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

[Marc Marshall <agentlesoul2004@yahoo.com>]

Well I am more a fan of tube amps for distortion, as opposed to pedals, owning the new and very compact and excellent Mesa Boogie Express 5:50 amp. Amazing distortions ranging from mild vintage overdrive to over the top metal and it weighs less the 50 lbs!

Okay, I realize this is NOT an amplifier post so I will stop here. If any of you are interested I can tell you much more about it.   I WILL confess to using the Electro Harmonix Big Muff for a really nasty fuzz when I need one. I have the  one finished in a sic Black Molten Nuclear Waste Industrial Russian box, they make a more civilized looking one in clean chrome made in New York. Love EH boxes in general, much more fun than Boss or Digitech. EH pedals seem to all have settings that go beyond where most civilized players woud go (all the others don't)  in other words they go to 11   LOL  

just my 2 cents    

well maybe more like 25 cents!!

 

p.s sonic youth's Thurston Moore has a priceless quote about distortion and amps=

"all tube amps are wonderful in a least SOME aspect if you turn them all the way up"
assuming you live where you can do this, he is so right!!!

 

peace

marc

Marc Marshall

 

 

If you have no other better thing to do with

your time feel free to visit my website sans blog

 

    http://www.myspace.com/atripthroughthestars

--- On Wed, 12/31/08, Loren Claypool <looper@theclaypools.com> wrote:

From: Loren Claypool <looper@theclaypools.com>
Subject: Re: WHAT STOMP BOXES ARE YOU IN LOVE WITH? was distortion,f overdrive, fuzz, crunc
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 8:28 PM

I am enjoying stomp boxes in the real and virtual worlds these days. Before I
answer and the question as intended, I'm digging the models in my Pod X3
Pro, Pod X3 via Pod Farm, the new plug-ins in PT LE 8, a stack of VSTs via
FXpansion VST->RTAS converter, and the SoundToys Native effects bundle. The
SoundToys effects are stunning.

To the question proper. I mix and match a wide variety of stomp boxes as the
spirit moves me. The complete list in on the gear page at
http://www.lorenclaypool.com. Right now I'm jacked up with the Korg mini-KP
Kaoss Pad, Boss SP-303, vintage MXR 45 Phase Shifter, Boss DD-5 (in Aarset
mode), Boss TR-2 Tremolo with aNaLoG.MaN Super Mod, and Boss DS-1 with
aNaLoG.MaN Pro Midrange Mod. But that will all change tomorrow.

I'm a huge fan of what aNaLoG.MaN does with Boss pedal mods. I'm also
in love all over again with vintage MXR pedals - warm and luscious analog
goodness.

All the best,

Loren Claypool
genre-indifferent instrumental guitar music
www.lorenclaypool.com and links from there