Jealous Pablo!Quote from pablopepper on July 14, 2014, 08:35
Had to brag. My awesome friends got me this for my birthday.
It's a clone of one of the Sovtek versions of the Big Muff. Have had about 2 minutes total to play with it, but so far it sounds HUGE! Some fun and fuzzy times ahead.
Current:
GTH-1
Completed:
AST-1FB
First Act ME276 (resurrected curb-side find)
ES-5V
Scratchie lapsteel
Custom ST-1 12 String
JBA-4
TL-1TB
Scratch Lapsteel
Meinl DIY Cajon
Cigar Box lap steel
Wishing:
Baritone
Open D/Standard Double 6 twin neck
Stomp pedals.
Another build it yourself project for me. My first is a tube screamer TS808 modified with extra boost. Mind you I just picked up a Zoom pedal for $60 which with the build in tuner and a stack of amp models and pedal models is a bargain.
Guitar - TS - Zoom - Ashton GA80 amp or Macbook laptop (tunes to come)
Sweet, Kane!
Awesome Kane. How does your DIY TS sound.?
I like to have a crack at something like that.
I updated my pedal board recently.
Knocked up a rig out of pine, made some custom patch cables, powered off a one-spot power supply.
The wah is buggered atm, and I stole my buddy's space echo to fill some space.
You have a very impressive rack, Dan. Never thought I'd say that to a bloke!
haha agreed Lozza, you would normally say that to a woman. It is an impressive rack Dan and the goodies ontop looks like you have a sound for everything
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
#DanMade
TS rocks. I love it. The zoom struggles to produce a sound like it. You can have a listen to it on the video/audio area.
Happy to help with building advice if you want to build one. Can provide suppliers of bits, and give soldering/wiring advice.
Or I can build one and sell it?
Thread resurrection!
Guitar Rig:
So, the Biyang Baby Boom Mad Driver is just about my favourite pedal, not least because it's cheap! Check it out here: http://www.cheaperpedals.com/product...er-od-10-pedal
My motto is dirt before delay, so the last time I had the pedal board together it went like this: tuner > transparent booster (buffers and allows single coils to volume match humbuckers) > Cry Baby Wah (usually cocked half open) > Baby Boom (OD) > Boss DS-1 > Zoom G1nx Multi Pedal (great for presets for gigs) > MXR Phaser > cheap old chorus > TC Electronics Flashback (the little blue one) > Joyo EQ Pedal > DI Box > SoundDesk + Peavey Vypyr/Peavey Mace/Randall RM100KH (depending on where I was playing, what I could be bothered carrying).
Explanations: Yes, that's a tubescreamer clone feeding the famous Boss DS1 distortion pedal. They do really different things, and if you wanna get super filthy, turn both on \m/. You need to buffer a chain that long, and yes it was a little silly, but back then I was gigging a lot, and you need those tools sometimes. The Zoom G1nx is a great little tool at the price, and you can preset all your favourite sounds; I use the first ten as various amp and pedal modelers that work well with the other effects, and then have thirty signature sounds that get used without anything else for particular covers. The TC Flashback has dotted eighth delay for U2 sounds or just making yourself sound really good. An EQ lets you adjust the overall sound or just get a clean boost, depending on what a gig calls for.
Here's a top tip: use a good DI and you can feed the venue's sound system as well as your amp, and get a great mix (with the right sound guy). Amp wise, the Vypyr sounds near enough to the AC30 and the Fender Twin/Deluxe that you don't need to drop thousands on them (no one in a pub will hear the difference anyway); the Peavey Mace is a massive beast of a thing, capable of running the clean channel into the lead channel and screaming with valves, but it weighs a ton (is a combo); the Randall is the Kirk Hammett signature that our other guitarist ran through two 4x12 cabs, and sometimes we'd swap depending on what songs needed what... it is epic and loud.
Bass Rig:
Bass > Sansamp > Hartke HA1200 & 4x10 cab. Damn that sansamp might be all you ever need.
You know, ever since getting decent tube amps, I've never run more than an overdrive pedal, and I haven't even used one of those in years, ever since I had the distortion channel of my Seymour Duncan Convertible 60 tweaked by a local amp guru. The 15w all tube combo I picked up for my wife a few years back gets great tone straight from the guitar too. I have been wondering lately about picking up an eq pedal to use as a mid boost for lead work though. Maybe I just need to dig out my overdrive pedals, I'm sure one of them has a 3 band eq that might do the trick (perhaps the danelectro overdrive from memory)?
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