2025 2 LYFE ::FINGERS WAGGIN'::

[dubkitty]

i guess i like the weird number operators better than menus, but there went the space for your top jacks.

there may actually be such a thing as too many options. i could see having some, erm, analog presets worked out, but this seems more like a studio device than something you’d use live. not that it’d be a problem for me since i probably won’t play out much now.

but the $600 Question is, what’s the noise level? all that stuff in one big box could be a problem if it winds up being as noisy as a Rat or a Devi Ever unit.

<edit>well, the bias discussion clip answers the noise question. as he dials up the gain you can hear the white noise coming up to a truly obtrusive level. i’m just a picky little bitch when it comes to noise. probably wouldn’t bother me as much if i’d ever used a noise gate i liked.

[dubkitty]

There is a Black Falcon in the series . . .

indeed. if i was buying that would be my choice to modify. paradoxically, though black finishes show fingerprints and the like more than any other color black is also the easiest to conceal one’s work since color matching isn’t an issue. it would also be a shade less redundant than a second white one.

but if i’m spending $1600+ for an(other) archtop i want a jazzier one, a super-chonky Guild or Epiphone Broadway or something. i love the WF, but i still don’t like what i see as redundancy in my lineup. e.g. for me to buy another guitar with PAF-style humbuckers it would have to be exceptional and affordable because i already have three that cover the most common types (LP, SG, 335). i only have 2 Strats because they sound different enough to contrast.

[alexsga]

curious how much the EQD resembles the Tone Reaper

resembles the Dream Crusher very much!

the Tone Reaper i used to have before i sold it to the EQD Collector Guy.

whos the EQD collector guy?

[dubkitty]

there was a fellow whose collection got posted on a video when Stillman got it shown to him, so extensive that he has stuff Jamie doesn't even remember building. i had a rare grey (most were pink) Buzzaround (i forget what they called it) i wanted to flog so i contacted him. he snapped it and my big-box Tone Reaper right up. i told him about ILF and he posted in buy/sell looking for more. this must have been a couple of years ago by now. that was a nice little ping in the budget for two boxes i wasn't using any more.

[dubkitty]

i miss the days when something new would come out from the interesting builders who were around in the early days of ILF…the surprise factor, the neat things it’d do standard fare didn’t, and the sense of new possibilities afoot. nowadays there’s a million boutique builders with a billion different boxes but it’s hard to see anything that reaches me in the noise and dust. many builders, trying for market differentiation, pump up ancillary functions to the point of major features. many others make units so capable it’s hard to sort useable sounds out of the literal noise. and it seems like both the “sounds good” and “is peculiar” markets are glutted beyond enema-ization. is it me, or is it just too much now?

[dubkitty]

BTW the Roland Drum Computer of Death is €3699. not doable in my world. if i had to really, really care about crafting drum tracks i might be excited, but not 1.5 White Falcons worth of excited.