The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[Iommic Pope]

I'm the same with the riffing, sometimes its cool to fuck around with delays and verb etc. but I'm nowhere near skilled enough at it where I'd subject other humans to my noodlings. I do like to colour good riffs with effects though, it can change the way you hear a part, and then the course of the song.

I could learn how to etch I guess, but my artistic skills are severly wanting.

Fuck, listening to Neurosis' At the Well. So awesome.

[Iommic Pope]

Still waiting for it to get here. Shipped today so I should have it in a week and a half or so.
Man I hope it gets me where I want to go.

[deathmonkey]

Mark sent a pic of my etched Black Forest, all built and ready to roll. Should be here any day now. Meanwhile, my original Black Forest is making it's way to the other side of the world, headed for our very own Iommic Pope.

absolutely gorgeous!...there should be way more etched pedals available from pedal builders, instead of custom jobs

While I agree (cause i've been etching like crazy for folks) it really becomes an issue of time that prevents them from being "mass produced" etched lines. The actual etching part only takes about 5 minutes per pedal, But all the prep and clean up afterwards that makes it stick pretty squarely in the "custom" or "limited edition" realm.... that part takes HOURS.

[conky]

I wanna move away from my Boss SP404 sampler and get something that I can put on my board and trigger samples with my foot instead of having to walk over to my amp and press it with a finger and having to interrupt playing guitar. Any suggestions on what will be easiest to operate. Something that is tight on space like a Jamman Solo or RC3 that I don't have to stomp a shitload of times to start a loop. I think both have the option to set the loop to play once.

Or if someone knows of a footswitch that I can run off of MIDI to trigger my sampler, that would be easier I guess.

I have a jamman solo with the break away pedal. It works well from the minimal use I have given it. The break away box is needed in my opinion though as it allows you to stomp through the sample loops instead of having to lean down and press tiny buttons. It also has a third stomp that lets you do a kill on everything playing which is helpful.

Thats what I was looking at. Glad to know it is working for you.

I have the big Jamman Stereo, and while it is big, it's by far the easiest for triggering samples and avoiding mistakes.

I wondered about this too since the Solo and aux switch would take up just about the same amount of space on my board.

[Droneforbreakfast]

Yeah, thats what I wanna do. We have a few samples that we wanna run between songs when we are tuning and then a few to go in some of the songs. I've got them in my SP404 but I wanna move it to my board for less set up time and hands free sampling. Ideally I'd like something that I can scroll through banks with one or two switches and then one other one that I hit once to start the loop. I'm not up on all these loopers though so I don't know which ones are good for that. Reading up on the Jamman Solo though, it seems pretty neat and looks like it may work for what I wanna do. I still wanna get a Ditto looper for looping my playing though. I really need a bigger board. I can't fit anything else on my board like it is. I wanna add a Ghost Echo and a favorite footswitch for my El Crap. The hunt for a PT2 is on.

I have the big Jamman Stereo, and while it is big, it's by far the easiest for triggering samples and avoiding mistakes.

People that have boards without delay and reverb are like that crazy uncle that dances throughout an entire wedding reception.... You know you are somehow related to them, but no one wants to admit it.

Haha! I have 3 delays on my board. I just love that effect so much.

totally. i also have three very different delays.

[Ancient Astronaught]

I gotta quick question about dem 15s. Anyone feel free to jump in with advice as I've never owned any 15" speaker sadly...

I use a variety of Emperor 2x12s and oversized 2x12s with most my amps, like to keep the setup modular and easy to move or switch up. My Dunwich Metro is around 80W, biggest of the bunch, and gets a pair of those 2x12s currently. Think I could get away with a single 1x15 added to that setup or you think I'm lacking required wattage? Would a 2x12 plus 1x15 setup work out, anyone tried that before?

As an avid user of 12"s paired with 15's for guitar I can tell you that I have found the Golden ratio is 2 to 1 (12's to 15's). I have a 4x12 + 2x15 setup and the big ol 6x12 + 3x15 setup and they both balance amazingly. As far as the watts, I use the big rig with the Naki which is 200w, so divide it by three and its 66.6 watts per 2x12 + 1x15. You should be just fine with 80 watts, just try and get the 15" speaker to be near the same watts as both 12's combined so that the sensitivity is near identical from both cabs. Then be prepared for the thickest and fattest tone you've ever had.







As far as the big pedal board debate, I used to have 8 to 10 pedals on my guitar board at all time, different dirts and delays and what not. Now I use 5 total tone producing pedals. There's no replacement for multiple dirts that I have found so I have 2 different pedals with a total of three different circuits (OD, Fuzz, and Dist) and then a clean boost, but for my time based effects I went digital. Using a Timeline and a Space I have the effectiveness of 200 different delays and 100 different verbs in 2 pedals. It made my life so much easier and saved so much space. If I do expand it will be to add on a mobius to cover any modulation sounds I may want (all though I don't use modulation very much). And I play alot of shoegazey tones in my band, a correctly setup delay and verb will get you there or atleast 90% there. But I'm a tweaker, I can sit there for 30 minutes and dial in the perfect delay and verb combo for one song, but alot of people can't handle that and I understand that. For some people its easier to have 3 different delays and dial in a certain tone on each one. Different strokes for different folks.

[new05002]

I have the tourbox Fac Off up for sale. Let me know if ur interested

[Ancient Astronaught]

Sooooo I got a GFS "vintage split" (aka wrhb in a HB case) to throw in the Dirge Telemaster.....



Threw it in last night and wired up some gibson 500k vol and tone pots (with an orange .47 cap) just waiting on the tone knob to come in from Skully and its all done. I only got 5 minutes with it last night once i got it tuned up and good to go, the cleans are amazing and the dirt tone was half way decent (i was playing through my lil vox pathfinder 15w ss amp) but I'm pretty excited, gonna do a more thorough play through tonight as well as try out my Ibanez ES-2 delay that came in.

[skullservant]

GURLLLLLL

[Ancient Astronaught]

GURLLLLLL

Just wait until I finally get the big cbs headstock maple fretboard with block inlays neck fixed and thrown on there. It will finally be done and as sexy as a a big booty GURRRRRLLLLLL.

Then you MUST come over and check it out. It would be the only appropriate thing to do.

*edit* come to think of it, if you havent mailed off the tone knob, DON'T. Bring it over the next time you stop by. I feel that it wouldn't be right if you didn't put the final touch on her.

[new05002]

only makes me gas for the TM build i wanna do

[Ancient Astronaught]

only makes me gas for the TM build i wanna do

Good.... let the GAS flow through you.... as revenge for the Moog GAS you gave me.......

[new05002]

wont be nearly as bad since i spitted you with that buy

also in are the tourbox PCBS

[Ancient Astronaught]

wont be nearly as bad since i spitted you with that buy

also in are the tourbox PCBS

Thats one hell of an expensive spite

Nice!!!!!! Still trying to find a way to get my ODB made.... I got a few things lying around that might make it a reality.

[skullservant]

GURLLLLLL

Just wait until I finally get the big cbs headstock maple fretboard with block inlays neck fixed and thrown on there. It will finally be done and as sexy as a a big booty GURRRRRLLLLLL.

Then you MUST come over and check it out. It would be the only appropriate thing to do.

*edit* come to think of it, if you havent mailed off the tone knob, DON'T. Bring it over the next time you stop by. I feel that it wouldn't be right if you didn't put the final touch on her.

That sounds like a plan to me