analoggwen

Hello! I'm a casual-but-serious guitarist of almost a decade, and I've been playing instruments my whole life. I had only recently branched out from amp sims and my beaten up micro-cube, but have been playing on other people's backline equipment for years. This amp fucks. The clean channel is why I bought it. As I'm building out a pedalboard, I wanted an amp that could take whatever I throw at it, and be able to handle all of my future experiments. The clean channel is wide, thick, and the EQ controls don't need much movement away from 12'oclock to get where you need to go (in most cases). Paired with distortion, the clean channel really allows the harmonic content in my dirt to open up. In short: it sounds huge. If you really crank the output level on your gain pedals and push the amp to overdrive, it'll start to sound incredibly layered. I've noticed that sound seems to be THE Rockerverb sound, too. The dirty channel is not my favorite. I haven't experimented with it as much as the clean channel because, well, bias. What I like about the dirty channel is how it feels like an old 70's/80's rocker's dream. The quality that I get is.. flat? Not the reason why I bought the amp, but still a great feature. In functions (boring part): I love the CabSim XLR out. Great for getting all of the sounds I want but in headphones at a desk. I love that it's smaller than a lot of amp heads, makes it easier to carry, looks quite cute sat on top of a 4x12, and the one handle on the top isn't an insult to my design as a human. I love the effects loop. It sounds like I expect, takes preamp pedals like a champ, and allows my modulation effects to shine. While you run a risk of blowing out speakers using bass on guitar cabinets, I have run bass through this CabSim XLR and it has sounded excellent! Great for a mid-range distortion grind, and shockingly impactful for cleaner sounds. In the most shallow way possible, this amp looks and feels amazing. It makes me feel like the players my mom used to show me, and the players I currently take inspiration from. It inspires me to pick up an instrument and PLAY. To try something new, or to work on something old.

I bought this pedal for $30. While I'm reminded of that fact every time I look at it, or move a knob, or turn it on, I don't care too much. I, personally, use this pedal as a wacko noise machine, as I already have a really nice analog delay on my board that I love. While it's a total piece of techno-junk destined to be e-waste, and a total ripoff of someone else's creative work, it does its job at being my wacko noise machine. It has quite a large range of self-oscillation, and none of it being all that subtle, but if you can dial it into the sweet spot of "this pedal is really trying to self oscillate but as long as there's signal from my guitar it cant" it gets really fun. It becomes vocal, and has a bit of a temperament. When I have it dialed like that, it feels like I'm arguing with my guitar. I've recorded some pieces where that's been a useful creative element, but its so specific that I don't find myself needing this pedal too often. After all of my experimentation, I'm only 90% confident on what the knobs do, so bear with me. I believe "Intensity" to be the mix knob, i.e, how much of your dry signal stays unadulterated by the delay. The "Echo" knob controls how many repeats happen, and the "Repeat Rate" knob determines how quickly those repeats happen. Playing around with the "Echo" knob is the key to self-oscillation, and messing with the "Repeat Rate" is how to get really weird textures with it. You could also back off the "Intensity" and have a changing droning texture under your instrumental, adding who knows what qualities. This pedal will break at some point, and I've accepted it. I will likely not buy another one, and instead upgrade to a device that is better at making wacko noise.

Hi! I'm a casual-but-serious guitar player of almost a decade now, and only started to venture into physical equipment recently. This was the first pedal I bought, as I couldn't pass up the signature pedal of Wata. I initially got it because the muff sound is so synonymous in noise rock/shoegaze, but as I've transitioned into playing doom, sludge, crust, hardcore, and all the like, this pedal has done astoundingly. With the gain rolled all the way back, it acts as a filter, and the second you begin to turn it you get bold overdrive, into tearing distortion, into facemelting two note power-chord territory. I've seriously become disenfranchised with my Rat 2, as the Hizu can do everything I liked about the rat better. When this pedal can't survive nuclear fallout, EarthQuaker Devices will repair it in any* conditions under their incredibly confident warranty. Absolutely bonkers pedal, and one that I see having a home on my board for a very long time. *not every condition, but most. My friend fried my Hizu with higher voltage than it was meant for and EQD fixed it at the cost of shipping.

Durable, unparalleled vocal mic. Feels great in the hand. Has been an industry standard for longer than I or my mentors have been alive.

This interface has served me well. It does what it needs too-- in making sure my computer can interface with the sound my instruments make. One of the more important pieces of the puzzle, to me, is that a product is able to CONTINUE doing its job. I'm not confident in this thing. I've had it for coming up on three years now, and the biggest sign of wear is a scratchy monitor pot. It sorts itself out if I move it around enough, though. Most of its features are in software, which I absolutely despise, but the front panel is clean enough that I can deal with it. I do not like the sound of the preamps, but this entire thing was $200 brand new-- the cost of the cheapest usable preamp I know of. My biggest problem with this device is that the audio desync's at random about every 20 minutes. I cannot find a solution, and their support team was unhelpful in finding a solution. My take: If you are looking to buy a new interface, look at any other option in the price range (VOLT, SSL mk2/2+). If you already have one, or if a deal on a used one is too good to pass up, then know that this will serve you well. You could produce a record that changes the world on this thing. I'm not talented enough to do that, so I'll be looking elsewhere.