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PanicProne wrote:

gila_crisis wrote:These are all my distortion and fuzz boxes...

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indeed! You have a top 3 and why those are top 3? Also, is there something particular you look for in a dirt pedal?

Top 3? mh...
In no particular order:
- Earthbound Audio Throat Locust (IMHO the best Boss HM2 clone/derivate out there, so sad Mark has stopped business, but I reached him out few weeks ago, and he found a blue b-stock box, so I'm getting a third one )
- MASP Epilepsy (this is totally berserk.... totally uncontrollable mayhem of fuzz and noise: total love for this one!)
- Lastgasp Art Laboratories 046 Sooper Fuzz (super cool take on the Univox Superfuzz, it has a very cool mid grind, also when the mid scoop in engaged, and if oyu push the gain noise... noise galore!)

What I look in a dirt pedal is normally, be able to push the low-end, lots of volume and gain available on tap, and be synthesizer friendly (many guitar pedals just don't cope very well with line levels, then you have to push up the volume quite a lot).

le lambin wrote: I had an older stammen for a while and I remember what was unique about it was the always listening behavior of the recording buffer- you could have a short loop going, then bypass it and while playing something else, then hit record again, and the little snippet between turning the pedal off and on again would be caught in the buffer along with what was already in there. I’m doing a bad job of explaining but it was really cool to be able to put little things in there quickly, like a replace function on a looper.

Tensor also does something similar that I really like.

PanicProne wrote: What's your opinion on the Gnomeratron (any good alternatives out there? How usable is it?) and Purpll? Been looking at both during periods through the years, in search of sounds I really haven't tried before. (For some reason I never got myself a PLL. It was always too hard to find (early days), too expensive, I never quiiite felt I'd use it or the timing always seemed off for me to get one. Then EQD made one and I got put off by the hype, lol. What a hipster, eh? :P

Gnomeratron is a delight but it's not essential. My favorite thing about it is mixing the fuzz with some dirty boost and I'm not sure what else does that quite the same. That said, you'd be fine with a Muff or something Brassmaster-derived most of the time.

PurPLL is the best in class PLL. The EQD one is too tame and the ELTA Schumann clone I had didn't sound better or have better options than the Montreal Assembly. PurPLL still comes up for sale pretty regularly. You should get on the Montreal Assembly mailing list.

With the coming of ILFSS2024, maybe we want to resurrect this thread.


This is the main board.


This is the noisy thing on the side.


These are the shelves.


This is the modular.

Lovely snapshots!

I thought I had a picture, but after looking it was just me remembering listing my pedals for this year's ILFEU, and now all of my gear is in boxes waiting to be unpacked in my new workshop.

So it's this stuff listed plus a Lantern Marigold phaser and a SSBS Mini.

Sorted through some stuff in the shred shed today and found some lost (or forgotten) but now found pedals.



From top left to bottom right: Stammen, Memory Loss, Pest Pattern, EcoMod by Pepe, Arcadiator, homemade oscillating dual overdrive thingy, Titan, 5 channel opamp mixer, Draugen spring reverb, Clang, Cyst Mode V2, Rubberneck, Vocoder, Faye Sing B, Purvs, BitQuest, SEA, Memory Loss, Mini, Mel9, TAFM, Ditto, Ring Stinger, SHSL, Hviskelek, Meatbox, BioMoon, some sort of Chinese fuzz that has one really great setting.

Not pictured and incoming: Line 6 HX Stomp.

Very nice!
Random thought that maybe I've aired before: Has there ever been an ugly version/colourway of the mini? Everytime I see one I feel like I shoud get it (and I'm not even using the one I have that much)!

if i had a driveway i could line everything up in concentric half-circles like the cover to Ummagumma.