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December 10, 2008 at 8:19 pm in reply to: will there be contests? replacement t-shirt content #88891John JMember
Or a “where’s waldo” type of thing, take a picture with fifteen to twenty pedals or logos or portraits of Mike hidden throughout and first person to find them all wins.
John JMemberQuote:Quote:Quote:So next time you go to a music shop with the drummer, sneak a Graphic Fuzz in with the drumsticks, grip tape and metronome, drummers are a bit slow, he’ll think its a comb.Have Fun!
As a drummer who has USED the Graphic Fuzz in my drum setup, I find that statement OFFENSIVE and UNCALLED FOR.
But I did think the Graphic Fuzz was a comb right up until I got home…
(PS for what it’s worth, I’m down to just a Flanger Hoax on my drums now because gain pedals feedback like crazy on stage. BUT I have big plans for the Sixteen Second delay… perhaps tomorrow afternoon… And the Graphic Fuzz sits safely in my guitar chain.)
John JMemberIt’s a definite piece of studio magic in my eyes, especially for vocal panning, but I like it best on bass. Like this: Tube Zipper -> Phase 90 -> Stereo Pulsar -> DD-6. That’s my most common bass set up and it absolutely roars, now if only I had technique to match…
John JMemberQuote:I need a muff…They’re cheap! And I’m avoiding the obvious Muff/muff joke here, I mean it. For less than $100 CDN you can get a fantastic sounding fuzz. It’s nice to know that still happens!
John JMemberQuote:the flerb seems to be some kind of ring mod addition set to Bb, crazy noises but i dunno if i could ever use it practically???
The flerb should just add flange to the wet signal… It sounds great, it adds so much to the sound! The guitarist / bassist in my band (I play guitar and drums when we jam) uses the flerb almost exclusively and I love it.
John JMemberAs far as I can tell, the SCT is just a direct reissue of the original Clone Theory with surface mount components and stereo operation. It’s the BBD chips making the hiss so I can’t see any way of getting rid of it, but if you give it a little bit of time it will grow on you. In fact, the SCT replaced my Small Clone because I miss the added ‘dimension’ that the hiss adds!
The hiss shouldn’t be as noticeable when you’re playing, so all I can suggest is turning the pedal off when you’re not playing and learn to love the snow!
John JMemberYeah, that cave thing never works. Because it is boring to play and rarely supports the song.
He’s doing something right, at any rate. I’ve been playing drums close to six years now and I basically have come to realize that perfect drums are just plain boring to listen to.
John JMemberI really really dig yr. band, I’ve been trying to figure out ‘fuzzpunk’ myself these last few weeks but to no avail – it always comes out too funky. I really dig the sloppy drums, I’m not sure if that’s intentional or due to his own inabilities (it sounds totally punk), but either way it works perfectly. Your Hazarai-isms rival my own, and it’s always nice to find another HOG user, too – there’s so many rad settings in that box, it’s helpful to hear what other people are finding.
John JMemberI’ve never played a White Finger, but the Black Finger was the one pedal that improved my sound without fail. I hesitate to call it an effect; it’s certainly a stompbox, but there’s really not much ‘effect’ happening. I found it warmed up everything I played while still offering a strong attack, and it somehow managed to smooth my whole sound out without drastically altering anything. I can’t really describe it, actually, so I’ll just say this: I never turned mine off.
Also probably worth mentioning: When mine was still operational (I still have to get around to contacting EHX about that pot I broke), it earned me one of the excruciatingly few tonal compliments I’ve ever received that didn’t have the words ‘crazy’ or ‘gnarly’ in it.
John JMemberMy first twenty minutes with a Double Muff set off my imagination, I was planning on getting three of them and using them all in conjunction with each other. Of course, it was another two months before any local shops got them in and by that time I had calmed down a little.
That having been said, I still can’t get over how this is the only pedal I’ve ever used that actually sounds like there’s dirt in your amplifier.
Does the single hate buffers as much as the double?
John JMemberNice! I think the Muff may very well be my favorite bass overdrive out there, and it’s a seriously sweet piece of kit on guitar too! I’m confused, though – I seem to recall you had a Double Muff on the way?
John JMemberThanks for the link! I’ll have to ponder the foot controller, though. I’ve been finding it extremely easy to just use the sliders! As for the mod, I was incorrect when I described the pedal as ‘unused.’ It’s had one previous owner, who apparently had the pedal modified already. The mod is an invaluable addition, might I add!
I’ve finally found an easy excuse / plausible way to integrate a drum machine into my pedalboard; I always found my loops were far too imperfect with any other looper and usually lost time after just a few measures. If I was looping, I would have to do the guitar tracks first and overdub live drums using the loop to keep time. Now, I can just give’r and, theoretically, record an entire song straight to cassette, in one take. More on this tomorrow, when I get my amp, Graphic Fuzz and HOG back from Alex…
John JMemberWell I pulled the trigger on this badboy and I’m super happy I did. There’s so much going on, I’m not used to having a looper with more than thirty seconds available! Functionally, this is actually surprisingly similar to the Hazarai, although much more powerful and precise and MUCH easier to use on the fly. The click track helps out a ton when recording longer loops, although the only two ways I can see to record loops in a different time signature are either a) set it to >32 bars, use a drum machine set to the time signature you want and be precise when ending the loop or b) learn to count polyrhythmically against the click and figure out how many bars your imagined loop will work out to be.
I decided the extra looping power of the 2880, for MY purposes, wasn’t worth the loss of the sweep (ultra cool) or the delay mode (ultra cool). Adding to this, I only play in mono, so I figured there wasn’t much sense in dropping extra coin for something less useful for my particular applications. All in all, a huge success for EHX! Now, does anyone know where I can get a foot controller?
John JMemberQuote:Quote:Quote:I like my soul preacher, but I doubt it can do anything that you can’t do with the ‘fingers’ to be honest.If you’re turning down the input gain on the SP then you’re probably right, but I’ve got a Black Finger and a Soul Preacher and they’re completely different (before tweaking anything internally). The BF is a really warm, mellow compressor – the kind of thing I turned on and I instantly sounded better, but I always had a hard time placing why. It wasn’t a funky sound, it was just super smooth and totally rad. Mine’s in limbo right now because I’m an idiot and I was too rough with the ‘compress’ pot when I was trying to replace a cracked knob; I pulled the shaft right out of the pot and I’m not 100% sure where/how to get a replacement.
The Soul Preacher, on the other hand, is just what the name implies – a funky sonofagun, full of soul and spirit. It’s more like a Dynacomp than a studio compressor, and although it can do the ‘subtle + smooth’ thing really well, it seems all I can do when I dust mine off is turn the sustain way up and play the main riff to McCartney’s “Coming Up” over and over or pretend I know the first thing about country music. Not that I’m complaining, of course! I think the Soul Preacher has way more compressorial ‘range’ than the Fingers, but for me, it plays like an effect whereas the Black Finger played like a tonal upgrade.
November 5, 2008 at 4:32 am in reply to: Ideas for the next batch of diecast RI pedals and possible EHX pedals of the future. #87057John JMemberQuote:I completely understand why EHX has reissued their back catalog in the diecast enclosures, but I’m still a huge fan of the oversized bent steel enclosures.As much as I love the XO line, I’ll always have a soft spot for those big ol’ boxes of love. If you guys have the factory space, you should try to keep a few of the big ones around (ie Graphic Fuzz, Frequency Analyzer, Q-Tron, etc) and re-release them periodically like what you recently did with the Hot Tubes. Geeks like me would eat that up…
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