NPD - Last (latest) piece of the puzzle.

Paul_C

Today my friendly postie handed over a very clean and tidy Boss SL-20 Slicer, and once I'd worked out what does what (without resorting to the manual, of course) I reckon there are hours of fun ahead and many more pointless Sonic Koalas tracks to be endured as a consequence

It's perfect for turning things like the Miku into a rhythm track with a difference and mixing together two or three running at different tempos with different patterns should be excruciating to listen to, which is pretty much my raison d'être

Having blown the master fuse located in my electric meter (!) last night*, which required a man who knows what he's doing to sort out and £90 to reward him for doing it, I'm much happier now I have a new toy to keep me amused.








*I was endeavouring to replace my kitchen light, but I have a feeling that whoever wired it up didn't follow the rules regarding which colour wire should go where, so me doing it correctly was, in fact, wrong. I'm going to let the man who knows what he's doing confirm that for me though. rather than blow the fuse again. 

VJIves

Oh awesome, such an underrated pedal. Where in your chain are you going to put it? 

Paul_C

As things stand, the pedal order is:

Tonelab ST
RC-1 Loop Station
Bakvendt
Into The Unknown
Data Corrupter
Spatial Delivery
Arcadiator
BDSM
Miku
Vitruvian Mod
DM4
Slicer
CT5 #1
Pitch Fork
Moomindrone T
Grazer
Ghost Fax
BitQuest
The Weapon
Quantum Time Modulator
Syntax Error
Rainbow Machine
Afterneath
Particle
CSIDMAN
CT5 #2
Liqua Flange
Otto Filter

so nice and simple

Sporky

Needs more Miku.

munckee

Paul_C said:

As things stand, the pedal order is:

Tonelab ST
RC-1 Loop Station
Bakvendt
Into The Unknown
Data Corrupter
Spatial Delivery
Arcadiator
BDSM
Miku
Vitruvian Mod
DM4
Slicer
CT5 #1
Pitch Fork
Moomindrone T
Grazer
Ghost Fax
BitQuest
The Weapon
Quantum Time Modulator
Syntax Error
Rainbow Machine
Afterneath
Particle
CSIDMAN
CT5 #2
Liqua Flange
Otto Filter

so nice and simple

More of a pedal floor than board?

Paul_C

Most of them are on stands so that I can sit and twiddle the knobs - I'm too old to be crawling round on the floor



if you imagine this picture, but with the DM4 moved to the right, the feedback looper moved above it, the Miku and Vitruvian Mod moved one step to the left, the pedal next to the Vitruvian Mod removed and the Slicer where the DM4 is, then that's what it looks like now (plus I've swapped the Afterneath and CT5 on the extreme left hand stand). 

This now gives me the basic essentials . . . plus the loop station

prlgmnr

How are you powering all that lot?

And how did you train yourself not to swing round with your guitar, knocking everything to the ground in an arc of destruction?

Sporky

prlgmnr said:

And how did you train yourself not to swing round with your guitar

Where Paul's going, we won't need guitars.

joetele

Insanely jealous of your Slicer acquisition, dude - I used the Slicer setting on the Zoom MS50G and it was stunning. I'm trying to get close with a Boss TR2 and it's Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay I guess. 

Paul_C

prlgmnr said:

How are you powering all that lot?

And how did you train yourself not to swing round with your guitar, knocking everything to the ground in an arc of destruction?

Power comes from a dozen or so, mostly cheap chinese, power supplies plugged into four multi plug sockets and a lot of daisy chaining, which still amuses me as it's surprisingly quiet.

I've not done swinging round exuberantly, but have hit the headstock on the stand to my left more than once.

joetele said:

Insanely jealous of your Slicer acquisition, dude - I used the Slicer setting on the Zoom MS50G and it was stunning. I'm trying to get close with a Boss TR2 and it's Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay I guess. 

I did buy a cheap tremolo in the hope it might be enough, but it wasn't - the Slicer is so much better already, and I've barely scratched the surface of what I can get from it - things like the DM4 set to MT-2 Metal Zone makes for a great synth drum sound and the Miku and Data Corrupter through it is loads of fun.

joetele

joetele said:

Insanely jealous of your Slicer acquisition, dude - I used the Slicer setting on the Zoom MS50G and it was stunning. I'm trying to get close with a Boss TR2 and it's Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay I guess. 

I did buy a cheap tremolo in the hope it might be enough, but it wasn't - the Slicer is so much better already, and I've barely scratched the surface of what I can get from it - things like the DM4 set to MT-2 Metal Zone makes for a great synth drum sound and the Miku and Data Corrupter through it is loads of fun.

I found, at least with the Slicer copy on the Zoom MS50, that it reacted to how you strummed, so if you kept stabbing the strings it would reset the 'slice', so you could create a stuttery, almost morse code pattern. 

Paul_C

HAHAHAHAHA !

Just when I thought I was done

Fortunately I haven't had to spend any money this time.

Having rearranged a few pedals to fit the Slicer in, it occurred to me that while I haven't really been able to get much out of my Arpanoid that really made it worth keeping, maybe running it through the Slicer would add something. . . and it did!

Even a short ten minute play was enough to confirm that there's potential for a lot of interesting sounds, and once I started adding one or two of the other pedals it got more and more interesting.

So hurrah for the Slicer and hurrah for its new best friend!

Hattigol

"This now gives me the basic essentials".

Unintentional Irony Of The Week Award?

Hell of a board!

clarkefan

Hattigol said:

"This now gives me the basic essentials".

Unintentional Irony Of The Week Award?

Hell of a board!

It's like the bridge of the Enterprise, but with more technology

Paul_C

Here's a little recording of Arpanoid into Slicer (before I do something mad to it )

http://www.arrowheadguitars.co.uk/pics/arpslicer.mp3 

ICBM

Paul_C said:

*I was endeavouring to replace my kitchen light, but I have a feeling that whoever wired it up didn't follow the rules regarding which colour wire should go where, so me doing it correctly was, in fact, wrong.

I did exactly the same thing with a friend's kitchen light. She hasn't asked me to fix anything in her house again.

It wasn't deliberate .

Wazmeister

I loves Paul’s pedal board... Kin bonkers