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Darth Fungus posted:Another quick question. I'm thinking of getting an EH Holy Grail (reverb whore). There's a very specific sound that I want to achieve, that I've only heard in surf rock songs. It's this weird little reverby sound, I don't quite know how to describe it, sort of "twee twee" noise. Couldn't find a youtube of it, but its in the intro to Pipeline by The Lively Ones (not in the other versions). I remember turning the reverb to 10 on a fender amp in a store one day and I made that noise on accident and I love it. So my question is, will the Holy Grail be able to make that noise? You might need a real spring reverb tank for that. It's what the surf dudes used, and I know Fender have them in a few of their amps.
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Agreed posted:The Fuzz Factory really has to be first in the chain (or, at least, after only TB pedals - you don't want to compromise the peculiar relationship of the input impedance to the guitar pickups' output impedance). My experience with the Zoom G2 to G9.2tt are that they can be configured to be very transparent. I was easily able to achieve unity gain with my G9.2tt. It might not be so easy with the lower end units, though. The Fuzz Factory has a MOSFET input buffer - there shouldn't be much loading of the pickups like there would be in a Fuzz Face, so it doesn't really matter if it goes first or not.
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May 9, 2008 19:01
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The SHO is a single MOSFET boost, he just loving bitches about MOSFETs not being FETs (despite the clue in the name). The Fuzz Factory is actually a SHO into a Ge Fuzz Face that has a bunch of resistors replaced with pots. I haven't played a Factory myself, so I can't really comment on how it sounds with a buffer in front of it, but I am certain there is an internal buffer in there and I would have thought it would sound the same with or without anything between the pedal and the guitar. edit: I just looked this up, and it seems the Fuzz Factory has a Si BJT input buffer, not a FET. It is the SHO and Box of Rock (and other SHO based stuff) that uses MOSFETs. I guess a BJT buffer could load a guitar's pickups, so I stand corrected unless someone can back me up. the wizards beard fucked around with this message at 20:05 on May 9, 2008 |
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May 9, 2008 19:54
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If the footswitch actually turned the power off, you would hear weird noise every time you turned the pedal on or off - you can try and pull a battery or power cable to hear this. It's easier to keep them on all the time and have the switch decide whether they pass a signal or alter it.
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May 9, 2008 21:57
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Raze posted:That's because 'she' used to be a 'he' and is transitioning to female at the moment. It's pretty easy. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.castledine/greenfuz/tb4.html http://misterwookie.blogspot.com/2006/03/crybaby-wah-pedal-true-bypass.html
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May 28, 2008 23:30
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3toes posted:HALLELUIAH! Wonder if bass players will have to pay more. The DIY/booteek guys have been tinkering with these out for years, its cool Ehx are doing one now.
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Jul 1, 2008 18:27
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It was  last time.
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Jul 2, 2008 18:03
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Agreed posted:Right now I'm hardcore jonesing for a Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Sig. Silicon Fuzz. Those things are the best sounding production fuzz pedal I've ever heard, and well worth the price. Boutique quality from a big manufacturer. Best sounding silicon fuzz I've ever played. Are these the ones in the big round Fuzz Face enclosures? I heard they sound like rear end.
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Jul 31, 2008 22:20
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Agreed posted:It's the big blue one. And you heard wrong. It's a repro of the silicon chip version of the original fuzz face (I've already got a great germ fuzz face mod/clone), point-to-point wired, true bypass, faithful down to the type of transistor and to the lack of a battery eliminator jack. Sounds amazing if you like what the Fuzz Face has to offer. I haven't played one, but I seem to remember the DIY community were buying these for change in pawn shops and gutting them to make Ge FF replicas. Looking around online, it looks like the JH1 and the JH2 were the lovely pedals, is the JH-F1 different? The Dallas Arbiter reissue is cheaper and apparently has the original Germanium trannies, have you played that one?
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Aug 1, 2008 10:40
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Leninboarrir posted:Thanks for the info! One other question: I don't currently have a preamp, and people have been telling me I should get one, especially because I play with pedals. Any recommendations? Wha..? Do you have an amp? The pre-amp is the first stage in your amp. If you have that Marshall amp then you have a pre-amp. Do you mean an external pre? 
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Aug 1, 2008 15:10
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If you have to play with headphones you could just ditch the little amp and use some nice phones straight into a multi-fx with the amp and cab modelling turned on.
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Oct 13, 2008 15:48
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You could also buy a whole bunch of these http://www.music123.com/Tone-in-Progress-Third-Hand-Expression-Pedal-150146-i1175542.Music123
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Oct 14, 2008 16:24
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I've wanted one of those for a while but I can't seem to figure out how they work. The pictures never show batteries or power jacks so it might not be a motor, if it's some clever system where moving the pedal translates to a rotational force then it's really loving awesome.
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Oct 14, 2008 17:34
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Couldn't you commission a clone for less than that? I've seen quite a few McMeat DIY jobs, surely some one could do one for less than $350.
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Oct 14, 2008 18:16
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I would have thought that a clone would run like 200-250$. There's a whole bunch of drilling and there are a lot of pots and jacks but it's not a ridiculously complicated circuit. There are dudes really into building pedals who bulk order stuff and could get the costs pretty low, you should hit up the DIY forums and see if someone could give you a quote.
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Oct 14, 2008 19:05
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Um, distortion? Maybe a noise gate too?
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Oct 15, 2008 15:08
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Zakalwe posted:I play drop C on one of my guitars and I needed to make up a custom set from 12-60 to get something approaching normal tension. Below B the strings get too floppy for my tastes. I know some guys who play Doom in C standard on 13s, but that's going for a "normal" sounding tone and string tension, not a brutal sound.
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Oct 15, 2008 17:40
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I missed one of those for €25, really pissed.
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Oct 15, 2008 17:55
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A noise gate will mute your guitar when you are not playing - so when your signal goes below a certain threshold level it shuts it off. If you play with high-gain this is really useful because any small sound would otherwise end up as an amplified distorted sound, and noise can turn into hiss or feedback. It's pretty hard to play tight, clean start-stop metal rhythms without a gate.
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Oct 15, 2008 18:22
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Probably not if you recorded the guitars with distortion. The noise is already there, a gate wouldn't help much. You could manually edit the spaces between notes, but that would be difficult and time-consuming. If you have recordings try it, I don't think it would work very well but I could be wrong.
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Oct 15, 2008 18:36
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Yeah, the gate should remove the noise between every note. Check out some youtube videos of the Boss NS-2 or the ISP Decimator, noise gates are one of the few effects where youtube demos are pretty reliable.
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Oct 15, 2008 18:44
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hamaien posted:So I need (want) a fuzz pedal now that I have everything else I needed (wanted). Seeing as how there are probably a few thousand choices out there, where is a good starting point? Other than Devi Ever and Zvex, what are some good fuzz brands out there? Zvex is pretty aggressive about protecting his IP, if you do find someone who'll do a clone it'll probably be a wink-wink under the table deal.
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Oct 29, 2008 22:41
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The Fish 'n Chips is a great pedal - quieter than the Boss 7-band, only with a cheaper switch and jacks. If you don't mind giving money to Danelectro it's totally worth it.
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Apr 26, 2009 15:25
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Old EHX pedals use thinner jacks, the same as the RAT series. New ones use BOSS-style jacks. You can buy adapters on eBay for next to nothing, but I'm fairly sure the Bass Muff uses a standard Boss 9v jack.
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The old EHX and RAT pedals use jacks that look like mono 1/8" audio jacks, the power supplies look like this  Boss-style jacks have been more or less adopted as a standard nowadays, PSUs look like this  Something like this will do the job if you want a converter http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/Visual-Sound-18-1-SPOT-Converter?sku=151690 the wizards beard fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Sep 23, 2009 |
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What tuning do you use? 31 and 62Hz are near the low B on a 5 string bass and a 7 string guitar respectively, if you don't tune that low then can only help by cutting out low-frequency noise (but lots of guitar amps, pedals and speakers will do that anyway)
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Jun 15, 2010 13:52
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CalvinDooglas posted:there's still an undertone component to any harmonic vibration No there isn't, that's what a harmonic series is. There might be lower resonant modes of your instrument that can be detected by the pickups but they're going be very inharmonic.
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Jun 15, 2010 18:34
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Some do and some don't. There is endless debate online as to which pedals are which and if it even matters
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Jul 16, 2010 16:01
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EHX stuff, especially older stuff, is the easiest stuff to work on. Get it fixed. Or give it to me, whatever.
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Aug 31, 2010 00:29
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It's definitely the low frequencies that do the damage. Pickup output doesn't really come into it - do bass pickups really have higher outputs than the overdrive/distortion pedals that guitar players run in front of their amps? http://professional.celestion.com/guitar/features/drdecibel/secret_cabinetdesign.html JC-120s are notoriously wideband and invincible, I wouldn't worry about it. edit: I think the dangers of too much low-end are overstated. As long as you apply some common sense you should be fine. Just don't crank everything up if your speakers are struggling to produce much volume in that band, every moron with blown speakers seems to have tried this. the wizards beard fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Sep 3, 2010 |
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Vira posted:Oh, I've tried that already, didn't have any luck. I can't seem to figure out what that is. If it's a passive filter then I guess it would work, I would still go with using a pedal to split the signal.
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There are very few analog reverb units in production, I don't think there are any analog reverb pedals.
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Sep 15, 2010 23:51
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Get a used one. Any production run with problems will have been weeded out by now
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Sep 16, 2010 02:31
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A friend of mine broke the power supply to your Tubeking onstage at Fibbers 
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Yeah, I've been meaning to do something like that. It looks like power supplies are about €4-9, I'll probably just order something and re-use the jack connector from the old one.
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Sep 16, 2010 13:33
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plester1 posted:I was under the impression that the case took the load on any Boss pedal. I think the moving part of the pedal hits the case before it can overcompress that plastic part. I'll have to check when I get home. I think this is right, stomping hard will just grind the lever pad into the case. The travel of the actuator that presses the switch is limited, I don't think it can apply any extra pressure if you push harder. The popular 3pdt footswitches can definitely be damaged by excessive force or by pressing off-axis. I'm pretty sure there is an article online by one of Visual Sound techs, he said they have completely avoided returns with broken switches by moving to a momentary spring-loaded actuator pushing a small switch.
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Oct 23, 2010 03:17
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I can guarantee that if you live in a medium-sized city there are several DIY-happy dudes who will fix it for cheap.
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Mar 29, 2011 22:25
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Muffs in that size all have slanted enclosures.
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Epi Lepi posted:I'm not particularly attached to it and I won't be doing the repair myself. I've got a Fulltone OCD and one of the newer Muffs for dirt so it's not like I need this one. If you want to sell it then I might be interested. Which version is it?
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Looks like a Tall Font Russian. You'd probably get 200-300USD for it. edit: whoops, didn't see you have a replacement knob. The original knobs are impossible to source nowadays, so this is probably worth a little less
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