Hey all, been a while since I posted here about my Vela mods.
I love the sounds I'm getting out of the guitar but been tempted to go back to standard pickup selector lately......or get a second Vela heh.
Leave one stock and leave this one with my mods.
Anyway, I've been getting into building my own efx pedals and I recorded a video showcasing 3 different variants of a low-medium gain overdrive pedal that I built.
These are based on a "famous over hyped dual overdrive boutique pedal that's got a 4 1/2 year waiting list to get one". I'm sure you know which one I mean.
I used the PedalPCB.com pcb's...and of course made a bunch of modifications to make them more usable for me. Most notably exposing the internal diode clipping selectors that are on dip switches on the original and most clones. There are so many great sounds to be had from this brilliant circuit, everything from clean boost, pushed clean to full on distortion and all points between. Seems to do it all very well.
The video features my S2 Vela and other PRS Guitars along with some other guitars. All guitar tracks were recorded using one of these 3 pedals in some form, either as a clean boost, low gain, medium gain, and some fuzz-ish sounds.
Signal chain is what you see in the pic above. Guitar->TC Polytune 3-> Keeley Compressor -> a couple of boost pedals I built (not used)-> overdrive pedals -> Apollo Twin X into a clean amp model. Reverb & Delay plugins. I only used the compressor on one track for the slide guitar solo, otherwise it's just the compression from the overdrive pedals.
Song is a play through of a beautiful tune from Tom Bukovac and Dean Deleo's "Trip the Witch" project. Highly recommended listening for some really satisfying new guitar music.
I love the sounds I'm getting out of the guitar but been tempted to go back to standard pickup selector lately......or get a second Vela heh.
Leave one stock and leave this one with my mods.
Anyway, I've been getting into building my own efx pedals and I recorded a video showcasing 3 different variants of a low-medium gain overdrive pedal that I built.
These are based on a "famous over hyped dual overdrive boutique pedal that's got a 4 1/2 year waiting list to get one". I'm sure you know which one I mean.
I used the PedalPCB.com pcb's...and of course made a bunch of modifications to make them more usable for me. Most notably exposing the internal diode clipping selectors that are on dip switches on the original and most clones. There are so many great sounds to be had from this brilliant circuit, everything from clean boost, pushed clean to full on distortion and all points between. Seems to do it all very well.
The video features my S2 Vela and other PRS Guitars along with some other guitars. All guitar tracks were recorded using one of these 3 pedals in some form, either as a clean boost, low gain, medium gain, and some fuzz-ish sounds.
Signal chain is what you see in the pic above. Guitar->TC Polytune 3-> Keeley Compressor -> a couple of boost pedals I built (not used)-> overdrive pedals -> Apollo Twin X into a clean amp model. Reverb & Delay plugins. I only used the compressor on one track for the slide guitar solo, otherwise it's just the compression from the overdrive pedals.
Song is a play through of a beautiful tune from Tom Bukovac and Dean Deleo's "Trip the Witch" project. Highly recommended listening for some really satisfying new guitar music.
