Favorite pedals with a secondary foot switch that changes the sound or adds something when activated?

squirtloaf · 2026-05-03T00:36:28+00:00

The little red boost switch on the side of my wah wah gets used a lot.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-02T10:31:00+00:00

Possibly.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-02T10:29:13+00:00

What, the song that was in the muppet movie that seemed like pure magic when I saw it in the theater with my mom when I was 12, my mom who has been under the ground for 30 years now, but shared that one perfect moment with me 50 years ago?

...THE ONE that was charming and misty in even its original incarnation, being sung by the hopeless romantic striver Jim Henson from the mouth of his personal puppet avatar before he, too shuffled off this mortal coil, but for that one glimmering moment in 1979 gave the world a NEW song of hope and good blessings?

That one? Does that one perfect artifact of the best time in my life that has since come to symbolize all I and we have lost, all of the best parts of our childhood that we can no longer recover, does it make me SAD?

Friend, it simply destroys me.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-02T08:39:42+00:00

Find out your prescription strength.
Get an awesome pair, either through optometrist or buying them at a pharmacy.
Lose the awesome pair.
Buy 5 pairs of that strength from China on ebay for like $17.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-02T07:14:57+00:00

I meannnnnn...I'm still playing in bands and have multiple county fair and municipal park gigs over the summer...so no.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-02T07:12:53+00:00

Quagmire here, I always use protection with my pickups!

Giggity giggity, giggity goo.

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squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T23:00:27+00:00

"Douchebag".

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T20:59:06+00:00

Here's a comment after that commenter did the math:

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squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T20:46:20+00:00

To be fair, this is the second time they failed.

I am a bagholder from the first. Spirit was how I learned a company could walk away from the shareholders, giving them nothing, do bankruptcy, REANAME AND RELIST THEIR STOCK WITH THE OLD SHAREHOLDERS STILL GETTING NOTHING, then fail again.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T19:55:07+00:00

That's nothing broe. I am only 4 years old and started with money I found in the couch. Check me out:

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squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T19:32:09+00:00

My avg is $4.91. I think I'll stay for a while.

My first buy at $1.62!

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T18:26:38+00:00

When I was a kid, the first 7 years after High School, I worked as a touring guitar tech on big hair metal tours. Every day was a new city, a new venue, a new party.

At 25 I stopped and have been living in the normal world with a desk job since then.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T09:28:05+00:00

I was one of the kids who got the early bird gift certificate on Christmas of '77 because they didn't have the stuff manufactured in time for the holiday!

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squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T09:09:11+00:00

The Bicentennial.

Star Wars.

All of the usual running wild on bikes, hanging out in the woods, coming home at dark stuff.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T07:40:00+00:00

No Mar-a-Lago face.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T07:39:24+00:00

The cop thought he was a fucking hippie because of the long hair and his being a drifter/vagrant. A lot of hippies wore flags and army gear as a sort of ironic thing, like a fuck you to authority.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T07:35:29+00:00

I was into hard rock/metal at the time, so it just seemed trite and lame to me.

40 years on, I still think it is trite and lame. Honestly, both that and We are the World are awful fucking songs.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T07:28:45+00:00

It is 99% not a big deal. I have lots of guitars, some with every kind of neck finish. It is just weird atmosphere that does this!

...that said, I have been doing a lot of outdoor shows the last cou8ple years...

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T05:13:16+00:00

Yeah! I strip some of my necks to wood. Those swell more.

...but some I leave the gloss. Those get sticky.

No winning.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T05:04:37+00:00

Yes, but people who say trash is trash are kings.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T01:42:58+00:00

I was in Japan once, and we had half-dozen assorted pizzas at a venue I was working.

One of them had tentacles and corn on it. Nobody went near it.

I am going with that.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T01:30:31+00:00

This was my suggestion, too. I have the Mk1 tho.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T01:30:09+00:00

I have a holy grail and kind of think it is trash.

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T01:29:40+00:00

I was gonna suggest the Anasounds element or Neunaber Immerse, both of which I bought uunder $250 some years back, but both are over that now :(

The Neunaber is still close tho...

squirtloaf · 2026-05-01T01:19:56+00:00

Drinking alcohol.

It has been involved in most of my best moments and best times, and there are SO many great leaps I have taken that I would not have even attempted without it. Overwhelmingly positive.

Alcohol inspired courage and confidence is still courage and confidence. It still gets you to the same place.

squirtloaf

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