Nearest guitar center to me is 2 1/2 hours.The shop I go to all the time started carrying Zvex pedals. I kept begging them to bring in the Woolly Mammoth, which they did after some prodding. I put the thing in front of an Ampeg SVT 8x10" stack and yanked it until every string on every guitar was vibrating. It was insane. I loved that pedal.
But $400.00? Damn. That's nonsense.
Also... I'm not sure if this is a national thing, I assume it is, but Guitar Center has started carrying Zvex pedals. Not all of them, just hard-ons and super hard-ons etc. Worth going down and checking them out.
Plus you can take advantage of the 30-day return policy. Next time you're recording pick a few up, lay it down, and return them a coupla days later.
if you think your lovekraft is cool, check out a klon
that's the target for after the holidays
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............horseybox........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *drool*
seriously, i'd love to give a centaur a whirl, but i haven't had a whole lot of need for a clean boost. then again, i haven't experienced the "magic" firsthand. i figure i might as well go ahead and get on his list and flip it if i don't like it......except he wants $$ up front. and i just wish he was still making them in the gold "horseybox" enclosure instead of the plain silver one.
yes, aesthetics matter. especially on a $400 pedal. but i'm sure as hell not going to pay ebay prices for a gold one. that's just nutty.
actually, there are some supposedly accurate "Klon klone" schematics out there, i might go ahead and build one of those first to give myself an "idea" of the klon's tone.
oh, and if you want nutty pedal prices, there was a landgraff wah on ebay for a $900 opening bid. it closed saturday (didn't sell), so you have to do a completed items search. while i love the look of the landy pedals, and i'm sure they sound great......i don't have a burning desire to pay what they're asking for an LDO.
But i WOULD like a BJF honeybee and EDGM.
cheers,
wade
go to free stompboxes dot org and do a search for the "sagittarian".dude-- if you find that klon clone schematic please share
go to free stompboxes dot org and do a search for the "sagittarian".
it's probably not a dead-on perfect "clone", but they say it gets real close and tonally is in the ballpark. for what amounts to a glorified TS clone, "in the ballpark" is fine for my intentions of "getting a taste". from there, if i want a real klon, i'll get on the waiting list and pay the asking price. i have no desire to pay stupid ebay prices for one.
but for a TS clone, my mojodrive does a real nice job.
cheers,
wade
$250 was the "new" price back then. even now, they're something like $325 new, if you get on the list. you have to pay up front. i've been watching em on ebay for a while now and i can't get a read on em. you'll see one close at $380, and then 2 hours later an identical silver one closes at $520. i don't get it.....and i don't want one bad enough to constantly watch auctions.
there's so many good pedals out there these days it's hard to pick just 4 or 5 to put on a pedalboard.
it's like all the variations on chocolate......is there a bad one out there?