thesearefallcolors's Reviews

Nice little bed-head

Deceptively loud and roaring amp head. The Stamp has good cleans if you make quick mods I mention later, but breakup and overdrive are really where it shines. It's also very pedal friendly overall, taking dirtboxes well and boasting an effects loop for time and modulation effects. Better yet, you can fit it in a backpack and take it just about anywhere, provided it has power. Sonically, the headphone out pales in comparison to a good cabinet, but it lets you practice, study and write on guitar in silence, and these are all circumstances where I don't necessarily prioritize tone chasing anyways.

As many on forums and Sweetwater have noted, you can drastically improve it by swapping the single stock 12AX7 tube for a better replacement and adjusting the gain trim knob with a screwdriver to allow for increased clean headroom. I recommend doing the latter even if you primarily use the Stamp for its overdrive.

Essential for shredding in bed and still sounding great

This should be an essential bucket list item for any guitarist trying to build a home studio. I can get a killer tube amp sound without anyone pounding on my door and telling me to turn down, and for that alone I cannot thank Two Notes enough for making these magical devices. I can hook this into an interface and DAW, crank the volume on a tube amp and still have an absurd amount of headroom before my signal starts to clip. This thing solved every hurdle I faced in getting a good bedroom tone, which is only becoming more and more useful for the contemporary guitarist. As fun as it is to push a good speaker cabinet to its limit, it's very inconvenient in 99% of the situations in which you'll be trying to play guitar and struggling to find confidence in your sound, and this can help if only you're willing to part with a quarter-grand.

Impossible to use in a pedal chain

Great phase effects with horrible tone suck when it's off. Maybe there's a way it can be modified but overall I'm pretty disappointed.

Great processor

Love maxing the volume for distortion sounds

Space machine

Absolute classic wah and insanely versatile. I'm definitely one of those guitarists who's guilty of overusing wah, but not in the way where I move it up and down as fast as I possibly can. I love to leave it on a setting and see just how slowly I can sweep it up or down, it makes your guitar sound like you're hearing it underwater and I love it. Last year I recorded an 8-minute song where I have this on the entire time, and I did different dubs where I moved the wah in the opposite directions. Over-indulgent? Absolutely, but fun as all hell

The amazing sound of a robot crying

I think ring modulators are really underrated, though I understand that they don't work in most musical situations. I just think something's so... just cool about them and I'm not sure I can really put it into words. I find its glitchy squeaks and metallic sound strangely beautiful. Closest I can do beyond that is to say you should listen to The Mars Volta's "Roulette Dares (The Haunt of)" and hopefully you'll see what I mean regarding its beauty.

Super useful tool for your sonic arsenal

At risk of sounding like one of those one of those 2nd grade math problems along the lies of "1 small box of cereal is $1 but a box of the same thing but twice as big is $1.50," But anyways that's ultimately what made me pick this over the 360. I'm sure that's a great pedal but I can't imagine doing without the backwards and half-speed settings.

I'm admittedly pretty bad at using loopers, so I mostly used it for those sounds at one point. Now I just double track loops and usually don't have any probelms but the aforementioned features are still amazing.

Great pedal that gives you a wide, diverse array of sounds.

This was the first pedal I ever bought for mysefl - I'd been gifted an OS-2 and a CH-1 years before - and I loved that I finally had access to such great reverb sounds, not to mention a reverb/delay setting. As I started buying more pedals, though, I started to use it less. I didn't necessarily like the shimmer setting that much at a certain point, I more or less replaced it with a Zoom MS-70CDR, which had an even more diverse array of reverbs, in addition to a far better spring settings and controlability. I ended up selling it to my band's bass player along with the other Boss pedals I mentioned (I don't mean this to be elitist bc Boss pedals are great) because I didn't find myself using them as much as I should. I used the money selling it to get an EQD Ghost Echo: a pedal that compensates its lack of diversity with an ethereal, haunting sound and an incredible spring sound.

This is definitely one of the best reverbs for its price, especially if you're still figuring out which reverb sounds you like - unfortunately though, it doesn't have a reverse reverb setting - so all in all a great pedal.

Solid faux-analog delay for the price I bought it, but you can definitely do better.

It's more or less your standard analog-voiced delay, only having knobs for times, repeats, and volume. It's quite good for what it is, but if you'd be better off buying a Zoom-MS70CDR if you're on a budget (Has analog delays and soooo much more)

Easy to play & sounds great

I had a friend in high school whose dad had played in bands for years and collected a bunch of impressive gear. He had a ton of entry level Gibsons that I got to play, and I immeditatley fell in love with them. They were lighter and easier to use than, say, Les Pauls. So when I saw this on sale at a defunct local guitar store, I just knew I needed to buy it. It's been my go-to guitar ever since.

Old-school delay voice with more modern capabilities

My go to pedal for lo-fi, oscillating echoes, the modulation sounds fantastic as well. It's an absolute beast whether you wanna create atmosphere or have some fast, low-repeat slapback. I would avoid it if you want a digital delay that can do both digital and analog voicings, because this isn't even trying to do the former. I imagine the modern version of the DT - which is pretty much 2 delay pedals in one - is better but I'm in love with how this pedal sounds, even in a simpler form