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I recently switched from boss to TC electronics pedals. Overall I'm very happy with my tone. I am however not totally digging my Chorus pedal. I have all the normal size Tone Print models. TC released a special edition Chorus pedal in the Corona+. It's black instead of green and it look really nice.
However I'm not totally happy with it. I'm so use to Boss Chorus pedals and Multi effects Chorus which to me was way more lush and full sounding. I can't seem to get this thing to sound like that. It's a super subtle chorus effect and if thats the way it is well then I'm probably gonna sell it and go back to Boss or try out some other Chorus pedals on the market.
I use chorus a lot when I write clean stuff. I like how it sounds with a touch of reverb and most of the time a nice delay. Pedal order in the effects loop for those is Chorus>>>Delay>>>Reverb. Thats how I like it and all the different sound come though on their own very nicely. They don't get in the way of each other as I played around with placement and this works the best.
I tried many tone prints but they are confusing to use. I don't know where to set the levels as some say all at 12 is what they where designed for and others say dial in your own way of that effect. I would like to start out with how it was made at the levels that where used to make such toneprint , try that out and then adjust to taste if necessary.
Side notes about the other Modulation pedals the Reverb is fantastic, I have the Holy Grail from TC and it's amazing. The Toneprints are killer and it's my favorite Reverb pedal I have ever used. I don't miss Boss here at all.
The Delay I have is the Flashback by TC and it's good but in many ways I think my Boss DD-7 was better. I'm still trying to dial it in so it's there but in the back ground. It has a funny way of jumping to the front of the sound and then going away. The Boss I was able to keep back so when I let a note ring out, thats when you heard it, not while playing Chords and chugging. The Flashback you can hear it when chugging a lot. I tried to dial it down but then it's to down. I can't seem to find that sweet spot I like with it. The sound quality of the pedal is very nice and just as good as the Boss but it's the setup I'm having problems with.
I swapped in and out my DD-7 and the DD-7 is just so easy to setup. I can dial it in in seconds where the TC I've been messing with it for months and can't find my spot. I use delay just about all the time.
One pedal I'm so happy with is the Sentry Noise gate. This is a better gate then the Boss NS-2 which was a good gate but added in some slight strange gating sounds. The TC is silent. I have no idea it's even on. It just does it's job and thats it. I love that pedal to death.
For drive pedals I have the Spark, Dark Matter and the Mojo Mojo. The Mojo Mojo just came off my board as I like it for some things but it doesn't get used as much as I thought it would. It has a more fuzzy sound then a tight distortion like OD. By itself it's ok at best for me but I like it used as a OD in front of my drive channel to overdrive the overdrive.
The Spark by far is the very best OD Boost like pedal I ever owned. It's amazing to say the least. What a fantastic pedal, everything it does it does perfectly for me.
The Dark Matter is My Marshall like tone. My amp is high gain and brutal and I can't dial it down to get nice warm OD to Distortion like tones for Classic Rock stuff like Bryan Adams , AC/DC , Aerosmith stuff. But the Dark Matter with the Spark in front of it is amazing. I was using the spark into the Dark Matter but found the Spark better suited after it. I get some awesome 80's metal tones with that setup. I use to use all 3 with the Mojo Mojo first but I removed it and like this setup better. Not to mention trying to retain the best overall sound quality out of my rig and that meant reducing the amount of pedals and patch chords which helped so much I was able to remove the BonaFide buffer I purchased to help retain my high end clarity and definition.
The Bonafide Buffer works great but it's not on my board. I don't need it anymore after reducing pedals and using all Mogami Gold cables. Man did that make a difference. I removed most of my Planet Waves pedal board build it yourself cables and that made a huge difference. I can't believe the tone suck I got out of their stuff. I love how nice they where, the connections are top notch and building all my cable to my lengths rule. But not when your tone suffers because of it. I now use Live wire 1/4 to 1/4 adapters between some of my pedals and Mogami Gold Patch cables where the adapters don't work. This combo cleaned up my sound and man does it sound damn exact when I bypass the entire board and go directly into the amp with a 10 foot chord. That was the entire goal when building my pedal board was to retain my original tone and then just off effects where I need. I don't run a bunch of stuff that I don't use and just have in case. Screw that I like simply and great tone over having a million different effects.
This is why I now don't miss the GT-100 as it had every effect under the sun in it but at a tonal cost. I do miss the control part but I'm gonna fix that with a ES-8 switcher or something of that quality. From what I learned so far the Boss ES-8 is the best of the best out there. Nothing is better and at $699 retail, its affordable enough to justify it's cost especially for what it can do. It's flexibility is just like the GT-100 and maybe better but with much better sound quality.
I recently switched from boss to TC electronics pedals. Overall I'm very happy with my tone. I am however not totally digging my Chorus pedal. I have all the normal size Tone Print models. TC released a special edition Chorus pedal in the Corona+. It's black instead of green and it look really nice.
However I'm not totally happy with it. I'm so use to Boss Chorus pedals and Multi effects Chorus which to me was way more lush and full sounding. I can't seem to get this thing to sound like that. It's a super subtle chorus effect and if thats the way it is well then I'm probably gonna sell it and go back to Boss or try out some other Chorus pedals on the market.
I use chorus a lot when I write clean stuff. I like how it sounds with a touch of reverb and most of the time a nice delay. Pedal order in the effects loop for those is Chorus>>>Delay>>>Reverb. Thats how I like it and all the different sound come though on their own very nicely. They don't get in the way of each other as I played around with placement and this works the best.
I tried many tone prints but they are confusing to use. I don't know where to set the levels as some say all at 12 is what they where designed for and others say dial in your own way of that effect. I would like to start out with how it was made at the levels that where used to make such toneprint , try that out and then adjust to taste if necessary.
Side notes about the other Modulation pedals the Reverb is fantastic, I have the Holy Grail from TC and it's amazing. The Toneprints are killer and it's my favorite Reverb pedal I have ever used. I don't miss Boss here at all.
The Delay I have is the Flashback by TC and it's good but in many ways I think my Boss DD-7 was better. I'm still trying to dial it in so it's there but in the back ground. It has a funny way of jumping to the front of the sound and then going away. The Boss I was able to keep back so when I let a note ring out, thats when you heard it, not while playing Chords and chugging. The Flashback you can hear it when chugging a lot. I tried to dial it down but then it's to down. I can't seem to find that sweet spot I like with it. The sound quality of the pedal is very nice and just as good as the Boss but it's the setup I'm having problems with.
I swapped in and out my DD-7 and the DD-7 is just so easy to setup. I can dial it in in seconds where the TC I've been messing with it for months and can't find my spot. I use delay just about all the time.
One pedal I'm so happy with is the Sentry Noise gate. This is a better gate then the Boss NS-2 which was a good gate but added in some slight strange gating sounds. The TC is silent. I have no idea it's even on. It just does it's job and thats it. I love that pedal to death.
For drive pedals I have the Spark, Dark Matter and the Mojo Mojo. The Mojo Mojo just came off my board as I like it for some things but it doesn't get used as much as I thought it would. It has a more fuzzy sound then a tight distortion like OD. By itself it's ok at best for me but I like it used as a OD in front of my drive channel to overdrive the overdrive.
The Spark by far is the very best OD Boost like pedal I ever owned. It's amazing to say the least. What a fantastic pedal, everything it does it does perfectly for me.
The Dark Matter is My Marshall like tone. My amp is high gain and brutal and I can't dial it down to get nice warm OD to Distortion like tones for Classic Rock stuff like Bryan Adams , AC/DC , Aerosmith stuff. But the Dark Matter with the Spark in front of it is amazing. I was using the spark into the Dark Matter but found the Spark better suited after it. I get some awesome 80's metal tones with that setup. I use to use all 3 with the Mojo Mojo first but I removed it and like this setup better. Not to mention trying to retain the best overall sound quality out of my rig and that meant reducing the amount of pedals and patch chords which helped so much I was able to remove the BonaFide buffer I purchased to help retain my high end clarity and definition.
The Bonafide Buffer works great but it's not on my board. I don't need it anymore after reducing pedals and using all Mogami Gold cables. Man did that make a difference. I removed most of my Planet Waves pedal board build it yourself cables and that made a huge difference. I can't believe the tone suck I got out of their stuff. I love how nice they where, the connections are top notch and building all my cable to my lengths rule. But not when your tone suffers because of it. I now use Live wire 1/4 to 1/4 adapters between some of my pedals and Mogami Gold Patch cables where the adapters don't work. This combo cleaned up my sound and man does it sound damn exact when I bypass the entire board and go directly into the amp with a 10 foot chord. That was the entire goal when building my pedal board was to retain my original tone and then just off effects where I need. I don't run a bunch of stuff that I don't use and just have in case. Screw that I like simply and great tone over having a million different effects.
This is why I now don't miss the GT-100 as it had every effect under the sun in it but at a tonal cost. I do miss the control part but I'm gonna fix that with a ES-8 switcher or something of that quality. From what I learned so far the Boss ES-8 is the best of the best out there. Nothing is better and at $699 retail, its affordable enough to justify it's cost especially for what it can do. It's flexibility is just like the GT-100 and maybe better but with much better sound quality.
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