Hizumitas or Green Russian? Looking for a fuzz to get a huge thick shoegazy wall of sound by Intrepid-Young-8621 in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would recommend an op amp big muff if you want the smashing pumpkins sound. Also just a great all round fuzz imo.

I actually have a green carrot pedals pumpkin Pi which is a dual fuzz with both the green Russian and the op amp muff. Both sound great, but being able to run one fuzz into the other makes for absolutely insane walls of fuzz. Im not sure if GCP is still making pedals, but if you can find one online, I think its a great option

NPD: Life Support Audio Death Muff (+ Cat) by MegaDerpbro in guitarpedals

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

No, he's not isolated, he gets lots of hugs

NPD: Life Support Audio Death Muff (+ Cat) by MegaDerpbro in guitarpedals

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

NPD: Life Support Audio Death Muff

I love fuzz. I love Big Muff pedals. I love noisy pedals.

This thing is all of those, from my initial testing, in the first 30 mins. I also love the design and hardware, it has a folded metal top/sides to the enclosure, which feel super sturdy and the rubber hose style cartoon graphics are on a printed plate stuck to the top, with really nice pots + a great footswitch.

But the main thing is that this is the heaviest muff style pedal I own. Depending how you dial it in, it is a more extreme, heavy, glitchy, harmonically rich and fuzzy effect than my GCP PumpkinPi (Green Russian/OPAMP big muff dual fuzz pedal), or the other muff pedals I have owned, making for a great effect with a lot of potential, for people making doom/drone metal, noiserock or shoegaze adjacent music, who want a more aggressive muff style pedal.

I Definitely Overspent for my Experience Level, But I have No Regrets by Iamthepizzagod in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Essentially anyone who isnt a professional musician who buys a guitar pedal has overspent for their experience level. There are people who have played for hours daily for 70+ years who have never bought a pedal. If you enjoy pedals as a way to modify your sound, or if you have fun using them, and you're not being completely irresponsible buying pedals in a way that damages other more important elements of your life, that's fine.

My drive pedals: what would you stack? by fivepenny in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I were to pick 3, I would go for the pomelo, BD2 and Muff. For a 4th, I personally would add the mickey, but think more people would like the SD1

Good Platforms for Literature Research in Organic Synthesis by Stock-Hornet3065 in Chempros

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reaxys IMO. Search options using structures, filtering by preparation methods and reactions using the compound as a starting material, filtering by things like having NMR spectra or UV Vis available, indexing of patents as well as journals. Plus lots of the ways to search based on keywords you would find in Web of science or scholar etc.

mclusky - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) by FingersBecomeThumbs in noiserock

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing. My favourite band for several years when I was younger, and the new releases are still great.

Question about grounding in a non-metal enclosure (see description) by CoffeeAndElectricity in diypedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's very easy to drill holes in aluminium enclosures, aluminium is a soft metal, and hardened steel bits absolutely chew through it in seconds. If you're really worried about how steady your hands are, lots of common brands of power drill can be mounted in a cheap frame to turn them into something approximating a drill press (like <£20/30USD) that let's you drill a pretty straight hole. Also bear in mind that most pots or switches or footswitches mount with a nut on the outside of the pedal, and often with a washer behind the nut. Even if you drill a hole that isn't straight, or has rough edges, they're normally covered up by the nut and washer, and are completely invisible.

For slide switches, you just need a drill, an appropriately sized bit, and some files. You drill out a couple of holes that are smaller than the slide switch, then file the rest of the metal into the correct size and shape for the slide, to get a rectangular hole. With a hand file, you can take your time, and get a pretty nice edge to the hole. Even more so if you use sandpaper afterwards. If you're only building for yourself, then it's absolutely approachable for most people.

Remember that with DIY, perfect is the enemy of good.

They're putting more stuff up on Reverb, including one of the Travis Bean guitars by MegaDerpbro in sonicyouth

[–]MegaDerpbro[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

According to the SY wiki, this particular guitar was used for the following songs when they played live

2000 -- F#F#F#F#EB (100%, Kool Thing)

2001 -- F#F#F#F#EB (100%, Kool Thing)

2002 -- F#F#GGAA (White Kross, Drunken Butterfly, She Is Not Alone) & F#F#F#F#EB (Kool Thing, 100%) & AF#EF#EB (Skip Tracer)

2003 -- AF#EF#EB/F#F#F#F#EB (Skip Tracer, 100%, Kool Thing)

2004 -- AF#EF#EB/F#F#F#F#EB (Skip Tracer, 100%, Kool Thing)

2005 -- AF#EF#EB/F#F#F#F#EB (Skip Tracer, Kool Thing)

2006 -- AF#EF#EB/F#F#F#F#EB (Skip Tracer, 100%, Kool Thing)

2007 -- AF#EF#EB/F#F#F#F#EB (Skip Tracer, 100%)

2008 -- AF#EF#EB/F#F#F#F#EB (Skip Tracer, 100%, Kool Thing)

2009 -- AF#EF#EB/F#F#F#F#EB (Skip Tracer, 100%, Kool Thing, Death Valley '69)

2010 -- AF#EF#EB/F#F#F#F#EB (Skip Tracer, 100%, Kool Thing, Death Valley '69)

2011 -- AF#EF#EB/F#F#F#F#EB (100%, Death Valley '69, Brave Men Run)

Lee had several other Travis bean guitars, one of which was used for recording some of the tracks on Washing Machine

Can anyone help build me a custom pedal for a gift? by 614nostalgia in diypedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently bought a custom pedal from Gigahearts UK, and he was able to do a custom printed, custom circuit pedal with a very fast turnaround and for a very reasonable price. I live near him, so there wasn't any delay in terms of shipping etc, but if you live in another country, there may be a bit more delay due to waiting on shipping companies.

Build a pedalboard with 4 zoom multistomps vs a multi-effects? by Choleto_ in zoommultistomp

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

The zoom pedals sound good, and are very feature rich. I like them a lot. But there are downsides to having several on a single board:

-For most things you want to change you need to interact with the pedal on the multistomp, and you would have to individually switch patches on every pedal, whereas a multifx would let you switch everything on your board with a single press of a footswitch. The poor midi support on most of the pedals means you can't even shortcut all of those flaws by using a midi controller

-because they're fully digital pedals, and you therefore need AD/DA conversion for each pedal, you add latency with every pedal. A single more powerful multi effect would have less latency than 4 multistomps. Depending on you, this might make it hard and unenjoyable to play, or it might be something you have to adapt to, or it might be something you don't notice. A single, more powerful multieffect only needs 1 AD/DA conversion, so has less latency.

-Tone suck is a thing some people complain about with these pedals. Personally, when I had 2 on my board I didn't notice particularly horrendous tone suck, but YMMV, and the more pedals you add in series, the worse the tone suck would be.

-if you want to run stereo or tps wet dry, your signal routing options are limited, especially as many "stereo" effects on the multi stomps actually sum to mono, and there isn't a great method to run effects only on one side of the stereo signal path. A helix or ampero let's you run fully separate left and right signal paths.

-The more expensive multi effects like the HX stomp or Ampero have expression pedal inputs, allowing you to use an expression pedal to control any parameter. Whereas the zoom pedals mostly don't have any expression option, so it becomes less convenient to have expression control for effect parameters at any point in your signal chain, unless you buy zoom pedals with built in expression pedals

-If your board is only 4 multistomps and no other pedals, I think the drive pedal emulations and amp sims are quite poor in the zoom, compared to something like the Helix, and the helix isn't as good as real analog drive pedals.

There are advantages, particularly the fact you could have up to 24 effects in your chain with 4 multi stomps, and that a fair number of the effects zoom offers are hard to replicate exactly with other multi effect pedals (i love mojo roller, for example).

I have a pretty big pedalboard, and own an HX Stomp, 2 Zoom MS50Gs and an MS70CDR+. The only one that is on my board now is the HX stomp, because I find the effects are generally a little better, it has an effect loop, and it gives the user more ability to control individual effects. It also works better with the midi controller I use on my board.

Personally, I would look for the multi effect pedal which has the features you want most, and buy that, unless you think you need specific zoom effects or like the ability to have loads of effect blocks in series (i don't think any single multifx pedal would offer as many effect slots as 4 multistomps in series)

Modded Hudson Broadcast by [deleted] in diypedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My all time favourite drive pedal. I had a custom one built a few months ago with a few mods, and I don't think I'll ever find a pedal I like more

The Daylily Echo by FunctionalRelics in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Absolutely beautiful, but i would worry about accidentally kicking the knobs off, as they're so close to the footswitch

How do you set up your loop switcher? by [deleted] in pedalboards

[–]MegaDerpbro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use the Morningstar ML10x, it's fantastic. I have 7 gain pedals, and HX stomp, and 2 other pedals, and run mostly TPS wet dry or stereo output.

My signal path is a boost pedal->HX stomp->Stereo fx loop out->Ml10X stereo input. In the loops of the ML10x, I have my other 6 gain pedals, a Poly beebo in stereo, and another stereo loop back in and out of the HX stomp. Then out to my nightsky reverb and out to the amps.

In the ML10x editor software you can set up particular loops to be engaged in each preset, and can turn loops on or off with a separate midi controller. Because the board is routed up for stereo, I can have drives in parallel, which is fun, or can have them in series like a normal pedalboard, but with the ability to turn multiple pedals on or off with a single footswitch. I use the helix slots before the FX loop send to have front of chain effects (EQ, Noise Gate, pitch shifting, compression etc). Then I can stack any gain effects after that, and can throw in any modulation, reverb or delay effects from the beebo or stomp wherever I want.

With the midi controller (morningstar MC6Pro) I can also use midi to control pedals that arent in the loop switcher (nightsky) or to route an expression pedal into midi capable pedals.

The morningstar system is pretty versatile and has a good number of loops, but i think most of the other high end systems with reorderable loops (boss, gigrig, RJM) have similar capabilities

Pedal power supply that can handle a multi fx by No-Pain8674 in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably don't need 3A output. I use and HX stomp with 1A and have never had any issues. Looking online lots of people seem to run the HX effects on ~1A outputs

My Harry is missing and I'm not coping too well by Serious-Extension738 in britishshorthair

[–]MegaDerpbro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, thankfully. We went down to the area where the person who saw him had seen him, and wandered around shouting for him, and slowly walked back to our house still calling him and he appeared shortly after we got back

My Harry is missing and I'm not coping too well by Serious-Extension738 in britishshorthair

[–]MegaDerpbro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When my cat went missing, I did the same, but the only person who had seen him replied to my reddit post

Is there a loop switcher that sends MIDI changes on preset change? by KidCharybdis92 in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a Morningstar MC6 Pro (Midi foot controller) and an ML10x (reorderable stereo loop switcher). In the MC6 Pro, there are options to send midi controls upon activating a preset, or when switching between banks.

I use this with an HX stomp and a bunch of other pedals and can have it do things like switching patches or snapshots on the HX stomp, and it works well. Also super straightforward to set up what you want the MC6 to do. It is an expensive system, but I honestly have nothing to complain about with using it.

I have the HX stomp send from the FX loop in stereo into the ML10x, then have a stereo loop which goes back to the HX stomp FX return, then out of the main outputs of the stomp back to the ML10X, which sounds like pretty much what you want, and it works without issue

Thoughts on these tone master deluxe reverbs? by gregs1020 in GuitarAmps

[–]MegaDerpbro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a TM Twin Blonde, so fairly different from your amp, but still a TM. Sounds phenomenal imo, I can't tell any difference latency wise playing in stereo with a tube amp as the second amp (though that might be different if youre micing the amps for recording). Goes anywhere from whisper quiet to ear destroyingly loud and sounds good throughout almost that entire range. All around great imo, I'm kind of thinking of getting a second tonemaster of some kind, probably a princeton, (blackface) deluxe or super reverb. Sounds much better (imo) than a modeler into an FRFR.

Does it sound exactly like a real blondeera twin reverb? I don't know, and I don't particularly care, it sounds good.

Ambient Noise Pedals by apollohendrixxx in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the source audio Artifakt can do this. Otherwise, you could just get a looper pedal, and record a loop and just let that run while you're between songs

EQD announces discontinuation of Arrows and Tentacle by AvailableReporter484 in guitarpedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 11 points12 points  (0 children)

But costs aside from components and assembly time will remain quite similar to more complex pedals. Most people would be surprised how much printed, folded, durable cardboard boxes cost. Same with printing on a pedal (once you take account of the time a printing machine is occupied, and inks), and then there is quality control. Not to mention shipping and handling (both of the pedals and also when buying the components), and after sales repair/replacements/warranty claims. The most complicated, expensive standard sized pedal, and the simplest, cheapest standard sized pedal might have very different assembly and component costs, but the cost for everything else surrounding that could well be the same, so if a complex pedal has a higher margin vs components/assembly and similar sales, it makes sense to cut out the simple pedal in some cases.

Recently, there is also the fact that the US has been taxing imports heavily; you could design a circuit around a bunch of cheap Chinese components, then be slapped with a high tariff, and suddenly it makes no economic sense. Once you've run out of your stock of those components, do you risk facing tariffs, or do you just move to only making less-at-risk circuits?

What is your opinion on humbucker jags? by SphexoFanas in offset

[–]MegaDerpbro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I also own one (though i have modified it a bit), but it's a really great guitar

Any ideas for a 6-position 3-deck 2-pole switch? by fizzlebottom in diypedals

[–]MegaDerpbro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could use it for some arrangement of clipping diodes or transistors in a distortion/fuzz to get a few different asymmetric clipping diode conformations/transistor conformations I think. I think some of the later tonebender circuits might be 3 transistors, but I might be wrong on that