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So the setup on this was my pedal board, into my Fender Bassbreaker, then line out to the interface.
Only effect on the track was a cab emulator with a vintage Marshall IR file.
It starts off clean, run through all 5 positions on the switch, then I kick in the compressor and EQ on the board, then the Tube Screamer, then the Boss distortion pedal.
Still tweaking pickup heights and playing around with IR files. But it’s a nice contrast to the humbuckers in my PRS.
I wired this one up with the tone control on the neck and bridge pickups. No tone control on the mid pickup.
Ah, I edited your post… the url from dropbox needs to be edited so that the ?dl=0 at the end is ?dl=1. There’s probably an option to make the link downloadable in DropBox somewhere.
It has a pre-boost,
footswitchable post-boost,
bass, treble, gain and level knobs
illuminated 5 band graphic EQ with parametric freq knobs (no Q adjustment tho)
noise gate
bright switch
true bypass
everything is switchable on/off
pre-boost and eq can also be footswitchable with additional pedal
It’s actually a distortion pedal and the gain is prob not the goods for replicating low gain from a clean amp,
but if you turn the gain off, it’s a pretty fully featured and sculptable boost and eq pedal
The parametric knobs combined with the graphic EQ is killer
The gain actually sounds pretty good at the start of this video with a mid boost type eq
A nice thick singing tone
I’ve never had an Ibanez pedal
I could have had a tube screamer original back in the day, but I only had a solid state amp and it sounded shit into it, not enough gain for me
I got the other pedal available at the music store instead, a no-name fuzz that I have since lost and replaced with the Sun Face
OT but when I was moving to Oz, a dude came around to buy my weight set,
saw my guitar and yelled "Ibanzie!!"
I’ve been calling them Ibanzie ever since…
Looks like a really versatile distortion pedal. Not enough clean gain for a clean boost that I would use it for. I probably would have loved something like that when I was into the heavier stuff.
I got a pedal board a few weeks back, still haven’t decided on what will stay on there. Plugged into my plexi clone last night, got it dialed in well (it always takes a while after a break from it), and damn, I don’t really need any pedals. Pedals with it are like putting steak sauce on a good steak. Same with the super reverb. Maybe I’m just not much of a pedal person, or maybe I suck at using them.
Yea, having all the pedals to play with turns into a perpetual patching and knob fest, and playing goes by the wayside. Straight in, it’s a little time up front getting the amp dialed in (funny how I can’t just leave the amp controls the same every time), then just just adjusting volume and tone on the guitar on the fly for playing different sorts of things.
@Bevo Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but I think I remember you saying that you enjoyed a Boss ME-80 at some point. I just saw that Boss put out an updated ME-90.
It looks to be very no-bs to dial up with all parameters up front.
I have still been going at it with my plexi clone lately, not a single pedal in the chain, and still enjoying that for now, just riding the volume knob on the guitar. Metropoulos put out a new amp that is a clone of a 68 plexi with an EVH spec channel.
And I have to say, my Plexi 51 sounds as good to my ears (and it was 1/3 the price). And the Plexi 51 nails that early AC/DC sound, which is what I was hunting for from a Marshall before getting this amp.
I had the flagship Boss GT-5, then the improved GT-8, which I ran using the 4CM.
They replaced my line of Boss pedals after I verified they sounded exactly the same and the unit didn’t change my dry tone. Gave me way more sound possibilities and saved a heap of tap dancing live, plus less chance of a patch lead failing.
The only external pedals I needed was a quality gate (the ISP Decimator) plus a boutique wah and whammy pedal
Honestly they were really bulletproof units live, like most Boss pedals, they rarely die IME
They’re a steal used and unlikely to die
I think Roland might use pretty much the same fx algorithms in all it’s units, just less cpu so less simultaneous fx and less loops/switchers/midi/metal etc
Although I never played thru the cheap ones
But my guess is they have the same sounds as per delay, chorus, reverb, eq etc as their flagship units,
just less power and possibly less bulletproof construction
The used GT-8 or GT-10 is prob still the better unit, and much cheaper
I sold my GT-8 because a mate needed it and I had bought a Line 6 Pod HD500 which I found had a great wah and whammy built in
FX were the same standard from memory, maybe better on the LIne 6
The AC-30 model was good enough to steer me towards the Kemper eventually
I don’t play live atm so it sits under a couch gathering dust
It’s too big for my desk or my space
I’m back to using the Kemper for fx and as a switchable preamp, in the loop of my Quad Cortex
They fit nicely on my desk
Although I have a row of mainly always-on pedals in front of my amp now, something I never did before
I had one on loan for a year or so, when I was playing gigs in a duo, had the thing dialled in for every song, dude wouldn’t sell it to me though. I might get me one, my current multi fx sounds fine but is pretty limited sound pallet wise.
I gigged the GT units hard from 1997 to 2006, they never failed, got beer spilt all over them at times
I should have kept the GT-8
I nearly bought this recently cause it’s a tiny footprint, has 3 fx loops and seems to have all the Boss/Roland fx,
and would fit on my desk easily as well
I still might
I ran the thing in stereo thru a 100 wt Marshall and a Fender Champ, every patch was dialled with the L/R delay getting a really full stereo sound without being too lush, it was a good rig, wall of sound with clarity.
Any experiences with the Behringer audio interfaces? My old firewire box is very flaky to open up in Windows these days. It seems to work fine when Windows will actually see it, but I have to disable wifi and restart up to maybe 3-4 times before it will actually open. I’m looking for something inexpensive to record amps once in a while (rare these days), so very basic requirements. Plug in a 57 and go.
First bit of recording in a long while. I have some crazy electrical noise going on that I have to figure out.
No experience, but as long as the inputs aren’t hissy and the drivers are alright the rest should be in the ball park. I don’t think anybody holds any secret sauce in these days where ‘everything’ is manufactured around Shenzhen or wherever.
I’ve always wondered what would happen if we got a bunch of new Behringer AD/DAs and put the innards into high end Prism AD/DA cases, then sent them out for review (to people who don’t take things apart but who are otherwise on the ball). Glowing reviews all round? Marvelling at the clarity or onto the gag?
Behringer gear is somewhat of a lottery ime. Made in Vietnam last time I checked. There’d likely be workers coming and going from those factory assembly jobs which probably means the experience/expertise levels may fluctuate significantly day to day, week to week. My Behringer pedal board fell apart after a couple of years despite no mistreatment, but I’ve heard reports of others running theirs for years no prob.
