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Question: If a TGP board falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it fall, how many overdrive pedals does it take to make a sound?

Chankgeez wrote:Question: If a TGP board falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it fall, how many overdrive pedals does it take to make a sound?

Answer: It doesn't matter, because nothing sounds better than a Dumble.

Anyway, I found Freekish Blues-gate to be the perfect encapsulation of the TGP phenomenon. Dudes who listen with their eyes and convince themselves that they've got golden ears.

I only venture onto TGP to look at the classifieds, and I've bought some stuff off of there. So for buying (and maybe selling if you want to pay) effects, I really like it. But I'm also a bass player, and I can tell there is little to no content that's worth my time over there. There's a difference between a bass player, and a guitar player who spent $5,000 on a vintage Fender bass because its a vintage Fender bass.

That said, I've never had a complete grasp of all these TGP phenomenon pedals, I think partially because I'm a bass player, and mostly because I'm thrifty. Not to mention I don't see myself as having more than one ODs. Fuzz, on the other hand...

Fuzz_Pi wrote:Oh man... what have I done?

I was only playing around man, mostly said that because of yer two overdrives, which i never understood

Honestly, if the set up works for you, that's great, I'd love to be 'done'.
I was just saddened by yer lack of delay and modulation, yer missing out!

But...

hey man no worries i think its hilarious!! I just thought it would be a fun thread to start.
Its always good to slag off tgp!!

Honestly I think it's just that your board is so tidy and neat it had to bring about some knee-jerking. If all those pedals were on a floor covered in cheeseburger wrapping paper noone would have said anything. And I like your board. I would not have put those stickers there, but whatever.

A tgp board is tidy and has certain pedals, an ilf board is not so tidy and has other certain pedals. There are things that just come with being in the community, and when everybody is raving about a certain pedal people will start to get curious. Just like the Black Arts Toneworks pedals that are the latest cry over here (and elsewhere too, I think). I keep reading about them and while I have tried two of them and they did not work for me, I find myself wanting to try them again just to make sure. There are lots of pedals like that, stuff that is hyped in the community and people end up buying it because they are curious what all the hype is about. That does not mean that thee pedals are overrated, but they work for some, don't work for others and might be replaceable with other pedals that have less appeal but work just as well. Personally I have found that a lot of the stuff that gets pushed here is not for me. On the other hand I've found myself wanting to make certain pedals work for me because they have such a good reputation on here. Sometimes that made me find awesome sounds in a pedal I might have dismissed too soon or it made me a sad panda because I could not make it work.

I don't think there's much of a difference between ilf and any other forum in the pushing respect. There might be good reasons to look down on tgp, I don't even care to find out, because I like it here and one gear forum is more than enough, but as far as the overall preferences in gear go, this place is just as easy to make fun of as any other place.

D.o.S. wrote:

Chankgeez wrote:Question: If a TGP board falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it fall, how many overdrive pedals does it take to make a sound?

Answer: It doesn't matter, because nothing sounds better than a Dumble.

FALSE

it's not a matter of amount, but PRICE

anyway dirt stacking was mentioned...

i live on dirt stacking i've always loved boosting big muffs to get them to be more tight, stacking them with Green RInger (used to do while i had one, HUGE TONES), boosting other fuzzes with OD's to make them more tight and pronounced for certain parts or solos, boosting fuzzes with other fuzzes for the ultimate evil...

don't see anything wrong with that

This thread is entertaining.

Someone wrote above that ILF doesn't have compressors.
I have a Barber compressor and a SS/BS Sparkle Motion and an Analogman-modded Boss tremolo on one board, among others. And that board is homemade from a wooden board and dusty and not neat.

I also have a Pedaltrain with a Timmy and an OCD and an SHO and lots of bought-used fuzzes and modulation. This board is really crowded and has redundanices and boosters and drives and is also never used for the band, just at home.

And now I don't know community I belong to?

Tremster wrote:And now I don't know community I belong to?

17 posts, kraut? tgp!

Dang.
And when I signed up here I was welcomed with and

Will give my Dr. Scientists and Blackouts to charity now.

Don't forget SS/BS! Sparkle Motion ain't no blues doctor one-knob treble boost.

This thread is weird, nobody gives any shits so why are we still sort of on-topic?

Booteek Way Huge Red Llama clones.

Ancient Astronaught wrote:I got mine on here, and i'm very pleased with the price i paid and from whom i got it from. I'd much rather support fellow ILFers than "Lawyers who don't really need the cash"

You're going to love it.

kbithecrowing wrote:

Ancient Astronaught wrote:I got mine on here, and i'm very pleased with the price i paid and from whom i got it from. I'd much rather support fellow ILFers than "Lawyers who don't really need the cash"

You're going to love it.

Yes, yes i am four eva and eva and eva and eva......

DarkAxel wrote:don't see anything wrong with that

There's nothing wrong with it, of course. It just doesn't really do much for me. And I see "stacking" in about every other thread on TGP. That's why I mentioned it.