Gasalcoholics anonymous? whoever said this was a help group?

[Dandolin]

Noice - love the story, love the service to the cause, love Red Panda, love ILF - I'll have to check this thang out!

[Dowi]

Cool story Vidret!
Then thanks for planting the idea of single shift and dedicated footswitch.

[gila_crisis]

I think I had these 2 on the radar since Maxon released their Fuzz Element series...the most underrated pedals ever... I always wondered why so few talk about these, and there's so less information around. After soo long (I think these are discontinued now) I was able to find both at a good price and I decided to give them a try.

Holy moly... so glad I finally got these 2!

Ether is a very cool Superfuzz with a 1 band parametric EQ, which is very powerful and intrusive, and can act almost like a band pass filter. I own Superfuzzes which are more bottom heavy (LAL 046 and a Bozz FZ2 clone), instead Ether is very tight and super nasty. The EQ helps a lot shaping the sound, filtering out or exaggerating a given frequency.
I must thank @ck3 for the Fire: I would like a Pale Mare at some point, but since Earthbound Audio quarters got flooded I decided to look elsewhere. And after looking around I gladly got this one (main reason being the footswitchable notch filter): super thick fuzz, think of a BM but way more thick and sludgy. The low end is HUGE. Both notch on & off sounds combine together very well and are both very usable. Super fun also with synths and drum machines.

If you can find one of these I won't hesitate, or at least give 'em a try.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Nice! Was always intrigued by these but never got round to trying... Good review

[Disarm D'arcy]

Never owned a V, nor a guitar with Lace pickups, and i've always been quite indifferent to "burst" finishes, I don't hate 'em but I don't drool over 'em either.
BUT.
Probably the fact that my interest in metal and such has been revamped since the beginning of 2021 has something to do with this impulsive decision, but this one caught my eye since it came out a few years back, and one appeared for sale nearby, and the price was right, and my birthday is 3 weeks from now so..

this is beastly

[chuckjaywalk]

After years without a pedalboard, I have a TU-3>Hizmitas>BF-2>Ghost Echo. It is a really fun board and the only real upgrades I want are an Aqueduct for the warbles, a Pyramids to replace the BF-2, and the inevitable Rainbow Machine.

[cosmicevan]

Pedge and I...we are not one in the same...

the fruits of black friday (that started last weekend) start trickling in...

mmm discounted red panda...




and a pastiche card.

back to the actual matter at hand; how is it???

the demos I saw show it being used very cleanly, I'm very interested in putting this in front some dirt or in front of a hot pre-amp to take advantage of all the fun stuff without it sounding too pristine.

It's still kind of early in the relationship and my attention is always severely divided, but thus far I'm pretty blown away. There's a good chance it will knock the particle off my main board. It does the reverse delay so well. There are SO many sounds in it. I like to run MIDI with my main setup and I feel this with MIDI will be other worldly since it does so much and it is all so accessible at your fingertips.

In other news, props to EAE for impressively fast shipping...

Electronic Audio Experiments - Hypersleep v2


This one was a long time GAS curiosity that got bumped up in priority when they said that this drop was the final due to the scarcity of the BBD chip. Glad I got motivated...very awesome pedal.

[cosmicevan]

I've got a few boards...and pretty often I just grab a few pedals off the shelf and string em together.

[qersty]

I've got a few boards...and pretty often I just grab a few pedals off the shelf and string em together.

You never sting your boards together?

[Paul_C]

I've finished off my Squier spree with a Jazzmaster, albeit one with a Strat bridge.

I've not looked inside to see how close the pickups are to an actual JM (I had a japanese JM which had pickups which looked like the proper thing from the outside but were more like a strat under the cover) or what pots are used, but it sounds really nice to me (not excessively bright) so I doubt I'll bother to change anything.

The fret ends need a little tidying but it plays really nicely with no fret buzz and I like it a lot.

[Dandolin]

Looks nice! I have a hardtail Squire Jazzy (Vintage Modified I think) from a few years back and...after thinking about it, it's probs not relevant at all First of all, it was eight years ago (in my mind I was thinking more three or four ). Its pickups are Duncan-Designed, pretty much standard construction and sound nice enough that I've never really thought too hard about swapping them out...it's actually cool to hear those type of pickups with 250k pots instead of the standard 1 Megs in most Jazzmasters. It looks like yours are ceramic, so that's different right off the bat. If they have wide coils, they might lean a little P90ish - I betcha with the ceramic pickups they have 250k pots in there too...anyway it's all a balancing act. The only thing that matters is how it sounds to you if it plays and looks right....

[Paul_C]

Looks nice! I have a hardtail Squire Jazzy (Vintage Modified I think) from a few years back and...after thinking about it, it's probs not relevant at all First of all, it was eight years ago (in my mind I was thinking more three or four ). Its pickups are Duncan-Designed, pretty much standard construction and sound nice enough that I've never really thought too hard about swapping them out...it's actually cool to hear those type of pickups with 250k pots instead of the standard 1 Megs in most Jazzmasters. It looks like yours are ceramic, so that's different right off the bat. If they have wide coils, they might lean a little P90ish - I betcha with the ceramic pickups they have 250k pots in there too...anyway it's all a balancing act. The only thing that matters is how it sounds to you if it plays and looks right....

The JM I had (a purple J Mascis sig) came with the aforementioned "strat" pickups - tall and narrow wind rather than the proper short/wide style - and I swapped them for vintage-style Lollars and 250K pots, which made it sound glorious, to me at least.

I like the look of this one (despite its lack of a "correct" bridge), it sounds nice and plays nicely, so I don't think I could wish for more from a guitar.

The same goes for the Contemporary Strat I bought, with a Floyd Rose and two humbuckers

I'm not a huge Strat fan in standard config. but the contemporary version is really good

[gila_crisis]

That JM colour is beautiful!
I have a japanese JM, and I changed the pickups with Creamery, very nice indeed, and gave the guitar a fuller sound. the orginal japanese pu very really thin and cold.

[Dandolin]

yeah, that color looks really good with the rosewood board and i usually do not like white pickguards, but it def works there....

not that anyone asked, but this is what my jawn looks like:


def a smart move on the affinity to lose the jack cup looks much cleaner and jazzerier, and i'm actually not too in love with those cups anyway....

i do keep on meaning to black out the guard and covers on mine, but i'm lazy...actually i'd prefer tortoiseshell or something in between, but there's no way my cheapskate ass'll let me order a custom for it, since that'd probs run half the price i originally paid for the whole guitar. i also periodically microfantasize about finding just the right shade of cream or terra cotta to tie the fingerboard and core of the burst together, but those usually blip through in about 6 seconds and i can get back to ignoring the way it looks

looking at it again the thought arose, "what if i just oversprayed all the white with the same vintage tint "lacquer" that's on the neck?"

and, yes, i am concerned about my mental

[qersty]

I've finished off my Squier spree with a Jazzmaster, albeit one with a Strat bridge.

I've not looked inside to see how close the pickups are to an actual JM (I had a japanese JM which had pickups which looked like the proper thing from the outside but were more like a strat under the cover) or what pots are used, but it sounds really nice to me (not excessively bright) so I doubt I'll bother to change anything.

The fret ends need a little tidying but it plays really nicely with no fret buzz and I like it a lot.

Love the look of that! If I were you I would put a vega trem on it so you can do floyd stuff on a jazzy for the lulz