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

and that's not the only low-down business he's pulled. avoid.

yeah that's a bummer.

in a weird bit of serendipity, proguitarshop just did a fb post advertising their new line of jhs pedals, devi ever shared it advertising them as $200 Hyperions, both of em got in a bit of a comment tiff, then both posts got taken down.

alright, what did you get this time?

this guy he's crazy with the pedals and the boxes

lol

I'll give you a hint - felineprincedrumcashmoney

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4UUJZrorsY4/TpXL6W_OoGI/AAAAAAAAG7M/WOahDV_pfqo/s400/FBG-41-iTunes.jpg

Ok it's official, we have catalinbread on the way, including the Echorec. So fucking cool.

http://www.audioline.it/catalogo/img/1588_1294244570.jpg

got my girl this for xmas. really lovely on guitars and vocals!

heard good things, but never really delved into the wampler stuff.

not a fan

Glad you connected with cbread at last. Super good dudes. They're coming out with a tapey delay that's def got my interest.

btw dude did you see that my long attempts at catalinbread have finally been realized

talked to mike (assuming thats the same mike) for a while on the phone and he seems like a good dude.

initial order is:
echorec
callisto
merkin fuzz
dirty little secret
formula 5
semaphore tap
royal albert hall

anything missing in there that i am sleeping on? order hasnt shipped yet.

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.

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

Just never demo it into a clean amp :)

haha oh yeah, i know the drill

not a fan

― 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!

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

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.

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.

isn't the Carl Martin Compressor one of CM Punk's finishing moves

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.

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.

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.

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

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

i am officially out of control, just added these to the mix:

http://www.henrettaengineering.com/Henretta_Engineering/Products.html

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.

I should actually learn how to reliably play my guitar before I start buying these things, right

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

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!

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.

cf www.danarmstrongeffects.com

Dan each fx added makes u a better player by 1 belt level. FACT.

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

totally! dig the notion of booteeky armstrong boxes.

note to self: reading/posting from phone makes me sound like a crusty killjoy itt :(

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

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

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.

haha and 40 on backorder what the hell is wrong with me

walk away from the pedals, jjj

NEVER

jjj you ever think about zvex? they are local, my friend hannah handpaints them. coolest looking pedals ever

did not know z'vex were local

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.

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?

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.)