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morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

I said I'd post clips of my English Muff played through my Bassman a million times but never did.

Here she is:

http://gozoidberg.net/files/muff.mp3

Excuse the cliche style shredding, but it's hard to fight it when you click this pedal on :o:

There's a Small Stone phaser on, a Boss DD2 delay, and the English Muff (going to my Bassman). Gain is at about 1 o'clock. The guitar is my Parker Nitefly. The Bassman has the bright switch on, Treble at 10, Bass at 10, Master Volume at 10, and channel volume at 1.5 :ssh:

Here's the pedal switched off, same guitar and other effects on (excuse the clipping):

http://gozoidberg.net/files/bassman.mp3

Only up to date picture I have, Nitefly not shown here.

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morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

Agreed posted:

Haha, that sounds so much like the Danelectro Fab-Tone! I'm going to record a clip to see if my hypothesis is correct, since I'm at my wife's parents' house so I can't just confirm it directly, but I think it is!

I love the Fab-Tone's distortion, and I think I'd love this pedal too. Fuzzsortion :rock:

My goal for this weekend is to record some more clips with the volume slightly higher than 1.5 :v:. I'm thinking 6 or 7. The pedal actually sounds worlds better with the amp volume up and gain knob down.

I forgot to mention, I put 12ax7's in the pedal to replace the stock tubes. It helps smooth it out.

morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

3toes posted:

Crank the mids! Sounded a little scooped for my tastes. Or maybe it was the other effects. Just engage the muff'n leave the other stuff off.

On the Muff'n, the mids and bass are at 3 o'clock, with the treble at 9 o'clock. It gets way too bright if you put it up any higher, especially with the Bassman's bright switch on.

morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

Does anyone have any experiences with the Vox ToneLab ST and Zoom G3? I'm looking for some kind of multi-effects pedal to play around with at home and I'm leaning towards the G3 since it has loop functions and a built in drum machine that I may or may not use. I haven't gotten to try either pedal out yet, but so far I like the layout and feature set of the Vox but really want some loop action. Am I better off going with the Vox and getting a separate loop pedal down the road or is the G3 decent enough to start with?

morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

NonzeroCircle posted:

Hope this was some use!

Definitely, thanks for the write-up. I thought about the Vox's expression/volume pedal and realized that the Zoom actually supports an add-on pedal. I have a Line6 one laying around somewhere but I'm not sure if it needs a Zoom specific one. I'm going to try to get to Guitar Center later today to try them out. I watched some demo videos with the Zoom and I did get the impression that some of the effects were tinny sounding, but it's tough to judge from a YouTube video being watched on a tablet. I'll report back if I get to try them out later.

morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

So I tried out the Zoom and it's pretty sweet. Unfortunately they didn't have the Vox for me to try. The G3 has a shitload of pedals built in, and from what I gathered there was too many screechy sounding gain pedals. I really liked having all the different modulation effects though and I was able to get some pretty awesome sounds out of it. I'm still on the fence about it until I can try the Vox.

morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

Alright so I ended up going with the G3. The idea of being able to hook it up to my computer and edit the patches was a huge selling point and I'm dialing in my own as we speak :waycool:

morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

Can anyone give any recommendations for a first time DIY pedal kit? I found a few sites but figured I'd check here first. Just looking to do something basic like a fuzz.

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morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

polar posted:


I figured out what I wanted to build and started looking. There are allot of places. I sourced all the parts myself. Build your own clone is one place. Mammoth electronics is another. there are lots of schematics on http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/ I built a sunface clone. The hard part of looking on tagboard effects was finding the board. I got a few off tayda electronics(prototyping board). Think I got the components from pedal parts plus. Just google DIY guitar pedal. The pedals are just the start. You can build amp clones. After the issues with my first pedal I am not interested in a amp anytime soon. Also the amps get close to the price of retail.

I found Mammoth in my searches and they seem great so far. I'll probably get something from them. I got ahead of myself yesterday and started looking at DIY amps but don't want to drop the cash and risk blowing myself up, so I'll start small.

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