Topic: the Guitar Pedal Thread (Read 402843 times)

imapiratearg · « **Reply #200 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 13:14 »

Gah! Fight you! Let me know how that is, 'cause that was another delay option I was considering. It'd be super-rad if I could find a used one.

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #201 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 13:19 »

I got it mostly for the looping capability as I already have a delay pedal, but we'll see how it sounds. Perhaps it will be so good I won't even need the old delay pedal anymore and might sell it?

Don't worry I will talk all about it as soon as I get it plugged in.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #202 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 13:22 »

*Cough*I would purchase your delay pedal in which case, if that would be cool with you.*Cough*

doombilly · « **Reply #203 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 13:28 »

Quote from: carrotosaurus on 16 Jun 2008, 13:10

Akai Headrush E2

I just indefinitely loaned out my Akai Shred-o-matic.

sean · « **Reply #204 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 13:50 »

Of course we all know this is the greatest tremolo pedal ever made.

Too bad you have to sell your kidney to afford it.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #205 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 14:27 »

I think the Seek Trem is cooler.

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #206 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 18:08 »

Well, I've played it, and I'm not sure how I ever lived without it. It's got the best delay and the best tape echo I've ever used. Also, the looping is just sensational.

The only downside is you can't loop and use the delay or echo at the same time. Guys, I might need two....

Tehz · « **Reply #207 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 19:34 »

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 16 Jun 2008, 13:50

Of course we all know this is the greatest tremolo pedal ever made.

Too bad you have to sell your kidney to afford it.

That is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

sean · « **Reply #208 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 20:01 »

If you think thats cool you should see the fuzz probe or whatever its called. That thing is insanity backed in a little metal box.

glyphic · « **Reply #209 on:** 17 Jun 2008, 11:59 »

Does anyone have any idea what kind of effects chain Braniac used? I would kill for that thick-as-molasses uber distortion.

october1983 · « **Reply #210 on:** 20 Jun 2008, 05:08 »

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 16 Jun 2008, 20:01

If you think thats cool you should see the fuzz probe or whatever its called. That thing is insanity backed in a little metal box.

Man, I have owned a fuzz probe for about two years now, and I'm still not really sure I get it.

Patrick · « **Reply #211 on:** 21 Jun 2008, 02:58 »

Time to record with Animal Collective!

himynameisjulien · « **Reply #212 on:** 22 Jun 2008, 15:16 »

If you have the money, get a Red Witch Fuzz God II. I have one and it's amazing. Pure analog, true bypass, double gain and treble up switches, "Wrath" which varies from octave effects to crazy synth sounds depending on how far you turn the dial. If not, get yourself a Tubescreamer. Overyone uses it, so it has to be good. For Chorus, again, if you have the money, get a Red Witch, but if not get an Electro-Harmonix Small Clone. For added effect, combine it with a Small Stone, again from EHX. But make sure to look up Red Witch. Oh and one more thing, look up ZVex and Vexter. They're made buy this guy, Zach Vex, and the distortions and overdrives are amazing.

FireAarro · « **Reply #213 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 01:39 »

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 16 Jun 2008, 13:50

Of course we all know this is the greatest tremolo pedal ever made.

Too bad you have to sell your kidney to afford it.

How about this? The Stereo Panneur

A customisable stereo tremolo pedal with an insane amount of controls.

sean · « **Reply #214 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 20:48 »

holy hell!

that is just like, confusing.

FireAarro · « **Reply #215 on:** 26 Jun 2008, 06:31 »

Yeah, it's insane. The mono normal tremolo version, the Tremulus Lune, is cool though- great value for money kit for the features you get. My friend just made one and likes it.

Christophe · « **Reply #216 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 09:05 »

Woooooooooow. The things you find on Gearwire.

I can predict this little number splooging some serious pants.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #217 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 09:10 »

I like how it says one of the things you can do with it is "have a giant buttload of fun." It also looks really fascinating.

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #218 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 10:24 »

Holy crap I would really like one of those.

doombilly · « **Reply #219 on:** 27 Jun 2008, 11:29 »

Quote from: carrotosaurus on 27 Jun 2008, 10:24

Holy crap I would really like one of those.

Wow. I'm in 10th grade again.

The bad news is it is 1980.

Ballard · « **Reply #220 on:** 02 Jul 2008, 22:35 »

So I got a Stereo Memory Man w/ Hazarai.

It cost me an arm and a leg.

I'm starting a Mogwai/The Album Leaf type band with a friend and we had our first jam today, and this thing is fucking spectacular. Totally worth it.

Patrick I win now.

DMart · « **Reply #221 on:** 04 Jul 2008, 21:13 »

So, the second hand music shop near me has a Boss OC-2 (octaver) going cheap(ish), and I was considering getting it. I play bass, and there seem to be a fair few favorable reviews on HarmonyCentral from bass players using it - but then I discovered it does 1 and 2 octaves DOWN... does anyone know if there's anything in that sort of price range that can do 1 octave UP? I've done a bit of a search, but haven't come up with much.

Caspian · « **Reply #222 on:** 04 Jul 2008, 21:17 »

I just got a Vox Cooltron pedal. It's a pretty cool distortion pedal, adds a pretty massive amount of gain with both channels turned on but also seems to do some decent crunch tones too; not that I can really say I've ever wanted/needed a crunch tone.

king dan · « **Reply #223 on:** 05 Jul 2008, 11:25 »

anybody else here make pedals?

I've made most of the pedals I use, a top range booster (trying to emulate the tones of Brian May's rangemaster), an MXR + disortion clone, and a DOD gonkulator clone.
Working on a delay but it never works, its carcass has been lying around for weeks...just bought one from Electro Harmonix finally. Experimental mosfet based distortion pedal is next!

himynameisjulien · « **Reply #224 on:** 05 Jul 2008, 18:40 »

Quote from: DMart on 04 Jul 2008, 21:13

So, the second hand music shop near me has a Boss OC-2 (octaver) going cheap(ish), and I was considering getting it. I play bass, and there seem to be a fair few favorable reviews on HarmonyCentral from bass players using it - but then I discovered it does 1 and 2 octaves DOWN... does anyone know if there's anything in that sort of price range that can do 1 octave UP? I've done a bit of a search, but haven't come up with much.

The cheapest are the Digitech Whammy, which does pretty much any octave in any direction, but attacks your chords with a chainsaw-firing rocket launcher, and the Electro-Harmonix Micro POG does octave up and down, and you can mix and match the dry, octave up, and octave down signals with the three pots on it. Makes rad organ, 8- or 12-string bass sounds. POG stands for Polyphonic Octave Generator, so it's good with chords as well as single notes. Overall, if you just want octave up on single notes, get the Whammy. It does so much more with single notes than the POG. But, if you're into chords, get the POG.
I had to edit it because it puts + one as "I have nothing of value to add" when I meant octave up.

doombilly · « **Reply #225 on:** 07 Jul 2008, 12:16 »

W00t. Just upgraded the firmwarez on my X3LivePODThing-y. Kuh-razy.

guitar_master_2334 · « **Reply #226 on:** 08 Jul 2008, 19:57 »

dont forget to get a tuner...
the standard boss tuner is really good...
the best ive ever tuned with...
also, for a good grinding sound, get a coffin case "blood drive"...
its practically orgasmic the tone quality it has....
try anything from boss....
most are good, but a few flangers, chorus and echo pedals from them kinda suck....
get the "H2O" echo chorus (?) pedal....
my rhythm guitarist plays with that and has amazing sound and tone

Spluff · « **Reply #227 on:** 08 Jul 2008, 20:22 »

Boss are okay, their lack of true bypass will fuck with your tone if you have too many, though.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #228 on:** 08 Jul 2008, 21:12 »

Boss make some really awesome stuff and some really meh stuff. Their Space Echo is fantastic at what it does. I haven't had much experience fiddling with it, but I got some really neat delay/reverb sounds out of it. Out of all the pedals I've tried by them, the delays are the only ones I fully stand behind.

I found a huge archive of demo videos for all these random effect pedals on you tube by Pro Guitar Shops. Basically, I hear all these other effect pedals and I suddenly want them, even though my TurboRAT does exactly what I want it to do perfectly.

guitar_master_2334 · « **Reply #229 on:** 09 Jul 2008, 08:34 »

hmm...
ive found that certain cabels will help fix your true bipass problems...
namely these cables with gold plated tips...
forgot what theyre called, but they eliminate the pops and other crap that interupts with your sound

billiumbean · « **Reply #230 on:** 10 Jul 2008, 17:50 »

Gentlemen, I present to you the Shoe Gazer.

"The best of Crunch and Muff combined", they claim.

It sounds pretty interesting, and at times incoherent. There's one setting that sounds a little bit like the gods of lightning are sitting on an exploding planet furiously masturbating into a black hole.

Then there's the Cherry Pop.

I especially like how the description for this pedal (button?) on the official website is, "Listen to the sound clips. It's fucking awesome."

And so I did, and so it is.

Ballard · « **Reply #231 on:** 10 Jul 2008, 19:00 »

Devi Ever/Effector 13 make some pretty weird shit.

Caspian · « **Reply #232 on:** 21 Jul 2008, 01:20 »

It's not a pedal, but I got an E-bow today and it's really good. So many awesome howling tones and whatnot!!

I now have a delay pedal, a distortion pedal and this E-bow. As soon as I buy a looping station and some cheap fuzz box my set up will be complete and world domination is assured.

Ballard · « **Reply #233 on:** 21 Jul 2008, 11:37 »

Fight you! I want an E-bow but those bitches are expensive. I keep thinking they're like $20 bucks 'cause they're fucking plastic, but they're $100.

Hooray, you can do kind of bootleg Ratatat now!

TheoristB · « **Reply #234 on:** 21 Jul 2008, 15:08 »

Quote from: imapiratearg on 08 Jul 2008, 21:12

Boss make some really awesome stuff and some really meh stuff. Their Space Echo is fantastic at what it does. I haven't had much experience fiddling with it, but I got some really neat delay/reverb sounds out of it. Out of all the pedals I've tried by them, the delays are the only ones I fully stand behind.

I have the space Echo and love it. Live I use it for reverb and space ship noises. I also use it for that extra wall of delay if I want to make a huge wall of noise and guitar.

I am going to start making some pedals soon. Everytime I think I am going to buy a kit I end up having to spend my money on other things, like food or bills.

I have a pedal addiction. I have been doing well, over a month since my last pedal purchase.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #235 on:** 21 Jul 2008, 20:34 »

I thought you used a Digital Delay with like, a separate tap-tempo thing?

I want to start building my own pedals, too. I got my first amp back from my friend, whom I lent it to for fixing, but it was beyond repair. It's a Fender Frontman 15G, and I'm thinkin' I'll strip it for parts (mostly the input jacks and the pots) and build some pedals out of it. I want the speaker too, because I would love to build a ripoff of a Vox for a practice amp. Do you guys think it'd be possible to do either of those things?

Ballard · « **Reply #236 on:** 21 Jul 2008, 22:29 »

Make sure the pot values are what you need for your project and that you know the difference between audio and linear taper pots. I'm not quite sure what the fuck they put in a Fender Frontman but all pots are not created equal.

Caspian · « **Reply #237 on:** 21 Jul 2008, 22:50 »

Quote from: Ballard on 21 Jul 2008, 11:37

Fight you! I want an E-bow but those bitches are expensive. I keep thinking they're like $20 bucks 'cause they're fucking plastic, but they're $100.

Hooray, you can do kind of bootleg Ratatat now!

Try $300.

Also: I have no idea who Ratatat are, basically I intend on doing bootleg Angelic Process and Nadja.

Ballard · « **Reply #238 on:** 22 Jul 2008, 06:39 »

Quote from: Caspian on 21 Jul 2008, 22:50

Try $300.

Also: I have no idea who Ratatat are, basically I intend on doing bootleg Angelic Process and Nadja.

Jesus, what planet do you live ok where Ebows are $300?

Fix this.

sean · « **Reply #239 on:** 22 Jul 2008, 09:19 »

Fixed

Ballard · « **Reply #240 on:** 22 Jul 2008, 12:02 »

I meant fix the part where Caspian doesn't know about Ratatat but I was posting from an iPhone which doesn't have a copy/paste feature so I couldn't split up the quote.

casull · « **Reply #241 on:** 24 Jul 2008, 07:59 »

So guys, I really want a pitch shifter. I played with boss's model the other day, and it was really fun but I have nothing to compare it to. Are there other options I should be looking at?

Lummer · « **Reply #242 on:** 24 Jul 2008, 11:27 »

BUZZSAW

TheoristB · « **Reply #243 on:** 24 Jul 2008, 14:00 »

Quote from: imapiratearg on 21 Jul 2008, 20:34

I thought you used a Digital Delay with like, a separate tap-tempo thing?

I want to start building my own pedals, too. I got my first amp back from my friend, whom I lent it to for fixing, but it was beyond repair. It's a Fender Frontman 15G, and I'm thinkin' I'll strip it for parts (mostly the input jacks and the pots) and build some pedals out of it. I want the speaker too, because I would love to build a ripoff of a Vox for a practice amp. Do you guys think it'd be possible to do either of those things?

I have a DD-5 with the seperate tap tempo as well.

Building amps is where I am going to draw the line. I don't want to get electrocuted. With pedals at least I am only dealing with 9 volts.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #244 on:** 24 Jul 2008, 14:28 »

Yeah. Someone suggested I just turn it into an extension cabinet. I think I might do that.

TheoristB · « **Reply #245 on:** 24 Jul 2008, 15:50 »

Quote from: casull on 24 Jul 2008, 07:59

So guys, I really want a pitch shifter. I played with boss's model the other day, and it was really fun but I have nothing to compare it to. Are there other options I should be looking at?

I have a Boss PS-5 I enjoy it. You should also look at the digitech whammy pedal. Both are awesome for what they do. I kinda want both of them.

Imagine the sounds you could make if you shifted up an octave with the PS-5 and then back down with the Digitech. You would get this weird but awesome artifacting.

doombilly · « **Reply #246 on:** 25 Jul 2008, 07:40 »

Unh Unh I got everything sorted on my POD X3LiveABC123Ø§Ψά.

I have it set to EAT YOUR BABIES.

Expect your babies to be eaten.

Lummer · « **Reply #247 on:** 25 Jul 2008, 09:35 »

Quote from: doombilly on 25 Jul 2008, 07:40

Unh Unh I got everything sorted on my POD X3LiveABC123Ø§Ψά.

I have it set to EAT YOUR BABIES.

Expect your babies to be eaten.

Cool, that's the one setting that is on the HM-2

Patrick · « **Reply #248 on:** 21 Oct 2008, 02:58 »

Bumping this ancient-ass thread for the Danelectro Tuna Melt. Just got one a few days ago 'cause I've been wanting a tremolo pedal, and I brought her home and rocked Ted Leo's "The Toro and the Toreador" for a good long while. I can't wait to get back home to my Marshall and play with this thing on a real amp instead of that blown-out little 30w toy of an Epiphone bass amp.

I also want to find a pedal that is capable of emulating a rotating speaker cabinet. I've recently had a fascination with the sound of those things. And I'd rather it be just one pedal instead of a chorus pedal and a flanger pedal. Anybody know anything about the BBE Soul Vibe?

Ballard · « **Reply #249 on:** 21 Oct 2008, 11:34 »

Dude get a Voodoo Labs Micro Vibe. I can't link cause I'm on an iPod Touch but it's a great pedal.

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