Gasalcoholics anonymous? whoever said this was a help group?

[Warpsmasher]

I think I should be done with cab sim stuff now. I already had a Korg 104ds coming (all the pedals from that Korg line are blowout cheap from japan on ebay), but the cab sim on that one seems to be poorly rated, or just misunderstood...and then I found the Neunabers.
Also have an MXR Blowtorch and Submachine coming. I have lots of pedals that are good enough for bass, but so few that are meant specifically for it, and I want to start working on that a bit. I have a bunch of pedals that run on 18v now too, definitely all the right ones for an all 18v bass board if I ever want to try that.

[Pepe]

I already had a Korg 104ds coming

Great pedal with really nice sounds, but it has too little headroom. The scooped sounds simply don't get loud enough.

but the cab sim on that one seems to be poorly rated, or just misunderstood...

The cabinet resonater isn't doing something to the tone that I like. At least not in connection with my tube amp. I always leave the knobs in minimum position.

The 105od is a fantastic tube-like overdrive. It is said to mimick the VOX AC30 and I think that this is true. Whenever I switch this one on, my amp sounds like a totally different one.

And the 301dl is a superb digital delay with awesome lo-fi sounds on demand. You can easily tweak the knobs to reach sounds that remind of analogue or tape delays. The Pre-Delay is a fantastic feature for odd rhythms and multi-tap delay sounds. I love the sonar ping sounds that I produce with it.

This was my collection years ago. In the last few years I only kept two 301dl units (mint in box), but I have the 105od and the 104 again. I still don't know why the KORG people chose the Nazca lines for the graphics, but they look great in combination with those colours.

[Warpsmasher]

I'd still like to try the 105 and 301dl. I had the 411fx a long time ago. Always thought the nazca thing was cool, they were from the time just before random graphics and artwork became common on pedals, but with these it was presented more like a high end kind of aesthetic for the time than as being hip/trendy.

[dubkitty]

just got the long-awaited upgraded power supply for my main board. after investigating and pricing i got a Cioks package with a total of 15 slots from Sweetwater that included a free Tech21 Hiwatt emulator pedal, the English Muffy. the other three pedals in the series (Marshall, Vox, Fender) aren’t very good, but this one seems from demos to do an acceptable job of Hiwatt-ing and includes a Bug Muff circuit of passable quality. i figure if i don’t care for it i can sell it off and come out ahead, but it could also be a useful interface if i needed to run the loop system into a PA rather than the hybrid amp stack. the big board requires 16 9-volt slots, but i can run 2 fuzzes off a splitter and save the tuner 9V output for additional things e.g. a wah pedal.

i’ve talked myself out of the MXR Layers, which has some great features but suffers from the same kind of artificial quality to the frozen audio that all freeze pedals seem to share. they must have a low sample rate or something.

since i originally started this post i decided to go with the Saturnworks 3-channel pedalboard mixer for the looping board. the alternative, the Red Panda Bit Mixer, is smaller and has a nicer look, but the SW box has on/off stomp switches for each channel with LED indicators as well as volume knobs, and is a taller box which will be easier to reach in its position in the upper tier. i tried to talk myself out of this, too, but i’ve found it clumsy and difficult to cross-mix two loops with the loopers’ level controls.

[sutarappa]

big empty spillith over... i've purchased five or six new fuzz/distortion pedals this year... and haven't plugged up a goddamn one... am i falling outta love..? another mindless con-soom-her?.. for godless sake, suta, just plug the fuckin fuzz in...

[MechaGodzilla]

i got an MC6 after reading about it on here and have not got past trying to program the bastard enough to actually play the bastardin thing. just wanted to change patterns on my digitakt but nooooooo nothing in life is ever that simple

[dubkitty]

i’m generally pretty happy with the big system, but i have a nagging feeling something’s missing. i’m still thinking about the Stomping Stones Haxan, but need to go through the current dirt section carefully to see if it would add anything i really need as opposed to something(s) i merely like. i went and read several threads about this year’s equipment trying to find things that interested me, and the things that spoke to me are (perhaps unsurprisingly) reverbs and delays. the Malinconia and the AC Noises Ricorda are both intriguing—i almost shat myself when the C/E demo of the Ricorda started out with what i can only call “Steve Reich-in-a-box”—but are both too dear for my present circumstances. on the other hand, the Fjord Fuzz MIME showed up on Reverb for $150 so i Affirmed it. it should fit on the FEB if i turn the Farm Pedals reverb sideways and squeeze the upper tier together, and honestly the FEB needed more reverb options than the Expanding Universe. i’m putting the big system and bi-amp stack away for awhile to concentrate on the next revisions to the small boards, digging deeper into the FEB boxes, and fine-tuning the main board which thankfully doesn’t need much. there’s also the Tech21 Hiwatt emulator pedal they threw in for free with the power supply bundle, which seems quite promising. i also want to figure out how to get the EHX SMMH into the path so i can reverse the delay into the loopers, which could create all sorts of chaos and fun since all 3 loopers do reverse and half-speed. i wish there was a simple, reasonably-priced way to route the loopers in and out of each other so i could have the same piece getting mangled on all 3 loopers in different ways, but that really doesn’t seem like a possibility. please alert me if i’m wrong.

one nice thing about the current setup is that onboard power supplies’ AC cords are easier to run and harder to cock up than OneSpot daisy chains. they’re also more friendly on power strips, where OneSpots and the like can make it hard to use slots next to or diametrically opposed to each other on strips like my Furman with two parallel banks of outlets. i’m always looking for more ways to make things more ergonomic, more functional, more dependable, and simpler to use. i want things as bulletproof as possible…i don’t want to have to reconfigure shit under fire. before i took the bi-amp stack to the company party i set it up and tore it down a couple of times so i’d know what i was doing at the event.

[gila_crisis]

I just got a second hand Zoom MS70CDR Plus!
As a long time fan of the old Zoom MS70CDR (which I still own) I was looking forward to try this.
I still have to compare it with the old CDR, but so far first impressions of the Plus are super positive!
The 4 knobs are a bit on the tiny side, but usable, and have to get used to the new UI.
I have only one complain so far: the Line Selector block! On the old CDR I would place this block before delay and reverbs without Tail option, so that I could bypass these and still have the effect tails fade out. The new Line Selector totally cuts the sound, like a true bypass box.
I hope they fix this with a firmware update.

[Gone Fission]

Almost broke a non-ILF-SS pedge. I’ve been purging with the end goal of turning a couple mainstays and a bunch of occasional-use things into an H90. And I saw the cheapest used H90 I’ve ever spotted. It was gone before I lost my edge and bought ahead of finishing the purge.

Out: Eventide Blackhole, Pigtronix Ring Master, Digitech DL-8 and DigiDelay, Guyatone MC-2, Fender Hammertone Reverb and Chorus.

Need to put the rubber back on the iStomp and PitchFactor and list them and proceeds ought to cover me for retail price.

I like every damn one of these pedals but, you know, not particularly using everything often or maxim. The Blackhole and PitchFactor are mainstays on the board so getting all their sounds in one unit barely bigger than a PitchFactor (with just one UI, add sounds and routing flexibilities) and freeing up board space for other faves that are often crowded out seems like a good plan.

Amp purge is gonna be harder to pull off just because shipping ain’t easy. I got a Revv G20 in which into my loud EV cab is a bit loud for bedroom use even in 4 watt mode without turning down the master volume but it’s brilliant into headphones or the line out with onboard IRs. The clean channel needs pedals to break up, which I don’t mind. The burn channel is fun high gain lunacy which needs no pedals—SLO, 5150, mod’ed Marshall zone. Not my usual zone but silly fun. Pretty sure it’s a keeper because I like the things it does, but I’m eyeing adding a Fryette GPDI IR when it finally comes out—more clean to dirty range and options, lower wattage for bedroom use, and recording/headphone friendly design. So, yeah, I like my solid state combos, but moving them on for another head optimized for recording and rack-driving seems like a good deal. (Keeping the Boss GL-100 and a Gallien-Krueger rack preamps for solid state urges.)

[dubkitty]

i decided to put the big system away for a little bit and work on fine-tuning and exploring options on and off the boards. i had the FEB on the coffee table and noticed a kind of motorboating interference happening. i’d noticed this in the background on the first new loop i put up. i tried different things and traced it to the Demedash T-120. you might recall that it went wonky after i bought it used and spent a long time being gone over at Demedash World Headquarters. i don’t think the design itself is to blame, rather, that this unit is screwy. i ordered a new T-120 DLX v.2 which has tap and waveform options mine lacks from Perfect Circuit. when it arrives i’ll put it on the board in place of the old unit and see if it has the same problem. if not, groovy. if so, i’ll return the new one and look into other VHS echo options.

it’ll be here Monday, along with the Fjord MIME reverb. i’ll work on the FEB Tuesday and figure things out. the pedalboard mixer arrives today. i’m going to retain the active 1-to-3 splitter for now rather than replace it with the 3-channel splitter with switches that the mixer will replace. that way i don’t have to rework the loop board as much. i’m also not convinced that i need switching at the inputs.

it’s been interesting getting to know the Tech21 Fuzzy Brit, the Hiwatt emulator that came as a freebie when i bought the new power supply for the main board. it doesn’t have the same kind of sag and touch sensitivity as the Catalinbread WIIO reissue on the FEB, but it does a decent job. it has 2 channels with Drive and Character knobs and a broad range of gain on tap. it includes a fuzz emulation which is Tone Bender-esque. it’s decent, but not as good as my MK III. i’m really not sure if i’ll keep it…i need to develop it more and see how well it works. it could be useful as a PA interface because it has a XLR out and a onboard cab sim i haven’t heard because i have nothing active with XLR inputs other than my mixer which is packed away.

[univalve]

Shitton of shit in. This is the newest:
MusicMan StingRay in ocean turquoise
LTD SnakeByte in camouflage
DBA Bazz War
DAM Power Master

super cray cray guitar and bass year... pretty sure i won't top this in my rest life.

[dubkitty]

my fall was nutso for buying stuff.

Kalamazoo Oriole
Gator hard case for Oriole
buffalo horn bridge pins for Oriole
Luna Moonbird electric bouzouki
Fjord Fuzz MIME reverb
Saturnworks 3-channel pedalboard mixer
Ernie Ball VP Jr.
replacement pickguard for Duo Sonic
'68 Fender Princeton Reverb reissue amplifier
Jensen C10R speaker for Princeton reverb

it's kind of unbelievable how much money i had running around from week to week until i had to replace the car and most of it disappeared. i don't think i've ever bought that many guitars in one year, and particularly not anything close to as expensive as the Falcon ever. i'd never have gotten the Falcon without having to raise car money, though...i beat the living shit out of the 401k on the theory that i'll never be able to retire anyway and stumbled across the Falcon at 25% less than usual for no reason. that made it a bargain, right?

[gila_crisis]

The new Zoom MS70CDR+ is totally dope!
Sounds are way better than the old MS70CDR, and there's more DSP available indeed (which means you can combine stuff together, which on the old CDR was impossible, like for example a patch with 2 particle reverbs and 1 space hole reverb!).
Here few spund I did with it:
https://youtu.be/dTC0MnrP7lA?si=Km3WgG3D2VxXq1E_

[Gone Fission]

Is the UI stuff less clunky on the Plus? I offed the MS-100BT years back despite liking the sounds because the UI wasn’t doing it for me. IIRC navigating presets in use pretty much required scrolling through a fixed list sequentially and all the way back if you overshot. So I never really optimized chaining which meant I always felt it was wasted potential for me.

[gila_crisis]

Is the UI stuff less clunky on the Plus? I offed the MS-100BT years back despite liking the sounds because the UI wasn’t doing it for me. IIRC navigating presets in use pretty much required scrolling through a fixed list sequentially and all the way back if you overshot. So I never really optimized chaining which meant I always felt it was wasted potential for me.

I was (and still am) fine with the old Multistomp UI, and actually I found it fine and usable.
On the new Plus you no more have the ABC preset preselection scroll-thru foxed list feature (which I love a lot tbh), but now there are 2 buttons to select the banks. So you can navigate bank up/down until you find your target preset, and with the footswitch you select/engage it. Buttons are big enough to be operated also by foot.