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Post by **Mike** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:45 am

Yeah I love those things, and the colour. Deep Purple Tolex with JMP styling.

The Marshall BB-2 is a great pedal. Really underrated.
And the Echo Box is great, I love Subdecay.

nondas · Post by **nondas** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:06 am

Thanks Mike. BB-2 was my first pedal ever (cheap too). Still trying to find my sound at the moment in the aural forest of wonder and excitement.

FitzG · Post by **FitzG** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:19 am

laterallateral wrote:Went ahead and did this to my amp.

Now it looks like a big Haitian mama.

is that just stuck on, or has it been recovered?
I like it by the way

Post by **Mike** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:23 am

nondas wrote:Thanks Mike. BB-2 was my first pedal ever (cheap too). Still trying to find my sound at the moment in the aural forest of wonder and excitement.

You got it right the first time. My first pedal was the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal cheese grater distortion. Apparently these are popular now because some band called Swervedriver uses them. I can only assume they like their guitar sound to be awful. I hated it. After that I got a Zoom 1010 and a Crybaby. Inauspicious beginnings.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:26 am

first pedal was a crybaby.

short of spontaneous bursts of voodoo chile followed by involuntary bursts of shame, it rarely gets plugged in anymore. i don't know whether mine is just an anomally or it's all of them but it just doesn't work with distortion. it's like on or off no sweep and i'm all about teh fuzzes so that doesn't really work out.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:28 am

I sold mine before i was in the pedal game. I should have kept it and converted it into an Expression pedal.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:35 am

My first pedal was a Rocktek chorus pedal lol.

nondas · Post by **nondas** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:38 am

Reece wrote:first pedal was a crybaby.

short of spontaneous bursts of voodoo chile followed by involuntary bursts of shame, it rarely gets plugged in anymore. i don't know whether mine is just an anomally or it's all of them but it just doesn't work with distortion. it's like on or off no sweep and i'm all about teh fuzzes so that doesn't really work out.

I find the same thing with the Vox V847. That thing and the amp, ok. Moment you add a OD/Fuzz pedal, and it's as if there is no sweep - pierce your head with an ice pick or move your amp under the carpet... of a basement... in Puerto Rico, sir? shite. I don't do too much wah-nkery anyway.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:58 am

Mike wrote:Cheers. It's wicked to use a board where I made the pedals (except the tuner and DMM). I'm planning a Small Clone next and then I'll probably stick the DMM under the bed to accumulate value. Then it'll be all handmade except for the Tuner.

Then after that I'm gonna try and build a pedal with a TUBE in it.

Dunno how I missed this post. I'll be very interested in the outcome of this.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:42 pm

The Tube or the Small clone?

dub · Post by **dub** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:52 pm

I found some use out of the HM-2 by turning the gain all the way down, cranking the volume and using it as a boost into a jacked up valve amp. It has an utterly bizarre EQ though, very hard to get right and very easy to mess up with the slightest touch.

I also feel like a rude noob for lack of pics, but I don't own a camera, so you guys are going to have to wait a little while before you get to be disgusted at my extremely ugly and BROOTAL les paul sludge metal set up.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:18 pm

Yeah, the problem is that the "Hi Color" control is a Treble, and Mids pot. So to dial in anything which is not completely scooped you also add in a fair amount of shrill treble.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:34 pm

Mike wrote:The Tube or the Small clone?

The Tube. I've been thinking adding something along these lines cos I'm a solid state user.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:54 pm

It would probably not be a pedal but an amp top thingie unless I can either place the tube inside or find a way to protect it from STOMPIN' BOOTS

Post by **Mike** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:03 pm

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Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:05 pm

That makes sense. Plus if you were making it stompable you'd need venting and that's be a pain. Live usage/spillages couls be scary too.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:32 pm

FitzG wrote:
laterallateral wrote:Went ahead and did this to my amp.

Now it looks like a big Haitian mama.
is that just stuck on, or has it been recovered?
I like it by the way

The cloth on the cab was really done for, so I ripped it off and replaced it with this.
The amp was fine but I wanted it to match, so I just stretched the fabric over the OG cloth and popped a few easily removed staples in the board to hold it in place.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:15 pm

what on earth are you going to do with all of that space once you retire the dmm?

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:58 pm

Mike wrote:

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You bought a Diago board !! They're sweet aren't they !!

Got one in the shop at the mo... Â£89, but could've done you a deal if I'd known....

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aen · Post by **aen** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:00 pm

PHOTOBOMB!

So, I set up the other day, and kind of did everything. LIke everydamn thing.

I'll probably pare it down in the future, depending on the musical context...

crybaby wah, boss feedbacker, Dwarfcraft Hair of the Dog prototype, MXr carbon copy, DE Rocket, Behringer Ultra Trem, Ernie ball Volume

Moog Freqbox
which is controlled by

Massive Passive prototype

And this one hasn't changed in a while. POG, Stereo Memory Man with hazarafpklagkas and Boss loopstation.