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AWRIGHT! HERE... WE HAVE... TWO OF JRMY'S DEMOS! Or, uh, audio clips. Or something.

Both of these were recorded with the signal chain Fender Jazz Bass > pedal > M-audio FastTrack Pro > Garageband (with a neutral amp sim). Both of them go clean tone first, then the same riff over and over AND OVER, and then some other stuff that wasn't the same riff. No stacking, no other pedals, no ambience.

First up: The Death Ray! Sure enough, this one generates all sorts of laser-beam-y goodness. The trick is to really play with the first two frequency/filter knobs - there's gold up in them thar hills. I found that I got the best results in the higher, screechier end of the spectrum - with them lower, the pedal tended to glitch & fart out more. But from maybe 12:00 on up, all sorts of mayhem could be had. Also manually sweeping the knobs was AMAZING! If you have an expression pedal DEFINITELY DEFINITELY DEFINITELY use it here. I get to that at the very end of the demo, and then basically futz around with sweeping the frequency for like a minute and a half. It was so much fun, I coulda gone another hour, no prob.

EDIT: oh, another really cool thing - the pedal did a kind of modulated trem thing in the decay when I'd hold chords. That was really cool.

[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/thewyrrejimes/death-ray-demo[/soundcloud]

Next: The Blasteroid. Man, this thing SLAYS on bass (and probably baritone & down-tuned guitar). You want yer sludgy Sabbath-in-a-can? Here you go! As I understand, It's a straight clone of the Earth Tone Graphic Fuzz, a mid-70's fuzz pedal with a nasty EQ/filter knob. You can get a lot of "cocked wah" (TWSS!) sounds out of it. Past 1:00, I could hear a distinct EQ "ring" that was probably just the tone knob affecting whatever hiss I was generating, and at 2:00 it got kind of piercing. That said, it would certainly cut through a mix! My personal favorite sound for this thing on bass was with the tone all the way down, or up to about 10:30, but if I were using it for solos, I could imagine it being really useful around noon. Also, at some point I'm going to mess around with it and modulation, because I'm guessing a phaser or flange would love to grab on to that EQ spike (TWSSx2!) wherever it was parked.

So yeah, here's the Blasteroid. Just to be a perverse bastid, I start the pedal part with the EQ cranked, and then dial it back to the bass-tastic range. Also, my apologies for using such a long riff (TWSSx3?) - I was just sorta inspired by the pedal to go with something like that.

[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/thewyrrejimes/blasteroid-demo[/soundcloud]

I'll review my Orange Cycle recording at some point and see if it's worth posting.

Thanks again to everyone who's participating! Looking forward to what you guys think & record.

jrmy wrote:... Changkeez ...

When did I start spelling my screen name this way, jymr?

(just kidding)

Thanks for all the words and the clips ...

Chankgeez wrote:

jrmy wrote:... Changkeez ...

When did I start spelling my screen name this way, yjmr?

(just kidding)

Thanks for all the words and the clips ...

Oh crap, that must have been the damned auto-correct! Sorry, I'll make sure it doesn't happen again Clangkseez!

Box just showed up.

Beyond Stoked. I know people have said it before, but the packaging is far and away the nicest I've seen when it comes to boutique/small pedal builders. Shirt is rad. Going to read back through the thread and fire it up later today.

D.o.S. wrote:Box just showed up.

Beyond Stoked. I know people have said it before, but the packaging is far and away the nicest I've seen when it comes to boutique/small pedal builders. Shirt is rad. Going to read back through the thread and fire it up later today.

Have fun.

Boxing up the swag to send out to the next ILF'er in the next day or so. No clips, sorry bros!

Thoughts ahead.

Blasteroid Fuzz


Laser Fuzz



Mad Doctor Stutter



Death Ray



Orange Cycle

Perhaps no clips, but some of the best print reviews in recent memory. Nicely done, sir!

Yep, nice write ups, D.o.S.

Sounds like you had some fun.

Tourbox is on it's way to the space(cow)6oy.

D.o.S. wrote:Tourbox is on it's way to the space(cow)6oy.

arrived safely today! box is getting to be a bit rough though, UPS store sticker warning about damaged deliveries made me hesitate. ok for me to give it less beat up packaging when i pass it on? if not no worries, just thought i'd offer.

I don't mind (and I don't think Matt would either) if you give it a new shipping container, space6oy.

Do whatever you think is necessary to get this IdiotBox TourBox along to the next person. Thanks.

Have fun with those pedals!!!

ok, will do. thanks dudes! so pumped to be part of this!

does the blasteroid have to have an individual power supply? rigged 'em up last night using a standard boss 9v and a chain, all the others work fine w/ that, blasteroid first in line passes signal fine when bypassed, LED lights when engaged but doesn't pass signal then. works fine w/ the supply by itself, just thought i'd ask what's up w/ that since the others all work fine in the power chain...

Yes. (From the original post in this thread:)

chankgeez wrote:The Blasteroid needs an isolated power supply.

The Blasteroid also behaves differently with and without a buffer placed before it. I encourage you to try it both ways.