MG Pedals

[gruizmuller]

Any of you know these brazilian pedals?

http://www.pedalgeek.com/cgi-bin/new_sh ... d=link--mg

They have an envelope filter called Charles Bukowsky , I liked the demos.

And the that's echo folks is a delay that has an optical sensor that works like an expression pedal.

[hazelwould]

Yea, these are just (VERY EXPENSIVE) clones of more popular stuff. At least what has been revealed on FSB.

[tuffteef]

i was gonna buy a mg thats echo folks
but word around the intranet is there just ggg delay kits with a paint job literally
the guy uses there pcbs i think

kinda bogus if its true


super expensive too

[dr.morton]

I still have got a Space City Echo and once owned an Alien Booster and the Stax Rocks Wah.

Ethics question aside for me MG Music pedals boil down to three aspects:

1. They ARE expensive
2. Built quality could be better
but
3. They have a certain vibe/sound to it which no other company can rival.

They are not for the Axe-Fx/Eventide faction, that's for sure. They hiss and are noisy but ooze vintage imperfection.
I like that.

There are two versions of the Bukowsky filter. Make sure you'll get the newer one with the fuzz curcuit included which seems to be a lot more versatile then the older one.

[gruizmuller]

I liked the sound in the few demos I heard, the look and the names are weird. I agree that they are very expensive.

[noisescape]

I still have got a Space City Echo and once owned an Alien Booster and the Stax Rocks Wah.

Ethics question aside for me MG Music pedals boil down to three aspects:

1. They ARE expensive
2. Built quality could be better
but
3. They have a certain vibe/sound to it which no other company can rival.

They are not for the Axe-Fx/Eventide faction, that's for sure. They hiss and are noisy but ooze vintage imperfection.
I like that.

There are two versions of the Bukowsky filter. Make sure you'll get the newer one with the fuzz curcuit included which seems to be a lot more versatile then the older one.

I agree with Dr morton:i currently own a space city Echo and a monovibe:both are really fantastic:I owned lot of delays(malekko E 600 Diamond DLM2,Empress Vintage,skreddy echlo....) and vibes(mojovibe,KR...)and sincerly I'm a delay geek and the space city echo is my favorite delay because it's a really stange machine with strange sounds.for me this pedal is not only an effect,this is really an instrument!
but it's soooo expensive(I get it at a really fair price)and I ve read that the quality is not the best but I never had problems with both effects

[dr.morton]

noisescape,
is there a difference between the monovibe and the vibe settings on the Space City Echo?
The sellers always claim that the SCE already incorporates a stereo vibe.
So I thought a vibe is not needed.

[noisescape]

This is true there is a streovibe inside the SCE but it's really really different because on the SCE the vibe only affect the wet signal and add something like a low pass filter on your sound,the monovibe is really more subtle and clear and it's impossible to make crazy "spaceship modulation" sounds with the monovibe,it's more ""vintage" vibe but it's sounds really great...but honestly I'm not a classical" and purist guitarist.i love "soundscapes"....and my favorite musicians are boards of canada,fennesz,colleen,aphex twin,animal collective,fuck buttons....not a lot of guitars on this music!

[dr.morton]

This is true there is a streovibe inside the SCE but it's really really different because on the SCE the vibe only affect the wet signal and add something like a low pass filter on your sound,the monovibe is really more subtle and clear and it's impossible to make crazy "spaceship modulation" sounds with the monovibe,it's more ""vintage" vibe but it's sounds really great...but honestly I'm not a classical" and purist guitarist.i love "soundscapes"....and my favorite musicians are boards of canada,fennesz,colleen,aphex twin,animal collective,fuck buttons....not a lot of guitars on this music!

That's funny, I also love a lot of stuff without any guitar on it.
Kraftwerk, minimal electronic + also some of the bands you dig.
We should marry...

[noisescape]

This is true there is a streovibe inside the SCE but it's really really different because on the SCE the vibe only affect the wet signal and add something like a low pass filter on your sound,the monovibe is really more subtle and clear and it's impossible to make crazy "spaceship modulation" sounds with the monovibe,it's more ""vintage" vibe but it's sounds really great...but honestly I'm not a classical" and purist guitarist.i love "soundscapes"....and my favorite musicians are boards of canada,fennesz,colleen,aphex twin,animal collective,fuck buttons....not a lot of guitars on this music!

That's funny, I also love a lot of stuff without any guitar on it.
Kraftwerk, minimal electronic + also some of the bands you dig.
We should marry...

I really love kraftwerk too and all this German bands like neu! can faust....
i really dig ambient music too but not the lush ambient a la TGP!
I love dirty textural ambient with bit crushers,pitch vibrato....
I was sure tht you love great music because effects like the space city echo are not for all musicians....it's lo-fi dirty,spaceship sounds but I think that's i think it's the most incredible delay I've ever heard because it sounds like nothing