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

I know you can't judge by youtube clips, but I really dislike the sweep sound on both the Fig Fumb and Trashy Blonde. I like the idea though.

However, by that same poor metric the PDF-1 is a really nice recreation of that Moog MPF-1 sound.

strymon
idgi

feeling this

I can't help but hear the name Strymon in a cod-Jamaican accent. Earthquaker Afterneath Otherworldly Reverberator sounds completely nuts. A little heavyhanded on the naming side of things though.

I'm at John's store and I'm trying not to drool.

*droooooollllll*

haha it's pretty great huh

He undersells it's awesomeness.

honestly John's store is one of the things I miss most about MN and a) I wasn't a guitar player when I was a kid, and b) I didn't spend that much time there growing up

Advice please. If you were looking to increase sustain, what pedal would you pick? Something like the Doctor Green's Life Support seems to look like a good effort, but I'm not sure about the autocompression. If heading down the compressor/sustainer route, is there anything to be gained beyond adjusting distortion pedals elsewhere in the chain?

Has anyone ever tried a Sustainiac?

i dig opto compressors, do you have a mooer dealer in your area? the yellow comp is pretty awesome

I have a nice MXR compressor pedal that I've never understood how to use properly.

also liking the tweakiness of the earthquaker warden

xp to NA - is it the dynacomp? those things are pretty brick hammer effecty compressors, they do the sustain thing but are very audibly compressed.

It's the '76 vintage Dyna Comp, don't know if that's any better.

Do compression pedals go at the beginning or end of the chain, generally?

placement is to taste and depends on your chain and what you're going for. I know of players who keep a comp on both ends (not nec both on at the same time)

Guess I need to play around with it more.

Mooer Blue is a CS-1, yellow is a Diamond, right? Feels like it might work. The Warden looks great but I think $200 is probably more than I want to spend on a compressor.

Dyna Comp is noisy (in a bad way) and not what I'm looking for.

So, I just need to find a Mooer dealer. I think eBay has showed me in the past that China and (bizarrely) Australia tend to be the cheapest.

I kinda want one of these

Oh man

This Caroline stuff is so soooooo good.

shhh you. I have no money.

Kilobyte delay is made out of goddamn magic

I got a loan of an AdrenaLinn (original model) from a friend and it seems... interesting. Though I have no idea how to use it. Maybe a month of playing around with it will allow me to do something other than accidentally trigger drums and occasionally produce wacky sounds.

oh hey, greenhouse effects showed up too, so if anybody has any questions on their line, fire away.

actually, since I keep innundating this thread with rambling nonsense, I'll just post the current list and people can ask me whatever:

Catalinbread
Devi Ever Fx
Caroline Guitar Company
Dr. Scientist
Lotus Pedal Designs
Chase Bliss Audio
Idiotbox
Henretta Engineering
Greenhouse Effects
Ramble FX
Lehle
Vick Audio
Old School FX
Dwarfcraft Devices
Z.Vex Effects
Big Joe Stompboxes
Stalefish Effects
Dragon Dog
Skreddy Pedals
TC Electronic
MXR
Mooer
VHT
Earthquaker
Way Huge
Electro Harmonix
DOD Reissues
Noisemaker Effects
Budda
Ibanez
Valco
Digitech
Visual Sound
Danelectro
Dunlop
NE Cable Company
Lava Cables and Pedalboard Kits
Diago Pedalboards and accessories
Chemistry Audio Werks Holeyboard Pedalboards​

how do you open the door to your shop given the mountain of pedals wedging it shut

Catalinbread

I have this fuzz. Pretty happy with it and it can get surprisingly "musical".

the merkin or the manx loaghtan?

merkin

yeah that thing is a dead on Mosrite Fuzzrite silicon V3 clone (the one with the 2 orange encapsulated circuits. sprague?), but unlike the fuzzrite there is actually a range between off and total fuzz annihilation. We did a head to head comparison and i swear, blindfolded you would not be able to tell the difference at the max gain setting. i love that pedal.

it might save you some time to post the pedal lines you don't carry.

I got a loan of an AdrenaLinn (original model) from a friend and it seems... interesting. Though I have no idea how to use it.

still dunno what I'm doing with this. The same friend also loaned be a Tonebone Trimode distortion. It sounds very very nice. A little too nice. I have no space for such well-rounded hi-fi tones in my music.

me*

what's the best pedal

All of them on at the same time

Also wow wow wow this dwarfcraft stuff

jjj is the Chase Bliss Warped Vinyl as great as it appears?

(If yes then we might talk about you shipping some stuff to the UK since I will have to go to a US dealer for it whichever way I try and buy it.)

Whoa. Just checked out a demo for that. So many knobs and switches!

Yeah, I think it would work really well in some of the radio-based stuff that I do. (The plan would be to artifically 'age' live radio broadcasts.) Also you should be able to get really controlled glitching from it.

the warped bliss is absolutely as amazing as it seems, yes. whats even better is that it was designed by someone who understands UI on a pedal I guess? meaning that all of the insane tweaks and features are incredibly accessible without the whole press this button and hold it for 4 seconds then turn this knob stuff that most pedal makers get caught up in with digital control. why no one else ever thought of external dipswitches is beyond me, because it just straight up makes sense.

Do you ship to the UK? If so, then I'll hit you up in mid-October (when I get back from holiday) with an order - I may well add in the yellow Mooer compressor and maybe something else depending on how reckless I feel.

oh yeah, I'll ship anywhere, although i'll need to check up on any changes wrt UK ship rules etc, to figure out what the best deal of the minute is. just to get this out of the way right now, I can't dodge the customs declaration, way too risky now that I am in the process of building a real deal online store (well reverb store linked to my website unless i get a better idea).

Aye, no worries, most online retailers don't do 'gift' declarations these days in any case. A couple of months to think about what else I might fancy then.

Can anyone recommend me a good wah for around $100? My Cry Baby that I've had for a decade or so is starting to get noisy.

ZVEX employee missing from Minneapolis area.

https://twitter.com/EarthQuakerDev/status/506797102081777665/photo/1

yeah andy is a great guy, this whole thing is super sad and weird. hoping for the best.

Judging by a fb post from zack, looks like the worst scenario had happened.

That sucks. Not the update I was hoping for.

who's getting the korg miku stomp

Can anyone recommend me a good wah for around $100? My Cry Baby that I've had for a decade or so is starting to get noisy.

― Heez, Monday, September 1, 2014 1:44 PM (3 days ago)

Anyone? Or is the CryBaby the standard here? The only other models I can find are represented by guitarist I hate.