Effects

[keith]

Best sites for high end effects pedals please

[juansolo]

You're on it ;)

What sort of thing are you thinking about?

If you want to ride a wave of hype, pretentiousness and willy measuring, there's TGP. More grounded is Music Radar. If you want highly cynical and accurate dissection of effects there's FSB. Which can be a little spikey at times to be honest so I rarely post there. Though you'll need an account on there to see the interesting stuff ;) It can get quite techie also as it's all pedal builders.

The demos are the best places to get an idea of what things are like (minus the bull). IMO the best demmers are Burgs and Just Nick. You get a really good idea of what the effects sound like and can do with them two. For DIY effects Jon Patton is with them. Andy from PGS is really good, but has a tendency to make everything sound awesome. Of the others Gearmanndude is amusing, but is one of those players that sounds like himself no matter what he plays, which isn't quite as helpful when it comes to demoing gear. Being youtube, crank the res as high as you can with them, but yeah, it's still gonna be compressed as hell. As I say, it gives you an idea.

[dave_mc]

lol at the tgp reference.

[Telerocker]

Good calls from Juan. I like PGS, good quality video's.

[TheyCallMeVolume]

Juan, isn't it Andy's job to make them all sound awesome?

 :P

[juansolo]

Well, yes. Don't get me wrong I watch all the vids and find them most entertaining. But I suspect you could also give the man a rubber band wrapped around a tissue box and he'd make that sound awesome also.

[keith]

You're on it ;)

What sort of thing are you thinking about?

If you want to ride a wave of hype, pretentiousness and willy measuring, there's TGP. More grounded is Music Radar. If you want highly cynical and accurate dissection of effects there's FSB. Which can be a little spikey at times to be honest so I rarely post there. Though you'll need an account on there to see the interesting stuff ;) It can get quite techie also as it's all pedal builders.


The demos are the best places to get an idea of what things are like (minus the bull). IMO the best demmers are Burgs and Just Nick. You get a really good idea of what the effects sound like and can do with them two. For DIY effects Jon Patton is with them. Andy from PGS is really good, but has a tendency to make everything sound awesome. Of the others Gearmanndude is amusing, but is one of those players that sounds like himself no matter what he plays, which isn't quite as helpful when it comes to demoing gear. Being youtube, crank the res as high as you can with them, but yeah, it's still gonna be compressed as hell. As I say, it gives you an idea.

Cheers Juansolo i'm wanting a really good overdrive. Oh and apoplogies for forgetting about you, you do build pedals?
Ive looked at quite a few on Youtube,I suppose it comes down to try them for myself and see what sounds good,there are so many out there. Maybe my question was a bit misleading also I was thinking of best sites to buy from. Also any recommendations anyone has. I also thought if I looked at the high end side of things then obviously the quality etc should be excellent, im not knocking cheaper pedals but I suppose it comes back to you get what you pay for.

[juansolo]

I've been known to ;) Though I wouldn't consider myself a boutiquer/high end type. I build a few pedals for people (mainly here) to fund my obsession with DIY pedal buildage.

Depends what you're after when it comes to OD. Do you want a nice traditional tube screamer stylie overdrive, a bludgeoning your amp into submission type of drive or a 'more' pedal.

In category one I'd put things like the Zen Drive, the OCD and the good old Tube Screamer (it ain't broke...). Category two is dominated by the awesomeness that is the Colorsound Overdriver. Finally the last category would be the Klon Centaur and derivatives (Klones/Kingslayer).

Where abouts are you? Peeps are always welcome to pop in and give stuff a go.

[FELINEGUITARS]

+1 to what Juan said.

As i have great sounding amp modules via the Egnater/Randall modular system I kind of like boosters best to give a bit "more".
My current arsenal has 4 pedals:
A Hoochee Mama pedal (like a clark gainster)
A Thorpy copy of the Hoochee mama
A BYOC tubescreamer I built with a few mods
One of Juan's Klone Klon copies.

I have a chinese RAT2 that I intend to stripand repopulate with better components.
Still not 100% sure I will like the Rat as the bottom end is a bit fuzzy for my tastes even on the good ones.

I am looking for a distortion pedal and am still considering:
Wampler pinnacle
Wampler SLOstortion
Suhr Riot

Open to other ideas

[juansolo]

Distortion is one of those ones that I just can't predict what people will like and what will work with their amps. Mainly as some distortions want to go into a nice clean amp and others want to go into an amp with a bit of crunch.

Again you have a wide range to choose from. Starting with very, very simple stuff based on the Electra Distortion (Les Lius), Catalinbread has a load of stuff that aims to sound like certain amps, The CM Plexitone does a really nice Marshall-a-like, then you have the high gain stuff that tries to get into Rectifier/5150 style territory with a stomp (Dr Boogie/Triple Wreck/Dominator). The high gain stuff is hard to build quiet, but you can get stonking results from them good ones.

I've only built a Riot out of that selection. Which is pretty cool to be fair. Does that 80's rock thing.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Distortion is one of those ones that I just can't predict what people will like and what will work with their amps. Mainly as some distortions want to go into a nice clean amp and others want to go into an amp with a bit of crunch.

Again you have a wide range to choose from. Starting with very, very simple stuff based on the Electra Distortion (Les Lius), Catalinbread has a load of stuff that aims to sound like certain amps, The CM Plexitone does a really nice Marshall-a-like, then you have the high gain stuff that tries to get into Rectifier/5150 style territory with a stomp (Dr Boogie/Triple Wreck/Dominator). The high gain stuff is hard to build quiet, but you can get stonking results from them good ones.

I've only built a Riot out of that selection. Which is pretty cool to be fair. Does that 80's rock thing.

I rather like the 80's stuff  :D

I would also like the OKKO Diablo to try

[juansolo]

I would also like the OKKO Diablo to try

That's on my list of things I need to get around to building. Just built a Dominator clone, that's pretty damn impressive.

[Telerocker]

I like the Okko. Also Brunetti-pedals en the new Bogner-line.

[tekbow]

Best sites for high end effects pedals please

http://stompboxes.co.uk/forum/index.php

D*A*M's forum, there's a lot of dudes post there, it's where the builders go when they get annoyed with TGP.

Very loose and fast, but very friendly too, some of the best builders in the business hang on a regular basis.

[juansolo]

Must've mellowed... I stopped going on there when a few of the more vocal members pissed me off royally as they went on an ill informed anti-DIY crusade a couple of years back. Admittedly not as bad as TGP have done in the past, but similar enough for me to not bother with the place any more.