It's a small question and I'm sure there's a single answer
After a year or so of using it, I vote for the Endangered Audio AD4096. It's a delay and an echo pedal and it does infinite feedback and oscillation and it just seems to take any dirt pedal, lift it up and smash people over the head. So it's ambient and simple to use but it also has a huge range and plays well with dirt. That's the holy trail for me.
I've started dreaming of a second pedal that is as ambient and awesome as the 4096. Interested to hear what other ILFers dig.
mr. sound boy king wrote:
Organic apples are not normal, they are special, like analog, whereas normal apples, like digital, taste sterile and lack warmth.
TC Electronics Hall of Fame/Trinity/Really any of the verbs now because the tone print editor is where it's at. You can sculpt exactly as much of ANYTHING that you want into it. Along with 15-20 second decay times
I tried some verbs a couple of years ago (Nimbus and Neunaber) but I think my approach to playing with ambient type effects is different now. I learned a bit with the 4096 as a comfortable starting point.
Anyone tried the EHX Cathedral on bass? Curious about that for tweakability, possibly even the Memory Man series for modulation type stuff and also some of the EQ Devices stuff. Thoughts?
I love using the Cathedral on my bass. If I were to go to a super simple board, I could just use that and a couple dirt pedals no problem. Lots of flexibility. Some settings can be just waaaay to much bass (like the room mode on super long decay), but a little bit of high pass filtering and you're all set.
Accu Spring, Hall, and Grail Flerb are all
D.o.S. wrote:I'm fucking stupid and no one should operate under any other premise.
Tendollarcat wrote:It's a small question and I'm sure there's a single answer
After a year or so of using it, I vote for the Endangered Audio AD4096. It's a delay and an echo pedal and it does infinite feedback and oscillation and it just seems to take any dirt pedal, lift it up and smash people over the head. So it's ambient and simple to use but it also has a huge range and plays well with dirt. That's the holy trail for me.
I've started dreaming of a second pedal that is as ambient and awesome as the 4096. Interested to hear what other ILFers dig.
You just reminded me to record a demo of this.... it's been sitting on my workbench since last July
Thanks guys. Listening to a bunch of clips lately and I am worried that I'm turning into a analog delay freak because the only ambient thing that sounds as interesting as the AD4096 to my ears has been the Deluxe Memory Man. I've started dreaming of a 4096 at the start of the chain, a shitload of dirt and stuff in the middle, and then maybe a DMM at the end. Is that turning me into someone who should hang at the Gear Page instead of ILF?
What are your thoughts on analog delay and feedback and modulation and all of that good stuff? I mean its obviously cool but are there any analog options I should consider rather than the DMM? Delay at the start and end of a chain? Messing with dirt sounds and maybe vibe and reverb in between? I don't even use delay conventionally. I like ooooze and feedback and washy echoes in the background.
