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i need another megalith, i had one a few years ago and i think it's calling my name once more.....

6stringstrangler wrote:i need another megalith, i had one a few years ago and i think it's calling my name once more.....

Interesting that you managed without it for a couple of years... It took me like 6 months to get one of those bastards back. I never use it, almost, but it's just good to know it's there. (Well, I might be playing in a doom/sludge band soon, so then it will certainly see some use.

Does anyone know about all that stuff Alan has on the page? It's sorta stupid there is no info on the individual pedals. Jero, maybe you want to explain the ones you have a little?

I'm repeating myself, but

I WANT MAGNETAR CLIPS, AND I WANT THEM NAO

bigchiefbc wrote:I'm repeating myself, but

I WANT MAGNETAR CLIPS, AND I WANT THEM NAO

Maybe I should repeat that for emphasis.

The more i think about the more i Need a megalith...

Hahah yea I'm not sure what Alan is doing these days. He got screwed over on the original site but then things looked to be rolling again with this new one...yet there have been no updates in some time.
My computer crashed last week and I'm trying to figure out if I can recover my goods. Alan asked me when I got those pedals to please not make clips yet, but I can give a good description of what all they do later when I have more time.

The Megalith is one of my favorite pedals and the first pedal that I have ever thought it necessary to buy multiples or backups of I am trying to get the lowdown on all of them so I don't go "ohhhh that's what that did I should've bought one" is the maximum overdrive a Marshall thing it looks like a beautiful homage (ohmage sp?)
will it finally end my bass OD quest?
Alan is an amazing dude I contacted him and gave a deposit on a Megalith and then found a used one and it wasn't so much the $50 I would've saved but that I needed it now!!!
He refunded my $ and I have been looking for time to drive to Philly and try as many as possible and buy as many as I can afford before he is called back to his home planet.
I then sold that used one,
Then bought it back,
Then sold it,
and bought another one.
I never would've sold it the first time if I had the instruction manual at the time.
So I'm going to dig it up and scan it and post it so you won't sell your's.
........or maybe I won't so you'll sell your's!

my wife wants to get me a pedal for my birthday and I would love to tell her to get me a megalith but I dont think she would go through with emailing Alan She is the sort of person that would want to click buy it and be done.
He needs a better website

I assume it could be because of the high demand for his products and that he is so busy building for the customer he already has If there were "click it and buy it" buttons there would be a backup of customers around the block. Add to that his R&D and the time spent recreating Hawkwind and you have a very busy dude.

Is there a store in Philly that stocks his stuff?

sanfordandsonny wrote:I assume it could be because of the high demand for his products and that he is so busy building for the customer he already has If there were "click it and buy it" buttons there would be a backup of customers around the block. Add to that his R&D and the time spent recreating Hawkwind and you have a very busy dude.

please explain!

kosta wrote:Is there a store in Philly that stocks his stuff?

I called ahead and verified their stock they have a new mountainking fuzz called a
White Heat
it's supposed to have a velvet underground vibe
They have an 18v solid state amp for $150 called
Head
You can see it in a video on Dipinto guitars Facebook page.
And they had the prototype for a
Huge Box II
Had cause now I haz it
Email Alan for pricing and info and he's super friendly and quick to respond
Alan@mountainkingelectronics.net
And you can tell your significant others to call Dipinto guitars and they will ship.
Dipinto Guitars Retail Store:
407 E. Girard Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19125

Monday-Saturday: Noon - 7:00pm Closed Sundays
Telephone:215-427-7805

The Hawkwind comment is a way of saying he does some tripped out power electronics I'm just basing that off his myspace page.

I got this from Alan:


Here's list of my (Alan's) pedals with short decrips:

MEGALITH ("the Megalith makes my Big Muff sound prepubescent"-customer quote)
FREQUENCY~LSD (psychedelic, cosmic sitar fuzz being)
HUGE BOX (cranked amp injected with fuzz thing)
HUGE BOX II (Huge Box with added high cut tone control which allows it to work great with bass guitar and allows greater tonal versatility on "skinny string" guitar)
RUCKUS (blown speaker/ugly break up type od/fuzz)
MAGNETAR (massive synth-like bass fuzz) 
HEAVY MACHINE (harmonic fuzztortion w/ tons of tone shaping on hand, works great on both guitar and bass)
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (natural and open sounding overdrive w/nice low retention and no fizzy high end, goes from clean boost to hard rock action)
DECOMPOSER (waveform trans-mutator, destroys your guitar's signal in strange and wonderful, yet "usable", ways)  
ROLL BACK- Let me get back to you on this one...
P. O. BOX (Passive overdrive box designed for bass, kind of subtle, but super groovy)
NOTE: I designed a new version which has a passive lowpass filter switch added.
BEHEMOTH II (big, organic late 60's/early 70's type bass overdrive, goes from cleanish to growly to fuzzy)
LIMITED EDITION PEDALS:

WHITE HEAT(Velvet Underground reference)- 2 knob fuzz, built into n.o.s. vintage enclosures, goes from mild, jaggley od to ragged distortion to nasty, saturated octave up type fuzz.
(Only 4 will be made, 3 are left to be made)
(sonny's note:this one is at Dipinto in Philly)
BOG BEAST-Germanium based, dark and murky, "dirty" boost and fuzz(with unique liquidity overtone) designed for bass. MASSIVE low end and power. Sounds incredible on down tuned bass. 2 knobs(volume and filter) and 1 toggle switch(dirty boost or fuzz/swamp) (need to test transistors I have to determine the number that will be made)

I've been eyeing that Decomposer for a long while now, solely based on the idea that anything that destroys shit and has switches is meant for me.