Fundamental Stomp Boxes.......

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Btw a little of the sustain topic.

A friend of mine jsut got his MOJO vibe univibe pedal and it was jsut unbelivable.
Its one of the greatest pedals I`ve tried.

I also today got a guy who`s selling Digitech visiting my store, and he let me demo the new Brain may red special pedal.

And that rocked my world as well, being a big queen fan.

Specially the Echo, and harmonizer section :)
 
Mr. C said:
Multi-fx are great in some ways because you can get tons of different effects without having tons of pedals, but the time it takes to figure it all out is a nightmare IMHO. I had a RP200 at one time and just didn't have the time to mess with it, now I have the RP50 just because I still wanted to use some of the patches it offers, but I haven't made any of mine own really.

I play mostly classic rock and now I have a Dunlop Cry Baby 95Q, a TS7 (modded), and a DOD Icebox Chorus. Looking to get a Ernie Ball Vol. pedal. I think that's about all I will need...well maybe delay...who knows?
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I have a RP200 as well but rarely use it anymore-just around the house for recording sometimes. I worked out my own patches, but I really hated having to step thru all the default patches to get to my stuff. I used it for live gigs for a while till I played a outside gig in the afternoon. Those green patches disappeared in the bright sunlight, it was rather useless for anything in the bright light of day!
I now rely on my trust Boss pedals and my Ernie Ball volume pedal, they don't play games with me-they work all the time. ;)
 
Currently I just use my Pod so I can piss Cephus off.

But I used to have qute a collection of stomp boxes.
 
Anfontan said:
I have a RP200 as well but rarely use it anymore-just around the house for recording sometimes. I worked out my own patches, but I really hated having to step thru all the default patches to get to my stuff. I used it for live gigs for a while till I played a outside gig in the afternoon. Those green patches disappeared in the bright sunlight, it was rather useless for anything in the bright light of day!
I now rely on my trust Boss pedals and my Ernie Ball volume pedal, they don't play games with me-they work all the time. ;)
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I had the same thing happen to me with my RP50. I had to keep kicking it over until I got enough shade from something so that I could read the stupid thing. I try keeping the patches in order of what I am going to play. Now that I have a tube amp I'm only thinking of one patch I would need it to gig with.
 
andydeedpoll said:
actually, saying that - how do people find the Pro Co Rat pedals? i was thinking either that, or the Big Muff Pi from electro harmonix. i'm also looking at the Pulsar from their box of tricks - i think i could use a tremolo that could be used to some fairly aggressive/out-right-wierd degree :p

Andy
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Sounds like you're looking for a dirtier kind of distortion. While I haven't played the Big Muff Pi (heard tons of good things about it) I do own a Rat 2. Glorious tone (if you're not playing metal) and all the gain you could ever want. I keep the gain between 9 and 11 o'clock for more of a classic rock/indie kind of sound. It's a bit difficult to mic, but I'm guessing that it's my amp and micing techniques, since the pedal sounds damn good straight from the amp. A lot of people don't like the sound, but those are usually the people who are looking for a good metal sound (not this pedal's forte, although it can be done) in the vein of Dual Rectifiers and Peavey 5150s. I think the best way to describe it would be to mix the crunch of a Marshall with the fuzz of a Fender and make it sound delicious. Good luck!
 
ez_willis said:
I have a Big Muff, but she won't let me mic it.
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Damn! What *will* she let you do!?!? Actually... best you don't answer that :D
 
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IronFlippy said:
Sounds like you're looking for a dirtier kind of distortion. While I haven't played the Big Muff Pi (heard tons of good things about it) I do own a Rat 2. Glorious tone (if you're not playing metal) and all the gain you could ever want. I keep the gain between 9 and 11 o'clock for more of a classic rock/indie kind of sound. It's a bit difficult to mic, but I'm guessing that it's my amp and micing techniques, since the pedal sounds damn good straight from the amp. A lot of people don't like the sound, but those are usually the people who are looking for a good metal sound (not this pedal's forte, although it can be done) in the vein of Dual Rectifiers and Peavey 5150s. I think the best way to describe it would be to mix the crunch of a Marshall with the fuzz of a Fender and make it sound delicious. Good luck!
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thanks for that :) next (i mean, first :o ) paycheck will probably be quite quickly turned into something like a Pro Co Rat. it sounds like it might get the kind of sound i'm after... they just don't seem quite as common in Britain, shop-wise! but that's what the internet is good at :p thanks!

Andy
 
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Mr. C said:
I had the same thing happen to me with my RP50. I had to keep kicking it over until I got enough shade from something so that I could read the stupid thing. I try keeping the patches in order of what I am going to play. Now that I have a tube amp I'm only thinking of one patch I would need it to gig with.
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I think the RP50's tuner is good enough that if that's all the box had, I'd buy it, but I've never tried to use one outdoors.
 
TragikRemix said:
is there anything to building an A/B switch, because i dont want to buy the original pedal for my amp, ($40 bucks) if i can make one.

im thinking its just 3 jacks and a switch, but is there anything else, ie diodes capaciters?
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The original guy was talking about the peavey mace, which is like the old classics that I have. The footswitch on those was pretty weird actually. Mine has "Selector" and "Combiner" I think. Some of the old ones have "series" and "parallel". I could never get it to do clean <stomp> dirty. But one stomp made it kinda cleanly almost distorted and soupy saturated. I think it may have been like putting the two gain stages in series so you were fuzzing out the second preamp and the power amp. It was the closest that peavey could get to real 80s heavey metal distortion.

I was at samash saturday and was surprised to see that a fricking classic 30 was marked at almost the same thing I paid for my classic 50 delivered. It must be a sweet amp. I'd use one if I didn't play with drummers who think you have to play louder to play faster.
 
I like my Dyna Comp,it gives you sustain and drives the amp a little.

I had a couple of muti fx boxes but got rid of them for the same reasons as others mentioned.I don't play live and if I really need to,I'll add something later.

I like very slightly distorted tones,I'm not big on spaceship sounds. :rolleyes: :D
 
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