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  • September 19, 2017 at 3:30 am in reply to: Newbie Advice Please #123171
    llewellen
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    Ah yes, reality does have to set in sooner or later. At least you have a wife to help inject some sanity :-) I do want to get set up with some basic pedals to begin learning and experimenting, so I’m going to go with your original suggestion for now (Small Stone and Nano 360 Looper) instead of the Superego+.

    My musical financial priorities have to lie elsewhere for now. I’m waiting for a Furch 5 string acoustic bass guitar currently being made (you know them in the USA as Stonebridge) and I really do have to upgrade my little bass amp to do that guitar justice when it arrives (November estimated). Ideally, I would like a Gallien-Krueger MB Fusion 500 head and a Genzler Bass Array 12-3 cabinet but they’re not inexpensive :down: and I don’t make any money from gigging to support this habit.

    I wish you all the best in your pedal pursuits and thank you again for your generous help.

    Drew

    September 19, 2017 at 1:57 am in reply to: Newbie Advice Please #123166
    llewellen
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    Thank you! That did me in. I could certainly find a variety of sounds and effects that I can use in Superego+ As I understood the youtube demo though, I would still need either my onboard spring reverb (or Holy Grail if I want different reverb effects)

    I especially like that it’s possible to split off part of the signal and output it to a separate amp. With the right touch of reverb and the amps spaced apart appropriately, it should be possible for a solo player to create quite an open, spacious lush sound. I like lush and rich :-) I’ve spent a lot of bucks trying to get my main guitar into that realm and its paid off (Eastman ElRey ER4 heavily modified).

    If I’m not being too nosey, how did you come by this indepth knowledge of pedals and effects?

    Drew

    September 18, 2017 at 7:12 pm in reply to: Newbie Advice Please #123161
    llewellen
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    OK thanks again. I think I can now see this going where I want to end up. Using Audacity (I’m on Linux) I can find and lay in a quality, appropriate drum track. I also play bass guitar, so I lay that in as well with a Scarlett DI. Then using this pedal configuration you have been advising, I can get that ethereal background sound laid in on a track. Mix and export as MP3 and I have a “virtual trio” back up, over which to play lead lines and other figures at small, simple gigs.

    September 16, 2017 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Newbie Advice Please #123155
    llewellen
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    Thank you again. I do have an Accutronics dual spring reverb tank onboard.
    I don’t have enough experience and knowledge to understand what, if any, advantage there would be to move up from Small Stone to Bad Stone phaser in my situation.

    One other question comes to mind: is there any appreciable/audible degradation of signal passing through a series of individual pedals versus an all-in-one (assuming that quality interconnects are used)?

    September 16, 2017 at 1:16 am in reply to: Newbie Advice Please #123150
    llewellen
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    Wow! I can’t thank you enough for this patient, detailed advice for a pedal newbie – it’s non obtainium where I live.

    So, I would need EH pedals for reverb, phase shift and looper, plus quality interconnects. That starts to get into the price realm of a couple of the all-in-one solutions. I don’t have the luxury of sitting a room with all this gear to try it out.

    I guess one advantage of going with EH pedals is that I could get by for the time being with my onboard spring reverb and keep the initial cost down.

    Another consideration is that this is not going to be the only effect that I want to achieve, which begs the question of which approach has the most potential flexibility.

    I really appreciate your help.

    September 15, 2017 at 10:45 pm in reply to: Newbie Advice Please #123145
    llewellen
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    @gvelasco: Thanks for the detailed response. I do have a simple spring reverb on my amp but would probably need/want more. However, in addition to reverb, I also need a sort of gentle, slow “swirling” effect.

    Not to be impolite on this board but there is another stereo product that would allow to clamp/sustain a chord with the reverb/swirl effect and then play single note lines on top of that. Mucho dinero however.

    I wonder if EH has something that would approximate that?

    July 20, 2017 at 7:07 am in reply to: Newbie Advice Please #123038
    llewellen
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    Thanks. Super Ego seems closest to what I have i mind. Still need reverb to go with it though.

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