Gear you fell in and out and back in love with

[coldbrightsunlight]

Haha yeah agreed. Happy to do that with other things even other music gear like synths but a pedal nuh-uh

[Dowi]

I sincerely hope this is the first post someone sees on their first visit here.
"Hey let me check out ILF. Those guys have great tips! Alright!"
Reads -> READ THE MANUAL

i laughed

Also, this:

If I have to read a 50 page manual to mess with a pedal, I'm not a happy camper. I'm looking at you Eventide. lol

the ideal thing for "complex" pedals for me is to have a deeper manual and a quick start guide like Red Panda does.
This way you can have an easy rundown of the functions at a glance and then decide to go deeper if you're feeling it - as i previously said, this mad me go back to the Tensor.
that being said, i hate pedals with deep menu diving, so to me "complex" pedals are just secondary knob functions etc

[Jwar]

I feel you. LOL! I hate it too when a pedal is complex and there's almost zero direction and you're like "what the actual fuck is happening right now". I got good with my ears on being able to discern what was happening with pedals during the era of label knobs random things. Wait, is that still a thing? Add that to the list even though I've done it a ton of times. LOL!!

Here's an example of what bothers me about pedals in general and wrote this in jest to Ryan (Dr. Scientist), so you don't you go getting offended Ryan! The labels on a lot of pedals are too small for me to comfortably read. hahahaha. I'm laughing because I feel stupid saying it. Like, ok wear glasses, well I am near sighted and far sighted and have to wear reading glasses when I'm reading. Sooooo, I can't unless I wear reading glasses. So, if I bend over right now and look at a new pedal, I can barely read what the labels say. That goes for all of them. They all use around the same font sizes. We need OLD people pedals! Ones with big giant knobs and labels. Make the enclosures bigger too. I want my whole floor to be covered and only have 3 or 4 pedal connected. The bigger the enclosure. I mean, you feel me right? hahahaha JK. On the real though, I am blind and it sucks.


I did get Ryan's new Dusk pedal and I will say I fucking hate filters normally and for some reason, this one jives with me. Maybe it's Ryan, maybe it's because it is designed better. I don't know. It does have some secondary functions but Ryan makes them easy to use even when he does a semi complex pedal. I dig that. Lee from Lightning Wave just started putting screens on his pedals, that's HUGE for those. I don't know if anyone has owned one before but that will literally be night and day for those if you can control most function while looking at the screen.


So, I have a love hate thing. I like some level of options but not too much. I always go back to what is easiest to use. I mean, why wouldn't I?

[Dowi]

Absolutely. The screen on the Atmosphere is one of the best things ever, also because you have all the necessary infos right there without secondary pages (unless you want to modify the LFO/stomp assignations), would love to see it on more pedals.

[PanicProne]

I get what you guys are saying. I too do like when all the info is there. Not a big fan of "secret" or "secondary" functions a la Meris. However, a screen on a pedal is in general a big turn off for me. It just makes me think about menu diving (I don't bloody like menu diving!) and it takes away from the in lack of a better word, "feel" of the pedal. I realise it can be handy though, for displaying presets or whatever.

[Errant Tiger]

If I have to read a 50 page manual to mess with a pedal, I'm not a happy camper. I'm looking at you Eventide. lol

the ideal thing for "complex" pedals for me is to have a deeper manual and a quick start guide like Red Panda does.
This way you can have an easy rundown of the functions at a glance and then decide to go deeper if you're feeling it - as i previously said, this mad me go back to the Tensor.
that being said, i hate pedals with deep menu diving, so to me "complex" pedals are just secondary knob functions etc

What I hate is when a pedal NEEDS a manual and the manual is crap.

[Jero]

The only menu diving I accept is in the form of switches and trim pots inside the enclosure.

[PanicProne]

The only menu diving I accept is in the form of switches and trim pots inside the enclosure.

Personally not a big fan of that either, although acceptable depending on what they control. Prefer having everything available with a dedicated knob/slider/switch per function, sort of.

[frigid midget]

Readin a lot of shit I agree with HARD.

Super tiny labeling underneath the controls: Only possible to tweak something on the fly when you're comfortably at home and have good lighting.
Overly complex pedals with a intimidating learning curve. Complicated menus, secondary knob functions,...

Which is why I'm never able to hold on to fancy new boutique delay/synth/whatever pedals that sound insanely sick in all the demos. Probably says more about my neanderthal brain than about any of the pedals, but my current arsenal consist of nothing but straight forward no frills stuff that doesn't distract me too much from my playing.

Having said that....
I should be the owner of a Tensor soon. Been wanting a good reverse delay again. And all those other trippy psychedelic tones should be a lot of fun. For a little while

[Adoom]

I’m well over the honeymoon phase with this Memory Man I have, and willing to trade it, but I’m in this inbetween because I’ll be afraid I’ll miss it and I can’t get it again without silly money.

I’ve had about 15 overdrives since I bought the Fuck Overdrive and none of them quite match up, and a few things I thought I’d miss like the original Tim overdrive, I don’t.

A guy I lent my HOG to, his dad fucking threw it away and I miss that like all kinds of hell even though I have no practical use for it.

[fcknoise]

I’m well over the honeymoon phase with this Memory Man I have, and willing to trade it, but I’m in this inbetween because I’ll be afraid I’ll miss it and I can’t get it again without silly money.

I’ve had about 15 overdrives since I bought the Fuck Overdrive and none of them quite match up, and a few things I thought I’d miss like the original Tim overdrive, I don’t.

A guy I lent my HOG to, his dad fucking threw it away and I miss that like all kinds of hell even though I have no practical use for it.

holy shit what the hell

I don't usually miss any gear, because the only real times I've sold a lot of stuff is to save up to buy something real good and nice. OP-1 or Octatrack are two examples.

I also don't sell gear I like. I can see myself missing a few things I've sold before, pitchfactor, particle, the geiger counter. But all of those were sold to fund things that are now integral to my music making, which I know none of those pedals were.

Except one pedal, the modded black russian big muff I had. That was perfect. Why did I sell that?

[coldbrightsunlight]

is OK is only pedal.

I can't believe the dad throwing away a pedal! nooooo

[frigid midget]

Also, in/out and in love again: Harmonic Percolator.

Harsh and sharp, hardly any noticeable octave effect going on...

Turns out it just doesn't like my Jazzmaster. Which I always conisidered to be a friend of all my pedals and amps. The HP screams and rips with my new Firebird Studio, seems to love those P90's. It sounds vicious and gnarly, in a total different way than my Big Muff or FZ-2, which are huge and whooly but don't have that mean upper octave thing on single notes.

[Errant Tiger]

I don’t know if I’ve fallen back in love with it, but the recent sale on Rubbernecks has had me thinking I should really give it another try.

I stumbled onto another Rubberneck as part of a trade, and after a week or so I decided AGAIN it's just not for me so I sold it on Reverb and bought a DD-20.

[frigid midget]

No shit?? So you weren't impressed with the Rubberneck's fx loop, or the regen trick? For me, the only thing that took some getting used to: the controls for the tone and gain are super finnicky, even more so when there's something in the effects loop :/