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qersty wrote:

Sentient Twig wrote:The freakenbender is sick. Most of that insanely priced English shit is a rip off imo, but that one is a legit great fuzz pedal.

Is it 300 great tho? I feel i am only going by my monkey brains desires when it comes to an oscillating fuzz in a mk3 box

Well, my method for keeping myself honest on fuzz purchases is A/Bing them vs my EH Big Muff Tone Wick pedal that I bought for $50 bucks. Because a shocking amount of really pricey fuzz pedals are either not as good as that pedal, or not enough better to justify their price to me. I bought a few coloursound pedals out of curiosity, including one for $600ish, the Freakenbender, and one of those absurd MKI models, out of morbid curiosity, and figuring I'd flip them at a small loss worst case. After comparing to my $50 big muff, the only one I kept was the Freakenbender, and took losses on the other two.

"Is it worth $300" is such a personal preference question---it was for me, but my guess is most people would say "no."

So a couple of years back I used to book shows and play bass live for a noise rock band. Today they asked me to come jam and help shape a new song of theirs for an upcomning recording. Had to put something together quickly and ended up with this. I've really missed playing bass in a band context, especially through the cat tail and ECT. Turned out really pleased with this setup

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minimal ambient board + prepared/ebow guitar

Sentient Twig wrote:

qersty wrote:

Sentient Twig wrote:The freakenbender is sick. Most of that insanely priced English shit is a rip off imo, but that one is a legit great fuzz pedal.

Is it 300 great tho? I feel i am only going by my monkey brains desires when it comes to an oscillating fuzz in a mk3 box

Well, my method for keeping myself honest on fuzz purchases is A/Bing them vs my EH Big Muff Tone Wick pedal that I bought for $50 bucks. Because a shocking amount of really pricey fuzz pedals are either not as good as that pedal, or not enough better to justify their price to me. I bought a few coloursound pedals out of curiosity, including one for $600ish, the Freakenbender, and one of those absurd MKI models, out of morbid curiosity, and figuring I'd flip them at a small loss worst case. After comparing to my $50 big muff, the only one I kept was the Freakenbender, and took losses on the other two.

"Is it worth $300" is such a personal preference question---it was for me, but my guess is most people would say "no."

Oh yeah this is totally true! I was asking mostly cause i feel i get into a "just another tonebender" mindset even with the extra stuff. Tho if its as a great a TB pedal as you claim i may find it worth it.

Though alot of the time i feel that money is alot for any fuzz

HorseyBoy wrote:

Paul_C wrote:I started rearranging my pedals and then went a bit mad.

As a consequence four music stands has become two, and a 20+ pedal chain has dropped to 14 (15 if you include the feedback looper).

Here's a typically blurry photo to show the full weight-loss

Must be hard to get your foot up so high to stomp those switches…

Not when you used to be a ballerina.

cloudscapes wrote:minimal ambient board + prepared/ebow guitar

What are the blue, yellow and green ones?

PanicProne wrote:

cloudscapes wrote:minimal ambient board + prepared/ebow guitar

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What are the blue, yellow and green ones?

Yellow's a digitally controlled analog ring mod.
Green's a 3-in-1 dirt.
Blue's a 14-second delay/looper.

Holy crap! That ring mod! consider me intrigued! :O

jrfox92 wrote:

PanicProne wrote:

cloudscapes wrote:minimal ambient board + prepared/ebow guitar

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What are the blue, yellow and green ones?

Yellow's a digitally controlled analog ring mod.
Green's a 3-in-1 dirt.
Blue's a 14-second delay/looper.

Correct. Thanks for digging around.

No video/clip yet. I'm still trying to figure out what to play that's interesting without it being a "marketing demo" you know. Maybe just a jam.

Jam sounds like a great idea! Go for it!

cloudscapes wrote:minimal ambient board + prepared/ebow guitar

Oh my God, the Mechanical Sun is still alive !

My board now with the Mask Audio Electronics NO. fuzz onboard.

NO. is essentially a different lead sound. I have my typical lead sound thats distinctive to me, and then a newer splatty fuzz sound. Its sick.

nice. and this is for bass?

Nope, guitar. Band I played bass in broke up, now im playing guitar stuff again. haha