well a few days ago i was wondering… what would be my ideal pedalboard…

i’m not a hardcore EHXer… i’d still keep my Boss PH-2 and Visual sound jekyll/hyde… but in addition to my pedals as i have them now, i want a HOAX, HOG or a micro synthesizer and Cathedral reverb…

and then EHX comes with such an awesomeness as the Deluxe memory boy is… so now i want pedals in the aproximate cost of 1000 dollars… yuck… you guys are making me mad

let’s hope it’ll be reasonably priced… i’d love it if it’d be priced quite close to the SMMH – around 200 dollars

I believe it’s going to be about $175 street price.

strange thing is that when i thought about my super-board, any other brands didn’t come to my mind… only EHX… damn, i’m hooked on EHX

brianeharmonjr – oh yeah, that’d be awesome! thanks for the info

i would expect it to be similar to a DMM – designed for adjusting your levels (or overloading your amp if you so desire). but who knows? that would be pretty neat if it had a built in fuzzbox.

also: the diamond memory lane is an analog delay with tap tempo; it’s an all analog signal path with digitally controlled business happening in there somewhere. but that guy’s like $600, whereas the memory boy deluxe is not. im not sure that the memory lane has the same amount of control over modulation parameters, but it has very rare and expensive BBD chips on the inside.

the older version i played was comparable in quality to a DMM, although there was no mistaking one for the other: the memory lane is cleaner and has less tonal character but is very very warm and very very nice nonetheless. it sounded very expensive, let’s put it that way. im not sure how the memory lane 2 sounds, but i can definitely understand someone preferring the less grittymagical memory lane over the very grittymagic DMM. just not me, or likely most of the cats on this here forum.

im anticipating the DMB will be very very gritty.

EDIT: upon further investigation, this thing is a memory lane killer – flat out. kudos to ehx for letting you select which parameters the expression pedal controls, and the modulation waveform control. also the memory lane 2 only offered dotted eighth, whereas the DMB has several intervals. i doubt anyone will have too many qualms with the inevitably lo-fi sound when a $200 analog delay offers this many options.

EDIT EDIT: see for yourselves: http://www.diamondpedals.com/products/memorylane_2.html
it seems the memory lane 2 is going out of production, anyways, so ehx has the market cornered.

zvex is basically the only pedal company that’s as cool as ehx. they just launched that online store, too, and the temptation to order a fuzz probe is mind-boggling. all of his pedals sound great but some of them sound intentionally bad, like the machine or the loop junky. so when i say ‘great’ i mean ‘great if that’s your thing and if you can afford it because even his silkscreened stuff is $200+.’

there’s just something special about having a woolly mammoth with serial # K0Z0 1 of 1 that you cant beat with anything mass produced. but seriously, it’s like $350+ for the handpainted pedals.

Yeah, Catalinbread, Barber, Subdecay, and Mid-Fi are all pretty cool. There are others too, of course.

yeah i spoke a little too soon… so allow me to restate:

zvex is one of the few pedalmakers as cool as ehx.

they have really cool sounding pedals, like the wooly mammoth and the ooh wah. but unfortunately, they are like $350

I just got one a few weeks ago, and its a really great sounding fuzz. and its really fun to use the theremin on it.