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Help!I'maRock!

Help!I'maRock!

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in my newly found free time today, i decided to re-work my board. the idea is to take the best parts from both my Mesa and Allen, and combine them into one board that can be used with any rehearsal amp. i lose the weirdness factor of the Ooh Wah and TZF, and the tones of the Rocket Drive and sToneBender, but it turns into a very practical solution:

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the only thing missing is a reverb pedal. i'm very interested in that Malekko Chicklet. that's what goes into the space between the delay and tremolo. course, given recent events i don't think i'm going to get one any time soon. i guess i could start selling off "unneeded" gear, but IMO that's a last resort to pay bills and stuff.
 
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Very cool! Any chance of clips? You have a bunch of stuff that I've never really heard before.
 
chance of clips is 50% with scattered "how the fuck do you get a decent sound out of this camera?!?! :mad: "

whatcha interested in?
 
I have a buddy that might still be selling his chicklet, if he hasn't already...he liked the videos and clips but didn't like it in person.
 
I checked with him and he already sold it....he described it as more light delay than really reverb-y.
 
How do you like your trem pedal? I have trem on my amp right now, but the stuff I am looking at to replace it do not have trem....
 
k4df4l said:
I checked with him and he already sold it....he described it as more light delay than really reverb-y.
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that sucks. some of them get a little grainy.

there's not quite enough room on this board for an EHX Holy Grail Plus. which sucks because they sound great.

Dave - my trem is the Catalinbread Valcoder. it's a square wave trem, so it's incredibly stuttery. you can see in the pic that i've got the depth all the way down. but there's not a lot of room on that knob before it goes all out. it's a very cool pedal that i don't think Nic makes anymore. if i had to suggest a trem pedal, i'd go with another one of his pedals, the Semaphore. or you could buy my Fulltone Supa-Trem.
 
Mark Wein said:
pretty much all of it.
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how's this for a synopsis, and we'll see if i can do a vid later:

Eventide Pitchfactor: go watch the vids on youtube :tongue:

Subdecay Quasar: 4 stage phaser with 2 additional stages in the feedback loop. rate, mix, and depth are self explanatory. frequency controls how range of the sweep instead of how lush it is (depth).

Way Huge Angry Troll: think about what would happen if you cascaded multiple LPB-1s into eachother.

Tube Zone: probably a severely tweaked out DS-1 at it's core. the filtering and tone knobs get you anything from Marshall JCM800 to Mesa Recto

Jacques Prisoner: modulated delay. basically, a smaller, cleaner EHX Deluxe Memory Man.

Catalinbread Valcoder: Valco based trem with depth knob.

EHX LPB-1: yer basic boost
 
ahh...ground loops. :mad:

in order to run this board with my Mesa, i need to run two One Spots, plus the power supply from my Pitchfactor. it's not a huge deal, just what happens when you use an FX loop. running everything in a single daisy chain creates a wonderful hum when you turn on your boost pedals.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
ahh...ground loops. :mad:

in order to run this board with my Mesa, i need to run two One Spots, plus the power supply from my Pitchfactor. it's not a huge deal, just what happens when you use an FX loop. running everything in a single daisy chain creates a wonderful hum when you turn on your boost pedals.
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yuck.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
the alternative is getting one of the new Pedaltrain Jr's that can accommodate the PP2 and using that instead. i have the power supplies and the daisy chains already, so it's not such a big deal.
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I wouldn't worry about it then...I just hate it when you have to work around stuff like that.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
it wouldn't be an issue if i ran everything out front. but that's not the point of using the Mesa. obviously it's a non-issue with the Allen.
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Yeah....I don't run into stuff like this because I don't use effects loop amps. Have you tried running some stuff before the amp and other things in the loop?
 
Mark Wein said:
Yeah....I don't run into stuff like this because I don't use effects loop amps. Have you tried running some stuff before the amp and other things in the loop?
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well that's how i got here in the first place. :tongue:

if you look at the first pic, it was taken when the board was running into the Allen. this will be it's standard incarnation, as i never use the FX loops on any amp in rehearsal spaces. i find the cleanest amp i can and plug in.

with the Mesa, the signal chain is as follows:

GUITAR -> Pitchfactor -> Quasar -> Angry Troll -> FRONT END -> Amp's Preamp & Tone Stack -> FX SEND -> Prisoner -> Valcoder -> LPB-1 -> FX RETURN -> Presence -> Power Amp -> Speaker

by running the pedals in the loop in the same daisy chain as the pedals out front, you introduce a ground loop. sometimes it's a loud pop. sometimes it's a hum that won't go away. this time, it's a hum that manifests in the boost pedals. just the way the system works.
 
Mark Wein said:
Yeah....I don't run into stuff like this because I don't use effects loop amps. Have you tried running some stuff before the amp and other things in the loop?
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well that's how i got here in the first place. :tongue:

if you look at the first pic, it was taken when the board was running into the Allen. this will be it's standard incarnation, as i never use the FX loops on any amp in rehearsal spaces. i find the cleanest amp i can and plug in.

with the Mesa, the signal chain is as follows:

GUITAR -> Pitchfactor -> Quasar -> Angry Troll -> FRONT END -> Amp's Preamp & Tone Stack -> FX SEND -> Prisoner -> Valcoder -> LPB-1 -> FX RETURN -> Presence -> Power Amp -> Speaker

by running the pedals in the loop in the same daisy chain as the pedals out front, you introduce a ground loop. sometimes it's a loud pop. sometimes it's a hum that won't go away. this time, it's a hum that manifests in the boost pedals. just the way the system works.
 
It took me a second to realize why you have the pitchfactor in the front. Since I have the Timefactor with its totally different application my head was backwards on the signal path...
 
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