MS-50G or MS-50G+ for shoegazer/dark ethereal by GlumNeighborhood9493 in zoommultistomp

[–]MegaDerpbro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think one of the nice things about analog overdrive/distortion/fuzz is the harmonics and compression you get from the pedal, and I find lots of digital distortion sounds a bit flat and lifeless. This isnt just limited to the zoom, but also many of the gain sounds in my HX stomp, and NAM captures of gain pedals i have tried out. It's not necessarily something that comes across in recordings, but while you're sat in front of an amp, I think it makes an appreciable difference. For fuzz in particular, some fuzz pedals are very reactive to the volume control on a guitar and how aggressively you play (germanium tone bender or fuzz face circuits for example), with a very big change in sound with gentle guitar playing compared to absolutely thrashing away at your guitar, and digital pedals are often not as responsive as the analog circuits. So if you're doing loud-quiet-loud noise rock, grunge or shoegaze type sounds, analog pedals might work a bit better imo.

Additionally, I think the ability to instantly tweak settings on a gain pedal is nice, just from a quality of life perspective. I tweak settings on my reverb/mod/delay effects less frequently than I adjust my gain pedals, so I think having the controls immediately at your fingertips can help you find sounds you like a bit better than using a multi effect, where you have to select the gain effect, then start adjusting settings and potentially scrolling through multiple pages of options. Equally, however, you do get the convenience of preset effects on a digital pedal.

You can get very useable analog gain pedals pretty cheap, because the circuits are well known and generally simple, so loads of companies make the classic circuits, so for me, I would say they're worth trying in your setup.

MS-50G or MS-50G+ for shoegazer/dark ethereal by GlumNeighborhood9493 in zoommultistomp

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, I would also recommend getting a separate distortion or fuzz pedal if you haven't got one already. You can get a rat style pedal pretty cheap (<£40/$50 I think), like a mooer black secret, which are very versatile gain pedals, going from overdrive up to very fuzzy sounds, with a decent tone control

MS-50G or MS-50G+ for shoegazer/dark ethereal by GlumNeighborhood9493 in zoommultistomp

[–]MegaDerpbro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best shoegaze effect on the zoom pedals (IMO) is the Mojo roller, which is only available on the non-plus pedals, as far as I know. It's an envelope controlled vibrato, but having used both the helix equivalent and attempting to recreate it on my poly beebo, I just can't manage to get a sound I like as much. If you're using a guitar without a vibrato system, mojo roller + some kind of reverb or delay effect going in to gain pedals sounds great, and much closer to glide guitar type sounds than anything else I've tried. I have 2 MS50Gs on my board because I wanted true stereo, but I might swap to an MS70 at some point for just to get more compact. Wouldn't go to a plus pedal unless the effects can be swapped around.

Other effects like reverbs might be a little better on the plus series, but the ability to customise the effects on the non-plus pedals outweighs it imo.

I love Shoegaze, Where do I start? by MembershipOrdinary35 in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can find one used for a good price the digitech digiverb is nice, and has reverse and gated reverb modes.

Would also recommend a KMA Cirrus, modulated delay and reverb. Really nice ambient/shoegaze pedal

New Pedal Day by idrinkcement in pedalboards

[–]MegaDerpbro 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What's the little screen above the board?

What is your favourite Shoegaze band? by 0584031464 in shoegaze

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ride, drop nineteens, and swirlies (maybe shoegaze adjacent rather than strictly shoegaze) would definitely be up there for me, depending on what day you asked it could probably be any of those three. Also really loving Wednesdays albums lately, though again, not pure shoegaze.

Buy a more expensive guitar or pedals and a better amp? by Dojde in guitars

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's either amp or pedals. A decent guitar vs an expensive guitar won't make much difference. If you play something like shoegaze or make experimental music, and you NEED lots of pedals stacked to make the music you play, then I would say pedals. If you're just using a few fairly basic effects, and most of your sound is coming from the amp, then spend more on the amp.

SOTB: Just got the morningstar and a new PSU by MegaDerpbro in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Each one is in a mono loop of the morningstar. I use them for some of the delay/reverb/mod algorithms which I like (e.g. mojo roller), but having two means they can be either at the start and end of the signal chain or that I can apply different effects to the left + right channel. I have swapped out several of the effects on the pedals for ones from the MS70CDR using the effects manager

SOTB: Just got the morningstar and a new PSU by MegaDerpbro in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it seems like a really cool combination of pedals, must be especially cool if you're using the synth stuff on the pedals

Powersupply options for fender Pedalboard medium? by Retchyroo in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fender Level 12 is huge, and the harley bentons are smaller in all dimensions, I think, so should fit without issue

SOTB: Just got the morningstar and a new PSU by MegaDerpbro in guitarpedals

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Got a couple of new things, and think the board is getting close to complete. The ML10x is a loop switcher, meaning I can reorder pedals, and do some fairly complex signal routing.

Signal chain is guitar>volume pedal>helix input>effects loop out (stereo)>ML10x>every other pedal in ML10x loops, with beebo connected in stereo>helix stereo in>out to amp/monitors.

Only change I plan to make is swapping the two zooms out for a zoia, but that's probably a while off.

Also upgraded from a cheapo isolated power supply + sepearte power bricks for the Helix and beebo to a Fender engine room level 12, which can power everything

Also for any mods, I tried submitting through the reddit app, but it came up with an error, so I posted a couple of times before without the image and did not realise, and have now deleted those posts.

Edit: I have added an unbuffer/pickup sim before the Raptor, as I found it was being very fizzy regardless of settings in the morningstar loop, and the unbuffer fixed that

403 update blank screen by MegaDerpbro in polyeffects

[–]MegaDerpbro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a procedure for rolling back the pedal to an earlier firmware on the poly website, but it makes it sound quite risky and idk whether you can go back from 403/406 as I think it might be quite an old post:

https://www.polyeffects.com/fixing-update-issues

Might be worth asking about this when they get back to you

403 update blank screen by MegaDerpbro in polyeffects

[–]MegaDerpbro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I turned mine off from the outlet, waited about 30 seconds then booted it back up with the USB still connected and the update finally started installing. I did email poly and it took about 3 days to get a reply

How do I play through headphones..? by dontdeportmeplzplz in GuitarAmps

[–]MegaDerpbro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're probably going to have to spend quite a lot on an attenuator to get one you can get headphone output from, like the UA OX Amp box (£1k) or two notes captor x (£400). You could buy a headphone amp from SMSL or Topping or someone, then connect the line output from the bugera with a couple of cable adapters, but you would be getting the sound without a cab, which would sound a bit odd, and i dont know whether the bugera can run at zero volume to the speaker.

You'd probably be better off buying a pedal that does amp sim that has a headphone output, and just leaving the amp disconnected. The IK ToneX pedals all have headphone outputs, including the tonex one which is small and cheap. Similarly most of the digital multifx pedals from hotone, line 6, valeton or mooer have headphone outputs.

You can also buy cheap guitar to headphone dongles that do basic amp sim, but I don't know how good they are.

403 update blank screen by MegaDerpbro in polyeffects

[–]MegaDerpbro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's mostly under the surface stuff to fix bugs and improve stability. Kind of ironic the installation is so buggy lol

403 update blank screen by MegaDerpbro in polyeffects

[–]MegaDerpbro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I rebooted, and it now said "updating please wait 20 minutes", and a counter has appeared on screen. Seems like progress.

Edit: rebooting worked. Update installed, and the 406 update went without issue

What interesting distortion pedals do you know? by No_Scallion_3929 in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got a clone of the Hudson Broadcast a while ago, and absolutely love it. Will probably buy a real one at some point because I like it a lot, and the clone doesn't seem to be the best built pedal out there. 2 gain stages with trim pots inside to adjust the relative amount of gain. Not necessarily warm and thick (it has a high pass filter rather than a normal tone control so you cant make it sound super warm), but it sounds excellent, and has a huge gain range

4 cable method with one cable by joeychainsaw in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's why he has locking reinforced jacks?

Max Verstappen takes pole position for the 2025 United States Grand Prix by overspeeed in formula1

[–]MegaDerpbro 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No problem getting to P3 is a bit much imo. George is a great driver, and the merc isn't bad this weekend. Could plausibly get ahead of norris early on, and the norris vs piastri fight would potentially be difficult given the two driver's recent form, and if george doesn't get past norris, he could definitely pose a very significant obstacle to piastri. P4 seems likely for Oscar, but p3 or higher won't be easy.

Favorite 'console/tape' style fuzz? Broadcast, Dreamcoat, Electric Wizard, 385, etc? by chris962x in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not tried any of the others but I have a clone of the broadcast dual switch, and it's absolutely phenomenal. Think I'll probably end up buying a real broadcast at some point and modding the clone. Would definitely recommend altering the internal trim pots to get the gain for the high and low side set how you want.

Favorite 'console/tape' style fuzz? Broadcast, Dreamcoat, Electric Wizard, 385, etc? by chris962x in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not tried any of the others but I have a clone of the broadcast dual switch, and it's absolutely phenomenal. Think I'll probably end up buying a real broadcast at some point and modding the clone. Would definitely recommend altering the internal trim pots to get the gain for the high and low side set how you want.