So I started putting together a shoegaze rack...

[finboy]

I've been slowly collecting a few pieces of rack gear, and have finally got the las piece of the puzzle. I got a gator 4 rack case, and found a quadraverb, spx90, korg a2, and finally bought a proco r2du rat today. Switching through banks has always annoyed me, so I have found 2 tech21 midi mouse units, and am looking for a third. End goal is to get the midi controllers and rat footswitch on a pedaltrain junior.

Any of you guys running rack gear? Any favourites?

[DRodriguez]

Not exclusively for shoegazing, but get your hands on a lexicon verb and you will be in heaven.

Or get an eventide ultra-harmonizer and your soundscape will become incredibly more diverse.

[jrmy]

rfurtkamp is the Master of Rack. He will have the droids you are looking for.

[Gone Fission]

I know the Korg A series stuff was pretty well regarded in its day. How does ithe A2 hold up? Any killer tricks up its sleeve?

Lexicon LXP-15II does awesome reverb, delay, and chorus. DigiTech IPS-33B has Whammy and some Space Station sounds, arpeggiators, and dual voice harmonizer. Eventide Eclipse is just the fucking bomb.

[finboy]

Not exclusively for shoegazing, but get your hands on a lexicon verb and you will be in heaven.

Or get an eventide ultra-harmonizer and your soundscape will become incredibly more diverse.

Funny you should mention a harmonizer, I thought they were hair metal as fuck until I heard about johnny marr using one, and mike dean all over the yeezus album.

[DRodriguez]

They are incredibly versatile devices.

Plus, if there is an intended use for an effect, there is a way to break it off in a new direction.

[rfurtkamp]

Check if the Quadraverb is a +. If not, blow the $15 to buy the Eprom update. It's easy to install (no soldering, no hassle). You'll get a LOT more fun toys (ugly ring mod, one of the most controllable multitaps ever made).

If you want shoegaze, get a Midiverb 2. Boring in that you can't edit presets - but there are enough good ones in there that nobody will care.

If you want grainy, silly delay with a full LFO control and era-correct sample and hold (instant glitch goodness), Digitech RDS (whatever) - only the 8000 is expensive at all. The rest are dirt damn cheap. I still have two in the rack and 4 in the closet as backups.

Lexicon Vortex. Do not pass go, do not discount the lack of demos available. Do not collect (nor will you spend $200).

There's other stuff that's good but that plus a Boss GL-100 are my desert island mission critical rack stuff.

[tremolo3]

Dude, FX500.
I have 2. Had 4 once haha

I have Yamaha GEP50 (SPX 90 + shitty dirt patches), FX500 and Lexicon Vortex.
Looking to buy an RDS, a Jamman and some of the Alesis verbs and a Roland GP8 to complete my rack.

I wish I could get some high end stuff and not feeling guilty about it. Maybe later.

[Gone Fission]

Not exclusively for shoegazing, but get your hands on a lexicon verb and you will be in heaven.

Or get an eventide ultra-harmonizer and your soundscape will become incredibly more diverse.

Funny you should mention a harmonizer, I thought they were hair metal as fuck until I heard about johnny marr using one, and mike dean all over the yeezus album.

A lot of the current wave of boutique pedals of a digital bent seem to be mining a lot of the territory Eventide pioneered. Sequenced pitch shifting, pitch shifted delays, arpeggiation, multi-voice pitch shifting, and reverse crystals (backwards pitch shifting) all seem to show up again in newer pedals. Not exactly sounding the same, not always derived in similar ways. The genius of the pedals is that they are a fuckload less intimidating and often more intuitive than rack gear.

[WayToHip]

Bumping this thread because the pawn shop in town has a midiverb II and rfurtkamp is right, it gazes for days. Really cool. I now get what the fuss is about reverse reverb, and the flanger presets are great. The inability to tweak settings is a buzzkill though.

[rfurtkamp]

Some of those sounds really are only in that box - I wish it was otherwise.

But you accept it as it is, think of it as a pedal that only has a few good settings. You roll with it and accept it for what it is!

[finboy]

That's kind of how I look at it, for the $60 I spent on a quadraverb, even if I only like 3 settings, it was $60! I can barely find pedals that can do anything close to that for cheap. Watohip, where in alberta are you from? Pawn shops in calgary are usually picked clean.

[WayToHip]

I'm in Lethbridge, and most items are pricey, or laughably overpriced here. Somehow stuff moves.

[tuj]

lexicon vortex.

[fcknoise]

Maybe this suggestion sucks, but the behringer fx2000(I think) has a patch that's called vinylizer and it sounds pretty cool.

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4jiArxOwbEE[/youtube]

(Haven't watched this video in a while, at work now so can't really know if it's good or not )