The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[chillerthanmost]

Those Midnight pedals make me GAS hard. Especially the Holy Mountain

Just got mine today

[Beasleyboy]

Those Midnight pedals make me GAS hard. Especially the Holy Mountain

Just got mine today

You're not helping.

[Ancient Astronaught]

[D.o.S.]

Alright, alright. Very funny smart arses.

Seriously though, I don't get why you have a beef with top mount jacks if it's possible to get them in there.
And I know how you feel about batteries.
I won't even bother going there.

Top mounted jacks are annoying in every situation except for the kind when you're trying to cram as many pedals onto a pedalboard as possible. I'm all for all kinds of excess, but I don't do that, so.


Batteries sound better and they're easier to deal with. Until they aren't.

[Jäke]

Although a nice photo, that picture needs to be a video demonstration. Like, soon.



Pretty please.

[chillerthanmost]

Although a nice photo, that picture needs to be a video demonstration. Like, soon.



Pretty please.

I've never made a demo video
But.... I can try. I have some microphones, a phone, and a MacBook, but I wouldn't know where to start or how to plug it all in to make something/anything decent

[new05002]

top jacks or death. Unless its not just not feasible which in that case you have my permission to use them.

Batteries are useful for low current, higher noise circuits (lots of discrete transistors) which are more prone to noise. however you can design a bit of filtering inside a pedal to reduce the supply noise (or you can get a very good supply, I use the Cioks DC stuff which is very nice). Also -9V type circuits (PNP stuff) are useful to have batteries incase you dont have a reverse polarity setup.

[Krosis]

I have learned that pancake style patch cables help a lot with top mounted jacks.

[Kacey Y]

I don't want to have anything to do with batteries in pedals anymore. I have a One Spot for my small pedalboard and a Voodoo for my big one, any pedal that is batteries only is off my board at this point. It's too much hassle and on a less important note, it creates a steady stream of toxic garbage. Everything does at this point I guess, but the power supply only does it once at least and I don't have to worry about a pedal slowly dying and farting out.

[D.o.S.]

I find the idea of eco-conscious doomers slightly hilarious. I'm sure the truck it takes to hall yer stacks and stacks and stacks is worse for the environment than a 9 volt.

Pick your battles, ofc.

[Kacey Y]

I find the idea of eco-conscious doomers slightly hilarious. I'm sure the truck it takes to hall yer stacks and stacks and stacks is worse for the environment than a 9 volt.

Pick your battles, ofc.

Not trying to pick a fight or anything, but I hate that attitude. Just because something else is worse, doesn't mean it's stupid to do something small that's good. I'm not saying you're a bad person for using batteries, that's fine. It's not my main reason, but I think about it. I'm not out in my back yard shoveling coal into a fire pit every weekend, nor am I hammering spikes into trees in logging territory and protesting Monsanto or something, it's just a little issue that's on my mind enough to change a small habit.

[D.o.S.]

I'm not saying that you're wrong -- I'm saying that it's a hilarious incongruity.

It's like the people that rail against corporations while sucking down an Phillip Morris or an RJ Reynolds product. There's zero obligation to be 100% consistent, but it's still something to be aware of.

[Kacey Y]

I'm not saying that you're wrong -- I'm saying that it's a hilarious incongruity.

I understand what you're getting at, but it's only incongruous to me if you think that you have to do everything or nothing. I don't workout every day, but it doesn't make going for a 20 minute walk every couple of days pointless to my overall health. If someone was rabid and aggressive about the same thing in my same situation, I would probably mock them too. I feel the same way about people trash talk hunters and then eating Taco Bell, because factory farming is so worse for animals than killing a few for sport. For some people it's more about seeming concerned than doing better or sometimes just putting down other people. I'm not aggressive or insistent about the battery thing though, not preaching at all. I'm just the kind of person that believes if there's something small that bothers you, that you think you can improve on, it's better to do something small than do nothing. It's not as if I have to be one extreme or the other, I'm fine with moderation and as you say, picking my battles.

[D.o.S.]

Well, in a perfect world you would be doing everything. And we'd be dooming out on ethically harvested wood made by free ranged organic luthiers and getting paid well to put out our locally-sourced vinyl.

That's the dream, anyway.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

hell maybe i skimmed the post about the anti batteries. but I thought corey said he removed all the battery only pedals mainly because it's easier with most being run from power supplies.