LastGasp first impressions (now with 100% more thunder box)
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:36 pm
Yo guys,
I posted in the GAS thread a few days ago that I was getting few new pedals from LAL and there was enough of a reaction that I thought a thread would be appropriate (also LAL is 'spensive as fug and the more info and clips there is/are the better). The thread is currently labeled first impressions I just got my hands on the boxes today, but I wanted to go ahead and get some thoughts down as well as open the floor for questions. I also plan on getting some sound clips prepared in the coming days, so I also wanted to ask what you guys were looking for from those too.
Before we actually get to the pedals themselves, I wanted to give a quick shout out to the place I bought them from, Perfect Circuit Audio, for giving me six patch-cables with my order because, fuck, that's a lot of patch cables.
Now to what you actually care about
First MISTY CAVE
For the uninitiated, this pedal is a "resonance echo" meaning that it uses delay to replicated the sound of a resonating room--it does this very well. It's got three controls: a blend, delay time (tunes the resonance), and rate(sort of like an intensity). The sound that its really built for is the resonating room: 50/50 blend and you tune the resonance to the key so that when you hit the tonic you get a nice "fwooooosh" and volume bump. The other immediately obvious use for it is a sort of ring-mod light: tune it to some out of key note and you get some weird clanks and gurgles. There's a cool gaze use for it too that I'm enjoying: tune it to resonate at a note and glide into it from a half-step above--mbv to the extreme.
Thing to note: there is a bit of a bass cut when you turn it on and the "rate" led will flash as long as the pedal has power
Second THUNDER BOX
This guy is a frequency booster of sorts; you set the level to unity and the "Donshari" knob gives you a simultaneous bass and treble boost. Its intended purpose, I think, is to be placed after fuzzes and distortions as sort of a heavy-izer, but I've been using it today a pre-amp of sorts. I play Jaguar and a 4001, which can both be sort of anemic sounding sometimes, but the Thunder Box is working really well
Thing to note: it doesn't have all that much overall volume boost too it, so it may actually top out at lower than unity for all you active and over-wound dudes
So there's the initial run-down on the goods, let me know what questions you have and I'll try my best to get them answered for you. I plan to try to record the clips on Sunday or Monday, so let me know what you guys are looking for from those before then.
BTW, I also have a Super-Oscillo-Fuzz (the one with all the switches)in my possession, so feel free to ask about that guy too.
I posted in the GAS thread a few days ago that I was getting few new pedals from LAL and there was enough of a reaction that I thought a thread would be appropriate (also LAL is 'spensive as fug and the more info and clips there is/are the better). The thread is currently labeled first impressions I just got my hands on the boxes today, but I wanted to go ahead and get some thoughts down as well as open the floor for questions. I also plan on getting some sound clips prepared in the coming days, so I also wanted to ask what you guys were looking for from those too.
Before we actually get to the pedals themselves, I wanted to give a quick shout out to the place I bought them from, Perfect Circuit Audio, for giving me six patch-cables with my order because, fuck, that's a lot of patch cables.
Now to what you actually care about
First MISTY CAVE
For the uninitiated, this pedal is a "resonance echo" meaning that it uses delay to replicated the sound of a resonating room--it does this very well. It's got three controls: a blend, delay time (tunes the resonance), and rate(sort of like an intensity). The sound that its really built for is the resonating room: 50/50 blend and you tune the resonance to the key so that when you hit the tonic you get a nice "fwooooosh" and volume bump. The other immediately obvious use for it is a sort of ring-mod light: tune it to some out of key note and you get some weird clanks and gurgles. There's a cool gaze use for it too that I'm enjoying: tune it to resonate at a note and glide into it from a half-step above--mbv to the extreme.
Thing to note: there is a bit of a bass cut when you turn it on and the "rate" led will flash as long as the pedal has power
Second THUNDER BOX
This guy is a frequency booster of sorts; you set the level to unity and the "Donshari" knob gives you a simultaneous bass and treble boost. Its intended purpose, I think, is to be placed after fuzzes and distortions as sort of a heavy-izer, but I've been using it today a pre-amp of sorts. I play Jaguar and a 4001, which can both be sort of anemic sounding sometimes, but the Thunder Box is working really well
Thing to note: it doesn't have all that much overall volume boost too it, so it may actually top out at lower than unity for all you active and over-wound dudes
So there's the initial run-down on the goods, let me know what questions you have and I'll try my best to get them answered for you. I plan to try to record the clips on Sunday or Monday, so let me know what you guys are looking for from those before then.
BTW, I also have a Super-Oscillo-Fuzz (the one with all the switches)in my possession, so feel free to ask about that guy too.