spaceshipsovrglasgow's Music Gear Setup

Fantastic looking board! I love FUZZ WAR I had one for a bit, for a fuzz pedal it's surprisingly articulate! Any favorites?

@gchiaren Thanks for the love!

FUZZ WAR has definitely been a fun beast to tame. I'm primarily using it to add some teeth to my otherwise ambient/reverb-heavy sound and like having it set right at the edge of becoming too "tinny" so that a heavier pick stroke gives it that harsher sound.

Similarly, I always have the Acapulco Gold set around 12 o'clock to form the basis of my tone. I find that setting to have a good balance of amplification and dirt without totally distorting the sound to the point of "SUNN AMP ABOUT TO BLOW" which it was designed for. I should note that I also keep the volume knobs on my guitar turned way down to preserve that state bc at anything above about a 2 the walls start to shake.

The Belle Epoch is also a favorite and a nod that I took from Liz Harris of Grouper -- her ethereal echo-heavy sound is what drew me into ambient guitar in the first place. I like having this pedal set to where the feedback is present enough to get the swirling sound you'd expect from a tape echo without becoming infinite -- set too high and following the Acapulco Gold can definitely lead to a rather violent volume swell. Sending those echoes into my DD-5 set to Effect/Delay, followed by the Holy Grail on either Plate (for straight wall of sound building) or Reverse (for something a bit more shoegazey), and finally the Polara on Halo (for just a bit of shimmer) has proven extremely satisfying.