pictures of your gear here

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:20 am

this has been a lot of fun
classic distortion > DD600 > RV-7 > Pitchblack > RC-2 w/ footswitch
classic distortion has blown me away

Ty · Post by Ty » Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:46 am

Are those Hardwire pedals any good? Haven't tried them out yet.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:09 pm

as far as quality goes, they're superb. true bypass, they come w/ custom velcroe for pedal boards, glow in the dark sticker for dark stages, super bright led, and a stomp lock so you don't stomp away your settings
as far as sound, it's whatever floats your boat, but the rv-7 is amazing to my ears

Post by **Hurb** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:11 am

Bit of a switcharoo

Back on an actual board.
The tuner and the overdrive being at the top doesnt bother me as the overdrive is always on and the tuner gets used infrequently.
So in my head I actually only have a 4 pedal, board haha I doubt I would need the overdrive if I was playing loud as it is just there to push the amp and add a little grit. and playing loud in a band situation may not be that far away actually..hence putting shit on a board for ease of transport.

SHiva and ufo cover both ends of fuzz/dirt and the echo machine is on there because size to sounds ratio, it packs a punch. and the xp1000 has all the weird off kilter sounds any noisy boy or gal could want.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:43 am

thats a sweet board hurb, you decided to keep the UFO?
i thought you sold the XP1000? or was that the spacestation?

do tell about the live gigs?

Post by **Hurb** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:46 am

Progrockabuse wrote:thats a sweet board hurb, you decided to keep the UFO?
i thought you sold the XP1000? or was that the spacestation?

do tell about the live gigs?

Ufo kept for now.
I sold the spacestation when I got the xp1000 because it does spacestation and more.

Nothing to tell yet, Just being more proactive in getting a band together. but seriously nothing to tell as of yet.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:55 am

nice one hurb, playing live is great.

i've been trying to get a new band together for ages, tis very difficult in the current climate.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:08 am

Good news about the band situation Hurbster. But, obviously Dead To Me and all that.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:07 pm

insprired by benecol's recent pedal picture and the fact i was bored, i've taken a shot of all my pedals.

starting on the left hand side:

Boss CE-20, Dunlop Crybaby Voulme Pedal, Dunlop Crybaby Wah, Made By Mike Timmy (on top of wah), Danelecro Reel Echo.

Top Row: Boss SD-1, Marshall BB-2, Made By Mike Duo-Fuzz, Digitech Bad Monkey, Boss CE-5, Boss TU-2.

Middle Row: Danelectro Chicken Salad (of mike and lamp Fame), Made By Mike Saltbooster, Boss CS-3, Boss PW-2, Boss BD-2, Boss MZ-2, Fender Tuner, Behringer Ultra Flanger.

Bottom Row: Made By Mike Box Of Mike Prototype, Behringer Blues Overdrive, Behringer Ultra Tremolo, Dunlop Classic Fuzz, Boss DD-3, Made By Mike Tonebender, Rangemaster Treble Booster (made by me).

murch33 · Post by **murch33** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:49 am

Woo-hoo, volume.

BradK · Post by **BradK** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:55 am

FUCK! \\\\\\m//////

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:09 am

dude, fucking ill setup. <3 me some MIJ customs

James · Post by **James** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:08 am

I bought a black marker pen and a white paint marker and did this...

It's a bit messy where the paint marker was a bit awkward to use (see white blob on the top and the bit just past the Y in factory is a bit dodgy) but overall I like it a lot. I really should bother to install that LED though.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:14 am

That looks really good James, I like that.

Ty · Post by Ty » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:39 am

murch33 wrote:Woo-hoo, volume.

4 Oregonians!

Post by **Mike** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:14 pm

James wrote:I bought a black marker pen and a white paint marker and did this...

It's a bit messy where the paint marker was a bit awkward to use (see white blob on the top and the bit just past the Y in factory is a bit dodgy) but overall I like it a lot. I really should bother to install that LED though.

That looks great.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:20 pm

Just added the boss HM-2 to my guitar mangling arsenal, has anyone else had the joy of annoying the neighbours with one of these and a telecaster (instant Queens of the Stone Age or My bloody valentine depending on your mood). Nothing makes me smile like a new distortion/fuzz pedal.

avj · Post by **avj** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:30 pm

I had everything torn apart to work on a new board and layout, so I figured I'd take some photos.

First row, L-R: Boss RE-20 Space Echo, TU-2, SD-1, GE-7, DS-1, PH-3, BF-3
Second row, L-R: EHX Big Muff Pi USA (reissue), EHX Small Clone (reissue), EHX XO Micro Synth, EHX XO Stereo Pulsar, EHX Black Finger
Third row, L-R: Original SansAmp, SansAmp GT2, Marshall Shred Master, Marshall Drive Master, Ibanez FZ7, Danelectro Fab Echo (w/self-oscillation mod)
Fourth row, L-R: Dunlop Original CryBaby, homebrew Super-Fuzz, homebrew effects loop switch, DOD FX75-B Stereo Flanger, DOD FX55-B Supra Distortion, DOD FX60 Stereo Chorus, Pro Co Rat 2 (USA)

A bit of this stuff was purchased used or at music store closeout sales. I don't ever use the PH-3 and BF-3, but they were $40 each brand new at a closeout so I figured I'd sell them someday. I just bought the Micro Synth and Pulsar at Guitar Center's President's Day sale, and both seem pretty great. The MS was 10% off and the Pulsar was only $50, which is much cheaper than the kit I was going to build -- otherwise I'd say both are overpriced.

Top, middle, bottom: Vox Pathfinder 10, '04 Fender Blues Junior, '73 Fender Vibrosonic Reverb

The Vibrosonic is my main amp, and it's fantastic; it's essentially a Twin Reverb with a 15" instead of 2x12". (The BJr looks to be as tall as the Vibrosonic here, but it's just weird perspective distortion.) Between being 100 watts and having a 15" speaker, there's really no breakup without killing the fellow down the block. It sounds nothing like a Twin to me -- it seems much more "round" and "warm", to use completely useless and nonsensical adjectives.

The Blues Junior has a decent dirty sound, and it cuts through no problem un-mic'd at rehearsal volumes when I don't feel like lugging the eightyish pounds of speaker and output transformer in the Vibrosonic.

The Vox is just a solid state guy with a 6" speaker, pretty much only used to dick around. It works well sitting on top of the Vibrosonic as a kind of tweeter, but doesn't really cut through at gig volume.

Most of my stuff is pretty boring by SS standards, but I suppose that's why I'm new here.

[edit: moved the guitar portion of this to the proper spot in the "pictures of your guitars here" thread in All Other Guitars.]

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:48 pm

Nice collection dude !!

Would you say it was worth upgrading to the sansamp classic from the GT2 ?

avj · Post by **avj** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:11 am

othomas2 wrote:Nice collection dude !!

Would you say it was worth upgrading to the sansamp classic from the GT2 ?

Thanks!

To me, the GT2 and Original SansAmp are completely different beasts. I've used the Original (the "Classic" models I believe are identical to the original, but when they expanded the product line they added "Classic" to the name for clarity) for direct recording many times and it sounds great. The GT2 seems to function well only as a stompbox used with an amp, and the range of sounds is not as great as the Original/Classic. I bought the GT2 second-hand about five years ago for $60 (couldn't pass that up) hoping it would be a decent backup for the Original, and it does the super-distorto-rocking tones well but not the barely-breaking-up Fender tones I use the Original for.

In short, if you use the GT2 for the over-the-top Mesa/Marshall sounds you probably won't see much difference with a Classic. They're now discontinued and fetching high prices, but I saw that Tech 21 is doing a limited run of a Classic pedal that looks like it's been relic'd (no joke), but I don't know the price.