Gasalcoholics anonymous? whoever said this was a help group?

[gila_crisis]

I got a Mooer Rage Machine metal distortion pedal: what a surprise! I think it will serve me well for my noise-industrial tunes.

Death Metal clone, no?

Nope, I have a DOD death metal, the EQ behaves not the same. Maybe Rage is more close to the Metal MAster?

[alexsga]

[friendship]

MOOOOORPH MODDDDDE

[le lambin]

Fancy pedals have arrived:

OTO Bam: many swoon over these boxes, and I can understand why now. It sounds really good. It sounds higher quality than any pedal I've used. The input gain control is important as it allows for a guitar signal to interact with the reverb in a "playable" way, if that makes any sense. The reverb interacts with the input signal in a fun interactive manner, like the best spring reverbs and amps. I don't find the UI difficult at all- I am not sure what all the hubbub with people complaining about it is about. It's way more straight forward than many secondary functions on pedals. I've put off purchasing any of these boxes because of the price, but this particular box is well worth it. Total keeper.

Drolo Stretch Weaver: got one for a silly price. That is really the only reason I bought it- I remember when this came out and was interested in the overall idea but not enough to pay a lot of money for one. The second hand Drolo market is also just stupid.

So this one was cheap-ish and I compulsively bought it like the good consumer I am. I am glad I did, though. This thing is way more than just a side chain box with a bunch of algorithms ported from other Drolo pedals, like I initially judged it to be. You can tell Mr. Rolo put thought into the sounds here- it sounds fantastic. All of the algorithms sound musical and are really fun to use. The UI is dead simple and a pleasure to fiddle with. At this point, all of these sounds can be achieved in Ableton or elsewhere. But to have a focused, one stop shop for side chain weirdness, I am very impressed with this thing. I love it! Absolute keeper of a device.

[alexsga]

Fancy pedals have arrived

pics!

[sutarappa]

I know it's "MORPH," but my brains smudged in "MOSH" per yon smear...

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Drolo Stretch Weaver: got one for a silly price. That is really the only reason I bought it- I remember when this came out and was interested in the overall idea but not enough to pay a lot of money for one. The second hand Drolo market is also just stupid.

Yeah, congrats on finding a deal! I've always coveted the Stretch Weaver, but haven't been able to justify the expense. Hope if does cool sideways things with your creative process.

[dubkitty]

apparently it’s Fuzzhugger Month at the old homestead. i was on Reverb where “Fuzzhugger” (and “Mellowtone”) is saved to my feed and blem Scalable Pets popped up. obviously i grabbed one immediately. then i discovered that Tom’s still taking orders for the new Phantom Arcade and shoveled it through my internet credit plans. i’m excited…i feel like it’s 2012 all over again. very curious to see how these work with my setups. i can hear the Phantom Arcade between the FEB and looping board—or maybe before the FEB so i could deteriorate the Arcade’s sparkle—with a weird delay after it like the Snazzy FX Wow and Flutter, and with its gain range and two channels the Pet could serve as the entire gain section of a mini normie board. tuner, Pet, multi-modulation, tremolo, and reverb. i generally don’t use delay much in normie situations, even on 60s SF psych stuff which is the only place i use an envelope filter.

i also got a Franklin Guitar Works markdown on one of the new Squier Esquire Customs. i mean to use the Sherwood Green double-bound body for my Tele project, but it plays so nice and sounds so good that i’ll probably get a Squier CV bound Tele body and move the neck, hardware, and electronics to it so i also have an Esquire. like the ones in my Squier CVJM, the pickup is far better than it has any right to be in a sub-$500 guitar…i saw a review that said it’d make a good replacement pickup for any Tele, and i like it more than the 62 CS bridge pickup in the Tele i had to sell. it’s nice and hot with a SNAP to it. it twangs, but it also slaps. this guitar makes me play early 70s Flying Burrito Brothers shit, but it’d be equally suitable for Keef duty. my concerns about the poplar body and laurel fingerboard were unwarranted; it doesn’t feel or sound very different to an alder Tele, and the fingerboard is fine after oiling. note: i absolutely believe that wood makes a difference in the sound of the guitar, but poplar as far as i know isn’t that different to alder other than being subject to greenish streaks that make it unsuitable for transparent finishes. i have to figure out a cap swap for the first switch position because the stock cap makes the signal almost totally disappear and i don’t like the popular “cocked wah” mods, but you can get along fine with the standard volume+tone setup in the middle position and the tone bypass (“blow” switch) adds teeth and highs. it’s not often that i unreservedly recommend anything in the worlds of music, but this is one time. if you like Esquires or angry Teles at all, this is for you. i sure hope the British guy with the dozen Teles is on this.

it cracks me up writing “Squier Esquire,” which sounds like it should be an insult in old Spanish or Portuguese. “¿Squier?” “non, Esquire!” <audience laughter>.

[Blackened Soul]

Probably because of my age… but every time I see esquire… I think of Bill and Ted… dude…

In: eqd blumes, boss rt-2, tc electronics mimiq (I’m not liking it), Michael Kelly 5 string acoustic bass (bday present from fam)

coming hotetone krush and a peavey fury 5 neck

[dubkitty]

what’s the bass like?

apparently i’m one of the main writers for my employer’s Great Leap Forward into selling Fender products. fortunately or unfortunately, i already have most of the Fender shit i need but could use my employee discount to knock down a Acoustasonic Tele and finally put the trying-to-sound-like-acoustic thing to bed. the only guitar i’ve heard with a piezo that i like is the Italian Mondial which is too expensive in the used market, and acoustic simulator pedals are useless. definitely buying cables for a large percentage off…most of my guitar cables are at least 15 years old and the gear crate could use a refresh. it should be an adventure. i’m chuffed to actually write about something i know and care about, and will probably also move into review articles for the website.

[Blackened Soul]

For a plywood acoustic bass (I’ve owned a couple of them) it’s pretty good it has a fishman pickup system. Really these instruments should not be thought of as a acoustic bass as they are all too small.. tonewise it sounds like a hollow body bass like a Kay or a gretsch.. Very thin neck and close string spacing which I actually like.. I strung with half wounds in high c tuning because a low b on these is silly.. I kinda want to work out some kind of sound hole pickup… because fuzz… it is eye catching though!

The bridge pin thing… the old string set was with a low b and the pin was wedged in and broke while removing the string.. fricking plastic pins.. I am planning on finding a wood or bone set.. which is rare for basses…. Most are plastic…

[dubkitty]

maybe you could use endpins filed down? i’d think SOMEONE makes them, but have no idea at all where you’d look.

[dub]

I have been trying to save up for an expensive guitar purchase, but still getting tempted into pedals.

Jumped on the Lost + Found preorder. Won't appear until Dec apparently, but I am wondering if the AUS/NZ orders might get fulfilled a bit earlier.
(we were only about 300/10,000 mystery boxes last time)

Still have the Motor Pedal preorder incoming...

Impulse bought a cheap ES-8, I use a very basic loop switcher at the moment, but the jacks need a good deep clean and it runs off AC power, having a few more options midi/function wise, trails, rearranging order etc would be nice.
It's all a very silly indulgence, but I have been working up a few pieces of music and being able to quickly change between sounds is great.

Cheap Fulltone SupaTrem as a birthday gift for a friend who has just started playing electric.

[Blackened Soul]

Well at least someone at guitar center has a sense of humor…,

[Blackened Soul]

But how does the hotone Krush sound you ask…
Ugly. They kind of ugly that the company that started this place could only dream of. It is painful and glitchy and nasty and filled with evil, it’s awesome! I was expecting tame and vanilla… it lives up to its color… you can go from a touch of pink noise to I’m being attached by a detuned 90s modem!