just let me know what you are looking for...
― jjjusten, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
i like the idea of a pedal trading forum here!just sold a bunch of stuff and ended up picking up the catalinbread formula 55 and belle epoch deluxe along with the chase bliss brothers boost/drive/fuzz thingi have accidentally built a neil young machine and it sounds awesome
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
Ha I just googled "catalinbread formula 55" and the first result is Andy from Pro Guitar Shop playing Powderfinger.
I've built a couple pedals from kits before but just ordered all the parts to build a Earthquaker Acapulco Gold clone, mostly because they appear to be incredibly simple - a 2 ICs, 6 capacitors, 1 diode, 3 resistors, and 2 pots for one with a gain control.
― joygoat, Friday, 23 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
cool! i’ve always liked the look of that pedal - just one big knob you turn up when you wanna rock harder
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 February 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
goddamn the belle epoch deluxe is so nice, i fuckin love this thing so much
― bathed and ready for a snack (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
glad to hear! it has all the makings of a classic and the guys who made it happen are incredibly cool dudes. shame about what's happened to catalinbread since then :(
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 2 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
i realize that could sound like shade and i don't mean it that way. i'm just sad about it.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
wait, what happened to catalinbread?
― bathed and ready for a snack (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
just did some googling and... eurgh, that sucks :(
― bathed and ready for a snack (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
Nick Harris was killed by a falling tree branch two years ago. There has been fallout from that. Howard Gee, one of their other main designers, appears to have split from the company in the past few months and the reasons are as far as I know shrouded in mystery. They did a weird interview at winter NAMM where the guy running the booth didn't seem to know enough about the pedals to talk about them in-depth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKUONqc8170
― how's life, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
yeah i knew about nicholas but hadn’t heard howard had left - he seems like such a cool guy and a really talented designer, hope he goes onto even better things
― bathed and ready for a snack (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
Howard's instagram is very good if you like cats and guitars
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
That Formula 55 pedal looks awesome, as does the Wampler Tweed '57 overdrive I learned about when I went down the rabbit hole. I have a Greer Ghetto Stomp, though, which I loved the second I heard Rick Holmstrom use one with Mavis Staples (he just keeps it snap, crackling and popping for the whole set), and I'm not sure if it supplies more or less enough the same stuff as those others.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
Man, that sucks about Catalinbread. I had no idea Howard wasn't involved anymore. He seems like a genuinely cool guy, with a ton of weird and original ideas. Hope he can get something bigger and better going in the future.
I still want to get a Bicycle Delay eventually.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
Holy shit at the Bicycle Delay. That's got to be the best mostly impractical pedal ever. All these weird reverbs out there. For a while I wanted an Earthquaker Device Afterneath, that was a neat one.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 March 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
A while ago a friend recommended the TC Electronics Hall of Mirrors, which is a pretty good reverb replicator. He also recommended the far less bespoke Zoom Multistomp, which comes close on a lot of fronts to what it is digitally mimicking.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
Personally I don't feel a great need for more overdrives, more amp emulations, or more delays and reverbs. I tend to get two or three good options in my arsenal and use those. In a normal gig I might use four sounds, and I would wager that no one in the audience would notice more than two (if they even think about it, which is itself vanishingly unlikely).
Me, what I want more of is modulation effects that are not primarily dependent on screwing with the fundamental pitch. So, flangers, phasers, ring mods, envelope filters, autowahs.
― Wyld Scalyns (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:48 (six years ago) link
Copilot fx are great at these imo, I have both the antenna and the orbit and love the pair of them.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
jjjusten, what do you know about Hermida Audio?
I picked up their EPH-3 Tape Echo Simulator yesterday and I'm madly in love. Some quick Googling doesn't really tell me much about them. Any thoughts?
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
Anyone seen this one yet? https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plasma-pedal-high-voltage-distortion-unit-guitar-rock#/
― DJI, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 06:32 (six years ago) link
not gonna lie that looks pretty effin rad
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
alf hermida came to prominence on the strength of a couple of drive pedals. one man shop, long wait list with the usual market distortions. he's since partnered with Lovepedal for production/promotion/distribution, so now afaik he just designs circuits and love pedal sean does his thing with them. generally good stuff and now super affordable too. i like the zendrive and variants a lot for those rare occasions when i'm feeling smoooooooth.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
That's cool. I'm just completely floored by the EPH-3. I never thought I'd see a delay that made me rethink whether or not the Carbon Copy and the Jim Dunlop Echoplex were my #1 and #2 favorites. It's seriously that good.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 16 March 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link