vidret wrote:btw - anyone rocking a skreddy echo? seeing a good price, always wanted to try one - not really in need.
I've been using a Skreddy Echo for years now and I love it.
The sound could be aptly described as 'washed out'. It doesn't have the bounce of a DMM or the digital crispness of something like a TC Electronic. It's like there is a reverb pedal patched in to the effects loop at all times, making the repeats wash away into watery goodness. I wish it had a little extra speed range (it's only around 650ms), because I like to run my delays at around 800ms or 400ms, but it's not a big deal. The modulation is probably the highlight. It's exceptionally beautiful. It just makes everything sound ethereal and gorgeous. The fact that you can control the feedback range with the internal trimpot is handy as well. It allows you to maintain constant feedback without reaching self-oscillation and increased volumes. There is also a trimpot for the range of the modulation depth. I turned it down from stock as it was a little bit too dramatic for me. Well worth it overall if you can find one for cheap.
Holy Schnikes wrote:AngryGoldfish wrote:I went through a phase around 2009-2010 where I was barely playing any guitar. I was buying gear, but I wasn't playing it that much.
I've been through that phase a couple times myself, more time spent online researching/buying gear than actually playing that gear. I finally came to my senses and have avoided getting back into that habit ever since but it seems harder and harder to find the time to play in a normal day full of work and child and fiance, esp at any satisfying volume levels.
To be honest, mate, there is only so much I can play these days and still feel unique. I'm not trying to blow my own trumpet, but I've learned so much already, and I'm finding it harder and harder to discover anything new and fresh. I still practise my old routines and whatnot, but I'm in a rut at the moment—a rather pleasant one. I'm becoming acquainted with this new Ditto Looper and enjoying it greatly. It's complex music still, as it's always been, but there is nothing new of note under the sun, and that's OK. I think it's OK to just keep doing what you're doing, because those personal barriers we all have had to go through and will continue to pass through become broader and more spacious every year. I couldn't break the drumming barrier, so I gave up. Now I've broken a new barrier with guitar playing, and my next one is probably a good year or two away, but that's OK.
I just watched Good Will Hunting, so I'm all philosophical and therapeutic.
AxAxSxS wrote:I went about 3 years hardly picking it up at all. then when I started again it became more of an obsession than ever. Sometimes a break is a good thing?
Totally agree. Breaks are imperative for creative progression.
this better not fall through, ill be really butthurt.
tytyty. it needs work but im pretty jazzed with how well it pairs with the micro terror as a shits and giggles rig. for 200$ish it beats the fuck outta anything practice amp out there. 
