Gasalcoholics anonymous? whoever said this was a help group?

[gila_crisis]

Got this one today, found second hand for a fair price at s local shop: very cool high gain mangler!

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[Seance]

So far I've been relatively successful in warding off the conjectural fantasy that a Science Mother preamp (that is well outside my
current gear budget allowances, especially given the feeble Canadian dollar) will magically solve all my gear woes and worries.


So far I've managed to find some fun, usable sounds by combining a DOD Boneshaker (newly acquired from fellow ILFer John Matrix)
with various ODs. The Boneshaker also pairs quite nicely with a green ringer. No "magic combos" so far, but more exploratory pedal-pairs to follow.

My last major pedal splurge was getting a Kuro Exegol last year. For me this was a big expense.

I know that a lot of YT videos ask of the Exegol, "Does it DOOM?" But equally important for me to find out personally was "Does it JIVE?"
Which is to ask: "Can it perform clean-preamp duties as well so that I can just goose and taunt the Exegol as the situation requires?"
So far the answer is "yes". Especially when run at 12v. I don't have the right cables for 18v operation with my Voodoo Labs PP2+.
But I imagine that running the Exegol at 18v will be even better for my purposes.

By turning the NORMAL "channel" volume all the way down and setting the BRITE "channel" volume about at 10:30 on the clockface and
then setting the MASTER volume as high as need be, I've been able to get some chimey-chunk chords for rhythm playing that I dig when I dig in.

Hopefully the spectrum of the Exegol's DOOM/JIVE capabilities will help me deflate and perhaps even banish the ongoing pedal-delusion that
each pedal I can't afford can always do more than what I already have.

[Warpsmasher]

Eventide cable installed, big boy is up and running:


M9 is always fun with new fuzzes. Here are the drum & synth boards in front, metal shredders in the back:


...and this is a proline music stand with an old power supply velcro'd to the back:


I've got most of my pedals boarded up now, could probably do one or two more boards and still have enough leftovers to swap some things out from time to time.

[dubkitty]

that would work better than the folding end table i'm currently using for Stuff I Need To Use That Won't Fit On The Boards. i still need to figure out configuring the toy table when i want some stuff at the beginning of the chain and some at the very end. i prefer my dirt as far up front as possible, and my delays before the reverbs next to the end or actually at the end of the chain. i think i'll try the Memory Loss and SMMH at the tail end, where they'll mangle the entire reverbed signal. but the Höfner Fuzz and Guv'nor Plus have to go at the front because they're mild-mannered as far as my dirt array goes. i'm gonna need fucking circuit diagrams if i ever take the whole bi-amped 3-board setup out into the world. i've always needed a roadie or two, but never more than i do now.

i guess i need to put a small board together...i'm playing with some coworkers at a company function in May, and my big board is kind of impractical for playing in a rock band context. i'm thinking tuner, 2 dirts, something wonky that'll do flange and chorus (i'm thinking of the Ibanez CF7), a tremolo, and a reverb. there's not really a place for delay in 60s/70s rock. it's Nano time. i don't even think i have to bother with an isolated supply if i only have 6 pedals. i already have everything i'll need in back stock other than modulation, but i'd prefer to get another Ghost Echo because i love them to bits. my old Polytune. the Höfner or Guv'nor, something nuts like my White Spider, and the Fender Marjorie Taylor Greene Tube Tremolo. the trem is a power hog, but with everything else being low current draws i think it'll be OK.

one of the peculiarities of my job is that for years before COVID i used to play the semi-annual company picnics for years, usually with a pickup band consisting of two of my department heads on guitar and keys, another writer on drums who plays in like 6 bands here, and the bassist and female singer/rhythm guitarist from one of Charlie's Grateful Dead-adjacent bands. we generally play about 50-60% Dead stuff with assorted other covers. i'm probably the only person in America who's jammed out a 20-minute "Dark Star" at the company picnic. that was a particularly funny one...all we had was me on guitar, Charlie on bass (he works more as a bassist but prefers guitar, and played bass in the Skip Castro Band who had a video on MTV back in the 20th century), and Jim the drummer. we did well at power-trio Dead...a coworker told me we sounded more like the Dead than anyone he'd ever heard, which was kind of nice given that there were 3 of us and they usually numbered 6 or 7. for this event we're having Will Oldham's brother, who works in our department, play bass. i offered, but i think Charlie wants me on guitar.

[dubkitty]

seriously, do i need all this for a conventional rock band? i've never even turned on the phaser, delays, or ring mod in SongWorld. if i could find something affordable and simple that did chorus, flanging, and Univibe/Leslie i'd be a happy kitty. i don't know why this is the most recent board photo on the computer, but the Realizer only lasted a couple of days before the Catalinbread Soft Focus went back on and it was relegated to the front-end board as a stunt processor.

i think i've used perhaps 5 pedals at most in a band context (the Ghost Echo doesn't count because it's always on).

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[Jero]

if i could find something affordable and simple that did chorus, flanging, and Univibe/Leslie i'd be a happy kitty

Have you tried the EQD Aurelius?

[Gone Fission]

if i could find something affordable and simple that did chorus, flanging, and Univibe/Leslie i'd be a happy kitty

Have you tried the EQD Aurelius?

Or, for some values of affordable and simple, the Empress Nebulus (particularly used)? Sounds were pretty good but I moved it on to my brother because I’m trying not to have separate preset systems on everything. Which may factor in on whether it’s right for you.

[alexsga]

seriously, do i need all this for a conventional rock band? i've never even turned on the phaser, delays, or ring mod in SongWorld. if i could find something affordable and simple that did chorus, flanging, and Univibe/Leslie i'd be a happy kitty. i don't know why this is the most recent board photo on the computer, but the Realizer only lasted a couple of days before the Catalinbread Soft Focus went back on and it was relegated to the front-end board as a stunt processor.

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replace your tuner with a Rock Stock nano one and you can fit the softfocus back on

[coldbrightsunlight]

seriously, do i need all this for a conventional rock band? i've never even turned on the phaser, delays, or ring mod in SongWorld. if i could find something affordable and simple that did chorus, flanging, and Univibe/Leslie i'd be a happy kitty. i don't know why this is the most recent board photo on the computer, but the Realizer only lasted a couple of days before the Catalinbread Soft Focus went back on and it was relegated to the front-end board as a stunt processor.

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If I were just trying to play rock music this would melt my brain too much Your smaller idea (one or two dirts, modulation, trem, reverb) sounds great for Dead stuff or any 60s/70s rock. That's pretty much the most pedals I'd ever try to use live unless I were trying to do something complicated (and I am currently scheming up a board for this with a separate looper chain for one project... )

[friendship]

seriously, do i need all this for a conventional rock band? i've never even turned on the phaser, delays, or ring mod in SongWorld. if i could find something affordable and simple that did chorus, flanging, and Univibe/Leslie i'd be a happy kitty. i don't know why this is the most recent board photo on the computer, but the Realizer only lasted a couple of days before the Catalinbread Soft Focus went back on and it was relegated to the front-end board as a stunt processor.

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If I were just trying to play rock music this would melt my brain too much Your smaller idea (one or two dirts, modulation, trem, reverb) sounds great for Dead stuff or any 60s/70s rock. That's pretty much the most pedals I'd ever try to use live unless I were trying to do something complicated (and I am currently scheming up a board for this with a separate looper chain for one project... )

Personally I've never been able to mentally handle more than 6 effects.

Sometimes it's fun to start with one (or none) pedals and then add something only when you really, really want/need the sound.

[chuckjaywalk]

Finally getting good enough at patching to love the Moog Grandmother for what she is. I need to build a small all Boss pedalboard for the Grandmother and Yamaha CP-10 to share. Got a PH-2 for it, looking to add a BF-2, CH-1, and DD-5 or 6. Just some simple stuff to add interest to my primary keyboards.

[Blackened Soul]

Coming: 1989 ampeg svt-ii non pro

Amp got here, sounds awesome! Supposedly it was owned by Jason Narducy (Bob Mould, Superchunk, sunny day real estate) which if is cool if you those sort of bands.. have no fear though this will be implemented for heavier, doomier, funkier stuff

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[chuckjaywalk]

Coming: 1989 ampeg svt-ii non pro

Amp got here, sounds awesome! Supposedly it was owned by Jason Narducy (Bob Mould, Superchunk, sunny day real estate) which if is cool if you those sort of bands.. have no fear though this will be implemented for heavier, doomier, funkier stuff

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This makes us gear cousins, since I own a Reverend my first wife bought from Mac from Superchunk. It will forever be my favorite guitar.

[TheTransient]

Decided to sell my Illumine. Kinda feel like Neunaber fell off honestly. They were kinda cutting edge back when the V2 Stereo Wet came out, but now? All the algorithms on the Illumine basically sound the same, and there's really nothing special about it mode-wise. It's a boring pedal. An expensive, boring pedal. So lame... Still enjoying my Soft Focus though!

One the flip side, I've gone ham buying pedals lately. Boss RV-3, Boss PS-3, Black Sovtek Big Muff (which I have completely rewired for true bypass), DOD Death Metal, Digitech Death Metal, Danelectro Fab Tone, and I am on the verge of getting an older Boss CH-1 for my mini bass board for those 90s goth metal tones ala Peter Steele.

[the_bright_undead]

Just picked up a Blue Colander Soot fuzz, arrived from poland today. very wild octave destruction....the craziest octaves! i'm happily overwhelmed.
anybody else try any Blue Colander around here? I also have Juliusz' klon, the Fuxi. mine is bufferless and its my fav klone i've tried (the blammo Mr. Horse was also really great).