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278
Great accurate monitors
Perfect for mixing sound, and enjoying music, really accurate representation of the music, and very helpful and are a useful to for music production
278
Great Guitar
a Quality Jackson Guitar, extremely low action and wonderful playability, i have the Zebra Seymour dun cans on it, and coils can be split using the pickup selector, but the single coil sounds aren't as pretty as using a regular start , even with stock pups.
This shines using hum buckers, the floyd is an original set, and it's very light and beautiful. tone is awesome, and the guitar feels and plays great.
278
Best Fender Sound
1974 Fender Super Reverb Silverface amp. best cleans in the guitar world.
This is the model where MID controls are added to both channels, and there is a Push/Pull Master volume knob.
This amp is a4x10 combo and is a beast, Reverb is sweet and best You can hear on an amp.
There is no FX loop which is a downer, but still I get some of the best tones i have heard on this amp, I play it for hours and still can't get enough f the beautiful Fender vintage sound, there are a billion options when dealing your tone, and when experimenting with different pedals, this amp can take all of them. Better to be used with less digital stuff in mind, as it does not handle analog digital mixing well, i used to use it with a LINe 6 pod for effects and analog gains, and the quality was so-so, i switched to an all analogue circuit, or analog dry thru effects and there is no sweeter sound.
It is HEAVY though
278
Good basic chorus pedal
This is as basic as it gets, it's a nice analogue chorus pedal, and at 25$ beats almost every brand out there. This quality is the same and better than most pedals out there for triple the price, if you don;'t decide to get a strymon or something similar, then this would';t hurt to experiment with at that price.
i use it for very basic chorus, as i am a very light chorus user, but it does the job.only gripe is there is a slight bump in volume once activated. but nothing harmful
278
one of the best out there!
This is a great 3 deals in 1 pedal, with a 40 second looper that could be used along with the delays. Sound quality is great, the analogue dry through was one of the reasons i bought this, and there are no alterations or digitising of your guitar tone, the delays have superior quality to almost everything out there.
My gripes about it, which are not a big deal but would have made this the ultimate pedal.
1) the spillover, it only works when turning off delays, but not when jumping from one delay to the other, i use this in some of my playing and would want the delay to continue and not feel cut off, when switching between parts that require another delay or tempo
2) Would have been nice to have a foot switch for the looper/ delay switching, or place the switch somewhere where i can atlas reach it with my foot
3) banks... there are none. This pedal is so awesome, it has wonderful 11 delay types and limitless access to pro tone prints, and there are tricks to program 7 delays (4 tone prints and 3 assigned to switch), BUT it is a bit of a hassle. and would have been a LOT more useful if I had the chance to program delays as much as i wanted, at least have 4 or 5 banks, so that i would not lose that special delay that i made, even by accident.
Other than that, this pedal has a lot, 3 delay pedals in one, with dotted with and quarter not options, and both together as well, so you get a kind of stereo delay on all delay types which is awesome.
41016
I am planning to load up 4 tone prints of my own design and also save to the switches, then control the program changes via midi.... needs more storage, agreed (and I just plugged mine in for the 1st time today and was bummed out by the lousy 3 presets when I realized how close some of the delay models get to the real gear I have owned like the chorus echo, copycat, dm2 & 3, memory man and the lofi that is dead on to an old mxr 8 bit rack delay)
278
Best Tuner hands down!
Most accurate tuner out there, SUPER clear and bright display, amazing features that you should;t expect out of a simple tuning pedal, all types of tuning supported, and the poly tuning is a nice touch for a quick check. Dc out is a nice additions well. I have one problem with this, is that it doesn't let you tune your A reference to 432 hz, only goes down to 435 hz, which is a bummer considering that it could have been done or i am hoping for a software upgrade for it to do that, as i am experimenting with this tuning
278
Basic Noise suppressor
Does what it does, but there are more accurate, better ones out there. The price and the effects loop, along with the DC out ability are the main advantages of this pedal.
278
Studio Quality, NO EQUAL
This pedal is pure magic, most natural compression, and best response you can get out of a compressor. I use it to fatten the sound, with impression lowered as much as possible, especially with my Super Reverb. With other amps, it just adds tons of sparkle and makes the guitar shine, you can get a very unique sound out of really cheap generic practice amps if you set it up correctly.
278
Best boost pedal
This a transparent boost, and can go from crips cleans, to an edge of breakup to OD territory. It has a very natural sound, and the EQ is very helpful in shaping the tone. Built like a rock, and when used with other OD pedals can provide limitless beautiful results.
41016
I found the BB to be very gainy and distorted when I owned one and to sit tonally between a TS9 and a Marshall Bluesbreaker (pedal), as in it had a real voice of its own that was audible with every guitar I owned at the time... maybe I have different ideas of what constitutes a transparent boost versus a colored boost or an overdrive... the AC and RC boosters are not even terribly transparent, they are just shades less overdrivey... nothing wrong with the xotic pedals, I just find your description to be misleading
278
I use this with the Super Reverb amp, when having the gain shut off or just engaged, and boosting the volume to 1-3 O'clock, it's a really crisp clean boost and I hear no overdrive at all, with the added EQ i use it to make my clean solos fatter... and works perfectly. It is gain when using the gain knob, and I have it set up most of the time on 10-11 o'clock and it gives a nice OD, and when lowered a bit or i lower the volume on my guitar goes into breakup territory.
It's all in the settings and depends on how and with what you use it, and with transparent i meant that my Super rev keeps its Tone, even when messing with the EQ You can feel the tone is being shaped but no colouring or changing to the point where you do not recognise your amp any more, like for example the case with the Guvnor EQ.
278
Best Strat i played
This is a unique MIJ Fender start guitar, built in 1987.
The neck is super slick, once piece maple fret board, i think the body is basswood, but i am not sure, but this guitar is heaver than any guitar i have carried, it is even heavier than some fender basses, i do not know why but feels sturdy and better to hold than light guitars,
It has 22 frets, floyd rose style locking nut and a Schaller spider Made in USA locking non floating tremolo, the guitar is always in tune, and i find it better than any Floyd I used, great craftsmanship.
The original Japanese pickups sound better and fuller than any American or Mexican pickups, i wanted to get fat 50's or custom shop 69's on my Mex strat, but once i used these i did not find any need to, i am sad to say the bridge pickup was removed when i bought it, with a DImarzio fast track 1 installed, but i changed that for a Dimarzio Tone zone, which is the closer i could find to match these pups, and they sound really col together. whether used in single coil or hum bucking.
I always wanted and heard myths about Japanese Fenders being the best, and after owning an older mex for around 15 years and playing countless american and Mexican Fenders, this tops any of them, in terms of tone, feel and playability. The action can get really low, and the guitar plays like a dream,
I feel that the components that have been used in the making of this are top notch, and are not as the commercial ones used it today's guitars, it is hard to find a Fender of that build and year that is kept in clean and good shape, fortunately mine was spotless, and the owner almost never played it.
278
Great OD/boost pedal
This pedal is a dual channel OD, on the right it's a boost pedal, similar to the BB preamp, but with more punch, and with the bass character toggle switch, can have a really fat sound to it, can go from a clean best to a nice OD, similar to tube amps clean break to more subtle OD territory.
The left side is the heavier side, with OD going from tube screamer, to heavy metal marshall type distortion. Both channels can be used alone, or together, with a switch to flip the order. really unique transparent sound, that does not color the amp's sound, but adds a very subtle OD and options mild, blues to rock to heavy
278
It's an OD with a boost, but the OD is mean, and boost goes into OD territory beautifully on it's own. With both channels on gets heavier than some Distortion pedals, depending on the order of the switches. It's really versatile,






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