Posted earlier about it, but accidentally deleted the post.

Sounds like the CT has a slight high pitch squeal that the Poly Chorus also has, I noticed a similar sound on the slow vibe setting on your recording. Very cool sounds though.

Yeah, it isn't the quietest thing, but it isn't all that irritating.

Those slow deep vibrato settings and chorus settings can get really sickening.

The order that was put in for my polyphase was never processed. . . so it was just reprocessed, and I should have it 1-2 weeks. :)

Then my pedalboard will be done (until I get another pedal and have to move everything onto the bigger board)

Right on man.

I didn't even think to slap on my headphones, was that recording in stereo? Damn I bet that sounds nice and sick like the Pulsar in stereo.

It was mono.

I hooked it up in stereo, but I couldn't really tell if it was doing anything other than just sending the same signal to both amps.

what next from these 3?

flanger, phaser or trem???

I'd say phase or trem. I'm not a big flange guy myself though. Trem is probably the most frequently usable effect of the 3.

okay, phaser it is then

I got my Fender Tele Deluxe today.* It's got a tad buzz in the top E on the 12th fret. Ahh, I can never get away from the fret buzz. Fantastic guitar though - worth all the hassle to get it.


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It probably just needs a good set-up from a pro. A truss rod adjustment or a bridge adjustment might fix that right up.

New stuff coming out soon:

Behringer is shamelessly copying old classics for cheap prices...can't wait to try them...

ive seen these, im pretty interested in that berhinger memory man, but i bought a behringer ultra tremolo pedal (mainly got it because it only cost 13 pounds, yes) last year didnt really like it, so im a little unsure about them now.

The Vintage Time Warp Delay and also the Vintage Delay pedal looks cool. We'll have to see how cool the time warp sounds. I have a feeling the vintage delay is either based on the old Boss DM-3 or it is based on the Arion SAD-1.

As does the Slow Motion. If the bypass is decent on the Slow Motion I think I'm gonna get one.

Yeah, I am really excited about these. I'd like to try them first, but nowhere around here carries any of their pedals consistently.

Can anyone reccomend me an affordable tremolo pedal that does not suck the tone or volume form my guitar signal? I desperately want a tremolo, but there are soooo many to choose from. I know that many tremolo peds suffer that unfortunate tone drop, nad I want to avoid that as much as possible. I've had my eye on the EH Stereo Pulsar for some time now. It has the reliability of being an EH pedal and is sweetening the deal even more by being smaller saaving me more space on my pedal board. But the downside is I hear it sucks some tone from my signal. Not cool.

Any suggestions from you pedal afficionados out there in Sonic Youth Land?
Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

I must be an idiot because I never really ever hear 'tone suck' when I'm using pedals...I guess I don't really rely on my clean signal usually - I'm concerned about how my stuff sounds with my distortion that I usually use.

The Catalinbread Semaphore (see pic somewhere in this thread) is highly regarded for the fact that it has a volume knob, so no worry about volume loss. But alas, it is about $200. :(

I have the Stereo Pulsar, and it really to me doesn't have a volume drop in the most strict sense - it actually passes the signal evenly when the trem is set minimal, but it does seem to have a 'ceiling' when set very intense. It is kind of annoying if you wanna rock hard and get a choppy trem sound, but I have been setting it at a medium setting and it seems ok.

As far as affordable, you will just have to pick between a standard garden variety one, unless you find something used for cheap.

It looks like electro-harmonix isn't coming out with anything new this NAMM. Dan Miller is just showing off the stereo pulsar, polyphase, and clone theory.

http://www.gearwire.com/dan-miller-interview.html

in the end I think that might be better for me though. . . less stuff from the new one I want.

nice

Wow, that's a really nice guitar. How much did you pay?
And what's your opinion on the mics?

My effects setup (or one of them for my band Bare Flames):




mxr phase 90 (cap modded)
ProCo Rat older reissue from 80's
EH Russian Bigmuff Reissue (switchable to cap mod to sound like the older vintage army green)
EH Deluxe Memory Man
Digitech 2 second delay/loop

can you tell me a bit about this mod? sound differences?

you should have a good sound eh? fun for sure!
have you ever tried to put the analog delay before the dist? could be interesting....sounds rad!


about the cap mod I dont know exactly cause I havent the phase90 but the guy that plays with me did some mod on his old phase90 to adjust some specific things like the clack when turned on/off with a resistor on the switch etc etc dont know exactly......

ah guys I forgot to post a link to a mini website I made about some effects.....if could be useful for somebody............http://www.sonicurbs.com/effects/

it's quite technical and fetish yeah

I see those digitech PDS delays on so many boards even though they don't make them anymore. They must be awesome.

yes they sound very dark/warm to be digital! probably even cause their low resolution that in the mid 80s was regular. then they are up to 2sec (and more) and I dont think in the mid 80 there were so much 2sec digital delay guitar pedals!

I'm sure they were used even for techno live music till the early 90s. cause they have warm bass freq and thay allow just a short loop.

On the MXR Phase 90, first off i need to correct myself as i've done this mod a year ago... i actually have the Block Logo new reissue Phase 90 (whom i bought from Naomi on this board...), and its a resistor modification (not a capacitor) removing or disconnecting the R28 feedback resistor (24k). It makes it sound abit more like the older original "script model" (but still not the same!!!) by eliminating the distorted mid-boost when engaging the effect. It is easy to do, the hardest part is removing the board from the unit compartment, the resistor is in the upper corner and should be marked (as R28 on the board), making it easier to identify... just clip one of the leads to the resistor with tiny scissors, or you can get creative and add a small switch to alternate from the original tone to the modded one. I've just learned of several more modifications that can be done to the "Block Logo" models where capicators may be removed or interchanged w/ different values to filter noise, or give unity gain when the effect is engaged (because there is a slight yet noticable boost), and also the trimpot can be adjusted, here is the link:

http://diy.erikhansen.net/phase90.htm

w/ the mod this is a great phaser i think, as a factory unit i thought it was ok... However i must say that I had TWO vintage late 60's early 70's Maestro phase shifters (a PS-1A and PS-1B) both were killer sounding units the best phase sound i ever heard but they were huge dinosaurs to have in my setup and i didn't have the footswitch that would go with these either making it a complex issue to activate the toggles with my feet, so i sold them, for some decent money.

I actually did try to put the Memory Man before the Muff and Rat, I use the Memory Man as a subtle effect, and not very often to expand the sound of my guitar during certain song sections so to me it sounded better after those distortion/fuzz units. I use the Memory Man alot more in other projects that are more psych/noisey/experimental.

I love the Digitech PDS-1002! for all of those reasons! and i suppose thats why Lee still uses these units...

I actually had a PDS-2000 which was also made in the 80's and it had an unprecedented 8 second delay/loop ability (along with switching to 2 seconds, and 500 ms? i think) i bought it off ebay for like $150 about 5 years ago. Unfortunately the unit was giving out, the capacitors were shot and soem other components, the repeat was decaying in a very bad way so the sound was not any good and i had to part ways with it.

Run your electric shaver over the guitar pickups. Sounds awesome.

You shave? That's mindblowing.:p

Thanks man, I'm probably gonna mod mine too. Seems pretty easy like the Blue Box.

It is here. I switched the order though, frequency analyzer is now in the chain before the polyphase, as it sounds better.

hello there fellow shortscale boarder!

Teehee.

I'm getting a little bored of shortscale.org, a lot of the nice guys have slowly turned into dicks.

i joined a week ago. sometimes theres these really dumbass funny threads.

That's true, and there is a lot of good info to be had. Hurb, Aen, and Sloan are all pretty cool guys.

Bump.

By decree of the Mighty Savage Clone- all gear discussion will go in here!