The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[deathmonkey]

ah! what a bummer! Sounds like they sold it out from under you. Did you call your credit card company and put a stop payment on those fuckers?

Yeah, I just talked to them and they are supposed to be refunding my paypal account today. They said they didn't sell it in the store. It shipped out but they can't tell me where it went to. The fucked up thing is that I was on the phone with the guy at the store while I placed my order to make sure everything went through.

I've gotten way lucky twice with the GC used section. My redbear was from kentucky, my sonex was from upstate NY.... both ridiculous steals. I understand the dilemma.

[crohny]

Man, Guitar Center has the dumbest people working for them. Who the fuck will take your order over the phone, charge your account, and then cancel your order 10 minutes afterward? I called to see why they didn't send a tracking number after 5 days and they can't tell me anything.

I refrain from buying anything from them other than picks. I have bought a couple used guitars from them with good experiences but over all I have had more bad experiences than good. I wont be sad to watch them go under. Only bummer is I will need to keep up on my stock of picks as to the fact no smaller shops carry the size I use so I will have to buy online like I do with my strings.

[Krosis]

I've ordered used gear over the phone with GC a lot lately and they seem to neglect providing a confirmation email or even a receipt in the package pretty often. I haven't had a problem yet but I do get nervous. I'll call back the day or so after placing the order to get a tracking number. I also know now to ask for the order # before I get off the phone. Also, here's a little GC inner workings tidbit: the order # for used gear is not the same type of order # they use for online sales, even if you buy the used item online. It's 2 different systems. So if you have a problem or are returning the item you need to point out it was a used sale. Yeah, I know.

I try to buy a used item through the website when possible, because then you definitely get a confirmation email. Here's how you do it: when you see a used item listed, copy the item number. Then paste it in the general search box at the top of GC's website. If it comes up you can just order it through the site. A lot of times it doesn't come up though and you have to order by phone

I've had some bad experiences with GC but thankfully my most local one is pretty good. It used to be a mom and pop shop before it got bought out and a few of the people have been working there from before the buyout, so they're good at what they do.

[crohny]

Considering trying a compressor. Can't recall if I have asked about this in here with you guys. I assume I have but my memory is shit so I apologize. Any opinions on specific pedals that anyone would care to share?

[conky]

Considering trying a compressor. Can't recall if I have asked about this in here with you guys. I assume I have but my memory is shit so I apologize. Any opinions on specific pedals that anyone would care to share?

All this talk of Yob guitar tone and Skip's talk of good tone while running a compressor got me wanting one. I ended up getting a Dynacomp and running it for a while. I love the sustain it added and it was also able to tame down the dirt channel on my Soldano to make my cleans a little more clean (that doesn't mean it won't make it grittier if you want. Just run the level higher for a boost). I'd still have it on board if I had room for it. I might throw it back on there once I get my custom pedal in from BAT unless someone picks it up off of me before then.

[AngryGoldfish]

Considering trying a compressor. Can't recall if I have asked about this in here with you guys. I assume I have but my memory is shit so I apologize. Any opinions on specific pedals that anyone would care to share?

Are you looking to add sustain, a bit of grit, or just to apply dimension and shimmer? If you have a bunch of money to spare then the Empress Compressor is about as good as you're going to get for a studio-grade compressor that evens out attack, adds sustain, and fattens up your sound. I don't use compressors enough to warrant that kind of size on my board at the moment, though, so I'm rocking the Fairfield Circuitry The Accountant. It's tiny, affordable, well made, and has plenty of balls when I want to turn my Pharaoh into a raging beast. It has a clangy and steely sound to the squish that I quite like. If you want something more neutral then the Diamond or Wampler compressors would be better.

As far as other ones, I haven't tried it yet but the Xotic SP Compressor is tiny, affordable and is supposed to be pretty damn good. The Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone is awesome if you want a really fat, silky, fuzzy compressor. I like that one but the form factor and huge amount of sustain it adds isn't for everyone. The MXR Dyna Comp is classic, but it's not subtle. The Keeley Compressor is highly lauded, but again it's not transparent and it's not cheap. I'd rather the Empress at that point. I enjoyed the Mad Professor Forest Green Compressor, but like the Diamond it's more of a sweet and subtle touch-up. The EQD Warden seems pretty cool. The Boss compressors are all right, too.

[crohny]

Yeah, after hearing that a crucial part of the Yob tone was a compressor I was interested in one. I know Mike used the dynacomp for years. I am going to hang out with my lady later today and lucky for me she rules has no problem venturing out to all the local instrument shops in her area. Going to have that on my list of used and possibly new shit to buy along with the boss ps6

[amorphous]

only compressor i've ever liked was the pigtronix attack sustain (it was a updated version of an old EH pedal) - but i used it mainly for envelope effects - backwards sounding swells and also as a lead boost. But, it was a large box.

[crohny]

Considering trying a compressor. Can't recall if I have asked about this in here with you guys. I assume I have but my memory is shit so I apologize. Any opinions on specific pedals that anyone would care to share?

Are you looking to add sustain, a bit of grit, or just to apply dimension and shimmer? If you have a bunch of money to spare then the Empress Compressor is about as good as you're going to get for a studio-grade compressor that evens out attack, adds sustain, and fattens up your sound. I don't use compressors enough to warrant that kind of size on my board at the moment, though, so I'm rocking the Fairfield Circuitry The Accountant. It's tiny, affordable, well made, and has plenty of balls when I want to turn my Pharaoh into a raging beast. It has a clangy and steely sound to the squish that I quite like. If you want something more neutral then the Diamond or Wampler compressors would be better.

As far as other ones, I haven't tried it yet but the Xotic SP Compressor is tiny, affordable and is supposed to be pretty damn good. The Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone is awesome if you want a really fat, silky, fuzzy compressor. I like that one but the form factor and huge amount of sustain it adds isn't for everyone. The MXR Dyna Comp is classic, but it's not subtle. The Keeley Compressor is highly lauded, but again it's not transparent and it's not cheap. I'd rather the Empress at that point. I enjoyed the Mad Professor Forest Green Compressor, but like the Diamond it's more of a sweet and subtle touch-up. The EQD Warden seems pretty cool. The Boss compressors are all right, too.

Sustain, evening out attack and some more girth wouldn't hurt. I have played the pigtronix. Without the dirt knob utilized I dug it. It's also pretty small which was rad. I don't want anything super fucking crazy. Just need to get the job done. Studio quality sounds like it's more than I'd be willing to spend on a compressor haha. The Warden is on my radar for sure though.

[new05002]

Mike's using the pigtronix nowadays. I asked him about it when I met him in Mass last year

[Kacey Y]

Considering trying a compressor. Can't recall if I have asked about this in here with you guys. I assume I have but my memory is shit so I apologize. Any opinions on specific pedals that anyone would care to share?

For guitar, I have a Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone and love it with heavy tones. It's got all the right controls to compensate for a lot of the problems people gripe about using compression on a dirty signal. Compression level and volume obviously, but it has a clean blend so you can dial out the note pinch/swelling effect associated with compression, a treble recovery knob to prevent it from darkening the tone too much (and they tend to do that) and also has a light overdrive built in. They have an alternate version where the overdrive part is Germanium based, if you're looking for that, I don't personally care about that aspect of the pedal.

I use mine to get really long sustain on held out chords, running with a really thick/fuzzy kind of ovedrive or distortion usually. I've played around with a lot of different settings, it's pretty versatile. Just trying different combinations of the compression level and blend gets a lot of different results for attack or sustain.

[crohny]

Mike's using the pigtronix nowadays. I asked him about it when I met him in Mass last year

Which one? The pphilosphers tone or the rock one?

[new05002]

philosophers tone

[deathmonkey]

I have the walrus audio deep six comp. I really like it. really fattens the tone, really makes things sustain, but also has a blend knob so you can adjust how much dry signal vs compression there is.

[Barnhard]

Really cool site with a bunch of weird vintage stuff for the cheaps.