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conky wrote:When you guys play around with different dirt pedals are you trying to get them all to sound exactly like the tone in your head (as in your main tone) or do you just see what nice sounds are in there and go with that? Seems like when I first has a Badascan I dug it, but I really didn't use it because I was into more amp distortion that was tight and chuggy at the time. I eventually sold it because I felt like there was a ton of overlap with it and the Pharaoh and I wasn't even using my Pharaoh that much. Just got assface's Badascan in the mail and noticed myself trying to immediately dial in the tone I have with my Quantum Mystic. Anyway, it got me wondering what everyone's approach to trying out new dirt pedals is.

The more I play in this group I'm with now (I hesitate to call it a "band" but we're getting there), the more I find myself trying to get a particular sound that puts me in a particular part of the live mix. Granted I haven't been buying and flipping every option under the sun, but I have tried a few things that just didn't stick and finally found something just about right. Could it be done with a plethora of other devices? More than likely. I'm glad I started looking more at the circuit designs of different things, as that actually helped MORE than just hearing a couple of sound clips. Versatility is always a wonderful thing IMO, but most of the "versatile" pedals I've owned in the past didn't have that "one" thing. Dialed in to you first, versatility second.

On the topic of what constitutes a useful/TOANZ/practical amp, since beginning to really get into dirt, I find the amp needs less distortion and more control over the voicing/eq/whatever. My AORs sound pretty aggressive straight in, but having a useable clean sound has always been important to me, which made having a distorted "base" tone less useful overall. I could probably get along with just about anything that shares DNA with the JCMs/Bassman style amps. Even if that amp is factory made overseas and only serviceable by a full replacement. It does what it does, right?

conky wrote:Florida doods. We liked your state so much that we're going back on a week long run this spring. Lets hook up and do some shows together (or at least hang out).

What parts of Florida? I'm not local there, but I may be able to swing a roadtrip out if you guys aren't playing in the deep of the pan handle.

I finally got to see bongripper and it killed. If you guys wanna check it out:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHCTrsaYDzk[/youtube]

Fucking dope ass sludgy noise rock ahead:

UGHHHHHHHH:
http://lambunlimited.bandcamp.com/album/dissent

GUHHHHHHH (really really NSFW album art don't click this if you are at work or around other humans):
http://handshakeinc.bandcamp.com/album/ ... as-a-woman

Lol Ryan.

Also thank you sam and ancient and everyone through my time of grief.

so far no response all of a sudden from the fuck on ebay. I guess I'll just escalate it now I don't feel like waiting.

Whoah, I guess our release on STB is up for Pirates Press record of the year! If you have facenet, I would be highly stoked if you could please click 'Like' on this photo so we can win some postcard flexi records. Thank you for your time

'Like'

Likeified.

.......... in Seattle. I am stoked.

HeavyXIII wrote:
What parts of Florida? I'm not local there, but I may be able to swing a roadtrip out if you guys aren't playing in the deep of the pan handle.

Right now its looking like Tallahassee, Gainesville, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville. That route will probably change a million times though before its all booked.

Before bed last night I watched this

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=judWB4Bn-3c[/youtube]

and then checked the forums before going to bed. Well, somehow I had an Inception moment and I was dreaming that I was watching a misheard lyric video of Whores "Baby Bird". It was awesome but from now on out when I listen to that album I will always hear Christian singing

"I HAVE THESE.... TERRIBLE JEANS!!!! FELL ON MY ASS ... SPLIT RIGHT AT THE SEAM!!!"

I, for one, am mightily stoked that we are finally getting us some Who-ahhs on the west coast. And w/ Retox no less- shit's gonna be crazy

i realized that pedal shit last jam
im using the OCD/philosopherstone
to sound almost exactly the badascan
gotta face facts here
its the best fuggin dirt pedal ever
i ended up lowering the gain on the ocd
i wanted that blood red coven so bad
whoever got it let me know when you're done

assface jackson wrote:I, for one, am mightily stoked that we are finally getting us some Who-ahhs on the west coast. And w/ Retox no less- shit's gonna be crazy

Oh snap, I'm on the list too.

Can anyone give me some effect loop advice? I tried out the effects loop on my Orange CR120 and ran into something weird. I ran the loop through a chorus, delay, and reverb. At first, everything seemed fine but then I encountered a problem. It seemed whenever the chorus or reverb pedals were on, there was a huge tone suck in the gain of the amp. Didn't sound pretty. This problem did not occur if just the delay pedal was on. When the pedals in front of the amp I don't have this problem.

I figured it might be something wrong with the power supply or the cables I was using, or maybe even the pedals themselves. I ran out of time to test further but I thought I might see what you guys think.

Krosis wrote:Can anyone give me some effect loop advice? I tried out the effects loop on my Orange CR120 and ran into something weird. I ran the loop through a chorus, delay, and reverb. At first, everything seemed fine but then I encountered a problem. It seemed whenever the chorus or reverb pedals were on, there was a huge tone suck in the gain of the amp. Didn't sound pretty. This problem did not occur if just the delay pedal was on. When the pedals in front of the amp I don't have this problem.

I figured it might be something wrong with the power supply or the cables I was using, or maybe even the pedals themselves. I ran out of time to test further but I thought I might see what you guys think.

I was borrowing a friend's Matchless the other day and my tremolo was causing the same issue in the loop. Maybe it has something to do with the impedance of the loop and the pedal's output?

This is what I was thinking /\

Orange is infamous for problems with their effects loops and the way they go about incorporating them into the circuit. The original 70's Orange amps loops are completely unusable, they were designed for an outboard reverb unit that never got produced if I remember correctly and nothing else worked correctly in them.