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

there's a guy in town here who installs the Geiger counter right into your guitar if you like, cool mod, his place is a little shop but has some good stuff

Music Gear Guys & WMD on-board Geiger Counter dem…: http://youtu.be/JMiWyJ0WLZI

never had a geiger counter in my hands, but ive been curious for a while. i may have overfilled my insanobox quotient with dwarfcraft/devi/idiotbox at this point but its definitely on my radar.

and we are now officially a zvex dealer

Might be time to actually start an online store I think.

I would buy from the jjusten store too.

Hey just for my sanitys sake - tons of dudes asking me to contact Diamond Pedals. I hate to be this guy, but they look boring as hell - that isn't a deal breaker, but is there something cool there that I am missing, or is this the new flavor of praise and worship guitar dudes or something.

Geiger Counter by WMD devices? My treat to myself turned up this weekend and I broke it out a couple of hours ago. It's... quite something. I'm not 100% it's much use to anybody except the extreme noise crowd (which was why I wanted one)

went to their page and listened to the samples and holy shit that is awesome

Out of curiosity, have you contacted http://www.acidfuzz.com ?

Hey, I took a bunch of photos after a day of organizing the pedal cases, so gaze upon my madness.

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Sorry to peeps getting double loaded thx to my store Facebook feed

I don't think there are any other Chicago people who read this thread but if there are, I went into Rock and Roll Vintage on Lincoln recently and they've done a massive expansion so they're now about three times bigger than they used to be, and they now have a pedal selection that rivals, maybe even surpasses, Chicago Music Exchange. Apparently the expansion was like two years ago so I guess I hadn't been in there in a long time.

Excuse me, "Rock N Roll Vintage"

Haw. I love "WEIRD!"

that is a crazy impressive number of pedals

does anybody here make their own pedals? if so, does anyone know a good and reputable place on the web where you can buy these Mitsubishi ICs that show up in nearly every Boss schematic?

What's the ic part number? I've got a ton of parts in stock, and I know people that know people.

M5223AL?

I'm interested in making the tremolo just because it has some cool parts that I have experience with already:

http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/s/tr2-tremolo.php

So the heart of it is the M5207L01, which is a voltage controlled amplifier IC. But I'd also be interested in the M5218AL low noise op amps, though I expect it's easier to find a substitute for those.

it's hard to even find spec sheets for a lot of these so as to even determine a substitute

(and I do plan to do something cooler than just replicate a boss pedal after. just have to start somewhere.)

So very much want to build a Wobbulator clone that can also handle the Vox-style repeater sound.

woah, that vox repeater effect is nuts

Not sure if this has been posted before, but what the fucking fuck:
http://www.ejccustompedalsandguitarworks.com/pedals.php

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?

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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

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