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The best!
I think that this is the best pickup for acoustic guitar ever made. It's italian and it's made by Eko: it has a magnetic pickup and also - and I love it - a condenser microphone that goes on the hole of the guitar and you can choose its position to find the sound you want it. You can mix the sound of the pickup and the sound of the microphone or use just one or the other. It's one of my favourite music gear! You can see it on my acoustic guitar in this live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMAIg2AUlA&t=991s
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YES
Basically I use this pedal to form ambient pads and long sustained chords and solos. It's very particular and it's beautiful to twin its knobs during your playing. The Superego is the main pedal used on the track "Introduzione" by Le Piccole Morti: https://lepiccolemorti.bandcamp.com/track/introduzione
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Acid.
A thiny pedal with a great heart. I use it like a distorted boost to pair with my MXR Distortion + but it's good also used alone. It's really focused on the high frequencies, so it's good for solos.
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You need it one.
And it's true. How many times do you need to mute the guitar? This pedal is the answer. And you can use it also in a creative way.
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Good power supply.
It's cheap and it's good. And when things are cheap and good it's always great.
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A classic.
My first wah pedal and it's exactly that sound that you expect from it. I love the sound of wah in general and you can hear in the final solo of "Piccole Morti" the way I like to use it: https://lepiccolemorti.bandcamp.com/track/piccole-morti
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Frusciante yes, but not only.
It's not easy to control and to use it on a pedalboard, but in the right situation it's a killer wah! It has an incredible boost power and a crazy synth sound that it's not easy to describe. I love this wah, but it's not for all players and it's not for all the situations.
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Honest amp to study and play at small gigs.
Nothing more, nothing less, this is an honest amp with some beautiful digital sounds. I actually like to use it paired with my VOX AC30 in stereo through my Boss CE-1.
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A strange beautiful phaser.
This pedal has been with me for many years. It wasn't too much solid and so I had to repair it a lot of times. But it was beautiful in his crazyness. I liked to use it with the maximum setting to have a sort of crazy Leslie sound, paired with my MXR Distortion +. In my mind this is the only phaser pedal that I love. You can hear it here, before the solo of the song "Spleen", from the older album by my previous band Old Scratchiness: https://oldscratchiness.bandcamp.com/track/spleen
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Another cheap treasure.
Like I said this is a little swiss army knife: it has many different tipes of reverb and delay and I think they are pretty good. If you don't search for a specific programmable delay I think this could be a great solution.
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It's a beast!
A very cheap pedal that has a very huge sound! With three different settings you can have a really similar big muff sound, a more balanced fuzz sound and a thin fuzz that I find really useful in some jazz situations. Cheap, solid and beastly. What else?
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Easiest analogue drum machine to use.
It was my first approach with the synth/drum machine world and I use it in every situation, especially when I play on solo shows or in duo. It's an honest drum machine with some good sounds. I think that on the track "Interfuit" you can hear a good example of it: https://lepiccolemorti.bandcamp.com/track/interfuit
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My main distortion.
I'n in love with the sound of this pedal since the first day: it's not only a distortion pedal, you can use it also like an overdrive or a boost with a crunchy tone. But I usually use it with all the settings on the max and the result is a great fuzzy distortion very balanced and clear. On the track "Sipario" I use this last setting and also the "overdrive" setting: https://lepiccolemorti.bandcamp.com/track/sipario
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well sure you can use it as an OD, the OD250 is basically the same circuit and they call that an overdrive, at least on the packaging :-) The general wisdom these days is that ODs are soft clip, diodes in feedback lop loop and distortion is hard clip diodes to ground... but 2 of the most heralded ODs break this rule. The Klon is hardclipped diodes to ground but with a unique clean blend and voicing structure... the ever popular fulltone OCD is absed on the old voodoo lab drive which is itself just a distortion plus type circuit with the diodes outputs going to the bias circuit of the op amp rather than static ground whch makes the clipping more dynamic based on what you're giving the amplification part of the circuit but its still just a variable hard clip.... so in pedals overdrive really means nothing. Real overdrive is just DSTORTION produced by using up all the headroom of a power amplifier. Its a fine line between enough gain and too little gain for say a fender bassman to reach its full 45 watts with every type of pickup you throw at it, so the preamp has enough gain to OVERDRIVE the power amp with the average guitar pickup feeding it. Leo kept experimenting, as did dick denny and kenbran and the mighty dave reeves, but by the time circuits were getting really clean guitarists didn't want that anymore (especially not from a tube amp, solid state has come in). The rest is history.
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The legend.
What I can say about this pedal? It's incredible: it does only two things and it's the best at doing them. A legendary pedal that I feel lucky to own!
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My first guitar.
My first classical guitar. I don't use it too much to play live or in studio, but it's perfect to do lessons with my students. it maintains the tuning well enough and is very comfortable to play.
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Unique.
This cigar box guitar was made by italian luthier Giuliano Calcagno and it's an experiment with some good points and some defects. But it's unique and it's curious to experiment new sound with that. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp7G9iCTO1U
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My main guitar.
When I was a young teen i loved Tony Iommi and Angus Young. And that's all. I love and hate this guitar, but it has been with me for many years now and has almost never let me down. Simply rock'n'roll.
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The only acoustic guitar that I want everyday!
The second guitar that I have owned in my life is this Gonzales F1, a cheap guitar that has an incredible bright and full sound! It's hard to explain how much I love this guitar, it's "my" guitar, above all the others, acoustics or electrics. You can hear its sound on "Piccole Morti", the last track from "Vol. 1", the first Ep by Le Piccole Morti: https://lepiccolemorti.bandcamp.com/track/piccole-morti And also on this acoustic showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMAIg2AUlA&t=991s
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My first irreplaceable electric guitar!
I received this guitar as a gift when I was still little more than a child from my parents and and since I was already a punk I filled it with stickers; over the years I have never stopped playing it and now it has a very relic style! It has nothing in particular: it is a German cheap guitar, I have not replaced anything (but I have removed the pickguard), but I love and will always love its dark, fat and defined sound! You can hear its pure clean sound on the track "Disamore", the first single from my band Le Piccole Morti; only clean guitar through my VOX AC30, and then added to a Biyang Fz-7. Here's the videoclip (and you can see the guitar at the beginning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6zbnLXRv6g