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gently caress Your Website posted:There isn't enough difference to make it worthwhile unless you're playing in a Dinosaur Jr or Smashing Pumkins cover band or you just have money to burn. If you do get twitchy about it just get a JHS Muffuletta and be done with it, otherwise it's a hole to throw money in that will never be filled. Well now I just looked up the JHS Muffuletta, and I think I need one of those too. I think my ever growing pedal collection is becoming stupid music poo poo at this point. Like how many pedals do you people all own? I have like ~40 something, and I maybe use 8 or 9 of them regularly. Most just sit around collecting dust. I don't have any crazy rare or expensive vintage ones though. Malaria fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Oct 1, 2018 |
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This is going to sound like a brag, but it's not: I have 10 times that. Wanna know what I use most of the time with my bands?
I am Wark Say and I invite you to my glasshouse of stupid music poo poo. 
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Oct 1, 2018 21:54
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edit: Okay, probably not that many.Malaria posted:
I don't know, I've lost count... like there's at least 4 delays, 5+ wahs, 3 choruses, multiple big muffs, some fuzzes and other things that I've built, a bunch of old big box EHX stuff, Japan and Taiwan Boss HM-2s and a tuner. When I do have time to play it's usually just Angus Young style: Guitar - cable - amp.
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Oct 1, 2018 21:56
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Wark Say posted:This is going to sound like a brag, but it's not: I have 10 times that. Post that wall of amps. Or maybe walls in your case.
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Man: No joke it took me like close to 3 hours to take 4 semi-decent pictures of my current guitar lineup (quoted below).Wark Say posted:Hey, honorable goons! Are you interested in seeing a cautionary tale?
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Oct 2, 2018 00:55
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An interesting facet of the Big Muff is that it is fairly agnostic as far as which transistors you use in the 4 gain stages. The major changes that separate the different versions are the filtering (cap value changes), clipping diodes, whether it uses an IC or not for those gain stages and whether it has 3 or 4 gain stages (the Little Big Muff, which doesn't get talked about much, has 3 vs the standard 4). I say that to say this: vintage Big Muffs do not inherently sound better than new ones do because it's the circuit architecture of it, and only that, that lends it those magical qualities. P.S. Yes, I know some people sub in Germaniums and get funky with it but that was never apart of originals.
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It's worth trying out the ic muffs, i could never get the transistor ones to sound like my favourite muff records.
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I'm pretty confident Boss are announcing a wazacraft metal zone this week which is extremely stupid music poo poo/hilariously Rad.
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Malaria posted:Well now I just looked up the JHS Muffuletta, and I think I need one of those too. My wife is a ridiculous nutbar fan of The Edge, so our collection is as thus: Digitech Whammy 4 Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone Dunlop Crybaby Q95 Kay Fuzztone clone in Crybaby housing Big Muzz Pi clone (germanium diodes) Pigtronix EP-2 Envelope Phaser (really similar to the Lovetone Meatball) DOD Gonkulator ring modulator BOSS DS-1 (JHS Synth Mod) Moog MF Boost Moog MF Chorus Moog MF Delay Red Witch Titan KORG SDD-3000 And then into her AC-30. I'm usually content with my Eleven Rack, but I also have an old tube Harmony that I recapped and added a polarized plug to so as to not kill myself. The pedalboard setup is ridiculously flexible in the amount of tones we can get out of it, but we barely use it for probably even half of its ability. I mean, like four or five of those pedals have expression pedal inputs and we don't use them because we only have one and it's usually in a drawer or something most of the time. Both clones were built by my wife. My PERSONAL favorites are the Big Muff clone, the EP-2, and the Titan. If I were into making a noise band (lol), the JHS DS-1 would be my favorite, hands down. That thing makes fuckin' WEIRD noise.
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whiter than a Wilco show posted:I'm pretty confident Boss are announcing a wazacraft metal zone this week which is extremely stupid music poo poo/hilariously Rad. It'd be cooler if it was an HM-2 that had an actual working dist control that did...something.
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Chalupa Joe posted:It'd be cooler if it was an HM-2 that had an actual working dist control that did...something. Just change it to a toggle switch imo
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Oct 2, 2018 10:52
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The HM2 benefits a lot from a precense knob like some of its clones because the hi knob is basically EDGINESS rather than an effective EQ
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Oct 2, 2018 11:28
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you people with 50+ pedals should send me some tbh
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Oct 2, 2018 12:56
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3228104&perpage=40&pagenumber=104#post488525702 get the stupid while it's hot
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Oct 3, 2018 10:23
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hell yeah i love slapfights
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Oct 3, 2018 14:07
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So I cleaned out a room to put all my music stuff in one place. Got it all setup. Decided to play guitar. Shook a picture off my wall and into a glass table almost as soon as I started. Felt pretty stupid while cleaning up tons of glass. Music room is looking good though. Lots of poo poo piled high.
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Oct 3, 2018 16:41
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So, this is technically awesome music poo poo, but I feel like this is the right thread anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPkz_ippXfw
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Wugga posted:So, this is technically awesome music poo poo, but I feel like this is the right thread anyway. 
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whiter than a Wilco show posted:I'm pretty confident Boss are announcing a wazacraft metal zone this week which is extremely stupid music poo poo/hilariously Rad. yep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPjE-_h6A7I still sounds like a metal zone
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The Muppets On PCP posted:yep The sweet boutique tone of a highschool music room at lunchtime circa 1995
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I don't have time to sit through the whole video, and I'm wondering what it is exactly that makes this different from the regular MZ like, I know the fancypants chorus they put out (that I actually want) has an additional mode that recreates their original chorus box this just seems to be the same thing as the MZ, which is fine, but...
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hexwren posted:I don't have time to sit through the whole video, and I'm wondering what it is exactly that makes this different from the regular MZ It has a "custom mode" knob which I suspect probably makes it switchable to one of the common mods that make it sound less like a wasp nest in an aluminum shed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB8zJ7AEbu8 Ola Englund did a video showcasing the new thingy however his production always sounds amazing so it could still sound like a swarm of angry bees for all I know
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Oct 4, 2018 22:23
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he's also got it plugged straight into the power amp return which avoids the folgers can full of apoideans tone beloved by so many
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The Muppets On PCP posted:he's also got it plugged straight into the power amp return which avoids the folgers can full of apoideans tone beloved by so many I'd definitely agree that the best way to improve the sound of a metalzone is to disconnect it from the input of your amp, I probably wouldn't bother with the rest though.
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he made another video a couple weeks ago with the plain ol metal zone doing the same thing and it wasn't half bad of course plenty of other pedals sound way better going straight into a power amp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTellLC5Djk
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But the Metal Muff is literally EHX's copy of a Metalzone with some mods anyway.
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 well gently caress vpicks then
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Oct 7, 2018 23:27
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i am absolutely shocked a middle aged small business owner into guitar stuff is a chud
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Oct 7, 2018 23:49
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Malaria posted:Well now I just looked up the JHS Muffuletta, and I think I need one of those too. I have a dozen right now, but out of those there are only 3 I know I'm keeping for sure. I try not to hang on to anything I'm not currently playing, unless I'm pretty sure I'll have a use for it in the future. I also don't like having more than one pedal of the same type; I'm fine with owning more than one fuzz, but I don't need more than one Big Muff. I've had a pretty easy time selling and trading pedals through craigslist, so anything I don't like gets flipped as quickly as possible. As for stupid music content, I bought a used Fuzzrocious Demon today that had some kind of animal hair wound around all the control pots.
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You better have left that poo poo in there...
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The Muppets On PCP posted:yep The guy playing the sweeps and fast runs sounds like Rusty Cooley; which isn't a good thing. Of all the crazy bullshit Rusty can do he still can't get a decent tone.
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The only one with a good idea of how to get some halfway decent tone out of the pedal is Rabea. 
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The bearded dude with the natural wood finished guitar made it sound ok. Andy James made it sound pretty good too, but he always sounds great so whatever. Ola Englund's "review" showed it's a really misunderstood pedal. The Metal Zone is much closer to a full-on preamp than a gain boost pedal, which is kind of why it always sounds like complete poo poo into the front of an amp. Same thing would happen if you plugged a 5150's FX loop send into a Recto's front input or something. Going straight into an FX loop makes it sound better but it's still a sterile sounding, solid state thing. Either way though it's not all that great. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Oct 8, 2018 |
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The other thing is that cabinet power amp and speaker sound matters a lot and the first time you use a metal zone you're probably using it into a Line 6 Spider to play Nirvana covers. And by the time youve got a better amp you've ditched the metal zone. The goal of a good metal tone is generally to get crushing focused lows and that requires a lot of effort from the power section but the actual preamp could be SS clipping who cares. Most of those guys sounded like the were getting usable tones except the headless guitar guy who clearly has questionable taste in several aspects. massive spider fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Oct 8, 2018 |
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 Brian finally did something about his fb group being full of misogynist dicks and the replies instantly went nuclear. Jokes are banned forever! The PC hordes have won! I’m glad he did it. That poo poo is beyond tiring.
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Did anyone post "oh man, i gotta give my husband so many blowjobs after this one"
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"oh jeez, this new 2018 AAAAA flametop LP is totally gonna make me give a blumpkin. Glad I'm not in that ska band anymore cause there's only so many rusty trombones in this world"
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lol he just alienated 90% of his customer base
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The Muppets On PCP posted:lol he just alienated 90% of his customer base No he didn’t, just the loud rear end in a top hat segment, which is less than 5% even estimating generously. Most people don’t read Facebook groups about pedals let alone give a gently caress about what they do or don’t say.
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