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How do you like the Shoegazer? I'm really tempted by that one.

Boombats wrote:

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:Wow, I've heard about the $55 pedals before, but for some reason I've never given them much thought. They get loud, don't they? Judging from the samples, it sounds like the DB and the SM are for me.

Color me stupid but I'm not seeing any $55 pedals there.

They're moving to selling through their retailers, so it'll be more like $90 fuzzes. Ah well.

Harmonic Percolator.

Antero wrote:How do you like the Shoegazer? I'm really tempted by that one.

I love it. It has a LOT of gain in it. According to devi, switch one is the same fuzz circuit as the TP and the 2nd switch is the same fuzz circuit as the SM, and they can be combined for various levels of feedback-driven mayhem. The intensity dial causes crazy robot shit to happen too. Not recommended for soft rock.

I'm currently using in order:
Faded DC Les Paul
Arion Tuner pedal
Homemade copy of Dan Armstrong Blue clipper
MXR Bluebox
Danelectro Delay
EHX LPB-1
Traynor YBA-1A with one of the big Marshall 2x12s.

Dan Armstrong thing is super trebley but awesome sustain and feedback. My bandmate built it and added a treble cut off switch but it's still stinging.
Bluebox is surprisingly useful especially seeing as we do a cover of the Monks "I Hate You" and don't have an organist.
And the LPB makes it possible to get some crunch out of my YBA-1A without causing my brain to melt and run out of my nose. I leave it on most all of the time.

Bradley wrote:

Antero wrote:How do you like the Shoegazer? I'm really tempted by that one.

I love it. It has a LOT of gain in it. According to devi, switch one is the same fuzz circuit as the TP and the 2nd switch is the same fuzz circuit as the SM, and they can be combined for various levels of feedback-driven mayhem. The intensity dial causes crazy robot shit to happen too. Not recommended for soft rock.

I've considered just grabbing up a TP since I've got an SM already, but the Shoegazer would save space and plugs and look badass...

*sigh*

I really don't NEED another fuzz right now, is the sad thing.

Neuloveyou wrote:...do a cover of the Monks "I Hate You" ...

so does alexander hacke.

I've been building some zvex SHO clones, and they are pretty awesome for getting some nice distortion out of some amps, especially my friend's super reverb

that damned fly wrote:

Neuloveyou wrote:...do a cover of the Monks "I Hate You" ...

so does alexander hacke.

Funky. The Fall do one as well, and loads of other people probably. It's just great fun to play, as alexander proves, and we've got a standing up drummer with just snare and a tom so it's a real blast.

I used a Proco RAT the other night at practice. I think I like this pedal, but I was told the make on these kinda makes them hit or miss? maybe that's a myth, but all the youtube, and gearwire demos don't do this pedal any justice.

I was using a cheap ibanez talman, with crappy stock pickups through a 50 watt roland solid-state, not sure the model, it was older, held cleans nicely, but it really brought out the mids with the pedal when driven, it cut like a knife.

I had a tone with a good amount of definition that I wasn't able to achieve with any other pedals I've used. I didn't think I was a pedal guy, mainly, I never like how it compressed my tone so much, but my mind has maybed changed, would a solid state have something to do with that too?

Oh boy, distortion....

A super modified Great Destroyer
Devi Ever TP (thi sis my "single string" fuzz)
Efector 13 Disaster Fuzz

Behringer Vintage distortion (Aka the best muff style distortion EVAR and it doesnt get you lost in the mix) This is my main distortion.

Dwarfcraft "SHIVA" prototype
and I'm wokring on a very very heavily modified russian Big Muff.

I also have a digitech Bad Monkey, but I dont really dig overdrive anymore, so its off the board, and a mostly fucked ibanez Fuzz, FZ-somehting.

*edit* Oh, duh, i have ablue box also.