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Ya it’s very good. Good luck with it, a wonderful, engaging hobby that I’ve found to be extremely rewarding. My toddler is now pseudo playing blippi songs with me, great memory maker!
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pharmakos
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I looked real hard at that pedal but decided not to get it since it doesn't have Harmonist style "smart" pitch shifting (i.e. if you want to play in C standard and harmonize in thirds, the Harmonist will intelligently switch between major and minor thirds, staying in key. Pitch Fork is way cooler if you're just stacking fifths and octaves and "easier" intervals like that tho)I just bought a new EHX pitch shifter + last week to replace my busted digitech wh2 and have been playing with it for about 2 hours a day for a week ( that work from home life lets me pretty much practice while I do work).
you can set 2 pitch shift settings at once and route them to external speakers which is pretty insane. I have been splitting up my pedals or using delay and chorus through the external out to another input on my recording unit to get some really interesting stereo tracks. I havent really touched the modx section but I have made some pretty sick presets that I want to use in recording situations.
pharmakos
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Reverb emailed me and told me I was pre-approved for $1000 worth of 0% APR credit from Affirm and I indulged. Has made for a weird hodj-podj since the rest of the pedals I got recently have been $25 or less on Amazon lol.
I was super excited about that TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay (the one that looks just like a Flashback 4X2 but it's different), but I think it's lack of presets is going to be a deal breaker for me. It's got MIDI but just for clock, if it had more MIDI functionality I would keep it since a good, full-fledged MIDI controller is going to be one of my next big purchases.
Borzak
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Got an email from fender about a week ago. I think you can sign up for fender video collections on how to play and get it free for 3 months or something like that. Never used it, never, never looked at it. Someone mentioned it on youtube as well.
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jooka
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lol, was just say add a pedalboard to that indulge list.
Noodleface
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Noodleface
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That's great man. My 5 year old is mostly not interested but my 3 year old is always plucking my strings when I pull it out. He loves plucking the low B and matching the pitch then laughing hysterically.
pharmakos
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I'm actually thinking about getting two or three pedalboards instead of one big one
Yeah, to two (well, three if you count the one that's just running the BeatBuddy) separate amps. I started dicking around with playing one amp with with a dirty tone and the other amp with a clean tone earlier this year and got too hooked on it, decided to go all out and try for a full pedal setup on each amp. Running the one amp medium dirty while the other is clean with a delay and a bit of chorus on it is like a whole new world of delay pedal playing all on its own, and I got by for 15 years with just a distortion and a delay lol. And then running two different dirts with complementarily dialed EQs adds for whole other levels of hugeness too.
Oh yeah, of note, one of my amps is a bass amp. That EHX Bass9 is my newest pedal, sounds just like the real thing with very little work dialing in the knobs. Real fun along with the looper of course.
(Still dealing with cancer and never got into pedals despite playing guitar since 2003, figured yolo)
pharmakos
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My next purchase aside from the pedalboard is going to be one of these
Think I'm going to sell the Flashback X3 and get 2-3 separate other delays to go with with Selah, one more expensive one with full MIDI support (maybe a Mooer Ocean Machine, designed by Devin Townshend!) and 1 or 2 cheaper ones that , thanks to the Selah, will just need external tap inputs rather than full MIDI control...
This many pedals really really needs MIDI control. Not looking forward to programming all my songs but hey that's music in 2020 I guess haha.
Oh hell who I am I kidding, MIDI has barely changed since the late 80s, we've just got more buttons and better user interfaces now.
Oh yeah, didn't want to explain why 2-3 pedalboards til after all this, but it will be one pedalboard for each amp and a separate pedalboard for the BeatBuddy, Looper, maybe my Reverb (or a couple other pedals) since I'm mostly using that in a single setting and always on
Think I'm going to sell the Flashback X3 and get 2-3 separate other delays to go with with Selah, one more expensive one with full MIDI support (maybe a Mooer Ocean Machine, designed by Devin Townshend!) and 1 or 2 cheaper ones that , thanks to the Selah, will just need external tap inputs rather than full MIDI control...
This many pedals really really needs MIDI control. Not looking forward to programming all my songs but hey that's music in 2020 I guess haha.
Oh hell who I am I kidding, MIDI has barely changed since the late 80s, we've just got more buttons and better user interfaces now.
Oh yeah, didn't want to explain why 2-3 pedalboards til after all this, but it will be one pedalboard for each amp and a separate pedalboard for the BeatBuddy, Looper, maybe my Reverb (or a couple other pedals) since I'm mostly using that in a single setting and always on
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jooka
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pharmakos
check out rockboards, they have patchbay mods you could tailor to each board for certain hook ups in each.MOD Patchbay Overview | RockBoard
All-in-One Patchbays! Die genial platzsparende Lösung für unsere PedalBoards
EDIT not that cheap but really good stuff
Identikit
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Why exactly does that many pedals need midi control?
would love to hear what you are recording/making with this
Identikit
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or embrace the chaos look and get some of these. I was thinking of getting one to place on my upper synth board setup to reroute my pedals and other things live.
MOD Patchbay Overview | RockBoard
All-in-One Patchbays! Die genial platzsparende Lösung für unsere PedalBoardswww.rockboard.de
EDIT not that cheap but really good stuff
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pharmakos
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so that i don't have to crouch down and twist knobs or flick switches between every song haha. the biggest issue is that i like to set my delays in ways that i can't keep with a simple preset even with all the tap division options on the Flashback X3... i like to do my delay so that the beat falls every 2.5 or 3.5 beats instead of .5, 1.5, or 2 that most delay pedals give you for beat divisions... so each song will need a custom delay time programmed rather than just needing to change the beat division and let the MIDI clock output from the BeatBuddy handle the other changes.
btw the big reason i'm disappointed by that Flashback X3 is that I thought the final four beat division settings on it were the syncopated timings i was already playing as described above... but no, that quarter note plus dotted eigth setting isn't for 3.5 quarter notes, it's for two separate delays on the same preset (which means, coincidentally, that the thing can play SIX SIMULTANEOUS DELAYS which is just fucking obnoxious but so fun if you understand how to harmonically handle that many echoes
)i'll record some stuff soon. i'm also in the middle of moving, and haven't had that much time to play around with those pedals yet. here's a slightly older video tho:
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pharmakos
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took a sec to remember, here's a really old ass video that has one of the syncopated delay timings i was talking about, only one i have recorded (usually i just record my covers, and usually i use my syncopated delays for instrumental original stuff)
whole tone scale (directly inspired by King Crimson "Fracture" and "FraKctured") with delay set to repeat 3.5 eighth notes after the original note
whole tone scale (directly inspired by King Crimson "Fracture" and "FraKctured") with delay set to repeat 3.5 eighth notes after the original note
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Identikit
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so that i don't have to crouch down and twist knobs or flick switches between every song haha. the biggest issue is that i like to set my delays in ways that i can't keep with a simple preset even with all the tap division options on the Flashback X3... i like to do my delay so that the beat falls every 2.5 or 3.5 beats instead of .5, 1.5, or 2 that most delay pedals give you for beat divisions... so each song will need a custom delay time programmed rather than just needing to change the beat division and let the MIDI clock output from the BeatBuddy handle the other changes.
btw the big reason i'm disappointed by that Flashback X3 is that I thought the final four beat division settings on it were the syncopated timings i was already playing as described above... but no, that quarter note plus dotted eigth setting isn't for 3.5 quarter notes, it's for two separate delays on the same preset (which means, coincidentally, that the thing can play SIX SIMULTANEOUS DELAYS which is just fucking obnoxious but so fun if you understand how to harmonically handle that many echoes
i'll record some stuff soon. i'm also in the middle of moving, and haven't had that much time to play around with those pedals yet. here's a slightly older video tho:
I figured it would be something like that. Quite the delay tail there!
I am still not really sure I want to implement midi functionality on my setup. I think the two big things I would like is to control loop phrase length so that it can sync with electronic instruments if needed, and the ability to control control values of rate on delay or trem so i can possibly control it through something on my guitar or elsewhere. but honestly im just afraid to go down the gear acquiring rabbit hole with all o dat.
pharmakos
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my EHX ModRex has clock synced Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, Vibrato, Tremolo, Panning, and LPF/HPF/BPF, which i tempo sync by using the MIDI clock output of my BeatBuddy (super awesome device if you haven't seen that, i'll post a video in a sec). that same MIDI clock output is what i use to control the timing of my Pigtronix Infinity looper.
if all you want is MIDI clock sync, its a LOT cheaper and easier to figure out than full on MIDI support. you can use your DAW to generate your MIDI clock if you already have your computer integrated in your rig. otherwise, there are devices like the Tempode or the MIDIMouse that can generate clock for around $100 (absurd for just being a glorified metronome basically but before i got my Beatbuddy i was debating it lol)
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