rayj wrote:Who wants to build me a clone?

Give me a couple of weeks?

6079smith wrote:

rayj wrote:Who wants to build me a clone?

Give me a couple of weeks?

Whenever you want. How much? I'll cover it all up front...

that damned fly wrote:

Verbs and Nouns wrote:kramer 450B bass with aluminum neck.
DOD overdrive / preamp 250 always on.
cheap behringer tuning pedal.
peavey mark IV.
two sovtek 4 x 10s.

i bet that sounds boss.

it's pretty tough. i changed the DOD pedal to an MXR distortion last night. so much better.

The Blackstone is a super nice distortion. It has DSP switches inside based on what type of impedance you are running in (it is pretty much the first box from the guitar) it has two switches a overdrive and a distortion.

It is great in as much as it sounds really organic and tubey. Has a lot of bite and improves the nuance from the guitar to the amp. They are hand wired and super high quality.

I guess what it is best at is a kind of blues / jimmy page type sound. where it sounds like a fender on overdrive or a Marshall pumped up this does not give you the super metal -- mesa dual recto -- type overdrives but something that sounds like you could dial up on a real amp. It seems to really work backwards on making your guitar playing and dynamics important and more present (as you would espect from a good amp on similar settings).

It has two modes which go from a boost to a distortion it seems kind of a perfect solution if you want distortion strait into your amp with nothing else between. By that I mean you have a nice amp and you want to stretch the dynamics of it without chanel switching.

Someone also asked about the Total Sonic Annihilation pedal. I have one and have been experimenting with it. I had two shows where I had side loop running and only used it once. It is well made but is a loop and a bias pot and a loop switch - seems like you need to have some type of pedal to lower the volume/feedback of the looping -- gain knob besides the bias knob on the pedal to cut overall volume through the loop.

Things can get very wild depending on what you have in that loop - I threw a few of the Alysis Mod Fx and Fab Tone pedals in. It can give a great twist the knob synthy sound thing. It can feed a fuzz into itself. It can be very useful but I am still in the testing stage with it. I have owned it for about a year.

It seems like a great thing for that big over the top set moment when you are crawling on stage on all 4's in your underwear turning knobs. I would also recommend getting a Alysis Airsynth where you can sit comfortably in a chair of some type and get similar sounds. But I am still working with it trying to figure out useful sounds.

For what it is a side loopin stomp box I have to say it is well made and does a good job. There only seems to be a couple of other boxes that do this side chain kind of thing so it is nice to have a box that is so dependable and well made.

Feedback loops are also really easy to build - I made one myself, that switches between feedback and regular effects loop, and has a momentary switch to kick in the feedback (and 2 LEDs which don't work!). The only recommendation I'd make, really, is that a buffered input (or input AND output) could be helpful.

Pedals I've tried in it:

-various fuzzes and distortions, which turn into pure feedback tone when the feedback is at 10, pitch changed with tone and gain; there's a nice just-breaking-up point where things get crazy, too.

-Danelectro Psycho Flange, which completely removed anything I was playing except for these whistling super-high harmonics, which was kinda cool.

-Small Stone, which created nice feedback at higher settings for sireny shit (much more controllable than the distortion-constant-feedback-tone)

and

-Effector 13 Soda Meiser on Chaos mode, which was an absolute fucking sonic meltdown that amazed me. Then my friend cut it up and looped the samples, and we wrote a song.

Verbs and Nouns wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

Verbs and Nouns wrote:kramer 450B bass with aluminum neck.
DOD overdrive / preamp 250 always on.
cheap behringer tuning pedal.
peavey mark IV.
two sovtek 4 x 10s.

i bet that sounds boss.

it's pretty tough. i changed the DOD pedal to an MXR distortion last night. so much better.

i almost bought a 450b a few years back. glad i didn't as i'm having an electrical built. i was recently told by the maker that "it will be tits."

i've always wanted my own tits.

i have a dod 250, but i broke it recently. no biggie, i paid like $20 for it. i lost the bottom to it awhile back anyways.

anybody wants a box for to put their own fx in lemme know.

also if anyone wants a vintage non-working eh big muff pm me.

that damned fly wrote:

Verbs and Nouns wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

Verbs and Nouns wrote:kramer 450B bass with aluminum neck.
DOD overdrive / preamp 250 always on.
cheap behringer tuning pedal.
peavey mark IV.
two sovtek 4 x 10s.

i bet that sounds boss.

it's pretty tough. i changed the DOD pedal to an MXR distortion last night. so much better.

i almost bought a 450b a few years back. glad i didn't as i'm having an electrical built. i was recently told by the maker that "it will be tits."

i've always wanted my own tits.

i have a dod 250, but i broke it recently. no biggie, i paid like $20 for it. i lost the bottom to it awhile back anyways.

anybody wants a box for to put their own fx in lemme know.

also if anyone wants a vintage non-working eh big muff pm me.

my friend justin, who may or may not post or here, has just got an electrical bass, plus the guitarist of his bands got two guitars. also i'd love to see one of those ABC guitars that the dudes from new brutalism play and the guys from oxes were playing...

Not to be a grump, but is Shellac getting a royalty check from the band using that rig?

Looks great and all, but whatever happened to developing one's own look?

-A

alex maiolo wrote:Not to be a grump, but is Shellac getting a royalty check from the band using that rig?

Looks great and all, but whatever happened to developing one's own look?

-A

I think I made that same joke (twice!) on this board when I first joined. And then I got reprimanded. Don't fuck with New Brutalism, if for no other reason than those guys are scary looking.

Actually, I've been considering picking up one of their more recent records to give them another chance.