Drum machines suck.
I play a bit of drums, I used to have a crappy kit. Like right now after watching that KJ Sawka thread that augustus posted, I am just banging away. It is good for your guitar playing to learn drums (and some keys, if you can) just noodle if you are ever at a drummer/keyboardists place. It helps to build new ideas
dont get a drum machine… the way I see it, not worth it.
I have a digitech multi effects… however, wouldn’t suggest it. it’s so much more fun and way easier to tweak individual pedals.
Here is my current setup, with a few more on the way in the mail. Like everyone else said, TS-9 is a good pedal but getting it modded will make a huge difference. That ready one on the right is the Whammy, which is a pitch shifter/harmonizer. That’s real key to my setup. That Giga Delay is probably the best pedal that I have at the moment. I highly recommend that one if you’re looking to spend about 170 on a good delay. The one on the left of the board is a Mutron-III, used by Jerry to make the wah wah’s on Shakedown and Estimated Prophet. Everything I’ve got there is a great pedal, and if I didn’t recommend it, it wouldn’t be on that board.
The two green ones on the left by HomeBrew Electronics. The dark green one is a compressor/sustainer and the light green is PowerScreamer/overdrive. I also have TS-9 that’s not in the pic. The middle one is a Dunlop Wah and the far right is a Q-Tron enevelope filter. I think Mutron somehow became Q-Tron along the way, but I could be wrong.
so far this is giving me some good ideas. i’ll prob get a couple of things when i get back from minneapolis. where should i start? the screamer? also, do you guys all use pedal boards for your power linking? what is a good board?
go with a pedal board… saves the money for the constant replacement of 9volts (always unplug your pedals if you use 9vs)
as for good boards, i too am in search of one so if anyone has input on this feel free to elaborate
Stay away from the boomerang. NOISE!!!
what are these pedal boards everyone speaks of?
^I like loopers. I’ve had the boomerang in my setup for a couple years now but its started to phase its way out. I’m working on either getting or modding all of my pedals to be true bypass so that I don’t get any noise. Simply having the Boomerang plugged in gives a lot of hiss to your sound if you really listen.
what is the boss looper that guitar player mag rate as the best looper out there?
I think its called the Loop Station.
yeah, one of the loop stations. They have a nice selection of them now. the huge one, the double-sized, and the single tiny thing.
and the price tag?
i’ve decided that i’ll prob start with teh ts-9, a boss tuner, and the giga delay. this should get me started. then i’ll prob check out that digitech whammy. question, what does and envelope filter do?
it’s like an auto wah pedal. depending on how hard you strum or pick, the wah effect will be sharper. it’s used primarily for chording.
damn icc. that thing looks so bad ass
good choice with the giga delay. Middle ground of features and price, and loops are SO fun to play with.
Think about the wah’s on Shakedown Street.
If your gonna get real anal about tone, I suggest get a rack eq/compressor/envelope. They can really clean up a big mess of effects into a nice even sound. And the reason I say a rack one is because I find stompbox eq/compressor/envelope sound way too processed. Unless thats what your going for.