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Thu 09/06/05 at 15:12
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"The Red Shift"
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I'm a bit out of touch with the market and I'd prefer to keep my lovely old Demon amp than go for a confangled new one with gadgety stuff.

So:

Where do/would you get your pedals from?

How much is a good price?

Is it worth getting new ones or keeping my (ancient) ones which are broken and trying to get them fixed?

Thanks in Advance,
Clazon.
Mon 13/06/05 at 17:01
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"This one goes to 11"
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Depends what you buy. A distortion or overdrive pedal will simply give you more gain, and perhaps alter your EQ, but they are the cheapest. The more worth while pedals are modulation effects which add a bit of colour to your tone e.g. flanger, phaser, wah. The most useful effect after distortion is either delay or a wah-wah pedal, depends what kind of sound you want. You could get a cheap wah pedal for about £70-£90, the best by far being the Dunlop Crybaby, but again this depends what you think sounds good. And if you think £40 is too much then im afraid you're very restricted with choice, the only pedals I can think of that are that cheap are the Danelectro pedals which go for about £30 a time. If you want a half-decent stompbox you're looking at a minumum of about £70. Multieffects unit are better value, but they start at about £200 and finish at over a grand. Or you could join me in my quest to make a home-made talkbox for ''under a tenner" :D
Sun 12/06/05 at 22:09
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I want to get myself some effects pedals, but even a cheap one for around £40 seems too much for a slightly different sound.

:(
Sun 12/06/05 at 19:49
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Waaaaaaay ahead of ya ;D Ive found an old Marshall practise amp, i think its 2 Watt, lol. But anyway, the speaker in it is 8 ohms, same as the 2x12 cabinet that i run my head through. theres obviously an input, but also a headphones output. the possibilities are endless......
Sun 12/06/05 at 18:01
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"Mighty Strathmore"
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metalhead wrote:

> Random guess: suitably valued resistor?

thats there still got to guess 3 more.
Hint-try building a custom amp.
Sun 12/06/05 at 16:15
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metalhead wrote:
> Multieffects units are like the virtual modelling amps: Its nice to
> have lots of pretty sounds to play with, but at the end of the day a
> real marshall stack/fender twin/flanger pedal etc., sounds 1,000
> times better than something that THINKS marshall stack/fender
> twin/flanger pedal etc. For what you're actually going to use, its
> definitely worth spending the money on a few decent quality
> stompboxes than a clever box of tricks.

The thing is, it's best not to think of it like that. I use mine because I like the sounds I can make with it. I don't care if the Marshall models don't sound like a real Marshall stack, because I like what they do sound like. It's about sounding good, not mimicing a sound perfectly. As for the modulation FX, they're virtually indistinguisable from their analogue counterparts. There's a massive difference between cheap multi-FX and those in the £200+ range.
Sun 12/06/05 at 14:26
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sg_nl90 wrote:
> the plans for what me and
> my bro done because we were able to put a "component" in to
> stop it blowing.

Random guess: suitably valued resistor? My new cunning plan involves using either the D.I. from my amp head which comes straight out of the pre-amp, or the effects loop. Either way it shouldnt damage the amp at all...i think.
Sun 12/06/05 at 11:51
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"Mighty Strathmore"
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clever boy. the amp will blow most certainly. unless you get it right the first time. thats why i cant give you the plans for what me and my bro done because we were able to put a "component" in to stop it blowing.
I wish you the best in building you talkbox.
Let me no if it works.
Sun 12/06/05 at 10:31
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Multieffects units are like the virtual modelling amps: Its nice to have lots of pretty sounds to play with, but at the end of the day a real marshall stack/fender twin/flanger pedal etc., sounds 1,000 times better than something that THINKS marshall stack/fender twin/flanger pedal etc. For what you're actually going to use, its definitely worth spending the money on a few decent quality stompboxes than a clever box of tricks.

Re: Talkboxes

From what you've said, and from what I know about...erm...'professional' talkboxes, i think ive got a fairly good idea what to do. Professional ones go between the amp and the speaker (head and cabinet) so alls i needs to do is get a small 8z speaker cone, stick it in a box, attatch jack sockets, plug amp head into one, cabinet into the other, and stick a tube infront of the speaker.....i think. Does it go something like that?
Sat 11/06/05 at 23:22
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Well, it's not really "the real thing", since the proper analogue stompboxes it models will probably sound better, but for flexibility and convenience it gets my thumbs up. I'd love a PodXT Live though, but it was about £100 more.
Sat 11/06/05 at 22:01
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Memorandum! wrote:
> Computer effects blow.

They're probably not authentic

but...

> Boss GT-6

The real thing is extremely expensive.

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