Guitar Pedals

Fun and interesting exploration of what made the Klon unique, inspired by the JHS Notaklön, by deconstructing it.

Really bizarre pedal that I picked up while on my vacation in Colorado. Vibrato, tremolo, and phaser all in one (I think)! It can generate some cool sounds, especially when the controls are dimed.

So far, I like it best as a subtle trem with some added phase and vibrato for coloring cleans. Not sure if it’ll stay on the board but its fun for now.

I picked this up because I was a big fan of DOD/Digitech when I started playing in high school. My first pedal ever was the Digitech Death Metal pedal and then I got a DOD grunge shortly after (both played through my Fender frontman 😎). Now I play very different styles so I’m hoping I can incorporate this weirdness into my playing.

This is a multi-head delay circuit from PedalPCB.com similar to the Boonar, Echorec, and Volante. It sounds amazing. I used to have a Catalinbread Echorec that I sold and have regretted it ever since. This is filling that hole in my heart.

I've been trying to build this pedal for a while now but the parts were out of stock till a few months ago. It was kind of a difficult build as everything is tucked in there pretty tight and there's a lot of enclosure holes to line up.

The black faceplate is something you can buy from Pedal PCB and it makes it look really good. Extremely happy with how this turned out.

Purchased this on Black Friday as a distortion for my bass.

Idiotbox says this was designed to mimic the bass tones of Voivod's bassist and I don't think it's based on any existing circuit. Personally, I've never listened to them but this thing sounds pretty good. It has a TON of low end I have the Low set to 11 and it's already thumping pretty hard.

Yes, the eyes light up when it's on.

Figure this might be useful to some folks looking to score deals. I'm not associated with any brands. Link your favorite local/small shops to support small businesses!

I'll be updating this as I find more.

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Brands

EQD - 20% off till Dec 1st (excludes the new Zoar). Most retailers are honoring this.

BOSS - Seems like the HM-2w and DS-1w are on sale at a lot of vendors.

Jupiter FX - Sales on all their pedals.

Black Mass Electronics - 10% off till Nov 28th

Spaceman Effects - 15% off sitewide.

Alexander Pedals - 15% off. Free shipping over $299.

Jackson Audio - 20% off.

JAM Pedals - 20% off.

Friedman - 15% off all pedals

Gamechanger Audio - 20% off Bigsby and plus pedal.

Diamond Pedals - 20% off and free shipping over $150

Wampler - 15% off till Dec 6th.

Past FX - Various discounts and free international shipping.

Old Blood Noise - 15% off till Nov 29tb

Walrus Audio - 20% most pedals. 40% off limited and B stock

Chase Bliss - 15% off everything except the brand new Lossy

Vaderin - Sales on various pedals. Free shipping when purchasing 2+ pedals.

Mr Black - 25% off all pedals. 10% off entire order if you buy the new Double Tracker.

Drybell - 15% off + free shipping

Beetronics - 20% various pedals

Catalinbread - 20% off till Nov 28th. BOGO on the CB series.

IDIOTBOX EFFECTS - 30% off everything Nov 16-23rd. 15% off Nov 24-Dec 1.

Two Notes - Sales on Hardware till Dec 6th.

Solid Gold FX - 20% off till Nov 29th

Red Panda - 15% off till Dec 4th

JHS - 25% off till Dec 6th. Excludes the NOTAKLON.

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Shops

Perfect Circuit - Various sales

Chuck Levins - Various sales.

EDIT: Looks like EHX made the video private.

Context: This song seems to be about an event where he got beat up by Union picketers (that may have had Mob connections) in '81 but everything about this video is fucking gross. The way it’s edited to make the Union look like antagonists, the use of the word “thugs” (dog whistle much?) in the description, the fucking title…

There’s so many better ways to criticize corrupt unions or write music about an event that affected you personally. Putting this out on EHX’s channel ensures I’m never buying their pedals again.

Boss being Boss with the new RV-200 pedal.

Love him or hate him, JHS knows how to market.

This may have been out for a while but I just noticed it yesterday.

It's a pre-amp/boost pedal modeled after the preamps from the original Space Echo and CE-1. I know when it released some people were upset the CE-2w didn't have the CE-1 preamp built in so this is kind of nice.

Sounds decent but I'm not sure $170 USD is worth it. I think I'd rather see a CE-1 reissue ala the DM-101 or RE-202 with the preamp built in.

Put the finishing touches on two pedal clones I built over the last few weeks.

Left is a clone of the EAE Model FET. Which itself is based on a Sunn Model T. This one didn’t turn out as well as I hoped. Probably used some bad components or it’s not biased right. I can make it sound good but only on specific settings. Otherwise there’s sputter/static on the low strings.

The HM-2 clone on the other hand turned out great. It’s a little bass heavy with everything at 10 so I’ve been turning the bass down a little. I figured since you kind of do one thing with an HM-2 it would be silly for me to buy the HM-2w.

I have one more pedal I’m finishing that I’m really excited about that I’ll hopefully share later this week.

It’s an all transistor based distortion with a 3 band EQ and the ability to run at 18v. The EQ bands affect each other and the Weight knob determines how much low end passes through.

The original TC 2290 Dynamic Digital Delay set new standards when introduced in the 80s, and while often mounted in studio racks, it was also to be found in countless guitar rigs.

A key component of many guitar sounds is a string of tasteful delay, which is just one of the things 2290 P provides. It is a time-based effect generator that - apart from delay - also offers chorus, flanger, tremolo, vibrato, phaser, panning, ducking and compression.

And that is the essence of 2290 P: it is a faithful recreation of the original 2290, equally suited for adding delay to lead guitar tones and rhythmic patterns that can be used to build up powerful and inspirational walls of guitarscapes with or without additional modulation. In other words, 2290 P allows you to really dive in and carefully program it to meet all of your sonic ideas.

It simply evokes a distinct classic vibe from the past in a contemporary setting.

TC Electronic posted a deep dive video on their YouTube channel.

First hear about it on Guitar Geek The Week in Gear 22. At $70 with both Amplitube and ToneX desktop and mobile included, it's really tempting. I don't have any iOS devices though, so the Mustang Micro still wins for portability in my case.

Saw this over on Mastodon (original post), had to share. What are some other good pedal puns?

It's not the most exciting pedal in that it's just a clever switch, but I do like the possibilities it gives.

It has two switchable loops. In one loop I have my Diezel VH4-2 working as a preamp and in the other I have my Peavey Classic's pre amp. This allows me to switch between which preamp I want to use whilst also keeping my delay and modulation effects in the FX loop - post preamp.

Guitar goes in to the input. Red loop sends to the VH4 and returns from the VH4 preamp output. Green loop sends to the front of the amp and returns from the FX loop send. That's the two preamp loops. The left switch toggles between each loop and the right switch bypasses both loops, which in my case means I have no preamp as the signal goes straight to the FX return via the delays - so I'll keep the right switch always on.

Then the output of the pedal goes to the modulation and delay pedals and then to the amp's FX return.

Any modeler enthusiasts want to weigh in here? Looks like it's competitively priced against the Helix and Neural DSP.

A few reviews

• 60 Cycle Hum
• Anderton's
• Guitar Geek
• Jason Nathan Cordy
• Leon Todd
• Ola Englund
• Rhet Shull
• RJ Ronquillo

New Pedals that haven’t been posted here yet:

• Pico Pitch Fork
• Pico Oceans 3-Verb
• Pico Canyon Echo
• Pico Deep Freeze
• Pico Triboro Bridge Drive (it’s got a Muff setting)
• Pico Rerun Tape Delay

In addition to the ones we knew about already:

• Pico POG
• Pico Platform Compressor
• Pico Attack Decay

Very good lineup of their most popular effects IMO.

Really excited about this one, always been interested in the Attack Decay but never felt like I could justify the board space on the original.

It’s a 4-in-1 pedal that gives you two very familiar drive circuits and two brand new amp-like distortion tones that no one has used before. It’s almost like pedal-modeling, except these are 100% analog circuits, and you decide which tone-control or clipping-section you want to play through.

It's a single-pedal with 3-knob controls and two dip switches to select either the ODR or the TS circuit for the two gain stages, giving four combinations.

Official release videos:

• Tech demo
• Tom Bukovac
• Corey Congilio
• Michael Palmisano

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/3095998

I've been addicted to donk bass for years, I keep a playlist of deep house tracks with a tonne of donk bass just to keep myself settled.

I know that it's an entirely synthetic sound but I am 100% convinced I can make that sound in analog with my bass guitar. I've tried a bunch of techniques but I couldn't get close so I know I have to do this with a pedal.

The thing is that I can't find the damn pedal. I don't know what you'd even call such a pedal. So I came here to ask if someone has any idea as to how I can play donk bass in analog.

Edit: I tried including a link to an example of the sound I want but I guess I'm not allowed too because it got removed as I was posting. You can try looking on SoundCloud for "DEMO 2014 - MY EVERYTHING - DEEPHOUSE" by TIEN TIEN

In college (late 90s) my roommate had a DigiTech PDS 2730 HotBox. He played a PRS into a MESA head and 4x12. I had a Samick KJ-560 and a Crate GX-212 combo with maybe a Metal Zone and a Vox wah. I'd seen and used multi-effects (had a Zoom 9000 for a while), but never something like this before at the time. I remember thinking it was amazing. There are a bazillion great dual overdrive/boost, and delay plus reverb is another popular combination. What are some other dual-effect pedals people are using or have their eyes on?

In this video, we talk to Steve Lukather's guitar tech Jon Gosnell. Who explains Steve Lukather's amp and pedalboard set-up while on tour with Toto and Ringo and his All Starr Band.

Long-time Strymon user Rabea Massaad shares his first experiences with Chase Bliss ambient sounds.

My chain:

EHX MonoSynth DOD Meatbox Reissue EHX Hot Wax Zoom B6 w/ nectar expression pedal MXR M80 DI Boss EQ-200 Donner noise gate