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im shocked to see this! not only did humbuckers top the pickups poll, but not many people like trem bars?
not what i would have expected.
John JMemberQuote:Off-topic: What (decently priced) overdrives would you recommend to stack with the Big Muff for a gilmouresque sound?i’ve had disappointing results with tube screamers as the combination just gets too muddy with my setup, but i know people who swear by the ‘BM->TS’ so it may be worth checking one out. also, this site may be of interest.
if ehx were to start issuing artist models, they would have to do an awful lot of artist models… dean ween microsynth, david gilmour electric mistress, j. mascis big muff, the edge DMM, cobain chorus, jack white pog, and the list goes on.
that being said, if they were to release identical issues of the different ’70s muffs (much like mxr with the ’74 phase 90 and the ’76 dynacomp) i would be all over it. actually im sure most everybody would be, although the big muff with tone wicker sounds incredible and apparently the bass big muff is designed pretty similar to the old green sovtek big muff so they may be making a step in the ‘old muff’ direction anyways.
John JMemberif you turn the symmetry knob so that it fades out slightly quicker than it fades in, you get a really subtle choppiness that sounds (to my ears) identical to the fender twin. adjust depth & rate to taste (i found that the twin sounded best with shallower, faster settings) and you’ve got it
John JMemberit would be nice to have the clean boost as well as the fuzz, i too was disappointed that they didnt add the second footswitch when they xo’d it. and even though that addition DOES technically ‘defeat’ the purpose of using the graphic fuzz with your amp, it would be way more valuable for direct-in recording if you could sculpt your cleans with the EQ then just click on the distortion when you need it. so there are two benefits that i can think of, but replacing a flick switch with a footswitch usually isn’t a terrible chore – aside from having to drill the chassis.
John JMemberi haven’t any experience with the surf trem, but the Stereo Pulsar beats the Twin Reverb Tremolo (“Vibrato”) by a mile. or at least i think so.
if you adjust the symmetry properly, you can nail the twin tremolo. on most settings i actually found the pulsar to be preferable when it comes to ‘amplike tremolo,’ the triangle wave is smoother than anything on any amp ive ever played and it gives you the ability to get the sound thats in your head so long as you’re willing to work for it. my only complaint is how touchy it is; you’re never more than a nudge away from something wild. also: extreme settings yield a minor volume drop, although it’s way less drastic than the boss tremolo and it’s only present on really deep depth settings.
i ended up getting rid of it and getting a wiggler instead, which is the MOST amplike tremolo out there. the tremolo is a smoother triangle wave than the twin, which i like, and the ACEY vibrato is identical to the vox tremolo. you sacrifice some versatility but the wiggler does most of the ‘normal’ stuff the pulsar can do and it’s way easier to get the sound you’re after.
if all you’re after is normal tremolo tones, it’s worth checking both out – the pulsar is cheap, potentially crazy and it can do the fender thing to a tee; the wiggler offers basically every modulation effect you would hear on records released before 1974 and it’s way less touchy.
hope it helps!
John JMemberQuote:Hi, i know it may be a bit early to ask this ,but i like to know if the Deluxe Memory Boy will sound more like the Memory Boy(same chips inside?),especially the modulation/chorus/vibrato, or if it uses the same chips like the Deluxe Memory Man and therefore sounds more or same like him?I ask this because im not sure if i should wait for the Deluxe Memory Boy, or better go now for the Original Deluxe Memory Man, which sounds like heaven to me!
I own the Memory Boy, and i like it very much too, but the Modulation section is not as fine (to adjust) as i heard from the DMM…
it’s a bit early to say for sure, but i feel pretty confident that it will have the same chips as the memory boy.
John JMemberyeah i spoke a little too soon… so allow me to restate:
zvex is one of the few pedalmakers as cool as ehx.
John JMemberQuote:dude, ive seen some zvex stuff before in musiciansfriend catalog, but i just went to their website, and they have some really cool lookin pedals. i dont know if they all sound good, but they have a really cool selection. you should all check it out. http://store.zvex.com/#1zvex 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.
John JMemberoh shoot! yeah i should specify: diamond is a semi-boutique* pedalmaker along the lines of fulltone, selling pedals that sound spectacular but are rather unadventurous.
*i may have just made up this term, but it means a boutique company who has gotten so big that it now distributes to larger chains like long & mcquade. fulltone, zvex’s silk screened pedals and robert keeley all fit this bill.
John JMemberQuote:hey, im wonderin on the dmb, whats the gain gonna be like? how close to a germanium od or big muff?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.John JMemberoh you got me! god i love internet grammar
John JMemberhey friedjesse, commas are not traditionally used to separate sentences or to precede a list (passive voice). also, periods sometimes go at the end of sentences and apostrophes usually signify abbreviations (active voice).
just kidding, this is the internet.
PS: hey john, sometimes capital letters go on proper nouns and at the beginnings of sentences. just kidding!
John JMemberthis is obviously not ideal, but if you run a clean booster after the flanger hoax and put it in an effects loop it works wonders. the only pain is that you have to adjust the boost volume depending on the hoax settings and it might take a while to find unity gain, but you would have the same problem if the volume knob was built in to the hoax anyways.
the obvious advantage to this method is that you have full control over the preamp you’re using, so aside from having to add a TB loop to your board, there’s no necessary compromise in sound quality.
John JMembernice to know i wasnt the only one silently celebrating!
John JMemberQuote:Tube Zipper (anyone tried this on bass?)I don’t run the ‘bassiest’ setup so i can’t tell you if you lose alot of low-end, but i thought the zipper sounded great on bass. it’s like the q-tron’s monster cousin, although i found it to be a tad silly with the distortion turned up much. of course, that’s just my ears – it actually sounded like too many effects on the same instrument, even though it was just filter and distortion. tough to explain, but you may feel differently.
if you turn the resonance all the way up on a q-tron, the wah effect is about as pronounced as the tube zipper with the resonance at half (roughly speaking) so depending on how thick you like your filter, the zipper could be ideal for you. my one complaint is that the trill mode acted a little strange on bass… i’m not the greatest bassist and my dynamics are a little spotty, which probably had something to do with it.
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