Goddamn it guys, you're not quenching my desire to pick one of these up!

yah! I got me a Plasma Pedal a bit back. Had a lot of luck with their shipping, for some reason. Like four days to show up from Latvia. I pulled the trigger because it was on sale, also. Honestly, I have their Plus Pedal, which is kind of mind-blowing, and since they only have a couple items, I see myself just buying their shit. It's super well made, the boxes are too pretty to throw out, and I like that it's just a small company making weird shit. It's a really nasty distortion, but it's a lot more controllable than something like the Fuzz Factory, which can dial in similar tones. It's \_very\_ gated and quiet in between the notes, and that's a nice variant. I dig it. The Plus is a thing after my own heart, though. Christ, that's a fun pedal. Never played anything like it.

Fromel Shape - I've had this EQ pedal for a while. Mostly I had been using it at my house through a clean amp so that I could imitate a single coil sound with my humbucker EGC, which was pretty easy to do just by cutting the mids a little.I brought it to practice on a whim the other day and got it dialed in after a few minutes. Basically I cut the extreme EGC lows and some of the mids that pour out of the particular amp and guitar combination. I was using the AC30 and a Rickenbacker M16, which is kind of like a tweed Bassman, in tandem, and I turned this pedal on for a clean sound and off when I wanted that flabby distortion. Super great for subtractive EQing when you're playing full chords with an amp set hot. I did mess around with boosting the frequencies a bit, and it was cool, especially when paired with an overdrive, but not as useful to me as the other setting. Great pedal.

Not something I just bought by I just tossed a behringer xenyx monitor control straight into the trash. I had it for less than 2 years and noticed the left ch was getting quiet. I tried to contact the company multiple times with no response. Today it measured -22dB on the left with right at 0dB. It is now in the garbage in front of my house. As fun as it sounds to buy one of the many cool analog synth they are cloning.... No way in hell

garthplinko wrote:Dr Tony Balls wrote:garthplinko wrote:what is kinda cool about the plasma tube is that it shows you what kind of signal it's taking and how it's being processed - brighter for more, dimmer for less.Just one dude's opinion but i'm not a fan of this kinda thing. Its like when you make a tube pedal but use a see through cover so you KNOW its a tube pedal. Same goes for clipping LEDs that are mounted outside the box. Its novel and all that but i'd rather just some simple shit that sounds good.Again, it's secondary for me in this case. I like what it does way more than I like how it looks. That being said, if it didn't have the attention-getting visuals, it probably wouldn't have stuck out above the noise floor of all the thousands of distortion pedals that are out there. There's probably another pedal that does the same clean gating thing that I like so much about this pedal...but I haven't seen or heard of one - and certainly not one that does it this well.Yeah it would be a shame to hide this attractive feature for the sake of modesty. FFS, it's a fuzz pedal; nothing modest about the sound, so why be about the look? Also, the visual effect does actually tell you a bit about what it's doing. Tubes just glow, but this thing is like an EKG for your riffs.

garthplinko wrote: heck, maybe it's not even what's generating the distortion and it's like a nixie tube that doesn't actually DO anything. kerble wrote:Like four days to show up from Latvia. Distortion ees generated from potato.

I finally got to mix a couple shows on the Soundcraft Ui24R that we have installed at a local club. It's a wifi controlled, rackmount digital mixer with 20 ins and 10 outs. You can get one on the internet brand new for an even grand. The feature set is pretty typical for this sort of a thing, and it sounds fine. It will do a multitrack recording right to a thumb drive, which is nice. There is no standalone app, you log on to the machine and point your browser at an HTML address. I was skeptical but it worked fine. Way smoother than the Presonus app, not as nice as the A&H. There are some quirks to figure out but I was pretty comfortable pretty quickly. The EQ and dynamics and reverbs are all about the same as they are on all these sorts of mixers. Functional, not life changing.Everything you need to mix a show, sounds fine, cheap.Would recommend.You can play with the control app here: https://www.soundcraft.com/ui24-softwar ... mixer.html

Fool Audio Research Rangemaster clone.From the description in the Reverb listing:I used a gold-pin Tesla 104NU71 NPN germanium transistor, so this will work with either battery power or a standard Boss-style adapter.....The center knob selects between four different input capacitors, for varying amounts of bass content. The four-way input capacitor selector starts with a Russian paper-in-oil 6.8n, then a polystyrene 10n, then a Mullard œTropical Fish 22n, and finally a œGreenie 47n.So far I have run it with my YBA-1, my 5E3 and my Marshall Lead 12 practice amp. It shines with them all, even the solid state Lead 12 which surprised me. The first capacitor position is slightly harsh in the upper frequencies, and I don't use that position much, but I'll bet it would be great for a darker amp like an Orange or Matamp when using the lower F.A.C. settings. Second position immediately conjures classic Queen/T. Rex-esque sounds. Third position is probably my favorite and is similar to the previous, but it lets the smallest amount of additional low end through to fill things out a bit. With the boost knob above halfway in this position it does a really awesome NWOBHM type of thing that is super fun. And the fourth position does a pretty convincing Black Sabbath/Sleep sort of tone. This is the third treble booster I've owned and I'm convinced it will be the last. No drive, boost or distortion I've ever owned (and I've owned a LOT) compares to this. Rex at Fool did such a good job on it.

garthplinko wrote:Snowblinder wrote:Fool Audio Research Rangemaster clone.This may be a stupid and obvious question, but do you happen to know if there is a particular reason it's built in this on amp style enclosure instead of stomp box (and switchable for that matter)?I can only assume it is for aesthetics, to look similar to the original amp top Rangemaster. He does build Rangemaster clones in pedal form as well, though none with the four way selectable resistor option that I'm aware of (I think this was a one-off build). Also, this one is switchable on and off, just not with your foot. The toggle switch is on the back.I actually wanted an amp top one because I plan to just leave it on 100% of the time, and the less pedals on the floor the better, in my opinion.