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andvari7ParticipantQuote:12AY7 Mic Pre = cup of tea….
….well it rhymes anyway. :freak:
We said menu, not Cockney slang.
andvari7ParticipantBassballs – A sour cream and dumpling soup. Why? Two reasons: A. Heavy, round, and an acquired taste, and B. It’s got some Russian flavor to it. Only someone from the Eastern bloc, a nutritional anthropologist, a legitimate nutcase, or any combination of the three would ever eat it, especially since it is a cold soup.
Q-Tron – Roasted breast of duck, atop a vinegary salad of arugula, spinach and carrots. Reason: ducks quack, and that is the most unlikely candidate for the best meal ever to have existed.
Deluxe Octave Multiplexer – An eight-layer dessert: 1. Shortbread, 2. Sour cream/powdered sugar/Drambuie, 3. crushed Graham crackers, 4. honey/mascarpone cheese, 5. angel-food cake, 6. strawberry compote, 7. cocoa powder, 8. chopped pistachios
And I’ll have to think of something to call fishsticks and custard. I’d call it the Amy Pond, but this is about EHX, and I don’t have the heart to make bad jokes about Karen Gillan (of whom I have become quite fond over the course of this season). I’ve got it: it’s the White Finger.
Seriously, the White Finger can also be a drink – buttermilk and 151-proof rum.
Bless you, ants. Blants.
andvari7ParticipantI hope that’s sarcasm, because the white type is barely legible. It strains my eyes to read this website. I would prefer a white background with black type.
June 22, 2010 at 11:15 pm in reply to: order all the EHX pedals you’ve owned from favorite to least favorite #109740andvari7ParticipantQuote:I have never purchased an EHX pedal that didn’t make me want to buy another, but here goes nothing:Q-Tron (the big box)
Stereo Polychorus
Bass Micro Synth (the big box)
Big Muff (black Russian)
Deluxe Electric Mistress
Small Stone (black Russian)
Bassballs (black Russian)
LPB-1 (Nano)I’m going to add a HOG.
Wow, eighteen months really changes a man. I now have some different ideas as to what is cool:
1. Q-Tron (it’s better than yours)
2. Big Muff (green Sovtek)
3. BMS
4. DEM
5. Stereo Polychorus
6. Small Stone (the same one as before, except that I no longer have it)
7. Stereo Clone Theory (which was traded for a vintage Roland Jazz Chorus amp, so I’m the winner)
8. Small Clone (modded, and not in an ideal way)
9. Big Muff (which was sold to a TalkBass denizen, modded to Civil War spec, and flipped again)
10. Big Muff (a duplicate of 9, which went towards a rather good-quality, if a bit boring, Fulltone Clyde Deluxe)
11. Bassballs (same as it ever was)
12. LPB-1 (once I figured out why my signal was weak, I had no more need for it, and it went towards my ring modulator, at the most expensive damn guitar shop I’ve ever encountered)andvari7ParticipantI use a Roland JC-55. It is probably not powerful enough for bass signals, but it sounds fine to me – I need a quieter practice amp that I can crank. I bought it for one reason: that chorus. There is NO other chorus in the world that sounds like the Roland Jazz Chorus series, and I actually prefer the lower-watt amps to the 120, because although I cannot get a vibrato-only setting, I can adjust the rate of the chorus on the 55. I think it works well with the normally uncooperative (in a good way) Polychorus.
andvari7ParticipantI would like to see EHX build a wah that incorporates the following features, in no order of priority:
1. As long a physical sweep as those old Tel-Ray Morleys
2. LDR/LED, as opposed to a pot, again like those Morleys
3. Tweakable, if that makes sense
4. More reliable than those old Tel-Ray Morleys, which, from what I understand, cannot be destroyed
5. A cool name
6. Possibly a twin-inductor-equivalent that will make that ‘wah’ thing workandvari7ParticipantIt took me all day to register, and the layout is cumbersome at best. Since I only went for trading purposes, I’m now on the lookout for a new effect pedal trading website.
andvari7ParticipantI’m normally not a greedy man, but I do want the following:
EHX Stereo Polyphase, expression pedal
EHX HOG, footswitch, expression pedal
Tech 21 Blonde
Tel-Ray Morley PWB Power Wah Boost
Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator, expression pedal
Possibly the EHX Memory Boy, but I’d have to try one firstandvari7ParticipantWhere are you people finding these things? I’m not about to go on eBay, and buy a pedal without trying it first. Not again. Even if that is how I bought a large percentage of my pedals. Anyway, the shops in my area, and I’ll bet the Chicago Music Exchange, don’t carry them, and I want to try one before I plunk down $90 on one, even though I probably will anyway. If it can do the earthquake-making bit my Carbon Copy can, I might just be able to offer up enough collateral for a Stereo Polyphase.
andvari7ParticipantThe Mold Spore is a cool-sounding pedal (not as good as the Moog, but for what it is, it’s not bad), but all Snarling Dogs products will fall apart within five minutes of owning them. Jeff Beck either has a brilliant guitar tech, or has six million of these things.
andvari7ParticipantSo, what will happen when they run out of that chip? This is something that will inevitably happen, so best we address it early.
andvari7ParticipantIt’s companies like EHX, and their vast array of noisy, aluminum boxes that make life sound so wonderful, that make up for my lack of social life. To quote Henry Rollins: “My girlfriend asked me which one I liked better. Well, I hope the answer won’t upset her.”
andvari7ParticipantWhat’s not to understand? An OD tries to do that tube-distortion-clipping-thing. There’s a better, more technical explanation out there (I think the guy who designed the Polychorus has a better explanation on his website), but that’s what it’s for. A Big Muff does more of a fuzz thing. I think it was supposed to sound like Hendrix’s later sound (he did test some prototypes in ’69, but died before the proper Big Muff was released in ’70). Feeding the latter into the former makes noise. Lots of crazy noise. Desired by some, despised by others.
Me? I loves me some Big Muff. Black Russian goes into my VT Bass, which does it right for me. I also have an Octavia clone (I won’t name brands, save for the fact that Chicago Iron DOES NOT make it, and it’s made in the US), the OD on my Boss Rotary Ensemble, and I guess my BMS. They all have some dirt to them. Not exactly overdrive proper, but I like them, and that’s what counts.
andvari7ParticipantAs far as I know, the new Q-Tron is analog. The Stereo Memory Man W/Hazarai, HOG, POG, POG2, Micro POG, Stereo Electric Mistress, and the Holy Grail series are digital – I am certain of that. I’m not certain if the Holy Stain is digital, but I think some of the effects contained within are. The Voice Box has to be digital – if it isn’t, I will be beyond impressed, and will be forced to try it (and possibly buy it).
I’ve heard that some of these new XO pedals not only sound different, but undesirably so, even if they’re analog. However, I’m not convinced this is true – I’ll have to check out an XO BMS, an XO Q-Tron, and an XO whatever-other-old-school-EHX-pedal-they’ve-reissued-that-I-also-own-but-can’t-remember, and give you a more informed opinion.
In conclusion: If you can find an old Q-Tron for a better price than a new one, or vice-versa, GET IT BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
andvari7ParticipantEvery Sunday, we would clean our house. My parents, who had wired a really good stereo system throughout the house, would put on any number of records. I seem to remember loads of Zappa, Dan Fogelberg, the obligatory Beatles albums (Sgt. Pepper’s…), and Steely Dan. So, music was played in our house all the time. I first learned to play an instrument (my brother’s viola) at the age of seven, and two years later, I joined the school orchestra on cello. Around that time, my brother got a MIM Fender J-Bass, and I learned how to play that, too. Fast-forward fifteen or so years, and I’m still as into music as I have ever been.
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