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Quote:Can you possibly also do video? :poke:
I would if i had the necessary equipment. A webcam would probably have worked well enough for video demos, i used to have one somewhere but i’m not sure where it’s gone :S
Small clone is my chorus of choice – it’s what turned me onto EHX in the first place. I remember going into the shop i get all my gear from looking for a chorus pedal for a specific sound which was a lush, shimmering, heavenly chiming sort of sound, and if it wasn’t for the fact i’d spotted the small clone hidden away behind a stack of line 6 pedals (because i asked to try out the line 6 chorus) that they’d forgotten they had, i’d never have found that sound
Distortion pedals aren’t designed to go in the FX loop – they are designed to take a dry guitar signal, crunch it up into the distorted sound, so the amp’s preamp stage can round off the edges and make it sound like a distorted guitar.
It’ll be difficult to get a sound like the EHX demo because it sounds to me like they are using a very expensive british voiced tube amp (65amps soho???) with a slight bit of natural overdrive which is adding to the sound of the pedal somewhat, but that doesn’t mean to say you won’t get a good sound – as julian said, if you’re struggling to get any definition amongst all the fuzz, roll back the sustain knob a little – it can work wonders, i have mine at 8 o’clock (Very low) on my NYC muff. Although i’m sure you’ll notice you’re much closer to the sound you hear on online demos by simply having the pedal in front of the amp
Quote:On the proguitarshop.com demo the bass boost was a bass boost… Strangei don’t know how old this one is, maybe they’ve changed it? or was it the nano Q you saw a demo of? anyway, when you flick the switch up you lose a lot of bass and get a very screechy sound (it’s a cool sound effect, though not very musical), but when it’s switched down it’s a pretty well balanced sound. Maybe mine’s just ‘special’
anyway, i apologise for the darkness of this pic, but here’s my current board…
you might notice that i STILL don’t have an actual board. It will cost about £100 but i’d like to get a large case to just put them all in in that current arrangement. i need at least 80 x 50 cm though lol.
edit: i also appear to have cut off the right hand side, but you can still just about see everything.
Because of the word ‘flanger’ i seem to have overlooked the hoax until now (i’m not a fan of flangers for some reason), but now i definitely want to check it out
Quote:So, how’s the Nobles Pre? Nice and all?
And do you use the doctor q with the bass boost on?The bass boost is actually a bass cut
The nobels pre does exactly what it promises – boosts. It’s like a lot of other boosts in the way that it also manages to add an incredible amount of clarity that you often lose by having lots of FX with dodgy bypass (or too much true bypass and not enough good quality buffers, as my case may be). It really has fixed the problems with humbuckers sounding mushy and muddy through my rig, too. It’s a godsend, although i can’t help but think the LPB-1 would do exactly the same for cheaper – minus a simple 2 band EQ which is useful for rolling off harsh treble and rumbly bass where needed.
ah. Well, i bought the Doctor Q today
(along with my long awaited nobels preamp boost). I use the Dr. Q to add an extra something to distorted solos, as it kinda allows you to control the harmonic response – i also use the nobels to boost if i want a distorted rhythm tone from my pedals as well as just having them on for solos. I’m really impressed by the vast improvement a simple auto-wah/signal boost has made to my setup. My new improved board pic will be uploaded as soon as i’ve taken a pic hehe.
