Pedal Review---Not what you think!

[briggleman]

Over the years I have acquired a few pedals.... delays, chorus, reverb, switching boxes, distortion, overdrive, modulation effects, multi-effects,....etc.

So, the last week or so, call it fall cleaning if you like, I have been re-auditioning each and every pedal in my possession.

There is going to be a massive sell-off soon.

For delays, I will be keeping just 4... ( I had 8 of them) the Carbon copy, the Strymon Brigadier, the Hardwire DL-8 and the SD Deja Vu.

Reverbs, just one, the Verbzilla.... such a under-rated reverb.

For Chorus, again just one,... a Danelectro 18 volt Cool cat.

I have yet to find a distortion or overdrive that I like, they will all go.

I don't really know why I purchased so many..... but soon I will be simplifying my whole setup.... that is for sure.

 

[Agileguy_101]

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Good for you. Change is good.

Now go out and get some fuzz pedals with all of your proceeds. I've got my eye on this one:

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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Wow...I can't imagine wanting that much delay but I feel ya!

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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Good for you. Change is good.

Now go out and get some fuzz pedals with all of your proceeds. I've got my eye on this one:

Nah...if you want a MK 1.5 don't bother with the Sunbender.

I'm a BIG fan of Mike and his pedals but the Sunbender is just a slightly tweaked Sunface and doesn't at all sound like a MK 1.5 Tonebender to me...in fact it sounds like a good Sunface and not much else.

 

[Agileguy_101]

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REEEally now...

And yeah, four delays is way too much. I'm beyond happy with my Memory Lane Jr and El Capistan. I can't imagine needing more than that - besides something like the Timeline or Timefactor with many presets.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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REEEally now...

Yeah...I love Mikes pedals and have a boat load of 'em but the Sunbender falls REALLY short for me!

There is a new MK 1.5 on the scene, they are about to hit and if you can wait until they are done I can say for sure that they are worth the wait!

 

[Kam]

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Wow...I can't imagine wanting that much delay but I feel ya!

REEEally now...

And yeah, four delays is way too much. I'm beyond happy with my Memory Lane Jr and El Capistan. I can't imagine needing more than that - besides something like the Timeline or Timefactor with many presets.

Pfft. I have three delays on my board right now (one of which is a DD-20) and I'm planning to add two more. You can never have too much delay. :friday:

Briggleman, that's a cool board. I have a Verbzilla too and I love it. What kind of music are you playing with all that?

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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Pfft. I have three delays on my board right now (one of which is a DD-20) and I'm planning to add two more. You can never have too much delay. :friday:

Briggleman, that's a cool board. I have a Verbzilla too and I love it. What kind of music are you playing with all that?

Wow...that's a lot of delay options!

I just can't imagine ever needing that much...I use an Echoplex or a reissue Aqua Puss and have no desire to have anything else and truth is I almost never use either of those!

 

[Kam]

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Wow...that's a lot of delay options!

I just can't imagine ever needing that much...I use an Echoplex or a reissue Aqua Puss and have no desire to have anything else and truth is I almost never use either of those!

Yeah, it is quite a lot. I could definitely get by with less, but I love delay so I can't help it.

I just don't like twiddling knobs, so I like to have different pedals set up for different sounds...kinda like presets on a DL4, I guess.

One of the delays I mentioned is a Boss RV-3, so I'm using that for combined reverb and delay to get really spacey and ambient.

The other is my main delay, that I use for a darker medium length repeat; kinda my multi-tasker.

The DD-20 I mostly use as a looper, though I've got some cool presets stored on it...mostly wackier sounding effects, like a 100% wet reverse delay for example, or a nice crisp digital delay set up for infinite repeats to layer sounds with.

It's kind of excessive, I guess, and I'm sure I could get everything I need from just the DD-20, but they all do different things well, I use them all and I don't have to screw around with their settings very often.

 

[briggleman]

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Pfft. I have three delays on my board right now (one of which is a DD-20) and I'm planning to add two more. You can never have too much delay. :friday:

Briggleman, that's a cool board. I have a Verbzilla too and I love it. What kind of music are you playing with all that?

You are going to love this, the mates and I play everything from Pink Floyd to Johnny Cash, however with the band, I only use the Brigadier and the Cool Cat. Any overdrive or distortion I need comes from my Mesa Express 5:25 mic'ed into the board. When I go acoustic, I use the Carbon Copy with the Cool Cat in the loop coming off of a Pigtronix Keymaster pedal feeding into the board. The Verbzilla is mostly for the acoustic side of things.

I just looked around my music room and saw all this stuff I have been fiddling with,... decided to really concentrate on the sound I want.... and get rid of what I do not use. I will keep a few bedroom effects, the EXH Ring Thing is one, to keep the inspiration flowing.

 

[briggleman]

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Still going through pedals...... I found a distortion I am going to keep.... and you are going to think I am ..... well tone deaf, nuts, out of my mind..... however my ear is loving the most inexpensive overdrive I have purchased.

Here is the rub.... I think I purchased this pedal and never played it!!!!

As I am going through the cabinet full of boxes of effects... here is a brand new Digitech BAD MONKEY. Open it up, take it out of the plastic wrap, plug it in and .... well WOW!! Folks I love this pedal. What a bargain. Then I started to do some research on it...... and some even compare it to a Klon! There is even a shoot out video between the two.

I should have done this years ago.

Brad

 

[dominus]

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As I am going through the cabinet full of boxes of effects... here is a brand new Digitech BAD MONKEY. Open it up, take it out of the plastic wrap, plug it in and .... well WOW!! Folks I love this pedal. What a bargain. Then I started to do some research on it...... and some even compare it to a Klon! There is even a shoot out video between the two.

Very underrated pedal. Whenever anyone is looking for a cheap tube screamer-ish pedal to tighten up a high gain amp, that's what I recommend.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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Still going through pedals...... I found a distortion I am going to keep.... and you are going to think I am ..... well tone deaf, nuts, out of my mind..... however my ear is loving the most inexpensive overdrive I have purchased.

Here is the rub.... I think I purchased this pedal and never played it!!!!

As I am going through the cabinet full of boxes of effects... here is a brand new Digitech BAD MONKEY. Open it up, take it out of the plastic wrap, plug it in and .... well WOW!! Folks I love this pedal. What a bargain. Then I started to do some research on it...... and some even compare it to a Klon! There is even a shoot out video between the two.

I should have done this years ago.

Brad

Yeah, the Bad Monkey, Boss SD-1, Boss OD-3, and MXRs GC Run Classic Overdrive (I just got one for $39 on ebay) are amazing deals.

I hope you find what you are looking for Brad. Sometimes gear can get in the way of what really matters....

 

[Lazarus1140]

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Pfft. I have three delays on my board right now (one of which is a DD-20) and I'm planning to add two more. You can never have too much delay. :friday:

It's no wonder you are my favorite Irishman. I think I want a separate board just for delays.