McSpunkle Tour Box & Giveaway! (Gnomeratron/And Aardvarks)

[oldangelmidnight]

Got it just now.
First impressions: Smells like hippies and the velcro has the hair of many beasts.
Further reports to come.

[bronzetalon]

Got it just now.
First impressions: Smells like hippies and the velcro has the hair of many beasts.
Further reports to come.

Lolz, I dunno about the hippie smell but you try keep hair outta velcro when your cats lounge on and around your pedal board.

[Lintybits]

Got it just now.
First impressions: Smells like hippies and the velcro has the hair of many beasts.
Further reports to come.

forgot to mention that, after I opened the box my basement smelled like that for 2 days.

that download card should still be valid

[oldangelmidnight]

Alright, so, I haven't had a whole lot of time to spend with the pedals but these are my thoughts:
I really like the clean boost on the Aardvark; not so much a fan of the dirty.
The Gnomeratron is full of wacky, noisy fun. There are some fairly straightforward fuzzes but I think it does crazy best. It takes a lot of tinkering to decide what you want to do. Having all those options actually made me want more control. I would find a sound that was almost perfect but none of the knobs or switches would make it sound exactly the way I wanted. The separate clean and fuzz volume controls were a little tricky to handle.
This was my favorite setting:

[Dandolin]

^Starve knob is the get you the rest of the way there knob--seriously needs to be standard on the major label release.

[Jwar]

Uhhh did I win yet?????????????????????

Seriously can't wait to try this thing! Wonder how my Xerograph and these will sound? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

[McSpunckle]

^Starve knob is the get you the rest of the way there knob--seriously needs to be standard on the major label release.

It is. : )

[oldangelmidnight]

So, Diode 1 to the right and Diode 2 to the left, what diodes are those?

[oldangelmidnight]

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/oldangelmidnight/1006-gnomeratron-test[/soundcloud]

This is some rough fucking around with settings near what's pictured above.

[hbombgraphics]

ok, i am loving the way that sustains and then kindof fizzles, so flipping awesome. I even like the pulsing effect around 4:20 and the feedback that follows, the bass out of that is massive.
Thanks for the demo, cannot wait to get my mits on this thing.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/oldangelmidnight/1006-gnomeratron-test[/soundcloud]

This is some rough fucking around with settings near what's pictured above.

yeah, mc-spunky shechsee fucking around... it's nice every now and then to check the settings others find with their gear. Even when it wouldn't translate as awesome riffing on my gear, it helps out understand my gear.

[one bad monkey]

Got it just now.
First impressions: Smells like hippies and the velcro has the hair of many beasts.
Further reports to come.

Lolz, I dunno about the hippie smell but you try keep hair outta velcro when your cats lounge on and around your pedal board.

I'm pretty sure my cat thought it was a tourbox for her as well, so there might be a hair or two from her also.

[Grandnoise]

I'd love to be a part of the tourbox for the EU/UK leg is possible!

[bronzetalon]

It on its way to Gunner Recall!

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/oldangelmidnight/1006-gnomeratron-test[/soundcloud]

This is some rough fucking around with settings near what's pictured above.

Sounds really awesome! Thanks for taking the time to record a demo.

[Gunner Recall]

These pedals smell like a fucking hippie convention (or commune or whatever hippie gathering hippies have).
Put it right back in the box

Maybe I'll be braver tomorrow.
Love the finish, I spent a few minutes just poking the epoxy before the smell forced it back in the box