Re: Accidental NPD: EHX Crayon
Have not been a fan of Electro-Harmonix for some time. They always had great sales hype and premise but the pedals usually disappointed me pretty quickly. But whatever one likes is the ticket. Been my experience a good player can make a piece of crap sound pretty decent. So that sort of thing can be really deceiving as to the pedal being of quality tone and potential. I am convinced you give anything to Mike Hermans and he can fly it around the room making you want to get one. The last EH hype thing that seemed a little shall we say false is calling an inexpensive drive a KLON when it does not use germanium diodes or the same circuit really. Reminds me of vastly different pedals that "sound" like things. Anyone recall that cool BLIND PGS demo test using a KLON and a Lovepedal Kalamazoo, the majority of listeners picked the Kalamazoo as the real sounding Klon when it is a totally different tubescreamer type mod circuit. Every time I get into pedals I use I get these snob and cork-sniffer insults for "boutique" pedals "and the el cheapo stuff is just as good".
Well, it is not really, and the Mercedes in my garage is not a Ford Fiesta.
That being said and EH being one of those lines I sort of went through a stage using, been a great many of them. That new EH Mel9 that just came out has my interest but have not seen anyone really use it to lay down underlying backups on their normal guitar I have in mind but I am also a former guitar synth player as well. Maybe because few split the signal, but I digress. As far as overdrives go, if you play it and like it then have at it. One persons grail pedal is another's door stop. I find all pedals to be a little different and the interaction and chemistry of ones overall rig to their hands and ability is rather infinite. That is the fun of pedals, try it, keep it, toss it is what I enjoy.
