Caevan O’Shite Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 1 hour ago, Larryz said: Interesting but at 2 to 3 grand each, the two Yore effects are well above my pay grade LoL! 😎👍 ps. I do love Spring Reverb... I know, right? Definitely more for a studio that has a steady list of paying clients... 3 Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfergirl Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 2 hours ago, Larryz said: Interesting but at 2 to 3 grand each, the two Yore effects are well above my pay grade LoL! 😎👍 ps. I do love Spring Reverb... But the shipping is free🤣 3 4 Quote Jennifer S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 "Free Shipping" is the modern version of "Free Lunch" -- there ain't no such thing! This is why instrument accessories such as cases have more than doubled in price over the past few years, as shipping costs skyrocket. This, however, does not explain the price on those Yore effects! 🙂 2 Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p90jr Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 not new (except to me) but certainly cool IMO... I finally picked up a Zoom Multistomp (MS-70CDR) which is stompbox-sized thing full of chorus, delay, reverb and modulation patches... and it's pretty great for $129 (and is tough, which I can attest to because I just knocked it off the top of an amp and it took at 4 foot fall onto a ceramic tile floor that has obliterated iPads and dishes and suffered no damage)... You can set up a chain of 4 pedals... I'm having fun... can throw it and my little ZT Lunchbox Jr. in a backpack and have a small battery-operated go rig 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fraser Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 AKG made some pretty decent sounding big, furniture-esque spring reverbs in the 70s. This Days of Yore sounded no better than the short crappy springs I remember from that era, and for anybody willing to drop $3600 on something which sounds like this, I have a Radio Shack cassette machine I will gladly sell you for only $5000. 3 Quote Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 3 hours ago, Scott Fraser said: AKG made some pretty decent sounding big, furniture-esque spring reverbs in the 70s. This Days of Yore sounded no better than the short crappy springs I remember from that era, and for anybody willing to drop $3600 on something which sounds like this, I have a Radio Shack cassette machine I will gladly sell you for only $5000. Yeah those are some good ones, and they did a software emu at one point but I recall it being pretty wonky and not too prone to update for OS architecture changes. 1 1 Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted April 17 Author Share Posted April 17 you're most likely gonna need to switch the subtitles on for this one: 1 Quote http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 The volume Commander pedal looks real useful for tone. 1 Quote dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted May 14 Author Share Posted May 14 ok, a sampler pedal...but it's Chase Bliss, so not quite the sampler pedal you'd be expecting: 3 Quote http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 1 hour ago, hurricane hugo said: ok, a sampler pedal...but it's Chase Bliss, so not quite the sampler pedal you'd be expecting: Damn it! 1 Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 14 minutes ago, Dannyalcatraz said: Damn it! Haahhaahhaahhaahhaahhaahhaahhaahh!! 1 Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted May 16 Author Share Posted May 16 All E-Bow and other sustainer fans...do yourselves a favor and check this out: https://cdm.link/2024/05/landscape-ferrous-resonator-for-strings/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0dQls7rFM3F5FlfCvR2fper1HLeV1NNfBFGbnNQVu6xs-B1Laa2m4cSG8_aem_Aajco5vBhWVnoyUtLbUob-QAMdvTIy0_Tw6bywS38I4tM5CmEH1RthKc0Bn7-fZ0PXHAld-OaUp0Vvsq9JOPZvj1 1 Quote http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 If I understand this correctly, this kid if does what Steve Stevens’ ray gun toys did back in the day. Which sounds cool to me! 2 Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted May 17 Author Share Posted May 17 ok behringer, lol 3 Quote http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 11 hours ago, Dannyalcatraz said: If I understand this correctly, this kid if does what Steve Stevens’ ray gun toys did back in the day. Which sounds cool to me! Makes me think of Paul Gilbert and his Makita drill. Electric toothbrushes, old-school electric razors with rotary blades, those small hand-held batter-operated fans, pretty much anything with a small electric motor, or an electromagnet will do something to your PU's. My concern would be the possibility of de-magnetizing your PU's. There's a (possibly apocryphal) story about Andy Summers having the PU's de-mag on one of his Guitars, and he eventually figured out it had something to do with taking the London subway system, which is essentially one massive Electric Train set. Funny thing, I have never heard of such a thing happening to Musicians in NYC, which has had an electric subway system for over a century? 4 Quote "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thethirdapple Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 More ideas I never thought to think about… NYC subway: …in the form of three-phase alternating current at 11,000 volts, this current to be generated at a frequency of 25 cycles per… London tube: …operate at 630 volts DC using third (positive) and fourth (negative) current rails… Not an electrician, nor engineer so maybe? PEACE _ _ _ 2 Quote When musical machines communicate, we had better listen… http://youtube.com/@ecoutezpourentendre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 @Thethirdapple - Thanks for that! It seems like this would be an interesting experiment, or challenge for someone with a curious mind, and too much time to spare; check in with Musicians worldwide, to see if anyone else has ever had a PU de-mag from riding the Subway/Tube/Metro/What-have-you? Working in Music, and Music retail around D.C., which also has an Electric Train set for public transport, I never encountered this, nor did I ever hear from anyone else who'd experienced it? In at least one version of the Andy Summers story, supposedly he'd figured out that there was a point on his regular commute, where he passed a large transformer, or something like, and that was the cause of the difficulty, rather than the Electromagnetic field generated by the Tube, overall. 2 Quote "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted May 24 Author Share Posted May 24 It's not cheap, but holy crap! 4 Quote http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Oh, man . . . @hurricane hugo - That thing is dangerous. I can already envision hooking it up through one of my MIDI Patchbays, and losing a week's worth of sleep. 3 1 Quote "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 I just upgraded my Big Muff from the Nano Pi to the new J. Macsis Ram's Head edition last week and was surprised by the string-to-string separation and clarity of the latter. I ended up selling the Nano, which I liked quite a bit. I think it is modeled after the first rev of the second version of the pedal (early 70's), whereas the purple J. Macsis script edition is modeled after the mid-70's second rev of the second version of the pedal. I love the bass edition, which is basically a Green Russian with an extra bass boost switch. Never cared for the Smashing Pumpkins orange opto edition, but I like most Big Muffs, and it still surprises me how different they sound from each other. I am also finding that I prefer using fuzz on LP to any of my Fenders. 4 Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 I finally pulled the trigger on a Catalinbread Soft Focus tonight. First gear purchase in quite some time- definitely since 2023 at least. 4 1 Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 2 hours ago, Dannyalcatraz said: I finally pulled the trigger on a Catalinbread Soft Focus tonight. First gear purchase in quite some time- definitely since 2023 at least. Ooooh, I'm very much wanting one of those, myself! In fact, I very nearly ordered one earlier tonight, myself- what a funny and odd coincidence that would have been! Be sure to report back about it! 5 hours ago, Mark Schmieder said: J. Macsis Ram's Head edition last week and was surprised by the string-to-string separation and clarity... It's somethin', the things that you can only really tell about a pedal like that by plugging it in and trying it out, as opposed to listening to various demo-videos. It's also surprising just how much they can vary from one to another to another of the same pedal, even the same year and production run. 5 Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Nearly all of my Guitars run HB's, and I love the sound of the Sovereign with them, using the "Vintage" and "Gain" settings on the mini-toggle switches. With some creative knob-twisting, you can get a surprising range of sounds from it, although I feel it would be wasted as an Overdrive. 3 Quote "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 38 minutes ago, Winston Psmith said: Nearly all of my Guitars run HB's, and I love the sound of the Sovereign with them, using the "Vintage" and "Gain" settings on the mini-toggle switches. With some creative knob-twisting, you can get a surprising range of sounds from it, although I feel it would be wasted as an Overdrive. I think that you and I may have somewhat different and overlapping definitions of "overdrive" and "distortion"... 3 Quote Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Psmith Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 @Caevan O’Shite - You're probably right on that count. My idea of a "Clean" sound is what most players are trying to get with Transparent, or Low-Gain Overdrives. "Overdrive" should have more warmth than snarl, with just a little tooth showing. You could get away with this sound in a Wedding/Bar Mitzvah band, but not on EVERY song. "Distortion" is pure snarl, lips curled back, fangs showing. Distortion is visceral, you should feel it, as much as hear it. "Metal Distortion" is essentially Weaponized Guitar. You'll likely take some damage if you get too close, but as long as you're having a good time, WTH? "Fuzz" is, to quote Devo's motto from back in the day, "The Sound of Things Falling Apart." For unrepentant Noise fiends, Praise "BOB" and pass the hallucinogens. 3 Quote "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://www.novparolo.com https://thewinstonpsmithproject.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 I’ll add a caveat: fuzz CAN be used for softer tones than the Fall of Western Civilization. A good fuzz with well-designed controls- when used in skilled moderation- can be tamed from grizzly bear to teddy bear. 4 Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Everyone must get one. B’s Music has a YouTube demo vid but the guy talks too much. 1 1 Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 The long winded demo. 1 Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted May 29 Author Share Posted May 29 I love this thing Quote http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 53 minutes ago, CEB said: Everyone must get one. B’s Music has a YouTube demo vid but the guy talks too much. We’ll, NOW we as a community need to start a GoFundMe to get one* to send to Winston, because he already has a Korg Miku stomp. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE MIND BOGGLING! (Also, that’s a…funky keyboard.) * and maybe a signal splitter 3 Quote Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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