Johnny Rigs
"Hold on to your butts" - Samuel L Jackson
So, a posthumous release then?Edit: My forthcoming book, Les Knows Everything Except For Some Stuff He Doesn’t Know will be available in 2047.
I kid, I kid!
So, a posthumous release then?Edit: My forthcoming book, Les Knows Everything Except For Some Stuff He Doesn’t Know will be available in 2047.
Well we've definitely descended into some strange rabbit holes. Has anyone seen Alice?
So, a posthumous release then?
I kid, I kid!
Truth! I’ll be pushing up daisies long before then. So, 100%, definitely posthumous!
Meantime, heck, I may even change my strings sometime this year.
You're getting silly, go to bed!
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Joyo American Sound
Rat (or black rat mini clone)
Have you tried pedal stacking? I sometimes run a pair of Boss DS-1s, the most hated pedals around, but stacked and neither into fizzy zone they can be awesome. A six knob boutique pedal.
And Fuzz, it's an animal that takes a while to decipher. Put it on your radar to look into. It's a definite rabbit hole.
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i'm on and off with Fuzz. I thought I had it dialed in well. ...I've been using a big muff for fuzz which is silicon. It sounds freaking awesome at times - really when playing alone or with smaller group of people. But when the full band is cooking, if I try to kick in some fuzz, my guitar totally disperses. I can't say it's true for all fuzz, but the Big Muff is massively mid scoped so it will NOT cut through at all. So i only use it now when the band is pulling back and getting "psychedelic" - as a "different sound". I was thinking about swapping it out for something more fuzzface like.
Anyway, I wouldn't give up on Fuzz yet. Check out the "that pedal show" episode on Fuzz. you might not like the sound of Fuzz because of the way your are using it.??? On this episode, They ran a big muff into a fender twin at lower volume and it sounded buzzy and really quite bad (to my ears). There was too much head room in that amp and they were pulling mids out of an already mid scooped amp. But when they played it into a lower watt Marshall with less headroom, it sounded great. The marshall pushed the mids more which complemented this pedal. the the breakup of the amp after the fuzz made the sound just so much more "nasty".
I'm not really a fan of multi effect units. I used to have an ME-50 (I think) and I really couldn't get what I wanted out of it. I like to be able to stack two or more gain pedals or a boost and I like being able to move effects around in the signal chain. I ended up selling it and picking up a small number of pedals which just works way better for me. But individual pedals are just soooo much more expensive. (cost of actual pedals, power supply, patch cables, etc...) but my issue with the ME-50 was likely just user error more than the unit. I used it for years but I may not have tried hard enough to get it dialed in. Regardless, I would recommend a traditional pedal board because of the flexibility and also it's fun to buy, trade, and try new pedals.
I'm pretty simple effects wise and don't chase. I use a little vox modeler at home and just use delay. If I plug in the big boys, I still use delay and some boost. I don't have a pedal board per se, Oh, I do, but it's naked and all the others are in their boxes in a briefcase and have been for at least a decade, I should sell the bunch...