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WHAT STOMP BOXES ARE YOU IN LOVE WITH? was distortion,f overdrive,fuzz, crunc



I'm just in love with stomp boxes lately.
I'm curious,   what setups are you all using these days?

WHAT STOMP BOXES and PEDAL BOARD CONFIGURATIONS
ARE YOU IN LOVE WITH, LATELY?

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As for me,  lately I've  been playing my nephew's beautiful vintage 
Gibson Les Paul
(a guitar I could never even dream of owning but one that is on long 
term loan to me,
thank heavens)  through my Zvex Fuzz Factory,  an Alesis Bit-R-Man (falling
in love with that pedal again after not having used it for a long 
time),  Miko B's
really nice Wah Wah pedal and one of the great undiscovered deals in all
stomp box pedaldom-----the Danelectro Chili Dog,  which kicks ass on the
Boss Octaver.........more on that in  a second.

All of this I'm either running through my little Fender Tube Champ amp 
(steal of the
year at $120 at the flea market) or through my old Peavey bass cabinet 
(if I"m playing bass)
and tuning my guitar to DDDFDD.     I"m tuning by ear and letting all 
the D's be a tiny
bit out of tune with each other..............I mean a tiny 
bit........just enough to give it some
delicious faux chorusing effects that sound more,  well, 'organic' than 
a chorus pedal.

I'm finding that having mostly the same note let's all the 
distortion/fuzz algorithms
have less to play with in a musical way...............it's noisy as hell
but still very melodic..............really nice to manipulate a single
feeding back tone with the Electrix Repeaters pitch/stretch algorithms.

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For years,  and especially when my wife was playing electric in 
Lackadaisy,  I scoured the local
flea market every week for random stomp box pedals that I purchased for 
$5 to no more than
$20.     I really have a nice collection of typical and sometimes really 
weird stomp boxes amassed
over the years without ever having spent very much money to buy them 
(lol,  until my
$175 Zvex splurge of late).

One pedal I got that I just didn't like was an old Boss FT-2 Dynamic 
Filter.
I'm not a fan of T-wah and Envelope follower sounds so I filed that one 
for a rainy day but
one day,  my brother hipped me to the fact that it has an expression 
pedal jack.

This means I can use it the way Miko B was saying he used his Wah Wah 
pedal................as
a very subtle manipulater of timbre as opposed to a typical wow wow kind 
of sound.

The cool thing about the Dynamic Filter is that it can sweep all the 
frequencies so it sounds
different than the few wahs I've heard.

Sooooo,  I"m in noise heaven lately......................just really 
enjoying myself and playing
ridiculously simply because the timbre is so gigantic.

Just guitar and a throbbing drumset.............................a lot 
can be done.

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