Calling All Guitar Players

Peter: 11th Apr 2009 - 20:56 GMT

though my stuff is more often connected to my computer than guitar, ill definitely bite on the "making noise" tip:

left to right, top to bottom:
sovtek (electro harmonix russian issue) small stone phaser
electro harmonix microsynth
boss sp-202 effects sampler
dod digital delay
dod classic tube distortion (it goes to 11, franny)
rocktek phaser (found in trash)
korg kp-3 kaoss pad effects/synth/sampler
korg kaossolator dynamic phrase synth (mostly triggers effects/envelopes/bassline)

also: im digging your pedal-board flightcase thing. its gotta be nice to just walk in and lay down your rig, open it up, plug it in and play... connection trouble-shooting and cable-routing is a major pet-peeve of mine, dunno why i never looked into one of these hahaha...

Sean Hopkins: 11th Apr 2009 - 21:02 GMT

Haha oh yea we go to 11 ;-)

Nice Peter! Lol you found that rocktek in the trash? How's it sound?

Where can I hear some beats man?

Sean Hopkins: 11th Apr 2009 - 21:05 GMT

It is pretty easy to carry them around in, but the particular BOSS model I have is a piece of crap as far as craftsmanship. The locks snapped off almost immediately so now I have to tie it closed around the handle when I'm carrying it around. That same thing happened to a couple of other guys I know. But yea it definitely saves set-up time :-)

Peter: 11th Apr 2009 - 21:34 GMT

the rocktek sounds pretty good for such a cheap-o pedal. perhaps thats why it sounds good... its sort of noisy, but in a good way. not septic, digital-clean like the delay. i keep it around to do weird stuff like run a phaser through delay through another phaser, and tweak the phasers/delay-time til they sync up in mind-bending ways, haha. in 1999, i stumbled across a box full of trash from a university's music department in a dumpster behind their fine arts building and scored pretty big, mostly analog synth modules and some vintage roland stuff. ended up selling most of it to move back to nyc and be able to make nyc rent, haha. sometimes i regret that, but it is what it is. i kept some of the stuff that wasnt worth much, in an ebay sense, like the rocktek ;)

Sean Hopkins: 11th Apr 2009 - 23:20 GMT

I love experimenting with stuff like that. It's amazing what sounds you can come up with. I forgot to include where my beats and synths come from. Here's my Dr. Rhythm Section DR-5. I didn't find it in the trash, but I did get it for free. Some kid I knew back in '01 knew some dude that worked for Guitar Center. He lifted it, didn't know how to use it, and gave it to the kid I knew because he was a DJ. He also didn't know how to use it, and gave it to me. I figured the thing out in a couple of days and was extremely thankful to know such awful DJ's.

It's cool to have because I'm able to record everything out of my house, minus the drums. Frustrating for me (it was the first instrument I learned) but this little machine does a damn fine job.

Afroblanco: 11th Apr 2009 - 23:30 GMT

Boss 'PN-2' Tremelo/ Pan pedal, DOD OD-1 overdrive, homebrew FET pre-amp, and the Shin-ei RT-18 'Resly Tone', which I.... found in some trash :-)

Sean Hopkins: 12th Apr 2009 - 01:22 GMT

lol, nice.. gotta love 'finding' sh*t. Never actually heard the Resly Tone (that I know of)

IvanK: 13th Apr 2009 - 03:15 GMT

Guitar is a '78 SG, amp is a 90's reissue Ampeg Reverberocket 212, drum machine is an old Electribe which is fucking amazing for Pan Sonic style beats and crazy psychedelic knob-twisting sounds. And yes, I have too many pedals, although the CS-2 has been sold and the modded DS-1 is on its way out too.

Peter: 13th Apr 2009 - 04:17 GMT

ahh, those oldskool dod pedals are cool looking...

IvanK: 13th Apr 2009 - 14:09 GMT

yeah dude, the dual delay in particular is sick. the other one needs to get fixed a bit.