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The Pro Co RAT is a staple and should be widely available. I think hardcore guys like to use it for their kick drum? The Tube Screamer is very popular for guitar but would probably suck for synths since the effect is pretty subtle and is mainly used to enhance an amp distortion rather than provide distortion on its own. The Big Muff is probably a bit overbearing but could be cool if you want very unsubtle things to happen. One of the online retails put out a video specifically about plugging synths into distortion pedals -- IIRC it was Sweetwater. It'd probably be worth checking that out, if you can find it from my vague description. [edit]Yep, it was Sweetwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Pzoo06O20 BDA fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Sep 2, 2017 |
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Sounds like time for a Behringer shopping spree.
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Sep 2, 2017 11:57
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Gringostar posted:i really wish boss made a fuzz pedal that wasn't a loving modeling one for this exact reason since every one of them is buffered (seriously the waza craft people need to get on this) The Behringer SF300 is a $25 Boss FZ-2 clone. Not sure if that's the kind of thing you meant though since by the demos it's a lot more Dopethrone than Purple Haze.
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Sep 2, 2017 17:16
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Anybody have a suggestion for a first project for a DIY pedal novice? My soldering skills are pretty rudimentary. I've heard the Super Hard On both sounds good and is brain-dead simple, would that be a good choice?
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Sep 27, 2017 00:10
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It's not the most subtle thing in the world. Maybe it's just my pickups (one guitar has EMGs and the other has hot ceramic humbuckers) but I haven't had much luck getting sounds other than Electric Wizard style earth-moving annihilation out of mine. I'm not complaining too much since Electric Wizard style earth-moving annihilation is mostly what I wanted. There might be some magical combination of volume knob and pick attack that'll get "Purple Haze" instead but I haven't found it yet. Of course, YMMV.
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Jan 5, 2018 03:00
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Putting the wah after the distortion is also an option. It can sound pretty different depending on the source. Also try putting the reverb before the distortion  Definitely not a staple sound but you can get some nifty shoegaze-nightmare sounds that way.
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Feb 14, 2018 23:17
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What does a wah pedal actually do, anyway? Is it a high-resonance lowpass filter? It's surprisingly difficult to find a straight answer on this.
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Feb 15, 2018 01:54
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:$40 left over to buy a bunch of dirt weed. Nah, you need another delay. For some reason. I don't know why.
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Apr 2, 2018 22:19
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Do you guys have a go-to chorus pedal? I'm a big fan of the TAL-Chorus-60 VST which is a simulation of the Juno-60 chorus (I'm assuming this is the same or at least similar to the JC-120 chorus) and I'm curious what pedal options I have for getting that sound.
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Apr 7, 2018 01:04
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Wampler goes a bit goofy modding Metal Zones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_s2PTcwyNw I like the overdrive and fuzz mods.
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Apr 24, 2018 23:08
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My parents just sent me the pedals I left there when I moved out, so if you were curious what kind of cheap crap a cash-strapped teen in the mid-90s used here you go: The blank Soundtank is a flanger. The wah is a Morley and it really sucks. I don't know if it's defective or what but it has no treble at all and heel down the signal basically disappears.
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Aug 26, 2018 02:36
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After The War posted:Morelys are optical wahs, so you might able to fix it by cleaning the light and sensor inside. I found a Youtube demo and the guy's sounds just like mine so this might just be what Morleys sound like. Unfortunately I don't have the right power supply for the FX57 (old DODs don't use the Boss-style power supply, they have their own that looks like a headphone plug) and I don't particularly want to waste one of my batteries on it, so I can't comment on what it sounds like. The flanger at least works, aside from the switch being a little flakey.
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Aug 26, 2018 22:59
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Snowy posted:that sounds pretty great? Is it not as good as that would seem to be? It's only got one tone knob so you can't do the Swedish buzzsaw that is the only reason anyone ever buys an HM-2.
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Aug 27, 2018 03:02
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My best analogy for what I don't like about it is that it sounds like a synth with the filter resonance turned down too low.
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Aug 27, 2018 15:50
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The Leck posted:This is the right answer - get the adapter, then get a Rat so if you don't like the DOD pedal, you at least have a Rat and a power supply for it. The Onespot combo pack I got included a few so I can now definitely say that the FX57 is extremely average.
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Sep 3, 2018 00:03
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Fooled around a bit more with my FX57 and while it's kinda crappy for guitar I do like how it works with my Korg Monologue.
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Sep 10, 2018 02:09
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Anybody have any suggestions for getting the best results out of an HM-2 clone? ("best" meaning "sounding the most like Left Hand Path") Should I run it into an amp sim or just use it as a preamp?
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Oct 7, 2018 15:34
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:It should be run into a high gain preamp (either your amp's distortion all the way up or another pedal like a TS). Make sure the eq knobs are dimed on the HM-2. I tried running it into my Tightmetal and it sounded completely horrible (the wrong kind of horrible, I mean) -- extremely noisy even with the gain on the HM300 all the way off and with an overbearing can-of-bees treble. I'll need to workshop that one a bit, I guess.
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Oct 8, 2018 03:08
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I'll fiddle with it some more tomorrow, I think the EQs on the two pedals are kinda clashing. I also fiddled around in Amplitube a bit. None of their generic models worked very well but I did get some promising results from some of the Orange amps.
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Oct 8, 2018 04:49
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The Boss power supply seems to be a de facto generic standard these days so most people use it now unless they have a compelling reason not to, but yeah, you can find plenty of stuff that doesn't. I have a DOD distortion pedal from the 90s that uses a 3.5mm headphone jack as a power supply plug.
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Dec 12, 2018 11:33
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I think somebody on these very forums has built one that mounts directly on a guitar knob.
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Jan 31, 2019 11:34
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massive spider posted:Wherever you have noise you want to kill. If you have noisy pickups putting it at the start can head off noise before it gets amplified or maybe after a dirt if that’s noisy. Put it Before ambient effects though or it will cut off your tails. Alternatively, put it after ambient effects if you think the cut off tails sound cool.
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Feb 16, 2019 23:58
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JamesKPolk posted:Ideal would be a box with knobs I could stick on a table and run an expression pedal to - do those exist? If you for some reason don't want to spend $600 on a wah pedal the 535Q has some adjustability: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/CrybabyMulti--dunlop-535q-b-cry-baby-535q-multi-wah-pedal-black
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Mar 6, 2019 23:04
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The Fender one has a tube in it so it's automatically better (I think it's also a much bigger tank than you'll usually find in an amp reverb.)
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May 21, 2019 01:48
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Get a whammy pedal, and then put it after the reverb so it whammies the tail. This will be either cool or extremely annoying. Mission accomplished either way.
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Jun 9, 2019 11:05
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Any of you have an opinion on the Earthquaker Hoof? I'm looking for a fuzz that's a bit more versatile than my SF300 and I liked the Hoof's demo.
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Oct 3, 2019 22:29
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Can you magically make any piece of poo poo distortion pedal sound good by putting a Tube Screamer in front of it? It's doing wonders for my DOD Hard Rock Distortion, an objectively bad-sounding pedal.
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Oct 20, 2019 00:36
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Just picked up an EQD Plumes to replace my Behringer Tube Screamer clone and I'm really impressed with it. I love how touch-sensitive mode 1 is, I was playing some old Rush songs with the gain about halfway up and I could go from crunchy power chords to completely clean arpeggios just by backing off my pick attack. Also got a Hoof but I haven't dug into that one too much yet.
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Oct 28, 2019 21:38
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It's not the most versatile thing in the world but if you want a sonic bulldozer it delivers.
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Oct 31, 2019 21:48
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Isn't that all of them, though?
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Apr 19, 2020 18:20
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Mesa Boogie sells a pedal version of the Mark series' graphic EQ, although the price is a bit ridiculous: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BoogieEQ--mesa-boogie-boogie-five-band-graphic-eq-pedal
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Apr 24, 2020 14:00
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I'm sure the Mesa claims to have some magic sauce that makes it three times better than a normal EQ pedal. I haven't got a clue what it could be, though.
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Apr 24, 2020 17:16
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It's worth fiddling around with the order of your dirt pedals, too, it can make a big difference.
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May 20, 2021 21:31
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What baffles me is that the Plumes and the TS-9 are the same price. It's not like EQD is Mooer or some other budget brand.
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When I was having an Andy Summers phase I really liked running a chorus into a mild overdrive. Gets that gritty New Wave sound.
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