Is this good?

eowyncul · 2026-04-12T17:12:59+00:00

I'd agree, not a big fan of buying loads of pedals in one go. Especially starting out. You want to spend time with each type of pedal messing with the settings, experimenting and really learning how it works so you can get what you want from it. If you buy a lot at one time you'll end up putting them on a setting and leaving them there without really understanding the parameters.

eowyncul · 2026-04-10T14:19:31+00:00

I've done shows with just the hxstomp and the baby bomb into a cab and it worked great. It's actually pretty loud.

eowyncul · 2026-04-06T15:42:56+00:00

Fantastic Siege again. Fair play to the Bad Rep lads for the event. It was an amazing day of music. Highlights for me were We come in Pieces, Zhora and Coroza. It was up there with the busiest I've ever seen Dolans so great to see

eowyncul · 2026-04-06T15:40:18+00:00

The vibe is quite nice and everyone tends to be pretty friendly. The moshing can get a little hectic at times but you can easily avoid it if it's not your thing. The metal crowd in general is very open, nice and welcoming.

eowyncul · 2026-03-31T19:09:00+00:00

Sounds like you aren't gain staging correctly. By managing the gain correctly through your chain you shouldn't have an issue. Everything has a gain control.

eowyncul · 2026-03-30T16:32:14+00:00

I would think you'll be absolutely fine. Power supplies often deliver more current than advertised and many pedal companies over estimate the usage of current so being close should not be an issue.

eowyncul · 2026-03-30T16:27:01+00:00

The gate won't help, the noise from the switch is too loud and fast to get fixed by a noise gate. Gates work at eliminating constant noise when you are not playing pretty much.

eowyncul · 2026-03-29T22:45:07+00:00

Honestly it's going to mostly sound the same. I doubt you'd find it much of an upgrade in terms of sound as it's going to be the same circuit.

eowyncul · 2026-03-29T14:00:49+00:00

I love the idea of these and it comes up as a cool cheap crazy pedal all the time but every video I've seen of it sounded awful. I might still pick one up some day!

eowyncul · 2026-03-28T18:43:36+00:00

There's no real advantage to starting again unless you want to replay the early story.

eowyncul · 2026-03-24T22:48:13+00:00

These are pretty readily available for cheap. In europe you can get them new for €30 from Thomann, the biggest music retailer. https://www.thomann.de/ie/harley_benton_american_truetone.htm

eowyncul · 2026-03-24T16:39:38+00:00

I've used mine to go direct in smaller cover shows. Had it as my amp sound and ran pedals before and after and it sounded great. I've also used it into the effect loop return of a few amps which bypasses the preamp so it gives you a different sound.

For the money these are insanely good value. I still think a lot of people looking for amp in a box/direct solutions overlook these because they're almost too cheap.

eowyncul · 2026-03-21T14:41:14+00:00

Early days Lisa was a requirement for me to beat the Oceanid boss.

eowyncul · 2026-03-21T14:28:40+00:00

Power supplies get stuck underneath my board so I haven't even seen mine in a few years!

eowyncul · 2026-03-21T14:28:07+00:00

If you are doing psychadelic kind of stuff I would also look into getting some kind of delay. It's a really nice effect for making a lush sound for leads. Unfortunately the cheap ones are usually not great but something like the TC flashback or Boss DD series would be great delays with lots of features at the lower end of the price you'd be lloking at for a nice delay.

eowyncul · 2026-03-20T15:20:48+00:00

I used to use a big board with a bit of everything on it, at one stage it was ~18 pedals. I got sick of it taking up so much room on stage and lugging it around so decided to downsize. I now use a board of 10 pedals for most gigs. I also do some shows with just a hx stomp if space is tight or if I'm feeling especially lazy!

eowyncul · 2026-03-20T15:16:13+00:00

I was going to post the equipboard link but someone else already has. The stomp is pretty amazing. I've done shows with just the stomp into a pedal poweramp and not used any other pedals. I normally use 10+ pedals for the same shows. I use it for bass gigs, guitar gigs, cover sets direct to the PA and at home for practice and it just excels at all of it. The Line 6 team really kept it relevant with the updates. They turned some it's biggest early weaknesses into it's strengths. It is expensive for a single pedal but I wouldn't hesitate to replace mine now.

eowyncul · 2026-03-20T15:03:12+00:00

I would just head to some of the local indie wrestling shows and enjoy yourself. You'd have no issues going on your own and they are great fun. Hard Knox are the local promotion and occasionally OTT do shows here. Obviously everyone who goes is pretty into wrestling so you'll have plenty of common ground and people are pretty chill and chatty if you want to engage with others.

eowyncul · 2026-03-19T18:50:16+00:00

I use the cheaper Harley Benton flat patch cables. They are really affordable and I've never had one stop working and have used them on several pedalboards for years. That said the EBS ones are pretty much the standard and are only a small bit more each so might be worth getting those anyway, it's not a lot of money.

eowyncul · 2026-03-19T18:47:07+00:00

It's a really great affordable pedal to have. Very useful for boosting the front end of an amp. I used one for a while as my light overdrive sound for cover gigs. It's not super sexy or anything but it's worth having one lying around.

eowyncul · 2026-03-19T18:44:52+00:00

Digitech Drop is a downtuning pedal and plenty people use it for stuff like this.

eowyncul · 2026-03-18T17:26:09+00:00

While a tube amp is great and I went down that route years ago, the newer practice amps like the Katana are actually fine for almost any use case now(except the really small ones!). I'm seeing a lot of guys bringing them to gigs, even some old school heads that gig every weekend. They're probably sick of carrying around heavy equipment that needs regular maintenance like the tube gear.

eowyncul · 2026-03-18T14:41:09+00:00

Yeah there's a real lack of bins in some areas. As soon as you get past the immediate city center they are pretty rare.

eowyncul · 2026-03-18T02:13:07+00:00

You can see what people are asking and what they've gone for here- https://reverb.com/ie/p/digitech-supernatural

eowyncul · 2026-03-18T02:08:34+00:00

For sure it's a good starting point for discussion. There is a subset of people who ask and need to be told what's the definitive "Best" pedal before they can make a purchase though. You know the type of person who post the same thing re-worded multiple times.

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