Premier Rock Forum

Digitech PDS 1002.
Digitech PDS 8000 Echo Plus.
MXR Blue Box.
Moogerfooger Ring Modulator.

The usual suspects.

Ovipositor-

I want to say publically that your stuff looks great. I've wondered why more people haven't used found boxes like this more often.

I'm interested in picking up some of your stuff, and I have some project boxes that I can give you.

If you're interested, PM me and we'll take it for there.

Seriously man, very cool looking stuff.

-A

Uncle Ovipositor wrote:I thought I'd pop my cherry on this thread.

Hi.

I use pedals. I make them myself. They look like this:

I wanted to build my ideal distortion, so I spent some time building a bunch of different circuits. I ended up sticking with ways to overdrive my amp and add a ring modulated tone. From right to left, the switches are for a sustain, an orange sqeezer, a green ringer, and a 60 dB boost (useless at full throttle, but it makes it clear I'm not fucking around). Each of these has been modded to some extent, optimized for my guitar and amp.

This is a copy of a Tychobrae Octavia, not intentionally modded. Intentionally? I'm pretty sure I fucked it up somehow when I made it because it doesn't sound like something someone would make and market. But it functions quie well and I like it. It's a weird circuit, regardless, and I'm sure assembled right it would sound equally interesting.

I buy the boxes at the flea market. Obviously.

These 2 boxes cover all of my live musical needs currently.

If you can add an oscillator or two, and expression pedals, with one OSC running the carrier on the ring mod, you can place my order now, and charge whatever you want (within reason). Please. Oh, and a mic preamp for the vocal. I'm big on the fuzz vocal these days...

My setup:

Fender Mexican Strat with humbucker/small white Palmer with humbucker -->Boss Tuner --> Boss Blues Driver --> Boss RC-20 loop --> Music Man HD 130 Head --> Mesa 2x12

Am I the only one on this thread who uses the Blues Driver? I thought they were really popular. That guy from Guitar Center totally lied to me.

The way I use it (level at 12, Gain at 9) it's more of a boost that sounds slightly cracked. I like it a lot.

I also like the RC-20 a lot. I originally got the big green line 6 delay pedal, but I ended up hating it. I had trouble making the delay sound not cheesy (a problem I seem to have with all line 6 stuff) and the loop record time was too short for me. The RC-20 has 16 (I think?) minutes of memory, which sure comes in handy when you can't remember how to play a song and need to fake it live! I also use it to record stuff off my Optigan to delightful effect.

It also has independant inputs and controls for an "inst" and a "mic." I've been trying to hook up a little casiotone into the "mic" input, but being line level, it's way too hot. Is there someplace where I can get a 1/4" pad for the "mic" input so I can do this? Don't say Radioshack. The other night, I gave up trying to adjust the nob by the millimeter to get the right level for the casiotone and just started tapping the 1/8" end to my finger. Luckily, I picked up a Christian radio station loud and clear and started looping parts of a sermon. It was like a montage of memories from my years as a good Catholic boy...

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:for bass guitar -

boss tu-2
zvex machine
black box bass octave fuzz (based off of a maestro brassmaster)
electro-harmonix bass microsynth
xotic effects bass robotalk II
schumann lion (on the way)

I was thinking of getting a machine pedal - do you like it?

Anyone want to weigh in on Fender Blender vs. Ampeg Scrambler vs. any other similar pedal? I'm shooting for blary/dissonant/slightly distorted sounds, and I'd like to get some kind of octave + overdrive combination (not necessarily in the same pedal). I've played the EH Pog and I liked it, but I don't have much experience with octave pedals.

Has anyone used any of the Death by Audio stuff? I played the Total Sonic Annihilation with my usual setup + a couple of old boss pedals (metal zone and chorus, I think) looped through it and I couldn't get much out of the TSA besides a one note feedback I didn't really like. The overdrive looks interesting though.

Are there any good books/kits on pedal building? RISD's too expensive.

My bass pedals:

Fulltone Bass Overdrive
Dinaverb 24bit Reverb Pedal (sparingly)

Looking for a Z. Vex Whooly Mammoth, but they're usually 300 bucks. I love that fuzz.

caix wrote:My bass pedals:

Fulltone Bass Overdrive
Dinaverb 24bit Reverb Pedal (sparingly)

Looking for a Z. Vex Whooly Mammoth, but they're usually 300 bucks. I love that fuzz.

I haven't read this whole thread, so this may have already been mentioned. I tried the Wooly Mammoth and it was pretty great, but I ended up getting the Frantone Peach Fuzz. It's a guitar pedal, but I use it for bass to great effect. It's not as versatile as the Mammoth, but I knew I really wanted that one, great fuzz, so the Frantone it was.

Frantone actually makes a bass version of the peach fuzz. I forgot what its called, but you can find the information on the website.

If you're interested in the machine, I have all of those pedals on ebay for cheap:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZairnblueQQhtZ-1

rayj wrote:

Uncle Ovipositor wrote:I thought I'd pop my cherry on this thread.

Hi.

I use pedals. I make them myself. They look like this:

I wanted to build my ideal distortion, so I spent some time building a bunch of different circuits. I ended up sticking with ways to overdrive my amp and add a ring modulated tone. From right to left, the switches are for a sustain, an orange sqeezer, a green ringer, and a 60 dB boost (useless at full throttle, but it makes it clear I'm not fucking around). Each of these has been modded to some extent, optimized for my guitar and amp.

This is a copy of a Tychobrae Octavia, not intentionally modded. Intentionally? I'm pretty sure I fucked it up somehow when I made it because it doesn't sound like something someone would make and market. But it functions quie well and I like it. It's a weird circuit, regardless, and I'm sure assembled right it would sound equally interesting.

I buy the boxes at the flea market. Obviously.

These 2 boxes cover all of my live musical needs currently.

If you can add an oscillator or two, and expression pedals, with one OSC running the carrier on the ring mod, you can place my order now, and charge whatever you want (within reason). Please. Oh, and a mic preamp for the vocal. I'm big on the fuzz vocal these days...

Those are wonderful pedals. Beautiful.

That drill index octavia is sexy as hell.

who was looking for a Wooly mammoth? I found one here: http://www.vintagebass.com/thedudepit/s ... hp?t=21568 for $200, which is the lowest I've seen them. I've contacted the guy about it, but its on hold. I can't afford it though, so if someone should grab that up in case it doesn't go through.