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11th May 2008, 09:48 AM
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: May 2005
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| What pedals for weird ambient FX? ... want to try a bit of experimental ambient guitar action, ie. feedback drones, buzzing slowly evolving tones. can anyone recommend some pedals to produce some interesting sounds? I already have a custom filter/distortion box and I was thinking of adding chorus [ but want something that will allow abuse rather than just 'nice' tones ], what else would work? phaser, ring modulator? hope u can help... p |
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11th May 2008, 03:01 PM
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Line 6 :: Products A local band I've played with before uses these and they've done some really odd, really crazy stuff with them: http://www.bossus.com/gear/productde...?ProductId=720
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11th May 2008, 04:14 PM
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| Here are a few links to interesting pedals - Copilot FX Where your sonic dreams come true! 4ms Pedals This place has lots of  stuff - a n a l o g u e h a v e n
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11th May 2008, 07:40 PM
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| I mostly use vintage pedals, but the one modern pedal that I really like is the Electro-Harmonix Tube Zipper (Electro-Harmonix Tube Zipper: Harmony Central User Reviews - page takes forever to load) It can do Mutron-type envelope stuff, but it's got way more to it. Its got 2 tubes that the signal gets filtered through. It's really complex and I haven't even scratched the surface on what it does, you do need to read the manual to get started. The sound is really nice. I paid around $140 on ebay. It's the kind of thing that you can get a lot of different sounds out of and they all sound good.
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12th May 2008, 03:33 AM
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| Moogerfooger or Studio Electronics might fit the bill . . .
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12th May 2008, 03:48 AM
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12th May 2008, 11:54 AM
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| e-bow, Microsynth on a stand (so you can tweak the sliders while you play) and loooots of delay. |
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12th May 2008, 01:58 PM
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12th May 2008, 04:22 PM
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If you do some research what's in these multis (lots of maxon/ibanez 9th series effects, modded for +/- 15V supply) they go very cheap on ebay these days. Worth having a look. A nice digital delay otoh has it's merrits as well... | |
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16th May 2008, 09:38 AM
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| ... does anyone just use a boss phaser and chorus with distortion to get some interesting stuff? |
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16th May 2008, 11:06 AM
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| Sort of - I often go phaser (slow sweep) >>> tremolo (very fast choppy square wave, or medium fast very shallow sine >>> delay >>> distortion or clean Very hypnotic! PS how bout that Roger Linn box?
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16th May 2008, 11:07 AM
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| Pedals.. Try out the white boss digital delay!!You can have a volume pedal infront but i use my little finger on gtr volume pot-[as long as the pot has a nice smooth action and level ride]The TC chorus flanger or Boss dimension C will add more colour to that sort of sound..I once used the big-ish green dod delay/sample pedal which was fantastic.Reminded me of using revox tape looping set-ups.By the way the boss ddl pedal comes in a few different models!! One has two outs-1 is clean out 2- with fx.So you can feed the clean into whatever,perhaps a second delay-amp etc...I think another model has a simple stereo out....... |
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16th May 2008, 08:40 PM
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| I usually use looping delays for most of my experimental ambient guitar action, ie. feedback drones, buzzing slowly evolving tones. I have one each of the original Electro-Harmonix 16-second digital delays & the reissue, used to have the Oberheim Digital Echoplex Pro, and have used the green Line6 delay pedal with some success as well. |
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20th May 2008, 11:53 PM
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| Gear nut  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Houston, TX
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| Eh 16 Second delay, Digitech Whammy 1 or 2 (the whammy 4 dosent do it for me), Line 6 filter modeler, mutron biphase, Moog ringmod, ebow, any synth with a line input, mid fi glitch computer, Z vex ringtone, Z vex fuzzprobe, eh small clone, musitronics mutator, eh talking pedal, boss slow gear. Man Ive had so many wierd pedals, its hard to keep track of them all. I decided to sell em all and buy some cool amps and let the recording do the talking, phasing, sweeping, swelling, whatever. |
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