Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[jrmy]

I want something that's fairly high gain, very clear for chords, with a very tight voicing. What should I save up for? It'd be for doom, drone and black metal stuffs mostly.

Dunno if it's high-gain enough, but what about seeing if T. Dalton will build you a Doom Bloom? That thing looks siiiiiiiiiiiiiick.

[AngryGoldfish]

So I finally have the big board organized, now I just need to finish up the wiring. I'm just looking for one last fuzz/distortion to go in the third loop of the blender. I want something that's fairly high gain, very clear for chords, with a very tight voicing. What should I save up for? It'd be for doom, drone and black metal stuffs mostly.

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This one always keeps my entertained

How do you use the Blender? Who makes that by the way?

[Wes Mantooth]

So I finally have the big board organized, now I just need to finish up the wiring. I'm just looking for one last fuzz/distortion to go in the third loop of the blender. I want something that's fairly high gain, very clear for chords, with a very tight voicing. What should I save up for? It'd be for doom, drone and black metal stuffs mostly.

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This one always keeps my entertained

How do you use the Blender? Who makes that by the way?

Wounded Paw, got it from ronripper a while back. Basically I use it to blend my dirt rather than stack it so:

Loop A: ss/bs Sparkle Motion-->Custom Dwarfcraft ECT/Robot Devil
Loop B (this one has a feedback loop in it too): Whatever dirt I end up getting
Loop C: Fuzzhugger Phantom Ring V2-->Great Wall-->Lab Ratchet Oscillator

Each loop has a volume control so I can mix to make the thickest fuzz tone. The primary sound is the ECT, with the Great Wall providing the thickest low end I have ever heard from a pedal. Now I just need a clearer dirt pedal with a bit more focus on the high end and mids.

[AngryGoldfish]

That sounds enticing. I'd love to give it a try. I might have to give their smaller version a whirl.

[Wes Mantooth]

That sounds enticing. I'd love to give it a try. I might have to give their smaller version a whirl.

Do it

I hooked everything up to it last week and it was glorious. It was a lot of tweaking though and some of my fuzzes don't like being run in to a dirty amp so be ready to sit down and make a lot of minor changes (depending on your set-up obviously). It seems a BAT Revelation might be right up my alley for that last slot but it looks like I need to buy a new phone first now

[AngryGoldfish]

So let me get this straight, say for instance I have a Fuck in one loop and a Pharaoh in another, I can blend the two of them together and use the onboard EQ to alter the sound? Which means it's not just layering your favourite distortion sounds as you would think. You will have to edit the parameters in order to better fit the new textures. Is that correct? Are there any other blenders out there? I know of the X-Blender from Xotic and I think T1sMyne probably builds one.

[hollowhero]

Pigtronix keymaster can also function as a blender w/ expression control (as well as many other things)

[phantasmagorovich]

There is a British company called bright onion that also has a blender afaik.

[LaoWiz]

If I were to make like, a batch of 5, I'd likely just hit up Taylor and try to work something out with his pcbs (gristleizer pcbs available here...musicpcb.com). There's also some slight tweaking needed to get the sweep of the rate pot more functional/smoother. It actually might be better in a normal box with exp options instead of the treadle.

I have really been considering building another one of these for myself. Such a fun noisy machine.
For those trying to get one, definitely hit up Laowiz. His aesthetic is perfect for that sound, and I think he already has a circuit layout of his own, which I know could not have been a quick task.

I've just made a few Gristleilizers from Taylor's board. The most recent one I made sounds awesome but an ILFer paid for one and Taylor's out of the boards till sometime in Jan so I'm going give mine away.

I did some more research and may include an expression control for the rate and a switch to inject an external LFO. Worth trying!

That Gristliezer in the wah shell is fantastic. It's a strange strange effect. That and Maestro Filter Sample & Hold puts you into deep space. Cool shit...

[Wes Mantooth]

So let me get this straight, say for instance I have a Fuck in one loop and a Pharaoh in another, I can blend the two of them together and use the onboard EQ to alter the sound? Which means it's not just layering your favourite distortion sounds as you would think. You will have to edit the parameters in order to better fit the new textures. Is that correct? Are there any other blenders out there? I know of the X-Blender from Xotic and I think T1sMyne probably builds one.

Well at least on my blender, the treble and bass only eq the clean blend sadly, but that is totally possible to do. But yeah rather than stacking dirt, blending it allows you to thicken things up or add some subtle new textures without your amp sounding like it is shitting.

I feel like all the dirt lovers who have a ton on their board should try this, that way you can use all the dirt at the same time and no one feels left out

[AngryGoldfish]

Is there anything about these fancy big blenders that a simple looper with a mix knob and a loop can't do? As in, do you really need all the additional features?

[hollowhero]

You probably don't need a fancy one. The expensive ones just match impedance or have the ability to flip the phase of the signals.

I only bought the keymaster b/c it was $100 off. It's nice though: I can switch/blend between two pedalboards, add a wet/dry to any pedal, or run my guitar and synths through my pedals. Pretty handy.

[Wes Mantooth]

Is there anything about these fancy big blenders that a simple looper with a mix knob and a loop can't do? As in, do you really need all the additional features?

Nope they should all work the same. I got this in a spur of the moment trade and I'm pretty happy with it. I don't really use the phase switches on it but there are options to run clean into channel A or run channel B into C. I also dig that it has the feedback loop on one channel, adds some crazy sustain without being overpowering.

But yeah I'm sure someone could build you just a simple looper with however many channels you need and a mix control for each.

[skullservant]

I've not posted in here in a while, and honestly it's because nothing has really changed on my board. I've been using the same setup for almost two months now without any changes, amazing, I know.

Polytune Mini -> DIRGE ABY ->
A) Holy Grail -> Bukowski Harmonic Perc -> Way Huge Fat Sandwich -> Digitech DL8 -> Verellen + 1x12
B) Verellen Big Spider -> Smallsound Bigsound HawkMini -> 1776 6 Band EQ -> TC Hall Of Fame -> Sovtek + 1x12



Although I did go and hang out with the guy who made my non-Verellen cab over the weekend (and got to test out Wes Mantooth's new cab which rules!!!) and brought this board along:

Sovtek Muff -> Meathead Clone -> DirgeDweller -> Shimverb

[the Life Aquatic]

skully, i would love to rock that mini board