The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[t-rey]

There are definite advantages to compressors.
Conky, that is the most awesome sabbath/teenage music story ever.
I agree with you, and everyone else about the bill factor. I bought my ticket before bill got the arse and I was super pissed when I found out he was out. Fuck Sharon.
I was kinda meh about ozzy too. Ozzy sabbath to me is the only sabbath, but ozzy these days...but I'm resolved to the fact that it is an exercise of pilgrimage to the holy land of riffage, Zion of the lord Iommi.
I saw the last heaven and hell tour as well, geezer is a prophet.
Also, thanks Ax, I'll keep an eye out there.

This. Have they announced American dates yet?

I've found sustain on about 1-3 and output so it's just the slightest amount of drive/volume boost is not overbearing but makes your tone real fat/thick.
Like this:

NSFW: show

(thankyou spacelordmother, yes I stole that from the butts thread)

Crank the sustain up for spanking country tones.

I was mesmerized by that gif for several minutes.

[ryan summit]

besides like full on cranked fuzz
i think the philosophers tone an od
is about as heavy and nasty as you can get
and still be able to use the whole fretboard
however you want to
im not sure if the pt is a true comp
but if your not sure you want a comp anyway
i dont use it on its own though
im sure it can be i just dont
and if your into all out noise
itll help you when your in ALL ON mode
its one of the first pedals i got
and ive never even thought about gettin rid of it
i can go on and on

[samzadgan]

oh shit...i'm in love!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kelhw8jR1y4[/youtube]

[ryan summit]

doesnt look like the puresalem site
is fully functional yet
but im freakin intrigued as hell
check out the bottom yellow one

i could hang with that
whats the chances they end up sub $500
none right
see ya later erection

[Iommic Pope]

Dude I fell in love like a dozen times over in the butts thread, mesmerizing is only the beginning...
Ehem....
Yeah I'd like to try a decent comp, I don't mind the dyna comp but it would be sweet to get those extra parameters.

[dazedbyday]

I like the look of that yellow one. It kinda looks like a burns guitar. I have also been thinking of building an engineer's thumb compressor. I found a layout of it on a layout blog I check in with and I think Nick mentioned it some pages back. I also have the pcbs for a Urei 1176 rack compressor that I will get around to building eventually.

[deathmonkey]

new pedal(s) day.


the 2 ditto loopers will likely replace the dl4 completely and free up HUGE pedal board real estate. (Like TJ though, I am also WAY out of power supply connections. Totally next on my need to buy list.

[dazedbyday]

Start a tower of power with all the power supplies stacked.

[conky]

I wanted a Ditto pretty bad until I landed a Jamman Solo. Pretty much cured my looper gas. Still though, If I founf a Ditto on the cheap I'd probably get it just to see what it is like.

[misterstomach]

so one of my cabs shit the bed. a run of the mill marshall with celestion 75's. two speakers are just completely silent. weird, cause i would have at least expected some farty blown speaker noise or something. but i went down to the practice space yesterday and checked them and wired them and rewired them in a few different ways. totally dead. now i've got to find a new cab before we play a few shows and then go on tour starting in ten days. i wanted to replace this cab anyway, but i hate having to do it under pressure and when money's already tight from getting my tools stolen. i found a guy who recones and rebuilds speakers who will sell me four vintage 30's for $250. i think he'll take my old speakers in trade even and sell them to me for around 150. seems like my best bet right now. but i found this really intriguing vht cab for $400. everything i'm reading about the speakers seems awesome, and i love my other vht cab that i put v30's in. $400 seems good for that cab. just got to figure out if i am going to have to do what's cheap or do what seems more appealing. ideally i'd buy the v30's and the vht cab and load the marshall with v30's and sell it for $4-500. but i'm not sure i can afford that up front.

[deathmonkey]

I got mine off of ebay actually. there was an ebay store that actually had them at 129.99 or best offer... i offered 112.50 each and they accepted, so i saved 35 bucks. i didn;t think that was a bad price at all. i've head other guys getting accepted at 110. i have no idea how low they go.

[conky]

That isn't bad for a Ditto. May have to try to pick one up on the flip.

Parker, I hope you get your cab situation sorted out. I ordered a new Silver Bell from Weber and it can't get here fast enough. My cab sounds like shit with that one blown speaker. I'm paranoid that if I play it too much that it might end up taking out another speaker too.

[new05002]

there is a impedance mismatch and probably not the best for ur amp or the remaining speakers

[fallen]

It's funny, after i bought my Gibson SG, i started thinking about the other guitars i could have bought with the same money, if not less...this Manta rey was on my list but i past it up...not that the SG is bad, i really like it...but value for money i could have got more out the of reverend...but deep down, i've always wanted the Gibson headstock...call me shallow...its just something i had to do, and no matter what i would have bought instead, i would not have been happy until i had the the Gibson. The good thing is that from now on, i can buy anything else without feeling that void.

I felt exactly the same way. NEEDED an SG in my collection. Had to be a Gibson. But now that I have one the craving is gone and I don't play it as much as other things.

I was actually gunna ask about compressoers. Im still not sold on if i want to bother trying one or not yet.

A good pedal to try to pick up on the cheap. I just got a Philosophers Tone and the added sustain is amazing but it hasn't become immediately essential or anything. Has some really nice germanium overdrive built in which is a nice bonus for driving an amp or other pedals. Might be better on the wallet to pick up a few of those MOOER mini pedals to try things out and see if you really ever use them once they are on your board.

On another note... saw YOB on Saturday in a small venue only a block from my place. Amazing show. Stood right at the stage with guitar in one ear, bass in the other and drums in the middle. Kind of crazy how much they blew away other bands I have seen recently in sound, performance, vibe, everything.

[samzadgan]

On the Puresalem guitars...i just found their facebook page and they have pictures...although i like the Tom Cat...they also have a lot fender-ish offset shapes, but with out the fender stuff i don't like...their bridges...and single coils. I'm hoping these are priced like reverend guitars, if so...i can see a tom cat in my collection in the near future (even if i have sell my ass for a few days!)

On the compressor thing...i think as far as comp pedals go, the one i scored is quite good, it has a treble trim, attack control and is pretty quiet...ill get a chance to play around with it tonight and after doing some research found that the way i was adjusting the attack and treble trim was all wrong. So will give it another go tonight. The thing is, I'm not looking for sustain, all the gain that have running gives me more than enough of that...but being a 1 guitarist band playing heavy riffs i just want a really thick sound. I'm hoping when i dial this in, along with the ghost echo i should have a pretty gnarly tone...but we'll see how it goes.

I would love to YOB live...as a consolation i bought tix to see Elder in about 2 weeks, really looking forward to that.