we can’t get it in the UK yet i don’t think ah well, i can wait – i wouldn’t be able to buy one until i’ve paid off the money i owe for a Fender Jazzmaster
I don’t feel the need to post a pic of mine because it’s the recent USA reissue muff, everybody knows what that looks like if i get an opportunity though, i will anyway hehe.
Mine tends to make a crackly and scratchy noise when the sustain is turned up to full, but it’s dead silent with the sustain at less than halfway.
It could also be due to an earthing problem with some of the mains sockets in my house which just happen to be the ones my VC30 amp and pedals are powered from. these have been needing to be rewired for a long time – i’m well aware that this is potentially dangerous :doh:
I run a Big Muff into an overdriven amp and don’t get any noise at all with humbuckers – of course, lots of noise is to be expected with single coils due to the signal boost amplifying the single coil hum, but i get no additional noise from mine – unless of course i turn the sustain up high – i have it at about 8 o’clock 😆
Pedal order is always an interesting topic. Especially for effects noobs such as myself. I rearranged my board last night again and am much happier with the results.
The interesting epiphany last night was the Phaser/Flanger split. Phaser before dirt, but Flanger after delay. That way your dirt doesn’t get over powered by the phaser. And Flanger after delay is just a preference, so I can have flanged delays.
I have my small stone in front of the amp but after the dirtboxes, usually. Most of my overdrive always comes from the amp – i might try it in front of my dirtboxes and compressor to see if i prefer it there though
i posted this over at Harmony Central but some of the kids there didn’t appreciate it… 😥
it seemed like a good idea at the time… didn’t it Simon?! :facepalm: 😆
i’ll take a ‘proper’ picture of my real boards (with EHX content) soon. :thumb:
the unmarked pedal is a GGG Rat, the Batman pedal is a BYOC Rat. :rawk:
I don’t understand why people wouldn’t appreciate that. Clearly each have their differences (i even notice that the duplicate RAT 2 has an extra switch), and its good to be able to select between variations of the same distortion to suit different songs – I’ve heard J Mascis does this with his Big Muffs.
Bernard Sumner (guitar/keyboards) and Peter Hook (Bass) of Joy Division/New Order both may have used EHX Clone theorys for their chorus sounds, throughout the Joy Division days at least. On guitargeek, it says “unknown chorus pedal” but joydiv.org claims its a clone theory, for both.
Does anyone know how much this will cost in the UK? or is the RRP currently “TBC”?
Definitely interested in getting myself one, as i’ve always wanted to bypass the tone control on my Big Muff just to see how it sounds, because i’m the kind of person who likes my distortion tones to simply distort the signal rather than adjust the tone of it and allow the amp to do the rest, and i’ve always thought it could do with a high-end boost too. Seems like somebody has been reading my mind
Well my keyboard rig currently just consists of a cheapy yamaha sampler keyboard run direct in the PA from the line out, i’ve never thought of experimenting with it much, but you’ve just given me some ideas
Not sure if this is the appropriate thread to post this but tubezipper reminded me in another thread about the Electro Harmonix drum machine that was available in the past – I know Andy Partridge of XTC has mentioned that he used one for laying down drum tracks at some point (they had no drummer from 1983 onwards, and i must say, a bad time to lose your drummer, with all these cheesey sounding 1980s synths around 😆 ), although i’m not sure if these recordings made it to any commercial recordings.
Having only 2 bassists at college is problematic when we’re all put into 5 separate temporary bands to perform setlists – it means some guitarists are told to play bass, or the bass players have to learn more songs than they can manage and it gets in the way of group rehearsals when the bassist is with his other group.
It is interesting to see the responses regarding fenders – and oddly enough melx, i do have very small hands 😆