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Kevin DemuthMember
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Kevin DemuthMemberQuote:As you can tell by the title, this thread is going to be about drone doom…😆 I actually didn’t get that from the title; I clicked on the thread out of curiosity to see what it was about.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) I have no idea what ‘drone doom’ is, so I’m afraid I can’t help.
Kevin DemuthMemberBroken Records – Let Me Come Home
Kevin DemuthMemberQuote:Damn… so busy with the site that I missed thisShame on you! 😆
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Kevin DemuthMemberKeeping it simple:
Early 90s Rat 2 -> DMM -> Boss PN-2
(Peterson StroboFlip tuner)Kevin DemuthMemberEvery Maxon pedal I’ve used has been centre negative, I think…
Maxon OD-820?
9/10v ONLY, centre-negative.
Kevin DemuthMemberInteresting. :thumb:
Looks quite cool… I’ve been looking at picking up a DM for a little while, but I think I’ll still go for the old-style one.
Kevin DemuthMemberQuote:i would say to put it at the end of your signal chain, since it’s technically a looper. If you just think about it, whatever effects in front of it, it will loop, and the effects after, will effect the loop.That’s exactly why I’d put it before other effects.
As the Freeze only loops such a short section of audio, i.e. freezes the sound, I don’t really see why you’d want to freeze the output from a chorus/phaser/tremolo/delay etc. in most cases…Fwiw, I tend to run at least a couple of effects after my conventional looper pedals too.
Kevin DemuthMemberQuote:thinking of the interaction between em all, i think it should be just before a distortionI thought that too, but I’d have to try it first…
Running a frozen loop plus direct playing through a distortion/od/fuzz may result in a messy sound.
Kevin DemuthMemberQuote:I would have it right after the distortion/OD pedals. But that’s just me.I haven’t used a Freeze yet, but I think that’s what I’d do too…
With effects such as the Freeze, it seems to me that most of the fun would be had running it through other effects…
a static, frozen sound doesn’t seem that interesting to me, but if you had it running through modulation/delay/etc it would sound really cool.September 19, 2010 at 10:45 am in reply to: Whats the deal with puting tubes in a guitar pedal? #111498Kevin DemuthMemberQuote:I’ve read all of this thread so I may as well stick my 2p in as I think my personal taste is backwards from most people. …. being that I prefer distorted sounds from solid state technology and when I’m playing clean guitar sounds I prefer valve amps. Everyone seems to go on about ‘tube distortion’ but to me I can get much nicer overdrive/distortions from either SS pedals with a valve amp or a SS amp. Tube overdrive always seems a bit ‘unbalanced’ and messy to me, I can get much tighter, balanced and saturated guitar sounds from SS gear. When I’m playing clean guitar (or almost clean) to my ears valve amps sound nicer, there’s a ‘sustain and roundness’ (for want of better words) that I can’t seem to get when playing clean with SS gear. I even found this with EHX tube series pedals, I loved the wiggler for clean sounds but I thought it sounded pretty horrible with distortion.Because of this I’ve just bought a small valve head to go along with my SS head, I use my SS Laney for aggressive distortion and overdrive sounds and my VHT special6 valve head for when I want some of those lovely well rounded cleans.
I agree with most of this…
I love clean tube amps, but usually prefer solid state for overdrive; an overdriven tube amp (other than for mild break-up) often doesn’t sound quite right to me, and SS cleans sometimes sound harsh.
There are exceptions of course; the Roland Jazz Chorus amps are fantastic clean for example.
I pretty much always use (SS) pedals for my overdrive/distortion.
Kevin DemuthMemberTape,
What do you think of the Aria DD-X10 digi delay?
I’ve got a couple of pedals from that series (chorus and para EQ) that I like, and those delays interest me…
there’s a DD-X20 on eBay UK at the moment which I may bid for.Kevin DemuthMemberQuote:by the way “TAPE” what is the manufacturer name of the 5 pedals on your board with the similar artwork, one has an octopus on it??He makes them: Sonic Crayon
Kevin DemuthMemberQuote:^^^^oh so we who waisted time on the nano clone do have a new use for it! we can mod it to be a nano vibrato and place it next to our new neo clone!although i dont like modding a pedal if its the only one i have, nano clones are real cheap on ebay.
can you fill us in on that mod?!?!
It was for a Small Clone (not Nano clone), but all you have to do is take the 22k resistor (I think it’s R18) out of the circuit…
this removes the dry signal giving vibrato…I put a mini toggle switch in series to disconnect the resistor whenever I wanted.
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So, you could probably do something similar with the Nano Clone, you’d just have to find the part of the circuit where the dry/wet signals are mixed.
Kevin DemuthMemberQuote:vibrato is just a fast chorus. so I guess EHX just came out with a nano “vibrato” pedal, via the Neo Clone.I’ve heard people say this before but I have no idea where this idea comes from.
I suppose, sometimes, a fast chorus can sound vibrato-like; particularly when the chorus is quite deep as your ear is drawn to the modulated signal… but it’s still not true vibrato.
[If fast chorus = vibrato, then why doesn’t a slow vibrato = chorus?]
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Many ‘stereo’ choruses (if they have wet and dry outputs) can be tricked into being a vibrato, just by putting a dummy jack in the direct output…
Lots of other chorus pedals have a mix control (Danelectro Cool Cat CC-1, Pearl CH-02, some DODs, some Guyatones etc) so you can set it 100% wet.
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With my old Small Clone, I modded it my adding a toggle switch to choose chorus or vibrato – all you have to do is break the connection on one resistor to get true, 100% vibrato.
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