Noah Moore

This is a fair guitar to start out with, but once you put in a few hours and a bit of investment to setting it up, it plays and sounds great. A lot of people like the Wolfgang pickups, but I swapped them out for the Pariah Poundcakes and it brought the guitar to life. It’s easily my number 1.

For the price, you can’t beat it. If you know how to dial it in, this amp has so much tone to offer. It’s also loud enough for any size venue, and again, it just sounds so damn good.

I was torn between this and a Peavey cab, and I went for the boogie because it’s built better. Gives a great low end, and has plenty customizability to it. Great cab.

One of my favorite things about this particular pedal is the EQ sweep. The definition in the tone is there. I do not have the powerful rig that John has, but one of the things I strive for in tone is the ability to have an entire chord ring out with clarity, when I'm on higher gain. I've played wahs that lose that clarity, but not this one. This is definitely geared toward a metal player (when the settings are at factory default), but there is an ability to customize the tone to whatever a player needs it to be. However, I just leave it on the default settings, and that works fine for me.

This isnt the best Klone, but for the price, youll be hard pressed to find one with the versatility and tone of this one. Its very small, so it fits on the pedalboard easily, and the tone and drive knobs react in the way that the original Klon reacts. The optional buffer is a feature that many other Klones do not have. I dont use this often. I usually use this as a boost for solos, or to add an extra flavor to a clean tone. I dpersonally dont put the gain terribly high, but it sounds good at almost any level.

This chorus pedal is easily the best one I've ever played through. This is based on a Roland DC-30 chorus that Ed used on several songs in the DLR era, before moving to the Eventide. The thing that may set people off about this pedal is its control layout. There is no rate knob, only an intensity control with tone and volume. The chorus is essentially fixed at a slower rate, with the intensity controlling the amount of chorus effect. The desirable sounds I found were anywhere from the intensity all the way off (which essentially gives off a stereo split, and is easy to forget the effect is on, but when you turn it off you realize its actually doing a lot) to about mid-way (this is where the chorusing is way more obvious, with a slightly delayed pitch altering, which gives off seasick vibes). Anywhere higher really induces a lot of what I would describe as pitch warping. However, the really great spot for the pedal is with the intensity at about 10:00, the tone control at about 11:00, and the volume set to whatever volume your guitar is at. The tone control is also great, it isn't just a treble roll-off. The tone is definitely a lot thinner at higher settings, and fatter at lower settings. Overall, this is a great pedal, and it is very easy to dial in not just Ed's tone, but a tone that is able to conform to your playing.

This unit is so quiet, and has enough ports (12) to deal with a versatile array of pedals. I absolutely love it.

Once I setup the parameters on the TonePrint app, this pedal is on nearly 95% of the time I play. I love how it tackles the Van Halen sound and I’ll leave it on for other things too. I set the mash switch to give me a slightly more pronounced detune effect when I want it. Great pedal.