pedals/fx suggestions

[Tony Scharf]

The tone on the Malekko is absolutely wonderful.  Its actually a Bass
pedal, which I think Is why it works so well on a synth.  It adds dirt
and crunch without completely trashing out the sound and making
everything you run through it sound the same.

On the Delay side, Id like a longish delay (1 second would probably do
just fine) with feedback and some kind of filter/eq in the feed back
loop.  The Memory Lane has a tone control that, when you pump the feed
back to maximum, lets you create sweep from low to high frequencies in
the feedback.  the sound kind of degrades in the FB loop in a way
thats beautiful.  With no input but its own internal noise, you can
get into Forbidden Planet territory - its almost like an oscillator in
itself.

I think if I could find a multi-FX pedal that had good FX, was
programmable and had assignable real time controlls on the front (or
at least could run from MIDI) I could probably get by.

I love these pedals...but that may only be because I havnt ever played
better ones.


And so begins a new obsession...

Tony

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Matt Picone <matman at mysticworks.com> wrote:
> Sickly tough question.
> I have almost never met a distortion pedal that I didn't like.
> It's like a mic-- the most important thing is matching the character of
> the source to the character of the material. What you tend to get in
> higher priced jobbies is greater range.
>
> This said, the pedals I enjoy most are:
>
> Pearl Overdrive
> Boss Distortion w. Keeley mod
> FoxRox Zim
> Dirty Boy Afro Fuzz
> ZVex
> etc.
>
> Check out http://www.musictoyz.com/guitar/index_gtrpedal.php
>
> LOTS of sound samples.
>
> Not very much a fan of the Fulltone stuff.
>
> What are you after feature-wise in a delay?
>
>
>
> Pod sucks.
>
>
> -m@
>
>
>> recently, I got a waldorf blofeld keyboard.  Two guitar pedals, a
>> malekko b:ass master and a diamond memory lane became part of its
>> output path.  Niether of these pedals are mine, so I don't want to
>> take them to my next gig (two weeksoff).
>>
>> Anyone with more experience with pedals able to reccomend a nice
>> distortion and a nice delay that aren't quite as pricy as those two?
>> I considered getting something like a line 6 pod, but you loose all
>> the great real time tweaking which is essential to my performance with
>> them.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Tony
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