[CHOUT]

 

[king_buzzo]

Originally Posted by CHOUT

 

haha

[Norma J]

I second the haha.

[Glice]

What the shitting crikey can you lot still have to talk about? Surely there's only so many effects?

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Originally Posted by Glice

What the shitting crikey can you lot still have to talk about? Surely there's only so many effects?

But there are countless variations of those effects made by different companies

[Norma J]

And many different sounds to get out of each individual effect.

[CHOUT]

Originally Posted by Glice

What the shitting crikey can you lot still have to talk about? Surely there's only so many effects?

 

...and these are just Fuzz boxes.

[CHOUT]

Originally Posted by Kegmama

^^ Fuck me. Who's collection is that?! ^^

Some dude on Harmony Central.

[heavium]

haha...


i want some tips from yoose; i'm thinking about getting a reverb pedal...i love the spring reverb on fenders (love my main amp's reverb)... i'm kind of reverb crazed...but yeah..i'd like an external reverb effect too, can also use it on bass then... what i'm after is that classic bath thub splashy kind of reverb (i like that patch on the danelectro spring king..kind of interesting..), not some dull sounding digital reverb (*cough*boss*cough*)... i can't really try out a lot of pedals over here because the shops don't have 'em on stock... 'cept for the boss ones of course *sigh*

so..give me some tips about these, if you happen to own one of them...
i'd like to stay in the 50-150 euros range (forget t-rex, holiest grail, spacebox..hehe)

-EHX holy grail
-EHX holier grail
-danelectro spring king
-any other boxes i don't know about

[Savage Clone]

I have a Holy Grail, but something went wrong with the power supply. I liked it when it worked though. Having the "Flerb" setting was a nice bonus. I have no real use for the bells and whistles offered by the more deluxe versions of this pedal. It's no real spring tank, but those are mega expensive. I can't bring myself to pay 500 bucks for an outboard reverb unit.
For the relatively modest price, the Holy Grail is OK with me.

[Glice]

Ok, now I'm interested: What does 'flerb' do?

I hate myself for encouraging this gear wank-fest, in case you're wondering.

[Iain]

Well, me too but the word flerb is enough to get any sensible man or woman intrested.

[Savage Clone]

It's just a sort of wavey, lightly flangey reverb that doesn't sound like The Cure circa 1983. It's nice.

[Glice]

See, with all due deference to Mr Clone (who I imagine appreciates the ridiculousness), the way people talk about effects is absurd. "It's a bit wet, but not as wet as to be brittle. Keeps a nice low-end squiddliness, but without the calcium sound."

[Savage Clone]

Listening to people talk about effects is hilarious, but trying to explain the effect you are looking for to an unfamiliar sound person or engineer is a nightmare.
Gear talk is pretty tiresome after a while, but most times I would still prefer to get my info this way than by reading the catalogue writeups.

Edit:
And after all, you did ask!

[Glice]

I generally prefer to know what it does in physical terms, I find that a hell of a lot easier to comprehend. Give me a spectograph over wishy-washy metaphors any day.

[Savage Clone]

It combines flange and reverb.
YEESH!

[Glice]

The above wasn't a demand, more my usual brand of mis-directed bullshit.

[Savage Clone]

Naturally.

For what it's worth, I did some google image searching for you on this, but came up with nothing.

[CHOUT]

It's all the same in any interest: discussing the taste of wines, athletes' physical ability, what porn star gives the best blow jobs, etc. Talking about gear/pedals is fucking geeky, I'll give it that, but if you like tha shit, you talk about it. So what?