Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

[kmcguitars]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

Yesterday afternoon I found a brown box jammed into my mail box? My Uber metal showed up! Gave it a whisper volume test last night. Seems I like the Pulverize setting the best, And the gate 1 seems to keep things from getting out of hand. I'll put it though it's paces once the wife goes to work.:cool2: Being primarily a Blues/Rock guy, It was fun playing with a bunch of gain. I'll report back latter.

 

[fretburner]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

I've put the Echo Park and Space Chorus pedals through their paces. The echo park is a keeper for me. It's definitely a great sounding and flexible piece of gear. Heads and shoulders above my Arion SAD-1 Analog Delay. The Space Chorus is good and is also very flexible. It's just not that much better than my Arion SCH-1. I prefer the Arion in the head to head because you can turn down the tone knob and still manage to keep most of the highs while shedding the snarky upper mids that most chorus pedals are famous for. The mod effect on the Space Chorus is a little more severe in turning down the highs. It's a cool pedal and could be very useful at times. The tap function is awesome allowing you to go from a very convincing leslie effect with a fast speed then turning into a slow chorus when you tap again. It's very useful and it could gain a place in my lineup yet. It just hasn't earned that place as of now.

Both Line 6 pedals are great pedals. My Arion pedals aren't slouches and they put up a pretty good fight. Real analog delay and chorus pedals are quite hard to beat and the Echo Park pedal beat out my analog delay. The chorus pedal has also done very well in my shootout and it was facing what I consider to be the best true analog stereo chorus pedal out there for less than $150. Sound quality on both units was unmatched IMHO. They are dead quiet and the pedals don't tone suck when bypassed.

Good to hear the Space Chorus wasn't too bad. I just got one myself today.

My Ibanez CF-7's switch was starting to crap out, and I have been looking at CH-1 and Space Chorus youtube demos, and decided to pull the trigger on the latter.

Great thing too that they're dead quiet. And doesn't suck your tone when bypassed. I don't use the chorus too much, so that is important. Good bypass means I can keep them in my pedal board.

 

[Gr8Scott]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

Brought the strat home tonight to give the uber metal and crunchtone a good working over with more balanced pickups. I REALLY like them both. The Uber Metal is awesome. The crunchtone is also very nice when set up properly though not quite as good as the uber metal IMHO.

The crunchtone sounds best to my ears on the blues setting with the drive dimed and the bass at 2:00 and treble at 10:00 and the gate set to 1. Nice mids with that setting though I thought it would have more mids on the crunch setting and I was dissapointed to find out that isn't really true. There are upper mids, but not enough meat on the crunch setting IMHO. The blues setting seems a tad more marshally on that setting and the bass is tighter there as well.

The Uber Metal sounds best to my ears on the insane setting with all controls set roughly midway except the mids control which is at 2:00 or so and the gate on 1. I am pleased to say that I prefer it to my much vaunted Demonizer when using my strat. It has a slightly more pleasing distortion and it has much less noise due to the noise gate and more gain on tap. That is a very big deal to me. That demonizer is super expensive and if I can get away with using this pedal that cost me $75 and be happier with that than a $299 pedal that takes up more real-estate, I really can't lose.

Both pedals play well with my tube screamer clone (Arion tubulator) and they let you rock out without additional noise and they sound great to my ears so long as you use separate power adaptors for them. They sound like poop without good clean power and their own ground. This means a voodoo pedal power is on the horizon for me to keep my tonecore pedals sounding great. I'm very impressed with each and every unit I own thus far. I need more docks (one stereo and one mono). They live up to their billing from Line 6 so long as you power them correctly.

 

[ImmortalSix]

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I need another dock, too --- if you find a nest of 'em, Scott, let me know!

I got a Constrictor (free from my brother B Bent :headbang: ) module and a full Echo Park (stereo dock) this week, and while I haven't tried the Constrictor yet, the Echo Park is :bigeyes:

 

[fretburner]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

Just how good is the echo park? How does it compare to the more popular digital delays like the DD3? And does it sound like an analog delay?

Whenever I hear "echo" instead of "delay" pedals, I always think echo = analog delay, delay = digital delay. haha!

 

[kmcguitars]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

I have to agree w/t Gr8scott, The Uber Metal is pretty cool. (for $20 !!) I like the pulverize setting the best. The level at unity ,Bass & treble,gain @ 12:00 both mids scooped at 3:00. The coolest feature of this module is the noise gate. Gate 2 is a Lil' stiff, But gate 1 works great keeping my Singles & Buckers quite. I don't play much Metal anymore, But this fills in my distortion needs just about where my SFX-03 leaves off.:approve:

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

Just how good is the echo park? How does it compare to the more popular digital delays like the DD3? And does it sound like an analog delay?

Whenever I hear "echo" instead of "delay" pedals, I always think echo = analog delay, delay = digital delay. haha!

I haven't spent enough time with it to tell you, but check out some youtube clips --- try gearmanndude and proguitarshop

 

[B2D]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

Just how good is the echo park? How does it compare to the more popular digital delays like the DD3? And does it sound like an analog delay?

Whenever I hear "echo" instead of "delay" pedals, I always think echo = analog delay, delay = digital delay. haha!

It's pretty friggen good.

The EP is probably the best bang-for-the-buck Digital Delay I've tried yet. The tone preservation is great and the sounds in generates are really beautiful. The tape delay simulator is just awesome.

The DD series (except for the dd2) have always seemed very thin-sounding to me by comparison.

Picked up a used Echo Park for $75 and haven't regretted it one bit.

 

[B2D]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

My Roto-Machine module came in the mail today! $25 and a little patience... worth it!

 

[Ascension]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

Just how good is the echo park? How does it compare to the more popular digital delays like the DD3? And does it sound like an analog delay?

Whenever I hear "echo" instead of "delay" pedals, I always think echo = analog delay, delay = digital delay. haha!

They sound GREAT only thing they are also SUPER noisy!!! With my Zinky designed amps you absolutely can NOT run those!! Sounded incredible through the loop on my old TSL Marshall though and was quiet ther. Through the front end of the Zinky stuff (loop is too hot and they clip in the loop) the Echo Park has a weird SKOINK every time you see it cycle in the bypass mode. The sound guys at my Church went nut's over that noise in bypass. The Echo Park is the absolute noiseist Delay I have ever heard and is flat unusable in the front of a high gain amp. I now use a Boss DD-7.

 

[Ascension]

Re: Anyone got their closeout tonecore pedals yet?

It's pretty friggen good.

The EP is probably the best bang-for-the-buck Digital Delay I've tried yet. The tone preservation is great and the sounds in generates are really beautiful. The tape delay simulator is just awesome.

The DD series (except for the dd2) have always seemed very thin-sounding to me by comparison.

Picked up a used Echo Park for $75 and haven't regretted it one bit.

Agreed on for tone but noisy as H%$l!!!