The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!



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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Chankgeez » Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:38 pm

psychic vampire. wrote:The important take away from this thread: Taoism and Ring Modulators go together?
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Gone Fission » Fri Mar 17, 2023 8:26 am

So I think it’s a weird AF phenomenon that those videos can pump prices but now there’s an army of wannabe YT guitar influencers trying to be personally aggrieved for teh clicks. JHS responded more to the critique of the price jump by pointing out that everyone else had nearly 20 years to figure out that it was an okay pedal and get them cheap, which is honestly really fair.

So, okay, Death Metal. What else is good-great and cheap as chips to get while we can? And not just for the JHS Show effect but for people generally getting hip? (I remember in the 00’s when Hiwatts seemed expensive but I would insta-buy at those prices now.)
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby coupleonapkins » Fri Mar 17, 2023 5:36 pm

Gone Fission wrote:So I think it’s a weird AF phenomenon that those videos can pump prices but now there’s an army of wannabe YT guitar influencers trying to be personally aggrieved for teh clicks. JHS responded more to the critique of the price jump by pointing out that everyone else had nearly 20 years to figure out that it was an okay pedal and get them cheap, which is honestly really fair.

So, okay, Death Metal. What else is good-great and cheap as chips to get while we can? And not just for the JHS Show effect but for people generally getting hip?

The digital Digitech era is as good as you'd imagine X or Y to be depending on your fondness for the tool, but I am partial to the Bass Squeezer (like the DOD, the Digi Bass pedals are underrated), as it's still somewhat cheap, but the last one I had fizzted out, and now they're like $75? Hot Head (DS-1) is still out there, but so are 65M DS-1's :::chomp:::

Best feature for this series is the direct out, so as long as you can live with the sheen, that will do you a heap of help depending on your sitch (Digi Grunge isn't DOD Grunge, but both are....fine?). Sheeny weenie dibby dooby.

The later Signature series (Crossroads, Scott Ian, etc.) I never really understood, as they are specifically for DI tones, not really for live rig running/pedalboard floors, as if nobody decided to mention that in the first place. I always wanted to try the Lyra, but I am about 12 years too late.

Most hilarious takeaway frome all this: soon all the cheap pedals will be amazon basics-style (we've already usurped all the chinese clones, I'm afraid), and since nobody wants JayChezYetz peddles (even the cheapo liners), we are eventually going to all go back 2 BOSS, baybay! #reaptheewildwind

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Gone Fission wrote:(I remember in the 00’s when Hiwatts seemed expensive but I would insta-buy at those prices now.)

I bumped into this vid the other night, and I basically did the same thing since I remembered, too :facepalm:


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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Chankgeez » Fri Mar 17, 2023 6:16 pm

psychic vampire. wrote:The important take away from this thread: Taoism and Ring Modulators go together?
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby jirodreamsofdank » Wed Mar 22, 2023 2:16 am

moozz wrote:Do people really need whatever pedal the JHS show features immediately and that badly?


This phenomenon is bizarre - I list variant comics on EBay for a shop. Superman #75 1 in 50 incentive blah blah blah. If you list it before the Tuesday it comes out, it will sell for $54.99 or whatever. If you list it between Tuesday and Saturday it will sell for 25-30% less. After that first week, 50-60% less outside of freak occurrences - but even those will almost never go above the initial $54.99. If variant comic collectors were rational, they'd all just wait two weeks and pick them up cheaper... but they don't. They want it that first day even though they know that waiting would save them 60%.
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Blackened Soul » Wed Mar 22, 2023 10:02 am

fun fact: every time an add shows up on my socials for said pedal company run by an eyebrowless evangelical fanatic I report the add as inappropriate :thumb:
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Tall Walls » Mon Apr 24, 2023 5:19 pm

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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Dandolin » Mon Apr 24, 2023 9:01 pm

seems quite karaoke oriented; surrrised there isn't a dedicated mic preamp/input :snax:

or, duh, maybe it's just practice/jam-along orientated :idk: :facepalm:
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Tall Walls » Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:02 am

Dandolin wrote:seems quite karaoke oriented; surrrised there isn't a dedicated mic preamp/input :snax:

or, duh, maybe it's just practice/jam-along orientated :idk: :facepalm:

Yeah, it has controls for speeding up or slowing down the CD playback and looping chunks. Separate 3" speakers for the CD player.
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby le lambin » Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:10 am

That looks like an awesome amp for a live weirdo solo gig- I’m interested!
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby D.o.S. » Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:41 am

Gone Fission wrote:So I think it’s a weird AF phenomenon that those videos can pump prices but now there’s an army of wannabe YT guitar influencers trying to be personally aggrieved for teh clicks. JHS responded more to the critique of the price jump by pointing out that everyone else had nearly 20 years to figure out that it was an okay pedal and get them cheap, which is honestly really fair.

So, okay, Death Metal. What else is good-great and cheap as chips to get while we can? And not just for the JHS Show effect but for people generally getting hip? (I remember in the 00’s when Hiwatts seemed expensive but I would insta-buy at those prices now.)


Can't speak to what's cool now but I've been getting a lot of joy out of my Elements in no-diode mode recently.

I do think it's super weird that, of all people, JHS is 'the used market tone influencer' now. But it's hardly the most offensive thing about this timeline, even if he sucks.
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Heraclitus Akimbo » Tue Apr 25, 2023 2:21 pm

Similar to that amp, I scored one of these on the cheap a few weeks ago:

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Though I haven't messed around too much with it yet.

Was kinda thinking of burning stuff onto a cd and using it like a weird sampler? Plus it has some excellently-cheesy effects on board. (Including a bunch of vocal effects called things like "megaphone" and "shouting".)
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Tall Walls » Tue Apr 25, 2023 5:44 pm

Okay, this thing is pretty silly, but I couldn't resist it. Traded in some pedals I wasn't using and brought it home. It's got some kind of loose connection somewhere that makes the guitar input crap out sometimes, but I think I can fix that or live with it.




Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:Was kinda thinking of burning stuff onto a cd and using it like a weird sampler? Plus it has some excellently-cheesy effects on board. (Including a bunch of vocal effects called things like "megaphone" and "shouting".)

I looked up the manual for this, and I'm pleased and impressed that they list those vocal effects--shout, screaming, response, proclaim--without offering any description as to what those effects might be. The amp version only has guitar effects.
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

Postby Dandolin » Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:09 pm

D.o.S. wrote:Can't speak to what's cool now but I've been getting a lot of joy out of my Elements in no-diode mode recently.

got inspired to bring the Elements to a session this weekend, honestly planning to use it for a higher gain tone into an amp set up clean; then klutzily fussing about during setup stumbled on an 'underdrive' setting and used it that way all day, sucking out some mids and level to pull the gained up amp back into...the cleanness :)* :p
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Re: The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

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