what are your indispesable effects/gear?

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My original response was kinda dickheaded in tone cuz i've had a headcold for about a week that's driving me crazy but i was just tryin to help man...what I said about distortion pedals being designed to emulate cranked tube amps is true, and if you wanna debate that well............you can talk to somebody else.

Honestly tho, condescending answers to comments with helpful intent will generally lead to equally condescending and / or angry replies...you surround yourself with the energy you create after all.

gerardotejada said:
back to the topic, if you look almost all agree in having a chorus-delay-wha in the set up. curious dont you think?

PD: exept Mr. EP he is for the raw rock sound :rambo:, very brave if you ask me
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Chorus is good for trippy sound effects...delay even moreso...never thought either was cool enough to spend much time with.

I like wah pedals but don't find them necessary.

and you are dead on in saying i'm for the raw rock sound...special effects just detract from the riffs :smokin:

Are you saying i'm brave because I don't hide my sucky playing with pedals? :D
 
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gerardotejada said:
PD: the Fender Blues Junior? Pro Junior? Champ 600? Blackheart Little Giant and Handsome Devil 1x12 combo's? Epiphone Valve Junior? Orange Tiny Terror?.... do you live in chile?... but thanks, I always thought that the tubes werent a thing that a literature student could afford
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Nope, I live in Portugal so I get to add 21% for taxes. And no, 500$ are not converted to 350€, when it comes to gear all stores use the American prices as a basis. So a 500$ amp would in fact cost me 605€. Fun, isn't it.

The only place you can find something where you get the prices in euros (trully converted not just changing the dollar sign to the euro sign) or whatever is Thomman and they still add the 21% tax rate which makes an amp cost something like 423€.

Then again I actually was a literature student up until 3 months ago...
 
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ive made it thru 100+ gigs with just a guitar, george l's or monster cable, a good tube amp, a tuner, slide and a pick or two. i could live without the tuner but im not a big fan of old school on stage tuning. first two pedals ill grab are an overdrive and a clean boost
 
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Lewguitar said:
The only item that I MUST have between my electric guitar and my amp is a good cord. I use George L.

I have a lot of pedals (Fulltone Clyde wah wah and 69, Boss DS-1, Ibanez TS-9 and TS-808, Line 6 DL4, several Boss Chorus units, etc.) but I almost never use them.

However, as far as my acoustic guitars go, I've really been knocked out by the new Fishman Aura pedal. That pedal I never gig without. I have an undersaddle Fishman Piezo in my Taylors and with the Fishman Aura I'm getting the most acoustic and natural tone onstage that I've ever had.

I highly recommend the Fishman Aura pedals for acoustic guitar. Fishman has offered me a dealership and I'm going to start stocking them.
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I'm so glad I opened this thread because I've been looking at options to help my acoustic sound better through my amp than it does now. I use a Dean Markley Pro Mag pickup in it and need something to boost it up a bit through the clean channel of my amp yet retain it's sound. I'll check out those Fishmans.

My only real necessity is a tuner. I like reverb built-in to the amp. A nice overdrive can be handy and I do use one, but I switch between a few here and there a long with a few homemade boosters. My phase 90 I can go without but I like using it for VH stuff and Hotel California. It really adds that little extra to the songs. A wah I can go without and have been. Started using it a while back then it started acting up again so it's off the board.
 
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For playing at home...my Strat, Blues Jr. and my 15 year old Spectraflex cloth wrapped cable.

For small gigs.....Same as above and TU-2 (silent tuning) Crunchbox (Marshall OD), Blues Pro (light-medium OD), and a Bad Monkey (Boost) and a DE-7 Delay.

Big gigs...same as above, except substitute a v-32 for the Junior.
 
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About distortion pedals only emulating tube amps, give it a rest. This whole attitude of "pedals are always crap, tubes are the best" is tiring. There are good and bad amps and pedals out there of every kind. The clipping mechanism isn't nearly as important as the pre-clipping and post-clipping EQ sections anyways. A great pedal can rival or surpass the preamp distortion of many very respectable tube amps.

Note: I do certainly think that having a nice clean tube amp to run a pedal into is important.
 
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LSP said:
Nope, I live in Portugal so I get to add 21% for taxes. And no, 500$ are not converted to 350€, when it comes to gear all stores use the American prices as a basis. So a 500$ amp would in fact cost me 605€. Fun, isn't it.

The only place you can find something where you get the prices in euros (trully converted not just changing the dollar sign to the euro sign) or whatever is Thomman and they still add the 21% tax rate which makes an amp cost something like 423€.

Then again I actually was a literature student up until 3 months ago...
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quite fun.
another literate, how small is the world. any way I am glad that you tell me that, I always think that a tube amp has to be 100 wat or more.
I am saving money for ordering a tube in e-bay (I never did a internet sale before, I will cross my fingers all of them). Truth is that tubes make us all crazy, vintage guys or not. And thinking about it that is the reason I love my Jeckyll & hyde (and find it indispensable) , I have a tubelike sound witout carring a tube amp (you know for "unespected playing").
It would be a good idea to start a thread of tube amps Vs analog tubes (or efects like the tube screamer with tube like sound)


PD:
EmptyPockets said:
Are you saying i'm brave because I don't hide my sucky playing with pedals? ...
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yes, when I get nervous (aka. during Genesis "Fifth of Firth" solo) I use and abuse of the volume pedal and chorus :34:. (and that is just now that we are Practising the song...:dunce:)
 
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hanumanlangur said:
About distortion pedals only emulating tube amps, give it a rest. This whole attitude of "pedals are always crap, tubes are the best" is tiring. There are good and bad amps and pedals out there of every kind. The clipping mechanism isn't nearly as important as the pre-clipping and post-clipping EQ sections anyways. A great pedal can rival or surpass the preamp distortion of many very respectable tube amps.

Note: I do certainly think that having a nice clean tube amp to run a pedal into is important.
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You misunderstood my meaning.

The sound of distortion was originally created by guitarists with small tube combos cranking them up into natural overdrive. Distortion pedals are designed to emulate that sound.

I never said that one is better than the other. I have a modded DS-1 that sounds good, i use it for my dirty sounds when i can't crank up the Bassman and it works just fine. I love Big Muffs and fuzz pedals and would probably use an OD for solos in a live setting but the fact remains that a distortion pedal, or a solidstate amp's gain channel, is a tiny, cold circuit designed to sound like a big, hot tube amp.

edit: saying that a distortion pedal only sounds good through a tube amp kinda reinforces my point...:smokin:
 
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i would say my alamo embassy tube combo it really warms up the sound when i run it in stereo with my Line 6
 
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Nothing for me.



I gig 2-digit guitars and I gig 4-digit guitars. There's no piece of equipment I have to have.

Try gigging with your cheapest gear, and when you come out the other side intact, your world will change.
 
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My indispensable piece of gear is the crowbar leaned against my halfstack.
 
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Nah, Beer$ is just SOOO metal that he plays an actual crow bar with strings on it and EMG's.

Seriously -- nobody out-metals this kid except maybe like Lemmy.
 
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Originally Posted by gerardotejada
I see someone dont like the freudian jokes, I think that I went too far with the ear joke, but I still Think is funny (I am not a Charly Garcia myself also). And I didnt make any condescending coment, only an apreciation
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I don't think your english is good enough to evaluate the effect of your comments, Gerardo. The jokes weren't funny and the comments WERE actually condescending. You're just not able to comprehend... like you think that somebody got the "Charly Garcia" bit? Only an Argentinian musician could "get it". And, for your information, Charly Garcia does NOT have perfect pitch hearing... only in his imagination, maybe.

Qué quilombo que hiciste! :)

Pepe aka Lt. Kojak
Milano, Italy
 
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LtKojak said:
I don't think your english is good enough to evaluate the effect of your comments, Gerardo. The jokes weren't funny and the comments WERE actually condescending. You're just not able to comprehend... like you think that somebody got the "Charly Garcia" bit? Only an Argentinian musician could "get it". And, for your information, Charly Garcia does NOT have perfect pitch hearing... only in his imagination, maybe.

Qué quilombo que hiciste! :)

Pepe aka Lt. Kojak
Milano, Italy
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Oye te juro que yo encuentro divertidas las bromas (la del tubo como simbolo falico por lo menos), y no fui condecendiente, para mí tocar es un hobby serio, pero nada más, considero que las personas de este foro estan más involucradas en la música que yo, solo hice una observación sobre un hecho que me parecio curioso (y yo tengo afinador).
Lo de Charly fue un snobismo prepotente y latinoamericanista, lo acepto y me siento avergonzado de que lo hayas notado, mio pecato lo siento, no volvera a pasar

PD: Charly si tiene oido absoluto!!..... despues me vas a decir que no existe el conejo de pascuas :bigeyes2:
 
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gerardotejada said:
Oye te juro que yo encuentro divertidas las bromas (la del tubo como simbolo falico por lo menos), y no fui condecendiente, para mí tocar es un hobby serio, pero nada más, considero que las personas de este foro estan más involucradas en la música que yo, solo hice una observación sobre un hecho que me parecio curioso (y yo tengo afinador).
Lo de Charly fue un snobismo prepotente y latinoamericanista, lo acepto y me siento avergonzado de que lo hayas notado, mio pecato lo siento, no volvera a pasar

PD: Charly si tiene oido absoluto!!..... despues me vas a decir que no existe el conejo de pascuas :bigeyes2:
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I don't actually speak Spanish but I can understand it perfectly. Don't sweat it. Take care in future posts, in time we'll come to know when you're joking ;)
 
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