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Well hello there!
Ok, I’m going to share what I have as a buyer’s help guide.
I’ve recently acquired a few new ones. I’m in love with the East River Driver and Graphic Fuzz. The latter is very versatile.
I also have a Stereo Polyphase “which they discontinued”, but I got at a discounted price. My father owns one of the old Small Stones, so I kind of grew up listening to a phaseshifter. I think it’s great. I’m not sure why they discontinued.
Stereo Pulsar, compact in size but great sounding with a lot of options. I recently became interested in the surf / rockabilly kind of sound.
Stereo Electric Mistress, i’m not actually a big fan of chorus, but maybe more of flanger. But when I use it, I actually leave the rate knob before 12 o’clock to select the a frequency, rather than have it sweep through.
Germanium 4, I hardly use it, don’t like it.
White finger, I think it’s great, a lot of control over compression. But to understand proper compression, I advise you to look into music recording tutorials on compression. trust me.
Memory Boy, I think it might be a love hate relationship. it’s not a transparent pedal. It adds warmth to the sound “which is supposedly natural for analog delays, and as a matter of fact Ritchie Blackmore used a tape delay machine, just to add warmth to the sound.” And I feel it adds a bit of gain to the sound. I’m not happy about that.
Having all of these in the chain, actually cut out a part of the signal. I tested. the sound feels a bit muted, less high end. the price you pay for having several pedals and extra cabling.
There you go, hope that helps!
September 13, 2012 at 8:24 am in reply to: what can I use to sustain one chord until the next? #118144Post-ScriptMemberOh, well,
A looper is a sound sampler. Meaning, it would record samples of what you play, like for instance, a chord arrangement or a melody line. or whatever. and you can switch the sample on and off. check them out on the web. i’ve put a link below to some of them that i found on Musician’s Friend. they are variable. some of them allow you to record several samples.
so for instance, if you play guitar and sing at the same time, you would play the verse chords and record them, as well as the chorus. and while you’re singing you can switch on and off the sample you want, allowing you to sing, or play a second rhythm and fills. when it’s for a solo, you have the looper playing the backing rhythm.
but it wouldn’t be as simple as that though. you would have to do this per song.
but anyway, look into them, and if you can try one, go for it. but you already have freeze, so if i were you i’d spend some more time figuring out how to use it to suit my needs.
If the link doesn’t work, try just searching for them on the website “)
[url=http://http://www.musiciansfriend.com/looper-sampler-effects-pedals]Loopers on Musician’s Friend[/url]
September 12, 2012 at 11:06 pm in reply to: what can I use to sustain one chord until the next? #118141Post-ScriptMemberelo.
well i didnt try Freeze in real life. but i saw a demo video of it. i think it would do the trick. but you probably look into loopers.
Post-ScriptMemberelo,
thanks for replying “)
well, i know it’s an unaffected signal. but that would omly make sense if you can use both. like using parallel compression in recording. you duplicate the whatever track and you compress one, tehn you play around with mix of yhe two signals.
when i attempted to deal with yhe white finger as a stereo output pedal, connecting it to two pedals at the sat the same time, i got feedback. it was actually quite cool. but thats not the point.
so if the dry output is hardwired to the input jack as you said, then why is it an output to begin with?
September 6, 2012 at 11:35 pm in reply to: Longtime EHX user reviewing pedals – EHX staff should read #118121Post-ScriptMemberElo,
Thank you for review, it was insightful and thorough. I bought my first EHX pedal I think about two years ago. I’m a hobbyist, but if you don’t mind, I’d like to share my thoughts too. So far I have a Germanium 4 Muff Pie, Stereo Electric Mistress, Memory Boy and a White Finger.I don’t think I have a problem with the White Finger. I haven’t had any problems so far.
The Stereo Electric Mistress gives a considerable background noise when it’s on.
The Memory Boy gives some sort of an overdriven signal. Not overdrive in the proper sense, but there’s a noisy boost in the volume. If you want to hear it, turn the Blend knob clockwise.
And as much as I love the EHX sturdy construction, but I really don’t want to keep unscrewing to change the battery.
Post-ScriptMemberOh boy, 134 views, and no reply. Well, I think that i could take a Dry Out connection and connect it to the Input through a Y connection. Till then try connecting pedals to the Dry Out, very nice feedback.
Post-ScriptMemberOk, ok, i know there’s also the Tube EQ. but come on man! look at this thing, it’s a proper eq unit!
Post-ScriptMemberElo,
does this happen when you switch one of the distortion pedals? or all or what?
also, why do you have noise reduction at the begining of the chain?Post-ScriptMemberElo,
well, i dont have a graphic fuzz. but i do have a germanium 4 bigg muff and a dunlop fuzzace. im not much of a fuzz fan to be honest. i like the germanium more. i have considered buying the graphic fuzz for the sake the equalizer actually. i just had the germanium and fuzzface and a tube screamer in chain, just the other day. it doesnt sound pretty, if you turn the germanium and the fuzzface on at the same time. maybe its different with a graphic fuzz. at any rate, i would go with the germanium then the fuzz. so you can end with the eq for sound shapping. perhaps this way you can lower any extra noise you get from running both at the time. which leads me to the question, is the eq any good? is it worth buying?
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September 2, 2012 at 4:57 pm in reply to: Wondering how this would be (Looking for a Gilmour tone) #118083Post-ScriptMemberYes, i was going to suggest Gilmourish.com also. it’s a very scary site. this guy is a dedicated genius.
however, put in mind that you’re not david gilmour. meaning, that there’s nothing that says that you have to play with the same exact tone. theoritically, you can never achieve this. the voice you hear on a record is the result of so many variables, down to the nature of fingers.
but, trying to reach a particular tone does teach one a great deal about the gear, and should ultimately lead you to ways of using those toys to get sounds that you have in your head.
i’m not that steeped in the arcane knowledge of guitar pedals, but usually i try to look for a sound that i like, feel comfortable playing with and sounds good for that particular song.
i hope this helps in anyway.
Post-ScriptMemberelo, there,
i tried to check out the video. said it was removed by user. but then again i have a little knowledge of keys’. but still i was interested to see.
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Post-ScriptMemberVery well spoken, thanks a lot : )
Post-ScriptMemberElo, and thank you all for replying. Your replies have been helpful. I think the most interesting bit i read was the following, by Electro-Meix. Never thought if it this way. And it really makes sense. You get to use the exact things you want.
Quote:I think the real advantage is the ‘mix and match’ nature of single units, you can’t, for example, take the overdrives off one multi, add the chorus off another multi and the delays from another, that could make choosing one difficult. With single effects you have the chance to choose exactly what you want from each effect.I believe that I’d like to play with whatever gives me the sound I like. This could be a multieffect processor, tens of stompboxes, or a turtle a salamander and a crocodile in a daisy chain. As i probably said before, multieffects provide you with certain conveniences, but i guess they still fail to produce the true tone of the stompboxes they’re imitating.
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September 6, 2010 at 6:03 pm in reply to: Anyone played through a Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi yet? #111285Post-ScriptMemberElo, I’m new here! I hope this helps anyone who’s using it already, or thinking of buying it.
Now, let’s see, I bought Germanium 4, i few days ago. Overall, i like it very much. I haven’t used stompboxes before, always used multieffect pedals. Only recently that i’ve bought a good amp. “at least better than the one i had”. So you would understand fully what i think of the pedal, i’ll have to tell you what i use. A Mexican Fender Stratocaster fitted with Gold Lace Sensors and a Line 6 Spider III 30watt amp. I’m still experimenting with, cuz both the pickups and pedal are new. What i do is that, i usually set the gain and equalization to maximum on the amp, and then i’d control the sound through the volume and tone knobs of the guitar, which kind of makes things somewhat versatile. Plugging in the Germanium 4, added “for me at least” this thick sound, I love it. I’ve noticed that it works better on the Crunch channel of the amp, logically because of more gain. On the clean channel, the more the gain i use the lower it sounds, not the more distorted. So, perhaps you can use some little gain, for that slightly dirty clean sound, add some overdrive through the muffy, then stack the distortion for the solo sound. It has some sort of natural sustain, and i kind of evened out the high ends of the lace sensors. the guitar doesn’t sound either too muddy nor too high in the heavens.
I’ve fooled around a bit with the Bias and Volt knobs. Now, i’m exactly sure how they should sound. A counterclockwise Volt knob should start to clip, they say. it does that i think, the volume is lowered though throughout not just momentarily, and it sounds like zzzzzz. As for the counterclockwise knob, i think yes it’s more compressed, but also low on volume. I have no idead whether this is how these two should sound like, or my pedal has some kind of problem.
Other than this, i love this pedal. Just plug it in the amp and you’re good to go. i don’t think you even need a compressor. I have an old MXR Dyna Comp, from back then when they were still their own company. and it’s great. I know this shouldn’t be logical. but i don’t think i need to use it with the Germanium.
I hope this helps anyone.
P.S. Can’ wait to buy a Memory Man “that thing blew my mind away”
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