MaxMaps wrote:
Every time I think I need a Fancy pedal board I look at this and go
Such a stellar collect of sounds - I have major Gas for the Nemesis Delay. Curious to know what your thoughts are on Op Amp Big Muff
Thanks!
Yeah, as much as I like to think I need a ton of pedals at my feet, I probably just don't have the creativity or talent to make good use of something that's not a dirt pedal, a delay, or a no frills modulation pedal. Less option anxiety, less shit that can break, less impedance/noise/power/whatever issues to worry about. Not to mension my big board weighs a ton, and barely fits in my car when I've also got my half stack and two guitars with me.
The Op Amp muff kinda fits the same"less is more approach" I guess. The love/hate thing I had with muffs was mainly about trying to make the muff do stuff it's not made for (i.e. cutting through a mix, and sounding open and clear and super gainy at the same time). So after trying half a dozen or so boutique/vintage muffs, I made my peace with the big muff and found out I don't even need a full eq or "pre-gain" control or any other bells and wistles. Op Amp, Triangle, Ram's head, Russian...that whole line of ehx "reissues" is ligit imo. The Op Amp version with the gain dimed and the tone switched off just stuck out for me. Classic muff tones, but without the ice picky grainy character of the NYC version or the overbearing boomyness of a Sovtek muff. Also sounds awesome with the gain at around 2 o'clock, with a more bass heavy overdrive behind it.
Really impressed with the Nemesis. My main worry was that the user interface and the Neuro app would be too complicated and intimidating. I was a bit suspicious, a pedal so small with that many sounds and parameters...Just seemed too good to be true, it HAD to be a nightmare to tweak and save presets. But it's surprisingly intiutive to mess with, and the different sounds just ticked all my VERY particular boxes, stuff I'd otherwhise need 5 seperate delay pedals for. Tap tempo, Purty reverse, convincing tape/bbd emulation with lotsa tone tweaking options, clear digital delay, sweep delay similar to that of the DL4, a non-cheesy shimmer'ish type mode,...And the filter took me by surprise. Somehow missed that when watching demos and reading reviews. Love the fixed wah type setting. Sooner or later I'll hook up an expression pedal and see how that works out. Filter + expression pedal is as close as I'll ever come to really liking wah, it's like the less douchy/campy/dadrock version of wah imo
Avoid it if you need a looper mode, or a p&w type of shimmer mode. Don't know how the Nemesis compares to a Timeline, Time Factor, DD500, Echo System,...But I kinda had to rule those out based in price and size.
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