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

Still pretty confused about pedal boards. They really do vary wildly. I'd build my own but pfff... What does everyone else use?

I'm building my own from instrumental panel facing I found at an aerospace junkyard.

I'm also thinking about getting a delay pedal (assuming delay is generally more useful than reverb). Is the Boss DD series a good start or are there better options out there? Analogue?

everyone has their favorite delay and there are a zillion different flavors but imo the Boss stuff is classic for a reason and a great place to start. personally, i find i prefer analog or analog-voiced delays because they usually have fewer parameters to control and they're easier for my little brain to grasp, but not because they're better,

My advice with delay pedals (I mean really all pedals) is seriously, go to a store and listen to as many as possible, trust your ears, ignore everyone else. Well, except me.

I know that sounds tongue and cheek but seriously, pedals are just like guitars, there is no one size fits all solution anymore - this is why, despite all rational business sense, I have no online store, despite the fact that I expect we will have close to 1000 pedals in stock by the end of this year (and despite the fact that I do a lot of national and international business). I try to at least be an intermediary either via email or the phone, because I can direct people to accurate demos, find out what they are trying to get a pedal to actually do, get reference points for tones they are looking for etc.

why they shut down the guitar shop near me is beyond me. there isn't a decent music shop for miles now.

but no that makes sense jjjusten. guess it's a trip up to denmark street for me.

I feel like imm is immune to a lot of the recommendation problems, honestly, which is why this is the only gear geek forum I really post on, outside of clowning worship leader strymon/jhs/altoid pick tin lovers on the gear page

Soooo many of those people play in church bands!

I love the Idiot Box Dimension X delay and it's super versatile (including doing some things I've never got another pedal to do), but availability of them (especially in Britain) is a nightmare unless you buy direct from Matt.

Just FYI Aldo, you know I'm one of idiotboxes 5 dealers or whatever right?

I kind of remembered you saying you had a D4 distortion (which is another great pedal which works in a different way from most others of the same effect type) but hadn't put two and two together to have you as a dealer.

Love Matt's stuff, never had a bad thing from him.

The Frequency Mangler might be my favourite effect of his.

I love the dimension x, but it's definitely an odd beast, very lofi and hard to tame. Matt is out of it at the moment iirc.

I think he has one uk dealer, joes pedals or something like that? And yeah, the frequency mangler is awesome.

I had noticed nearly everything is out of stock, that explains it.

Have you tried the Voivod pedal? If so, what's it like?

It's pretty heavy, less fuzzy than the dungeon master but despite being a purported bass pedal I've mostly sold it to guitar dudes, esp baritone guys. The acid etch also looks awesome. I try to keep all his stuff in stock, but he only does batches of 10 at a time, so it can get tricky. I have a standing "I will buy anything new you make and I don't care what it is" understanding with him, so I've heard everything he's made so far, and it's all pretty amazing.

Awesome. I might just have to buy it.

FYI: Tell Me All You Know About Delay Pedals

Still love the Moog delay. If I was buying new right now, I'd probably get the Moog Mini delay.

Uh oh might have just added another pedal line (sorta). Looks like dwarfcraft is a done deal.

Also a guy brought a bunch of these into the shop:

http://www.oldschoolfx.com

Not crazy about the graphics (yeah I know I shouldn't care but...yeah) but they seemed super well built and sounded pretty solid as well. Pricing is beyond fair. Do I buy a thing?

and by buy a thing i mean add them as a dealer, not buy this dudes collection, because he isnt selling, he just wanted to make me aware of the stuff. which i always find very cool when it happens, pedal geeks unite etc.

deindexed this for totally self-serving reasons. nothing bad! just caution abt tipping my hand on pedal line stuff since this thread has crept up the googlerank on a few things a little bit further than i would like

I got a bit of a bonus at work and have treated myself to a WMD Geiger Counter for my noise setup. Everything points to it being exactly what I want/need but a couple of reviews of people that couldn't master it gives me the fear slightly.

Oh hey guess who just added one, possibly 2 new pedal lines today.

I'll share the first one although there is still some paperwork hoop shit to jump through - we're about to become a Hammond organ dealer, with no expectation of selling b3s, but because they sent me one of the Leslie pedals and it. Is. The. Shit.

Oh also added greenhouse effects. And now that I have deindexed this thread and won't look like a backtracking shitheel, feel free to ask me why I might be about to add zvex.

Hint: can't stop obsessing with the fuzz probe a dude brought into the shop.

I went to Denmark St and went for the Subdecay Anamnesis modular delay, which I'm very pleased with so far.

Wow. Just listened to a demo of that. It sounds sick as hell and at a great price.

yeah it's great fun and it's a nice mellow echo

Uhoh shittons of pedals this week. And I haven't built my new pedal display yet, so I actually have nowhere to put them. Which means I've crossed the 600-700 count. By a long ways. Putting that a different way - I just did a quick calculation with our inventory program, and if the monopoly dude walked in and bought all our pedals at market value, it would cost $150k.

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

Kinda drunk, kinda freaked out atm. In a good way! I think.

Oh ha shit I didn't include used pedals in that calculation.

I'm just going to lie down for a bit and breathe into a paper bag brb

i would buy pedals from you via mail order

fwiw i did and it felt good

my pals from dwarfcraft/devi ever are coming into town tomorrow to hang out, so if anybody has any questions for them, let me know. im grabbing the first of some of the dual mode pedals from them (brown/lp and the torn's peaker/aenima) and a couple of one off test models that arent staying in production (war horse and the wolf). then we're going to nerd out and take apart some weird unobtanium pedals ive got in the shop and hang.

also, looks like my friend aaron and i are going to start doing some pedal demos starting in june, thanks to pretty much hating 99% of the pedal demos that currently exist. i'll let you all know when they go live.

jjj, have you ever played with a 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) but it does sound manipulation on a scale I've never heard before. It's a completely daunting pedal, it has so many options, but already found a couple of favourite wave tables.

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.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m134/johnjusten/D63DB8CE-20EC-46A2-9B42-5CAEB04CCAE2.jpg
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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?