RillAkBea posted:

Awwwww yiss. Screw the bluesdads, it doesn't get much better than this.

iostream.h posted:

Purple Paul Squad incoming.

Revvik posted:

Schlieren posted:

I won the Secret Santa lottery

No idea what I'm going to do with this thing but that send loop it has is definitely going to meet up with my envelope filter and my analog delay and my recording equipment

Colonial Air Force posted:

I like both the pickguard and pokerchip on my LP and gently caress you!

Admittedly, it's a black custom with the cream-colored inlays, so the black pickguard and chip work nicely.

massive spider posted:

My second to last gear purchase was an MXR dyna comp which sounds great but adds horrible noise (to the point I think it might be broken) my last purchase was an EHX soul preacher which adds very little noise but sounds clicky compared to the dyna comps satisfying chunkiness.

Now I'm just thinking gently caress compressors.

Kilometers Davis posted:

I like to think I prefer pickguardless LPs but nope they always look like they're missing something without one. It's a nice little accent.

Come to think of it most guitars that have a pickguard stock look better as is to me.

muike posted:

That sounds a lot more like a burr on your tuner than a flaw in the string, to be honest.

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In any case, I spent a good deal of time with it today and I must say I really enjoy the Soul Food.

To disclaim for clarity, the overdrive and overdrive-esque effects that I have spent the most time with are the Boss SD-1, EHX Hot Tubes Nano, Catalinbread Naga Viper, Zvex Box of Rock, and a ProCo Rat 2. Out of all of these stompboxes the one I found the most usable was the SD-1, the biggest reason why is that it worked with pretty much everything I had and it did everything I needed it to do gain-wise; but I never really gelled with how extreme the mid-hump was, some days I loved how boxey it sounded and others I needed more treble and bass. Meanwhile, the one I liked the second best was the Hot Tubes, I liked how it sounded different from almost anything else, and it still sounded good when the gain was cranked; but I didn't use it too often because it tended to be muddy depending which amp or guitar was into it.

The reason why I bring up the SD-1 and the Hot Tubes is because it highlights the two kinds of overdrives you can find; one's meant to push an preamp, and one's meant to provide a dirty sound. If you've been reading about the Soul Food or the Klon then you know that the number one claim is that it excels at the former. I can say personally that it is a great clean boost; on the other hand you can get a much cheaper clean boost with EHX's LPB-1, so why the Soul Food?

It's all in the 'Tone'.

I don't mean that in the 'warmth, tube-like, and harmonics' buzzword sense, I mean in the literal 'way it is voiced' sense. If you have one of these and a looper, do an experiment; kick in a muff or other dirt pedal, loop a simple chord progression with it, and then solo over it playing with the Soul Food. You'll find that it's easy to stand out in the mix with the pedal on, that's why a Soul Food is valuable. You can accomplish similar things with a Tubescreamer or other clones, that's part of why I liked the SD-1, but that leads into the second reason to like the Soul Food.

That reason is 'Transparent Overdrive'

With a Tubescreamer, there are two things that help it stand out in a mix; there is the whole extreme mid-hump aspect that everybody and their antediluvian piano teacher is familiar with, the second is the compression which helps keep that guitarist in a particular spot in the mix. This is why it became popular in the first place, and it's also why there are a lot of people looking for alternatives in this day-and-age where people play on things other than Blackface or Silverface Fenders. With the Soul Food, you don't get the boxey sound when playing with a Tubescreamer through a Vox; and you get the dynamics of playing with a naturally overdriven amp again while keeping the volume down (somewhat ).

The most impressive aspect of the transparent overdrive is apparent when you do something dumb and play it through a modelling amp; the Soul Food literally works with every single piece of equipment!

I mean literally, I played it with all of my guitars into all of my amps, and every single one worked; from my Squier JMJM with antiquities to my Fender Pawn Shop '51. And as much as I hate to use this cliche, but it literally did make my normal 'clean' sound just louder and dirtier. Which made me realize something; why do we all clamour for tube amps for that 'beautiful tube overdrive' and then grind them with dirt pedals that change that sound entirely? I mean I understand why we don't crank Plexi's and Twins whenever we want, but it feels a bit silly to use Muffs, Tubescreamers, or Rat's and more-or-less ignore amp overdrive.

But I digress hypocritically, because I have also been experimenting with other dirt pedals with this thing and have found a few interesting things. With a Muff down chain, you can get a bit of the TS+Muff sound if you crank the gain to the point where the mids are pronounced. The Soul Food also works good after the Muff if you crank the gain to about 9 o'clock, it compresses the sound to where it's smooth but not muddy. My favorite use of the Soul Food (somewhat hypocritically) is as a boost into my Hot Tubes, I run my Soul Food as a dirty boost with the tone knob a bit past noon and then the Hot Tubes as a hot overdrive with volume at unity and the tone also a bit past noon. If I kick on the Soul Food on with the Hot Tubes I get an actually great 'not quite distortion, not quite fuzz' sound that still works well with whichever guitar or amp I kick in.

The only thing I didn't quite love with this pedal is that the pedals onboard dirt sounds are no great shakes, it's hard clipping for better-or-worse. It doesn't work well at all with a traditional solid-state amp because of this, a tube or good modelling amp will cover this up with their own clipping but don't expect it to be your only source of distortion.

Declan MacManus posted:

I traded a bunch of setups and some basic rewiring stuff for this

havelock posted:

What is the distinction between all their model lines? I've played a seagull and didn't like the thick neck, but I have a merlin that's a ton of fun. I hear nothing but good things about Godin in general, but all their sub brands get confusing.

Hollis Brownsound posted:

Also I got 8 of merlins as part of my Partner buy-in. And they are tons of fun. Stupid fun. I'll do goon sales for $100 shipped. They have a MAP of $130

DeathSandwich posted:

My local mom and pop store has gotten a used late 90s era Ibanez artcore full hollow-body electric guitar in a chocolate finish that I'm itching on. It's got the same style pearl block inlays that my ibanez semi hollow has. Ibanez model names being what they are I forgot the specific model number, but when me and the shop guy looked online we figure that it would of been about $650 US new. It's got a handful of nicks and scuffs as general wear and tear, and the clerk is thinking about selling it for $300.

I'm so conflicted about it. In one hand, that seems like a pretty good deal for the quality it's in. On the other hand my girlfriend would probably murder me in my sleep.

Allen Wren posted:

Just started looking at amps because of that post, and I'm wondering, what's the functional difference between a closed-back and an open-back cabinet? Like, obviously, yes, the sound gets out or the air gets in or something, there's a big goddamn hole back there. But what does it actually do to the sound? Anything? Like, with Oranges, there's like a $200 difference between the two cabinets, unless my eyes deceive me this late at night, I can't imagine there being $200 worth of difference in an A/B comparison.

e: $150 difference.
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Orange-Amplifiers/PPC-Series-PPC212-C-120W-2x12-Closed-Back-Guitar-Speaker-Cabinet.gc
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Orange-Amplifiers/PPC-Series-PPC212OB-120W-2x12-Open-Back-Guitar-Speaker-Cab.gc