The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

[rustywire]

HP-1. 4L

Tonebender MK 1.5s and MK IIs IIIs and IVs as well. Some more than others.

[PeteeBee]

TAFM is good for that (a fuzz face variant)

I've had one on order ever since you answered my questions about it haha. It's been long enough I'm dreaming about what else I want to try in the dirt world before it even gets here. No matter. Brian says it'll be here in a week or so.

[Mudfuzz]

Is there any commercial made 1x15 cab these days that is not a piece of shit? Even my mesa.. I'm going to trade it in… everything I have played distorts once you go below D...

[fcknoise]

Question for the fuzz lord masses: what are people's favorite fuzzes that clean up with dynamics or volume knob work? Seems like lots of fuzz just gets weaker but equally fuzz as you decrease the volume. I've done some major flipping lately and have realized that this is seemingly the biggest feature that makes a fuzz really useful to me or not. I have a TAFM coming in the mail, hopefully that will work as I want, but I'm curious about everything!

Suneater! And Algal Bloom, but for pairing with TAFM I'd say suneater!

[coldbrightsunlight]

Suneater is fantastic, yeah

[goroth]

Suneater is fantastic, yeah

[Strange Tales]

Man, I thought maybe I just didn't like the MPC but after using a TR-707 I hate all god damn button programming. I don't get it at all, it feels like I'm trying to force the drum machine into what I'm doing.

[D.o.S.]

Dude that Doepfer is fucking amazing. I've only fucked with the frequency/LFO but I am in love.

[rustywire]

I, too am not a fan of step sequencing drums. MPC tap tempo --> record loops in real time. That's how you stunt.
SOMETIMES and only SOMETIMES will I move a hit in the step sequencer. Otherwise no swing, no quantization settings.
If I don't like the sound of a take I usually scrap & re-tap. Seems to be the best way for me to feel satisfaction with my results.
Also stunt. I want to stunt. Where any and all swing comes from the funky vibe I lay down. It makes a difference.

[Strange Tales]

I'd rather do a modular drum system. I care less about the actual sounds, and more how I can clock them all individually. A drum machine just feels way too limited to me

[psychic vampire.]

Damn, sorry to hear that. On the other hand, the Machinedrum feels capable of so fucking much i am still barely beginning to wrap my head around it.

[lordgalvar]

I'm with ST most of the time; MPC, sr-16, op-1 all kind of induced rage on different levels from different triggers...except the machine drum really does work well with me (I got along with the old hr-16 too...just gotta replace sliders).

I totally know what you mean about the machine drum...thing is deep (I haven't even got into parameter locks yet haha).

I do enjoy do drums more with shift registers, trigger pulses and all that.

[psychic vampire.]

For whatever reason the chasing light x0x style drum sequencing always just worked well for me... on the first 16 steps. When i start to move a pattern into 32 or 64 steps i have to micromanage myself much more. Parameter Locks are really cool, but harder on the MD than they are on the Octatrack (parameter locking a sample's speed, playback direction, pitch, and starting point has killed me desire for most external effects). Their machines are anything but intuitive, but i also recognize that that is largely because they are capable of things i've barely started to comprehend.

[PeteeBee]

Does everyone with a boredbrain patchulator unplug all the green cords every time they pack up their board, and then replug every time they set up? I'm really considering getting one, but somehow this seems like a real nuisance I don't want to deal with, especially the plugging in to start. I know that it seems like total first world problems, but it's really annoying to me when you're playing in a new house/venue and for whatever reason gear doesn't all fire up how it normally does. Like sometimes I'm stuck trouble shooting amps/pedalboards for a few minutes just to get sound out, and anything I can do to avoid this is a win for me.

[UglyCasanova]

Get different color patch cables. It'll make it faster+easier to set up.

Source: dude without a Patchulator