Fun Pedals

newi123

I bought a boss me90 for £190 from Reverb, which basically has all of the above to try and LOL at, and also a freeze function! It is indeed fun!

Supportact

GoFish said:

Supportact said:

Anything by Mid-fi electronics.  The Pitch Pirate Deluxe is a bonkers delay with a weird wobbly pitch shifting ability. The Clari(not) is a (kind of?) chorus in that it's a short delay with modulation,  except the modulation can be adjusted to be random and sensitive to playing dynamics. Oh and it also includes a fuzz. Connect those two up together and you'll be out there a while...

Mid Fi are great. I'd like a Pitch Pirate. There's a OG Clari(not) on Ebay at the moment and somebody who makes clones of it as well.

I'm a fan of Montreal Assembly too - the Count to 5 is great fun.

I'm recently in love with the Latent Lemon germanium Brassmaster - just filthy textures and pseudo-feeback with every bend. UK maker too.

I have not see latent lemon pedals before, they look very interesting.  I will investigate further...

ScreamingDave

I always love an envelope filter.  I've been having loads of fun with the Behringer B-Tron III

spev11

I do like a weird reverb/delay/modulation pedal. Been hankering for something from Hologram Effects but I've taken a shine to the EHX Mod Rex (not least cos its on offer at £169 in a few places. Anyone tried one?

HT986M2

Not all good news on the FreqOut and Richochet side after a bit more playing.  I appreciate I'm taking away some of the 'fun' from the thread, but I don't want to be a cause of people buying and being disappointed:

- The FreqOut has an issue (by design, following research) where after the input signal decreases by certain proportion of the original signal, the pedal will very quickly fade out the feedback effect even though the original guitar signal is still very much audible through the amp.  This can happen in as little as 5 or so seconds, and - since I can't anticipate it accurately - it makes it very unnatural
-  Notable tone suck from each pedal.  Exacerbated when both are used in momentary mode (which, lets be honest, most would want to do)

I had really high hopes as well.  I appreciate I could put them in an isolated loop which is only engaged as needed to get rid of the tone suck, but the unnatural cutout on the FreqOut doesn't make it worth it.  Plus it would then require two button presses to engage either effect (one for the loop pedal, another press on the pedal itself), and in this case you really want a quick response due to the way you want the pedals to immediate manipulate the signal.

Both are being returned as a result, unfortunately.  Unfortunately, none of the reviews I watched on either pedal mentioned the issues.

It has got me interested in getting a Sustaniac though.  

drifterphase

Red Panda Tensor is super fun. It has a wonderful reverse delay capability for one thing.  I’ve been playing that into a Death by Audio Echo Dream set up with square wave modulation.  Fun sounds all day long!  

pt22

+1 for the Boss Slicer. 

I also enjoyed the MXR PolyBlueOctave for some creative fun. 

Revolutions

Digitech whammy has kept me happy for the last few weeks just playing the RATM solo

xOilCityPickups

HT986M2 said:

So I took delivery of a Digitech Freqout this weekend, and it is quite possibly the best thing ever.  For those that are unaware, it's basically a pedal that can generate natural feedback on-demand.  It is a ridiculous amount of fun, and I have been kicking myself for putting off buying it for several years.

I also got a Digitech Ricochet in the same delivery.  Not quite the same level of game-changing, but again it's just fucking fun to use.

I have been so boring with my pedal purchases up until now it's just sad.  Now I'm seeing a whole new level of fun I could be having. 

So here's the question:  what are your recommendations for pedals that are not necessarily just for sculpting a core sound, but are just a joy to play with and use?

Interesting - i'm just thinking of pulling the trigger on one of these. 

Playing in punk band on guitar - it would be dead handy to have usable feedback on tap. 

nonesuch

HT986M2 said:

The FreqOut has an issue (by design, following research) where after the input signal decreases by certain proportion of the original signal, the pedal will very quickly fade out the feedback effect even though the original guitar signal is still very much audible through the amp.  This can happen in as little as 5 or so seconds, and - since I can't anticipate it accurately - it makes it very unnatural

I would try experimenting with the position of the FreqOut in your chain. I think it's recommend that it works best being first in the chain. That's how I've used it anyway.

I suppose you have to think of it as 'simulating' feedback, it's not in a constant loop with the guitar and amp. (Although I should probably try it again at high volume, to see if that changes how it works.)

There needs to be a signal from your guitar above a certain threshold for it to latch onto. I had a quick go just now, and with a big open string note, I can get between 15 and 30 seconds of feedback effect quite easily. But you're right, once the guitar level into the pedal goes below the threshold, it does cut off quite abruptly. I've seen a few mentions about this online too, but I don't find it too much of a problem.

My favourite mode is 'low natural', I think that sounds pretty realistic.

Sporky

pt22 said:

+1 for the Boss Slicer. 

You can't be a proper HEALTH tribute band without one.

I'd also like to nominate the Jacques Trinity and Exar Multiwah (which are closely related). Envelope filter with LFO and a little lilo-pump-like foot controller. And you can have all three working at the same time, so as the envelope dies away it goes to the foot control position, and as you release that the LFO comes in.

flying_pie

Revolutions said:

Digitech whammy has kept me happy for the last few weeks just playing the RATM solo

Killing In The Name has to be one of the best solos to play live. It's such an easy solo but the crowd don't know that so you can do your guitar hero moves and they think you're amazing 

Make sure you don't forget the riff to Stranded by Gojira (only one octave up). That's also addictive