2025 2 LYFE ::FINGERS WAGGIN'::

[dubkitty]

i guess i like the weird number operators better than menus, but there went the space for your top jacks.

there may actually be such a thing as too many options. i could see having some, erm, analog presets worked out, but this seems more like a studio device than something you’d use live. not that it’d be a problem for me since i probably won’t play out much now.

but the $600 Question is, what’s the noise level? all that stuff in one big box could be a problem if it winds up being as noisy as a Rat or a Devi Ever unit.

<edit>well, the bias discussion clip answers the noise question. as he dials up the gain you can hear the white noise coming up to a truly obtrusive level. i’m just a picky little bitch when it comes to noise. probably wouldn’t bother me as much if i’d ever used a noise gate i liked.

[dubkitty]

There is a Black Falcon in the series . . .

indeed. if i was buying that would be my choice to modify. paradoxically, though black finishes show fingerprints and the like more than any other color black is also the easiest to conceal one’s work since color matching isn’t an issue. it would also be a shade less redundant than a second white one.

but if i’m spending $1600+ for an(other) archtop i want a jazzier one, a super-chonky Guild or Epiphone Broadway or something. i love the WF, but i still don’t like what i see as redundancy in my lineup. e.g. for me to buy another guitar with PAF-style humbuckers it would have to be exceptional and affordable because i already have three that cover the most common types (LP, SG, 335). i only have 2 Strats because they sound different enough to contrast.

[alexsga]

curious how much the EQD resembles the Tone Reaper

resembles the Dream Crusher very much!

the Tone Reaper i used to have before i sold it to the EQD Collector Guy.

whos the EQD collector guy?

[dubkitty]

there was a fellow whose collection got posted on a video when Stillman got it shown to him, so extensive that he has stuff Jamie doesn't even remember building. i had a rare grey (most were pink) Buzzaround (i forget what they called it) i wanted to flog so i contacted him. he snapped it and my big-box Tone Reaper right up. i told him about ILF and he posted in buy/sell looking for more. this must have been a couple of years ago by now. that was a nice little ping in the budget for two boxes i wasn't using any more.

[dubkitty]

i miss the days when something new would come out from the interesting builders who were around in the early days of ILF…the surprise factor, the neat things it’d do standard fare didn’t, and the sense of new possibilities afoot. nowadays there’s a million boutique builders with a billion different boxes but it’s hard to see anything that reaches me in the noise and dust. many builders, trying for market differentiation, pump up ancillary functions to the point of major features. many others make units so capable it’s hard to sort useable sounds out of the literal noise. and it seems like both the “sounds good” and “is peculiar” markets are glutted beyond enema-ization. is it me, or is it just too much now?

[dubkitty]

BTW the Roland Drum Computer of Death is €3699. not doable in my world. if i had to really, really care about crafting drum tracks i might be excited, but not 1.5 White Falcons worth of excited.

[alexsga]

curious how much the EQD resembles the Tone Reaper

resembles the Dream Crusher very much!

i had a rare grey (most were pink) Buzzaround (i forget what they called it) i wanted to flog so i contacted him. he snapped it and my big-box Tone Reaper right up

[dubkitty]

that’s an even bigger box than mine…that must have been very early. mine was the weirdly brick-shaped one the size of a taller Chase Bliss enclosure.

feeling mildly tempted i looked on Reverb, but i don’t miss the Reaper $300+ worth. all of them are the smaller MXR-sized enclosure. sorry, i can’t remember the different Hammond codes because i use them about once every 5 years. i think the Reaper was a 125 box?

[echorec]

Poly Trails

Explore sympathetic strings, granular textures, vinyl inspired delays, resonators, modulated vocal modelling, wavefolding and micro-looping.

Trails offers 7 easy to control, and inspiring modes in true stereo. Each mode has their own control parameters as each is a different ecosystem.

Onboard 8 step sequencer can animate all the controls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POJhuqpF ... cmFpbHM%3D Ambient Endeavors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EaOMoZt ... cmFpbHM%3D Mark Johnston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_z_Rbv ... cmFpbHM%3D Mike Hermans

Is this the first vinyl delay? I've seen several saturators and texture devices for pedals/DAW, but I can't recall a crackling looper. (Prairie mode)

some other sample modes:

Badlands - wavefolding and Chebyshev waveshaping
Coast - microlooper/ granular

https://www.polyeffects.com/polyeffects/p/trails
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/ ... online.pdf (all modes + their features)

[dubkitty]

in the interest of fairness, here's a video of the Synchromatic Falcons and Nashville and i have to say that they sound pretty accurate. the 6120 is tempting because the specs are different and it has a wispier tone.

https://youtu.be/qCd1mCszYNE

[alexsga]

i find this interface quite innovative the sounds i've heard i felt are not....then again we're almost running out of room to make innovative-sounding pedlols i think

[alexsga]

https://youtu.be/qCd1mCszYNE

these sound great - this is a new, more affordable Gretsch line?

[dubkitty]

an extension of the existing Synchromatic line, which till recently was largely made up of odd models like small-bodied archtops, to include tributes to these classic pro-line Gretsches.

naturally i noticed the guy on the left side of the screen playing with his thumb and bare fingers for the true Stephen Stills Falcon effect.

[dubkitty]

i had the opposite reaction to the Poly Trails…i found some of the sounds interesting but don’t trust the longevity of that touch-sensitive interface (i can’t really call it a touchscreen because it appears to be more of a switch array under a blanket). and like many recent odd-sounds devices it really seems more suited to a tabletop than a board unless you’re sitting on the floor. not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with that.

one reason i was so happy about the new Fuzzhugger stuff is that like many of Tom’s designs they’re something different to what’s common currency nowadays. it does seem like even the experimental pedals now are variations on 3- to 5-year-old themes.

[dubkitty]

new Catalinbread Proto Club series release, by far the most interesting so far to me. it's called the Pads, and was apparently inspired by an effect on a Tame Impala track. it combines reverb, chorus, and square-wave tremolo. sounds pretty good, but i have to ask: why do i need this when i already have chorus, reverb, and square-wave tremolo?

https://youtu.be/YJKW6Zw-sfk?si=xA1J7tJ3nrg149b-