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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJbl3RU3O7A

Wasn't sure where else to put this, because he's obviously been the bass player for Mars Volta and other bands, but I figure he's probably best know among the guitar pedal community. Juan Alderete is in a coma following a bicycle accident. He's always seemed like an immensely positive guy, so I hope he pulls through.

https://www.facebook.com/JuanAldereteBass/photos/a.146765125457270/1817890465011386/?type=3&theater

Hi everyone - this is Anne, Juan's wife. While I generally hesitate to share personal details on social media, it felt right to include all of you who've supported Juan over the years as friends, fans, fellow music (and food, cat, bike, Japan) lovers and musicians.

Juan was in a solo (no cars, other people) and very serious bicycle accident on 1/13/20 not far from our home. He - as always - was wearing a helmet and protective clothing but sustained serious head trauma in the form of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI); his form of TBI is Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI) and as of today, he remains in a coma.

The only prognosis is to wait and see, as the brain is a complicated organ and the outcomes for DAI patients has a range as wide as the sea. While frustrating, it also allows for a world of positive outcomes so we can only hope for the best.
We know you have questions, concerns, thoughts to share, so please feel free to leave them in the comments (not DM please, sorry) here. We're also very eager to hear from neurologists, medical professionals with experience in DAI and TBI, first-person accounts of similar trauma and outcomes - essentially any useful, factual and accurate resources that relate to Juan's injury. If you have any of these, please DM me (Anne) @tunatoast.

We will post updates here from time to time. Thank you all and please keep Juan in your thoughts. - xo, Anne

attn pedalheads: zvex.com is running 20% off all standard versions of their entire stock right now. don't know how long it's going to run for.

i picked up a vibrophase after coveting it from afar for over a year. i was trying to maybe catch one in one of the used cases around my neck of the woods, but that ain't happenin`, 'specially not now. it's a rad pedal. more of a wacky filter thing that can do a variation on vibrato than a more traditional phase 90 type effect. if i had to compare it to something else, i'd say it's kind of reminiscent of earthquaker's interstellar orbiter, with fewer parameters to control. i bought it thinking it would replace my phase 95, but it's unique enough to merit keeping both the phase 95 and the vibrophase. i'd love to get a lofi junky, but the vibrophase was my one quarantine splurge, so unless i'm able to go back to work and start getting paychecks again soon, that also ain't happenin`.

anyway, good deals to be had i reckon.

nice. i have the mastotron and love it.

Is anyone on here into building pedals? I've built a few FuzzDog kits in recent weeks and enjoyed it, even if it's a bit like doing an Airfix kit. I did study electronics and circuit design, but that was quite a few years ago, I'm building up to building from scratch.

Fulltone guy is a chud

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fulltone pedals made by garbage human. do not support them 👎 pic.twitter.com/UA2CaPQ4I4

— Andy Molholt (@laserbackground) June 3, 2020

It's a good thing that their most popular pedal is available in a Chinese bootleg for $30.

https://www.amazon.com/JOYO-Ultimate-Overdrive-Electric-Distortion/dp/B07RL1VKYW/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2KB52F1YFUSBQ&dchild=1&keywords=joyo+ultimate+drive&qid=1591539667&sprefix=joyo+ultiate+%2Caps%2C145&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExWjRCVFJFTkxTRTBGJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMDI1MTk2M1YxSjBLMkRMT0M1TyZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNDA0MjkyRDhBMFhPVDNMQlJOJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

he’s been posting apologies that are weirdly kind of much better than most apologies... but too little too late GC is taking Fulltone off the shelves.

Wow - GC is woke?

GC knows which way the wind is blowing at the very least

We are no longer doing business with Fulltone and are moving quickly to remove all Fulltone products from our stores and websites.

— Guitar Center (@guitarcenter) June 5, 2020

Fulltone has always been an enormous dick to people who write in for customer service, his ranting was unsurprising and so is the fact that no one appears ready to give him a second chance.

Pro Audio Star was/is blowing out DOD Rubbernecks for $120 and damn that was a good investment

A co-worker got this thing and loves it:

https://www.chaseblissaudio.com/shop-pedals/preamp-mkii

i hit up f*lltone on ig several weeks back

https://i.imgur.com/uXuTHJ3.jpg

they blocked me lol

i bought their supa trem jr last year before all the shit went down and i was always really happy with it. still have it and use it. feels kinda wrong, but i'm poor so it's all i've got and i use trem a lot. some dudes on reddit were just repainting their f*lltones or scraping off the logos. i'd love to repaint it a beautiful cerulean blue, but would not have the slightest clue on how to actually do that efficiently and correctly.

right at the beginning of quarantine times (like march-ish?) i traded a bunch of pedals for a fender acoustic guitar. didn't keep my mxr carbon copy and am now regretting it. i got the boss dd-8 when it was first released, which has the dm-2 mode in it, but it's just not the same. i also considered jumping on the rubberneck train when i saw they were being blown out, but again: am v poor, can't really justify it.

Mrs. Telecom picked up a Dreadbox Komorebi flanger/chorus for her bass rig last week... great sound! I never really got into chorus at all, but this feels like something musical on it's own. Dreadbox comes out of the boutique eurorack market so they're coming from a unique direction on this.

Austin, you are right to regret the loss of the Carbon Copy. I could not live without mine. And no, there is not a Boss delay that sounds as good. Trade back.

I don't have any F*lltone gear. But wouldn't a piece of duct tape be easier than repainting?

That Komorebi sounds pretty amazing. I wish I still played enough to justify buying pedals. I sold everything I had except for two fuzzes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYuY9wpeLTI

Anyone have an opinion on the Earthquaker Afterneath pedal? Seems dope.

i have the version 2 of it and it's an absolutely HUGE reverb. i love it, but i don't use it very often. for a reverb, it's pretty wild. i mean, it self-oscillates! perhaps not surprisingly, it's only really good for one thing and it doesn't stack well with other pedals (maybe a chorus or a drive). but still, if you need some hovering ambience, just do some swells into it and it's pretty magical.

lol: https://gizmodo.com/viral-5g-conspiracy-diagram-actually-shows-how-to-build-1845990224

Oh boy! https://www.uaudio.com/uafx/effects-pedals.html

lost me at "register for DLC!"

I'm ebay'ing my Pigtronix Infinity looper and remote here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265071694833

The truth is that I could never get my head around it. It's fantastically capable, but it constantly forced me to adapt to its UI and with everything else going on - like trying to play guitar - its too much. And too big. Help me fund the Ditto+ I just bought and good grief it's a great looper.

I’ll probably watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5AbsQvdiZE

i tried...

what was the holdup? another thing that probably should have been 15 minutes rather than an hour and 50 minutes?

2 hours and 20 minutes, way too much screentime for JHS, but ultimately it's just too broad and shallow. offers nothing to headz, but tmi for noobs (with no narrative thread to keep interest).

nice to see some friends onscreen but zzzz

How did I not know Moog made a MF Tremolo? Fuck.... (goes off to sell more gear to get one)

can anyone ID the effect on this swervedriver tune for me please? its the sound right at the start of the song that sounds like some sort of chorusy glassy thing, almost like a weird mellotron flute sound. it does appear elsewhere in the song, most clearly from 3:38 through to the fade. is it even a pedal or is it someone playing behind the bridge or is it just open string harmonics in a weird tuning?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWAREhKcC4

Autofilter or something like a Mu-Tron Bi-phase maybe?

thanks milo, never explored either of those before

I have a very basic pedal question: are OD pedals more impacted by the output of your guitar (i.e. your guitar volume and picking strength) than by the amp volume? I had always assumed that if an amp is closer to breakup to begin with, it should be easier for an OD pedal to push it "over the edge" so to speak, yet I've found it easier with my current OD pedal (Plumes) to set the amp at a lower volume and the guitar higher, which is the opposite of what I like doing for clean tone.

trying to get my head around this… what pushes the amp is the OD’s output level, so we’d need to know how you’re setting the Plumes. also what amp.

also what volume you’re playing at. stage vs bedroom makes a difference here too.

what's that youtube account that does pedal and synth demos with no narration and the visuals are all just stylized shots of the pedal and other objects - you never see the person doing the playing except maybe their hands? i used to watch them frequently but now i've forgotten what it's called

knobs?

yes thank u

no worries. i got a bit obsessed with watching pedal demos over lockdown (and yes, buying pedals), these are two of my favourite under-the-radar channels atm:

Megan L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos - super-useful for seeing how each pedal works in yr chain, but also she has absolutely killer jangly shoegazery jams in all her videos with just the loveliest guitar tones imo

Andrew Brassell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos - impeccably shot with also great vibey jams, i don't knopw whether i actually love this guy or am just incredibly jealous of him

anyone got any recommends?

Can anyone recommend a good, basic reverb pedal? I'm looking for something for clean tone, tremolo style playing. Not trying to do any experimental stuff with it.

xp oh shit, those weren't supposed to be imbeds, just links to channels. let me find some samples.

okay different links... (sorry i'm making a mess of this)

megan l:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMuSNZLjNsk

andrew brassell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIOwJaIaVQc

Can anyone recommend a good, basic reverb pedal?

i've had ye olde tc hall of fame recently which i liked and kept, and ehx oceans 11 which i hated and sold (the spring setting was okay though)

also just got obne sunlight which is mega but probably not what youre after

I have one of those organizer pedals that I was hoping to trade for one. So should I be looking into the basic spring reverb pedals? Sorry don’t know shit about this other than that I’ve played with a few pricey ones that do way more than I need

what genres of music are you making?

Trying to do something vaguely jazzy americana

you'll probably want something with spring, plate and hall reverbs then unless you want one particular sound. i do think the hall of fame 2 is good value. not tried any of the cheaper options though

when i needed to get a reverb pedal i ended up picking the hall of fame 2, it's not "basic" but on the other hand i don't see myself ever needing to buy another reverb pedal.

i also really like the good old standbys for reverb. i have an mxr reverb and a boss rv-6 and that's realistically more than anyone needs. hall of fame does pretty much all of the same stuff, but honestly nobody can really tell the difference and they all sound pretty good. go with the cost effective option.

Thanks for the input. Realistically that’s how I should go but I just stumbled on something called the TRex roommate.