ryanbisson's Reviews

Perfect for high mA pedals

So freaking quiet, it feels great to turn my entire rig in and not have hum or buzz. This particular add on is bigger than you think, only a little smaller than a 1590 B enclosure.

This system is worth every penny, and I’d encourage anybody to set up their paddleboard with it.

Quiet

So freaking quiet, it feels great to turn my entire rig in and not have hum or buzz.

This system is worth every penny, and I’d encourage anybody to set up their paddleboard with it.

Incredible

I’m still blown away that Alexander Pedals aren’t bigger than they are, because they deserve to be.

The History Lesson v3 is a crazy cool and useful pedal. It has a lot of options but it’s also very easy to get around and edit. The sounds are fantastic and offer interesting textures on the filter and multi head settings.

If you buy this pedal, you won’t regret it. Just take your time and get to know it and I would definitely encourage you to use midi with it.

It tells my pedals what to do

It’s fine. I only use if for tapping BPM’s and changing sun divisions, and it does that. It stopped allowing me to save presets, so I’m just kind of stuck with it and it’s basic functions now, which is disappointing but oh well.

It could do a lot when it was working.

Yes!

Look, people will argue whether a cable makes a tonal difference all day long and that’s fine but there’s more to a cable and it’s cost than the tone it delivers.

I played Mogami Gold cables — 25’ — since 2006 and I had no issues with them until 2019. 13 years of practice, shows, and touring and the first and only one gave out. I hit up Sinasoid to see what they offered and was blown away by them. They let me text a few cables out and compare them to my Mogami’s and the clarity was there for me in the Sinasoid Sable, so I picked up two 18’ cables.

• Sinasoid is a local company (for me) with great employees and are an open book to those who want to learn.
• Lifetime cable warranty
• G&H plugs << the exact ones I loved on my Mogami cables that they stopped using
• the sound was clearer, simple as that
• white and ice flex shielding to know the cables are mine on stage << no more stolen cables!

Compact and easy to setup

It’s a midi box, so there’s not a lot to it but this will work with a wide range of pedals including midi switching for: Alexander, Swindler, Strymon, Jackson Audio, Selah, Chase Bliss, and more.

If you need a compact midi box that is quality built and rather inexpensive, buy this. It’ll work perfectly for you.

Get a nice buffer and enjoy your time again

What the title says: stop playing without a nice buffer in your signal chain! The Empress buffer will do perfectly for most players out there, if you need more they make a stereo version as well.

Gain back that clarity and fullness that your pedalboard and long cable runs take away.

It’s worth every penny.

I’ve gone through so many pedal power supplies through the years, and I’ve never had as quiet of a rig as I do with the GigRig power system. It’s not cheap and takes time and patience to set up but you’ll be happy with it — I’ve never been more satisfied to turn on my rig.

An unknown killer

This is the perfect reverb sound, in my opinion, and I’m sad to see that they discontinued this pedal — so I feel lucky to own it. This pedal won’t ever be sold, I use it in every studio session and even in my mixing console effects loop. It has plenty of headroom to handle drums, vocals and acoustic — giving it a really nice warm room sound.

The left foot switch is a standard spring reverb, with a set decay, the knob only changes the mix/reverb amount in your signal. The ghost switch engages the feedback, “ghost” and tone. This is a cavernous reverb setting that steps up your reverb in addition to the standard spring that feeds the ghost circuit. The higher the standard spring signal/mix is the more ghostly and big the ghost side will be. It’s killer.

M30 was just purchased and I’m excited to see what they do next.

Delicious verb sounds

I’d encourage everyone to check out the pedals from Native Audio. This reverb does exactly what I want and offers 4 presets, perfect for dialing in your bands set with.

I’d love to give it 5 stars but there a weird filtering that happens in the fade out when you physically turn the reverb off —it’s distracting to me. I have this pedal in a loop switcher so the decay is natural and beautiful. If Mike fixes that issue, I’ll. By the next version too — maybe it’ll have midi?!

Iconic for a reason

“Everyone” knows this pedal or has heard it at some point. It works extremely well on both guitar and bass and gives you perfectly gritty driven tones, even from the cleanest of clean amps.

While it’s not on my board, I always record with it at some point. It’s a great pedal to have in the toolbox.

Weird in the right way

If you’re looking for textures, or to make someone sea sick, grab this pedal because the wobble is outrageous. It’s a fun pedal to do quick little parts with. I’ve kept it around just for that reason, textures and filler sounds.

Don’t pay over $30 for one but anything under that I’d say is well worth it.

It’s great.

There’s a not to this pedal, I love the size, stereo ins/outs, midi, and overall functionality. The build quality is great.

The knobs are slightly too sensitive, a little bump can make everything wacky but you’ll love the ease of use.

Sounds great, but also…

Outside a buffered signal chain you’ll notice a significant high end and volume boost. I can’t find online if this is a buffered circuit, but it seems to be.

Outside of that, it’s a great sounding pedal that does exactly what I need/want a delay to do. I’m a set it and forget it type of delay player, accept for the time. This pairs perfectly with my Quartz external tap tempo.

I recommend it, if you use a loop switching system.

Slow, slow, slow.

Tuning a bass? Good luck. You will spend half the time just trying to get it to Recognize which string you’re on.

Tuning a guitar? Good luck, it’s slow and the multi-string function is useless.

It’s on my board for the size, but it’s be better off purchasing a Sonic Research Turbo Tuner or Peterson strobe mini.

It’s fine.

It’s nothing crazy: not the smoothest or most sensitive taper but it gets the job done. After 8 years or so the pot in mine has finally said enough is enough. I’ll be replacing it soon, but probably not with a other Jr.

Low-Medium gain perfection

I keep my amp set to clean, clean so maybe I could get a little more grit out of this pedal if I went to the edge of breakup, but if you’re looking for a natural, open sounding low - medium drive than this is the one for you. Stepping on the boost feeds the drive circuit and give you just enough of a kick!

I use the magenta (blues driver) and green (tube screamer) modes. I can’t stand tube screamers (green mode) but the EQ section let’s you dial in your ideal sound. It’s very powerful.

I use this pedal with midi and it switches without a hiccup.

I can’t say enough good things about it.

Go gold

The 112 with the Celestion Gold is the only way to go. You’ll get full sounding, articulate tones without the harsh highs or mushy mids.

Spend the extra money and get better sounds.

A “do anything” amp

I’ve been a Vox lover and user for years, this amp changed me… all of me. Ha Ha.

No joke though, it’s incredible. If you want clean, cleans you’ll get them. If you want edge of break-up sounds, this can supply. The master volume is handy for cranking the gain and letting the tubes burn and grind.

This is my go to amp, and it won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.

A wobbling classic

I own a 1982 green label and its wonderful. I do wish I had a little more control with the depth knob but when it’s on, it’s glorious. I keep mine in a loop switcher and find that it’s for the best, to keep any noise out of signal chain.