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jeremyb wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:10 am
Yummy! What’s your signal chains??

Thanks!

Guitar: Benson Boost > BeeBaa (soon to be Tonebender) > Vibe Machine > Gorilla Warfare > Carbon > Harmonious Monk > Memory Lane > Ghost Ridge > Polytune > DSM Simplifier

Bass: Strobostomp > Whammy > EQ2 > Cali76 > B3K clone > EBS Chorus > Origin Bassrig

robthemac wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:32 am Thoughts on the Gorilla Warfare? Do you use it on guitar?

Gorilla Warfare is an excellent drive/distortion, but I am selling mine. I've sorta found "my sound" and it's all about low gain OD, chorus, delay and the occasional blast of fuzz into a pretty hot amp. I've just found that is my happy place, especially as the 335 tends to be a bit of an asshole with heavy drive tones.

My mate (who I play with in several bands) has a GW and swears by it as the best drive he owns, and he has the craziest pedalboard I've had the pleasure of using. I'll try find a pic.

I've used it on bass (in one loop of the EQ2 actually) and would keep it for that, but only if I was running a clean/dirty setup and that's just not happening right now.

I keep coming back to this combo for my gigging board. The Silverpistol fuzz and boost are perfect, and the cheap xvive delay does the job nicely for the odd bit of slap echo (only complaint is that the time knob is super easy to bump off the optimum setting so I have to reset it every time I move the board). The OD changes fairly frequently, partly for amp changes, and partly because it’s hard to find one with the right character (a little mid emphasis, but retaining clear low end). Hotcake is pretty cool for now, but I’ll likely try to find something else.

I’d kinda like to try some of the cheap and cheerful drive options out there.

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:57 am IMG_2117.jpeg

I keep coming back to this combo for my gigging board. The Silverpistol fuzz and boost are perfect, and the cheap xvive delay does the job nicely for the odd bit of slap echo (only complaint is that the time knob is super easy to bump off the optimum setting so I have to reset it every time I move the board). The OD changes fairly frequently, partly for amp changes, and partly because it’s hard to find one with the right character (a little mid emphasis, but retaining clear low end). Hotcake is pretty cool for now, but I’ll likely try to find something else.

I’d kinda like to try some of the cheap and cheerful drive options out there.

Can't recommend the DemonFX stuff enough, have owned most of theirs, great clones of boutique and other drives!

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/110025 ... items.html

What are you doing in my Grandmother's living room, Ben?!

Conway wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:47 am What are you doing in my Grandmother's living room, Ben?!

Stealing her rug

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:57 am (only complaint is that the time knob is super easy to bump off the optimum setting so I have to reset it every time I move the board).

Take it off, replace it with a smaller knob?

Miza wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:01 pm

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:57 am (only complaint is that the time knob is super easy to bump off the optimum setting so I have to reset it every time I move the board).

Take it off, replace it with a smaller knob?

Little ball of bluetack is the trick!

Miza wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:01 pm

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:57 am (only complaint is that the time knob is super easy to bump off the optimum setting so I have to reset it every time I move the board).

Take it off, replace it with a smaller knob?

Yep- that’s a good fix

The rest of the pedals I wanted to put on my bass board arrived today, yay!

jeremyb wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:53 pm The rest of the pedals I wanted to put on my bass board arrived today, yay!

I need a review of that AO clone, stat! Did I read somewhere you were getting the X clone?

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:00 pm

Miza wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:01 pm

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:57 am (only complaint is that the time knob is super easy to bump off the optimum setting so I have to reset it every time I move the board).

Take it off, replace it with a smaller knob?

Yep- that’s a good fix

Duct tape, dear boy, duct tape. Or remove the knob altogether and mark the shaft.

Slowy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:27 pm

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:00 pm

Miza wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:01 pm
Take it off, replace it with a smaller knob?

Yep- that’s a good fix

Duct tape, dear boy, duct tape. Or remove the knob altogether and mark the shaft.

The second thing is what I’ve been doing.

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:10 pm

Slowy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:27 pm

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:00 pm

Yep- that’s a good fix

Duct tape, dear boy, duct tape. Or remove the knob altogether and mark the shaft.

The second thing is what I’ve been doing.

Of course. You're an intelligent man. I've always said this.

Slowy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:18 pm

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:10 pm

Slowy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:27 pm

Duct tape, dear boy, duct tape. Or remove the knob altogether and mark the shaft.

The second thing is what I’ve been doing.

Of course. You're an intelligent man. I've always said this.

Not intelligent enough to make a hotcake work for me…

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:46 pm

Slowy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:18 pm

bender wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:10 pm
The second thing is what I’ve been doing.

Of course. You're an intelligent man. I've always said this.

Not intelligent enough to make a hotcake work for me…

Mine works brilliantly on my AC4. Nowhere else..