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Tendollarcat wrote:

jasonmitsch wrote:Hi folks, I'm new here. I wandered over from talkbass. Here's the current state of affairs with my board:

Welcome man. That's a killer board! Interested to hear how you are finding the pitchgrinder on bass? I use an Eau Claire Thunder and it is really bass friendly.

The pitchgrinder is not really bass friendly, but thats why I bought it. I set the pitches to all octaves/fifths/unison so that when I turn it on it does crazy keyboardy arpeggios along with my bass tone. If I had to run it in series, it probably wouldn't be on my board, but running it parallel just opens up this whole world of options.

hbombgraphics wrote:very sweet
and liking the brick pedal board

It's easily the heaviest board ever

kbithecrowing wrote:Sick board, Mini at the end Have you ever played a Memory Boy? I'm curious as to how the MM550 compares.

The mini is one of the few pedals that's become part of what I call my sound. It soooo good

I haven't compared them in person, I briefly had the Deluxe Memory Boy and I remember it fairly well. The MM550 is far more hi-fi, they both play well with the incoming signal thanks to the gain knob. I did really like the square wave modulation on the boy, the depth and wave-shape controls are one and the same on the boy, the man only has the sine-wave. The man could get this really nice infinite noise thing going on that was sweeet! The man has two secret modes: 1-programmable footswitchable oscillation 2- I call it power ranger mode, it'll cycle through the tap-divide modes according to how the rate knob's set (if you have the delay time set short and the repeats set on the edge of oscillation it sounds like a crazy arpegiator). I'm pretty sure the boy has the oscillation, but it doesn't have power ranger mode...

Overall if having an insanely clear analog delay and power ranger mode is worth the extra 100-150 to you, then get the man; if not, then get the boy and make some awesome square-wave modulated sounds!

rustywire wrote:Glad you got your E600D.
If you're curious to try an E600B (to compare) let a fella know and we can arrange a temp trade or something. Assuming I still have it...because it's for sale/trade once again...for now

Also how does it contrast with the DMM TT, tone-wise?

As to the first PM'D!
As to the second, their both sonically orgasmic to the extreme! Generally, the man is very bright in comparison to the dark, and you're never going to lose the delay signal to dirt with the man but that's a risk you take with the dark. It's a little like the difference between a digital and analog delay in respect to the bright/dark contrast between the two.

The man feels a lot bouncier in the way it interacts with the incoming signal. The dark can get kinda bouncy, but if you're trying to layout a rhythmic stream of sound for your signal to fly over the man is more like building a sand castle and watching the waves slowly degrade its form. Whereas the dark is more like building that same castle under those waves. It'll look good for a second, but it quickly disintegrates, melted by the waves.

At just the point before oscillation the dark creates a deliciously warm cloud of sound that'll slowly change directions, but everything's just a beautiful swash. At the same point on the man it's a bit like throwing paint on a wheel. The colors slowly degrade and blend together but you can still see some of their original color and form, never quite creating a wholly homogenous picture.

One important thing to note is that no matter how hot of a signal you slam the dark with the repeats never distort, the man, on the other hand will distort fairly easily if you push it a little. It's both a good and a bad thing.

I'm going to keep both if I can, right now the dark is more in line with what I need from a delay (something that does ominous and mysterious well). The man, though, I'll never get rid of because I think it makes a great guitarist's delay because of the frequencies it really hits on.

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wfs1234 wrote:

kbithecrowing wrote:Sick board, Mini at the end Have you ever played a Memory Boy? I'm curious as to how the MM550 compares.

The mini is one of the few pedals that's become part of what I call my sound. It soooo good

I feel like quite a few of us around here feel this way (myself and skully off the top of my head). It's the ILF sound

wfs1234 wrote:The man feels a lot bouncier in the way it interacts with the incoming signal. The dark can get kinda bouncy, but if you're trying to layout a rhythmic stream of sound for your signal to fly over the man is more like building a sand castle and watching the waves slowly degrade its form. Whereas the dark is more like building that same castle under those waves. It'll look good for a second, but it quickly disintegrates, melted by the waves.

At just the point before oscillation the dark creates a deliciously warm cloud of sound that'll slowly change directions, but everything's just a beautiful swash. At the same point on the man it's a bit like throwing paint on a wheel. The colors slowly degrade and blend together but you can still see some of their original color and form, never quite creating a wholly homogenous picture.

& these descriptions are so lovely to read and make complete sense to me. It must be great to have both of those options.
Also, the Deluxe Memory Boy does have the "power ranger" mode

Yeah the Mini is something I will not get rid of either haha

wfs1234 wrote:As to the second, their both sonically orgasmic to the extreme! Generally, the man is very bright in comparison to the dark, and you're never going to lose the delay signal to dirt with the man but that's a risk you take with the dark. It's a little like the difference between a digital and analog delay in respect to the bright/dark contrast between the two.

The man feels a lot bouncier in the way it interacts with the incoming signal. The dark can get kinda bouncy, but if you're trying to layout a rhythmic stream of sound for your signal to fly over the man is more like building a sand castle and watching the waves slowly degrade its form. Whereas the dark is more like building that same castle under those waves. It'll look good for a second, but it quickly disintegrates, melted by the waves.

At just the point before oscillation the dark creates a deliciously warm cloud of sound that'll slowly change directions, but everything's just a beautiful swash. At the same point on the man it's a bit like throwing paint on a wheel. The colors slowly degrade and blend together but you can still see some of their original color and form, never quite creating a wholly homogenous picture.

One important thing to note is that no matter how hot of a signal you slam the dark with the repeats never distort, the man, on the other hand will distort fairly easily if you push it a little. It's both a good and a bad thing.

I'm going to keep both if I can, right now the dark is more in line with what I need from a delay (something that does ominous and mysterious well). The man, though, I'll never get rid of because I think it makes a great guitarist's delay because of the frequencies it really hits on.

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That was just beautiful.

The E600B was too bright for my taste but the repeats never got lost. Mine had some hiss going on too when compared to the Dark which is nearly silent. Also, seemed voiced pretty close to my old DMM honestly, in the same realm I mean, not a replacement obviously.

The E600D is perfect imo, very warm with gorgeous repeats that handle whatever signal you throw at 'em. I have to run it on the buffered out tho to give it some clarity and life tho, shit's too dark and muddy in TB setting. Also, wish the exp function would allow repeats to be dialed down to zero instead of the lowest setting always gives that single repeat.

switched some dings out
kinda still really want a smmh but i don't know what i'd take out.
there's one on the bay for pretty cheap

that board is sick!!like the additions

you could always send me your RV-3 to make room

that pic makes me want so bad to just go BLAAAAM with open strings blasting and making the cat jump in terror.

theavondon wrote:Here's the only known picture of the board I used on tour.



Rat Tail->Frantabit->Xero Deluxe->Bluebeard->Skinpimp Panik->Deluxe Pitch Pirate->tuner

This pedalboard is something I could jive with quite happily. It's just one neat pedal after another.

wfs1234 wrote:The man feels a lot bouncier in the way it interacts with the incoming signal. The dark can get kinda bouncy, but if you're trying to layout a rhythmic stream of sound for your signal to fly over the man is more like building a sand castle and watching the waves slowly degrade its form. Whereas the dark is more like building that same castle under those waves. It'll look good for a second, but it quickly disintegrates, melted by the waves.

At just the point before oscillation the dark creates a deliciously warm cloud of sound that'll slowly change directions, but everything's just a beautiful swash. At the same point on the man it's a bit like throwing paint on a wheel. The colors slowly degrade and blend together but you can still see some of their original color and form, never quite creating a wholly homogenous picture.

One important thing to note is that no matter how hot of a signal you slam the dark with the repeats never distort, the man, on the other hand will distort fairly easily if you push it a little. It's both a good and a bad thing.

I'm going to keep both if I can, right now the dark is more in line with what I need from a delay (something that does ominous and mysterious well). The man, though, I'll never get rid of because I think it makes a great guitarist's delay because of the frequencies it really hits on.

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Awesome post and awesomely descriptive analogies.

kbithecrowing wrote:I feel like quite a few of us around here feel this way (myself and skully off the top of my head). It's the ILF sound

Yes.

kbithecrowing wrote:I feel like quite a few of us around here feel this way (myself and skully off the top of my head). It's the ILF sound

wfs1234 wrote:words

& these descriptions are so lovely to read and make complete sense to me. It must be great to have both of those options.
Also, the Deluxe Memory Boy does have the "power ranger" mode

The mini totally is! I love power ranger mode. Whenever I play with it and some fuzz I feel like I'm summoning gojira or gamera or something!

Thanks for the kinds words about my words everyone I feel like videos demonstrating pedals sometimes covers up how the pedal plays with the incoming signal (delays are the biggest offender when it comes to this). In these cases words are much better for describing how the pedal behaves

So good

Casavettes wrote:

switched some dings out
kinda still really want a smmh but i don't know what i'd take out.
there's one on the bay for pretty cheap

hbombgraphics wrote:that board is sick!!like the additions

you could always send me your RV-3 to make room

I don't think I could ever let it go

theavondon wrote:Here's the only known picture of the board I used on tour.



Rat Tail->Frantabit->Xero Deluxe->Bluebeard->Skinpimp Panik->Deluxe Pitch Pirate->tuner

The 2525 was just chillin on the corner, because I got it back from a friend in St. Louis.

And boy howdy, it was fun.

Great rig.

Thought this was an old picture of Thurston Moore for a second haha.

Casavettes wrote:switched some dings out

dat POLYPUS