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after much shuffling of pedals between boards and amps, i've come to realize that there are very few bad pedals, just pedals in front of the wrong amp. or, given enough time, i can justify almost any pedal. since i've recently started using some old peavey stuff, a lot of my non-vox compatible pedals sound amazing, especially through the fx loop. so here were some pleasant surprises:
morning glory- the morning glory side was just alright through the vox but it works really through a clean channel to give you that warm, tubey "gain at 10, vol at 1" kind of sound. that's how i had my crunch channel set before (and it was so, so loud) but i can do other things with it. i suppose that's what they were intended to do, but it wasn't working with the vox anywhere near as well as it does now.
tube screamers (a jhs bad monkey and double barrel in my case)- these were just ass in front of the vox, but in front of a slightly broken amp, i can get medium to almost high gain tones, and smooth to quotidian lead sounds. volume helped a lot. ironically, i don't really care for it stacked with the mg, as the double barrel intends. its mg>clean and 808>crunch, always.
rc booster- kind of disappointing as a light overdrive, dirty boost and pedal pusher, its found new life as an ad hoc eq, for a darker, instant jazz type sound. it did all that other stuff in a sort of, ok-ish way but the eq sounds good when paired with certain guitars, without having to fiddle with the amp.
echo park- this thing had been left for dead so many times and its mostly been collecting dust for years, but as a last ditch in front of the vox and it sounds pretty great again. that bright, digital cleanliness is really helping it cut through without mushing out, and it stacks really well with other delays.
alter ego ii- same as above, basically. once too effected and fake, its making its way through my signal chain better than my belle epoch, memory boy, dark echo or dispatch master. very surprised. might stay parked in front of the vox, paired with the echo park.
so what have you learned and how did you learn it?
morning glory- the morning glory side was just alright through the vox but it works really through a clean channel to give you that warm, tubey "gain at 10, vol at 1" kind of sound. that's how i had my crunch channel set before (and it was so, so loud) but i can do other things with it. i suppose that's what they were intended to do, but it wasn't working with the vox anywhere near as well as it does now.
tube screamers (a jhs bad monkey and double barrel in my case)- these were just ass in front of the vox, but in front of a slightly broken amp, i can get medium to almost high gain tones, and smooth to quotidian lead sounds. volume helped a lot. ironically, i don't really care for it stacked with the mg, as the double barrel intends. its mg>clean and 808>crunch, always.
rc booster- kind of disappointing as a light overdrive, dirty boost and pedal pusher, its found new life as an ad hoc eq, for a darker, instant jazz type sound. it did all that other stuff in a sort of, ok-ish way but the eq sounds good when paired with certain guitars, without having to fiddle with the amp.
echo park- this thing had been left for dead so many times and its mostly been collecting dust for years, but as a last ditch in front of the vox and it sounds pretty great again. that bright, digital cleanliness is really helping it cut through without mushing out, and it stacks really well with other delays.
alter ego ii- same as above, basically. once too effected and fake, its making its way through my signal chain better than my belle epoch, memory boy, dark echo or dispatch master. very surprised. might stay parked in front of the vox, paired with the echo park.
so what have you learned and how did you learn it?
