benadrian wrote:I like knowing what I like on a circuit level; on a level of how the electrons are handled.

i can understand that, but i never learned any electrical engineering, so i know jack shit.

that damned fly wrote:no, but i think gear whoring is a big problem here.

I don't. Harmony-Central? TalkBass? Yeah, some of those guys are a little excessive.

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:

that damned fly wrote:no, but i think gear whoring is a big problem here.

I don't. Harmony-Central? TalkBass? Yeah, some of those guys are a little excessive.

i think my main beef s the gear whoring here is all the same gear. traynor's, ampeg v4's, etc.

bleh

pwalshj wrote:bleh

yeah.

that damned fly wrote:

pwalshj wrote:Anyone else here feel the same?

no, but i think gear whoring is a big problem here. it's just gear, folks. get the job done. great music has been and will continue to be made on crap gear.

Well, clearly you have missed my point. I have tried alot of these pedals and feel that they suck tone and are additive in specific higher frequencies and lack in harmonic complexity. So , I'm asking if anyone shares the same opinion about pedals. These folks have used them alot more than me and I'm willing to be educated.

that damned fly wrote:it's nice that you can afford it. super nice that blowing the time to track down things to own is somehow equal or more important than the time you could be creating with what's already there.

Yeah, I could afford it. I WORKED FOR IT. I should be so ashamed. I demoed a kitchen and tiled a bathroom and sheetrocked a ceiling. What a dolt I am. I didn't waste any time in tracking them down. I walked to the Retard Center on my corner and bought some tools. The same way i would buy a sawzall blade if I needed it or an angle grinder if I needed it.

The point of my question was is anyone here of the same opinion. I don't need a lecture on creativity from you.

that damned fly wrote:currently i'm using a DS1, before that it was the square wave distortion in the bass microsynth, before that it was a sansamp bassdriver, before that it was a ts-50b, before that it was a DS1 into a ts-50b, before that it was a rat into a ts-50b.

i was satisfied with all of those.

Seems like you have a shit ton more gear and time than me as I've been using the same rig (guitar, an amp, a switcher and some cables) for the last 20 years.

that damned fly wrote:sold the traynor because i hated having an amp in two parts, sold the sansamp to buy the rusty box, lost the rat when i quit playing with the guy that owned it, lost the first ds1 to a car incident (as in, "left on the roof of.") bought the second one on an impulse for $20 at guitar center, bought another rat from vockins, because i like them for my practice amp distortion.

oh, also had a little big muff. that pedal only does one thing: be a mig muff. i don't need a big muff. in fact having one, impeded me.

all that said, i like my 400RB as much as i liked my traynors. i like my peavey musician as much as well. i got both of those for under $300. they get the job done.

Really? Seems like you don't know your tools.

that damned fly wrote:quit obsessing, it's unhealthy. they're only amps, only guitars, and only stompboxes. am i wrong in assuming most of you are only musicians and not also recording nerds?

Quit obsessing? Look at your crazy-ass search for tone. You can't keep a piece of gear for a week before you decide that it's not 'doing it' for you.

that damned fly wrote:recording nerds: feel free to obsess, it's kind of your job.
musicians: get on with it.

Thanks for your blessing, James. I'll do both, thanks.

eat my shit, pwalshj.

Very clever. With lines like that you should sell your last love in no time.

pwalshj wrote:Very clever. With lines like that you should sell your last love in no time.

fuck off before i fuck you off.

wait...

shut up.

that damned fly wrote:am i wrong in assuming most of you are only musicians and not also recording nerds?

Yes, you're wrong.

I'm an artist.