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Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:24 pm
by fungalattack
madmax1012 wrote:WeHuntKings wrote:So the guitarist in the shoegaze band I'm in used the algal bloom a lot today, and it sounded perfect for everything we were doing. Whether it was a hazy crunch or a piercing howl for solos, it just made sense for all of the weird open tuning jangly stuff and the scrambled power chord riffs.
The Algal Bloom is such a great pedal. Everyone I've let play mine is blown away by how versatile it is, and how awesome it is at so many different settings.
I didn't realize just how versatile it was until I started twisting the knobs because for so long I just plugged it in and was like wow I dont need to change this setting!!! I had some distant and sickly crunchy punk tones today. It is just so fuzzy while retaining the note definition when you are digging into a chord.
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:05 am
by Grrface
fungalattack wrote:madmax1012 wrote:WeHuntKings wrote:So the guitarist in the shoegaze band I'm in used the algal bloom a lot today, and it sounded perfect for everything we were doing. Whether it was a hazy crunch or a piercing howl for solos, it just made sense for all of the weird open tuning jangly stuff and the scrambled power chord riffs.
The Algal Bloom is such a great pedal. Everyone I've let play mine is blown away by how versatile it is, and how awesome it is at so many different settings.
I didn't realize just how versatile it was until I started twisting the knobs because for so long I just plugged it in and was like wow I dont need to change this setting!!! I had some distant and sickly crunchy punk tones today. It is just so fuzzy while retaining the note definition when you are digging into a chord.
Ughhhhh. You guys are making me want a bass bloom. I really liked what the Algal Bloom did when I had one, but it was missing something on bass. And then Tom went and fixed that.
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 1:56 pm
by GardenoftheDead
Open tunings, big muffs and something to make it warble and whoosh.
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:12 am
by Ghost Hip
theavondon wrote:PumpkinPieces wrote:I use my Umiom->TAFM. DON'T EVEN NEED WARBLES. JUST BEND DEM STRINGS.
THIS IS WHY THERE ARE TREM ARMS ON JAZZMASTERS, PEOPLE
JUST BEND IT, BEND EM REAL GOOD.
On a serious note, since I don't have a trem arm, I've been playing the intended chord a half step down and bending up. It's pretty fantastic.
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:49 pm
by skullservant
Yeah I bend instead of trem arm. I've just got this really big paranoid fear of trem arming and then everything going out of tune
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:51 pm
by futuresailors
BRO YOU'RE MISSING OUT ON TREM AREM SQUEAKZ.
Is it weird I like that?
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:52 pm
by skullservant
Nah dude, totally legit. I like all the squeaks and tiny noises that guitars make when you aren't playing notes
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:58 pm
by Big Mon
futuresailors wrote:BRO YOU'RE MISSING OUT ON TREM AREM SQUEAKZ.
Is it weird I like that?
I once looped some trem arm squeaks and it turned out awesome
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:59 pm
by ryan summit
i want all the noise
if i could get my shit to sound like an old subway car
on bad clunky tracks
with a crying homeless man
a jesus freak
some dude singin along with his ipod
and a loose door sliding open and closed
id be in heaven
that for me is "the tone"
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:11 pm
by fungalattack
ryan summit wrote:i want all the noise
if i could get my shit to sound like an old subway car
on bad clunky tracks
with a crying homeless man
a jesus freak
some dude singin along with his ipod
and a loose door sliding open and closed
id be in heaven
that for me is "the tone"
Best poem of the year!
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:15 pm
by WeHuntKings
fungalattack wrote:ryan summit wrote:i want all the noise
if i could get my shit to sound like an old subway car
on bad clunky tracks
with a crying homeless man
a jesus freak
some dude singin along with his ipod
and a loose door sliding open and closed
id be in heaven
that for me is "the tone"
Best poem of the year!
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:56 pm
by Gearmond
Grrface wrote:fungalattack wrote:madmax1012 wrote:WeHuntKings wrote:So the guitarist in the shoegaze band I'm in used the algal bloom a lot today, and it sounded perfect for everything we were doing. Whether it was a hazy crunch or a piercing howl for solos, it just made sense for all of the weird open tuning jangly stuff and the scrambled power chord riffs.
The Algal Bloom is such a great pedal. Everyone I've let play mine is blown away by how versatile it is, and how awesome it is at so many different settings.
I didn't realize just how versatile it was until I started twisting the knobs because for so long I just plugged it in and was like wow I dont need to change this setting!!! I had some distant and sickly crunchy punk tones today. It is just so fuzzy while retaining the note definition when you are digging into a chord.
Ughhhhh. You guys are making me want a bass bloom. I really liked what the Algal Bloom did when I had one, but it was missing something on bass. And then Tom went and fixed that.
just gonna add some AB love and say that its so versatile i don't really have any gas for other fuzzes besides the superfuzz. which i now have. so gas satiated.
i also love how frippy/synthy it gets
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 5:26 pm
by ryan summit
im blushing
i just poke my hand like a chicken
punctuation is on a different screen so i hit retun alot
thats all
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:49 pm
by dubkitty
I really want to hear a demo of the new reworking of the AB-Synth.
Re: BEST FUZZ FOR SHOEGAZE?????
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:28 pm
by kbit
PumpkinPieces wrote:On a serious note, since I don't have a trem arm, I've been playing the intended chord a half step down and bending up. It's pretty fantastic.
Holy shit what a cool idea.