This is such a cool chorus-y thing. And the burnt case, I think, looks awesome.

Hello all, I have a question for anyone knowledgeable on the subject.

I am deliberating between these two loopers and am wondering, after reading up on them, if the Loop Core does anything that the MG300 does not. It seems the MG has all the features of the Core Loop as well as effects, for basically the same price

It seems I can load WAV sounds onto both of them as well

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance!

I’m looking for a type of pedal that I haven’t been able to find yet.

On the boss bf-3 flanger there’s a gate mode, where it’s pretty much just a square wave tremolo, but if you bring the rate all the way up you get a standard clean tone. I’m looking for something that will get me that effect with an expression jack to control the rate. I’ve been looking at demos for any expression tremolo I could find and there’s nothing that reaches that “so fast you can’t even tell there’s a tremolo” setting, most of them just get to a fast ring mod.

If anyone knows anything similar then please let me know, I would be very interested.

this is from a couple months ago, so I have bought and sold a few pedals, but overall my collection is mostly the same to this day

I love washy ambient stuff, so most of my boards have at least two delays so one can cascade into the other > Voodoo Lab Overdrive or DOD 250/clone > Barber LTD (different one depending on the guitar) which is always on and just ads a bit of gain > whatever modulation I want like the Mobius/Grand Orbiter/Aurelius > stereo reverb, Big Sky or Eclipse

on rare occasion I want some octaves or a volume pedal for swells which I put at the front of the chain, or a tremolo or vibrato which I usually use at the very end

I've watched a couple of recent videos from NAMM in which TC Electronic's new Ditto 2 looper was demonstrated. This is the looper I've waiting for...for years!!!

Let me 'splain. People differ on this subject but I have always wanted a simple, affordable looper that quantizes. I know the Boss RC-600 quantizes, but that is a big mama and not cheap. It's more than I'm looking for, anyway.

I always wanted something with the form factor of the original Ditto looper which quantized, and my wish has come true! But apparently TC hasn't released it into the wild yet, 'cause I can't find it for sale anywhere.

Does anyone know when it will be available?

Hello, just wanted to ask this question (sorry if it sounds ignorant).

Basically, the original Rockman was a preamp running straight into the soundboard, correct? So my question is, in a "silent stage" setup, could I theoretically run the X100 through DI, straight into FOH?

Or would I still need some sort of IR after the X100?

The X100 manual (from the Jim Dunlop site) says:

"The Rockman X100 Analog Tone Processor is designed to enhance your tone through any setup. But if you want a subtler high-end response, try running the pedal into the return of your amp's FX loop or a full-range/flat-response speaker system."

Thanks in advance.

howdy y’all! my current band is a doomgaze hotline tnt/tagabow/sleep/boris-type thing and i’m having trouble getting my board in order. my current signal path for 90%+ of our songs is humbucker guitar> holy grail (reverse setting)>loomer fuzz (extra mids)> light soft focus reverb> light delay > amp which is a peavey classic 20 into a 2x12. I like all of the individual components of my rig, I just don’t like the final tone. its hard to put a finger on why, but something about the mid range and level of washy decay isn’t doing it for me. too honky maybe? any recommendations on settings/pedal order/purchases to get a better shoegaze tone? ty!

I was wondering if anyone has input on the colour box's uses on a pedalboard. What do you guys/gals use it for and where is it placed in your chain? Thanks!

Was using an enormous board with like 12 pedals on it. Seeing that only used about half of them live, I paired the live board down. Added my lil panther on there for good measure.

Hello! I'm trying to buy my husband a power supply and pedalboard as a surprise gift for his upcoming birthday. He plays both bass and guitar, super varied genres - like anywhere from doom to reggae/funk. But only recently got into collecting pedals. He has about 5 right now. I think one of them is the metal muff, he has some sort of over drive petal I can't remember, he also has the big muff pi and I think he plans on getting more bass pedals specifically which is why i wanted to get him a power supply that supports larger voltage pedals.

I'm a little in over my head so I'd like some advice please! Right now, I've got the MXR ISO M238 and the Voodoo Lab Power Pedal plus 2 on a list. I wanted to get him something that could grow with him but was still pretty affordable. I am not sure which one is better for his needs or if there is a big difference. Both are used and seem to be good for the potential for varied voltage if the internet doesn't lie.

I am unsure if either one is better for him, I also am unsure of if either will affect what type of pedalboard I should get him. Does anyone have any suggestions for which one is better and which pedalboard I could get him? I am more happy getting him one used if I esp to save money (he also doesn't like buying new). Something hopefully up to like 8-10 pedals? I just want to surprise him since I know there are things he'd never buy for himself unless the stars aligned and this is one of them. So I really really appreciate any help!

I'm looking for other pedals such as the Fairfield Barbershop which allow for very transparent stacking with distortion and fuzz. I'm guessing it has primarily something to do with if the pedal has high and/or low rolloff. Maybe the headroom, transistor, or clipping type also play a part.

Maybe this is just something that Fairfield do particularly well because my Barbershop and ~900 seem to do this way better than pretty much all my other drive pedals with a variety of settings.

As a specific example I like the way both the barbershop and morning glory sound as an always on type of boosted clean with a tiny amount of breakup. I dont like the way a fuzz face sounds into a morning glory, tube screamer, etc, but the barbershop sounds amazing, as an example. My tumnus deluxe stacks well at no or very low gain but with higher gain sounds similar to the tube screamer, which isn't want I'm going for.

Is there a commonality among pedals that stack into this way? What other pedals gave this characteristic?

Managed to grab both in the restock EAE did earlier today. Now I have a Citadel, Longsword, Halberd and Limelight as my entire gain staging section of my board. For people who have some or all of the pedals, what’s your favorite order for them? I was thinking LL, HB, LS, Citadel. Heard the Limelight boost into the Halberd is killer. Let me know your thoughts, thanks!

I'm at work or I'd be at home trying this.. can I split my signal out of the TU-3 (the output and bypass) and sum them into the RC-1(into the A and B channels, and just out the A) to blend pedals in between them? I feel like that will either work fine or sound like crap. No in-between.

So I got my chase bliss mystery box. My box had a Blooper (which I promptly sold to acquire a Wombtone), and this relatively obscure pedal called the "Gravity Well" by Cosmodio Instruments.

All I can say is that I am super stoked on this thing. It's a very unique drive style effect that I haven't heard in any other pedal- they call it "wave folding". It sort of sounds like a laser, or some other sci-fi sound. Almost like a phaser without the movement? It also has a built in tremolo, which can be engaged independently of the wavefolder.

Anyways, I would recommend checking out some audio samples off of YouTube. I am digging it myself!

I bought a tc spark boost and have been messing around with its gain knob to find out it’s actually quite pleasant at 12 o clock or more. It’s dawned on me that I have in essence acquired a new gain pedal. What I wanted to know is whether the gain on it would be considered transparent gain? Or like other drive pedals does it add its own color? It seems to be pretty treble heavy and tight, but just wanted to know what other people think. How could I use it with my other gain pedals? I have a J rocket archer and a way huge green rhino.

There's a lot of general humor on this sub about there being no limit to how many gain or dirt pedals you can have, so when I see boards here that have a more minimal setup, I'm always curious and impressed that people can narrow it down.

I personally usually have no more than 3 (a distortion/fuzz and two overdrives, usually), and sometimes I like to imagine getting an extra boost or adding another Rat, but being able to narrow it down and maximize my volume knob is an exciting prospect in generally improving as an electric guitarist.

I have an EHX Canyon (as my main delay pedal) and I just find it frustrating as hell to use as a looper. I mean, I am not well practiced with a looper, but I end up getting frustrated and moving on. I find things like clearing the memory to be super clunky - like when I step or hold the footswitch, it's never the behavior I expect. I just don't find it that intuitive I guess.

It is just user error or will something like a Ditto (regular or x2) be easier to use? I used to have Digitech Trio Plus a long time ago and I don't remember it being as frustrating to use. My GAS has shifted from pedals to synths, so I don't want to buy a new pedal if I don't have to.

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Currently On the "Board": Blooper, Plumes, Volante, Mood Mk1, Gen Loss Mk2, Nightsky, and a DAD Micro Clock but I am completely clueless about MIDI and still haven't figured out how to use it right. I have the Blooper first right now because I like to loop something and then play around with the subsequent effects, but I move the order around a lot.

Pinch Hitters: Rat, Didigelay, Fuzz Factory

Guitar, Synth, Amp: My main axes are a telecaster and a Juno 106, then a couple assorted cheap things I plug in on occasion. I also run my vocals through this sometimes, mostly for very experimental stuff. I mostly use these pedals to record DI, but I have a 68' fender twin reverb I use when I'm going to do the "real" album sessions. It is incredibly loud and heavy and way more than I need, but I got it cheap 20 years ago; trying to downgrade to a Princeton or a Vibro Champ.

Uses: Synth, guitar; no live performance, purely a studio setup, so I'm often thinking about what I can achieve on the floor vs. what I can do in the box. Mostly using the pedals to create noise and loops that I then chop up or mine for interesting harmonic or melodic ideas. However, I am not an avant garde, ambient, or noise artist and my songs are somewhat conventional in harmonic/melodic structure — sort of on the tamer end of an "oblique strategies" kind of approach.

Backstory: I've been a musician for a long time, did four albums with my old banSd, had a long hiatus, and got back into the game last year with an album and an EP on my own. I never had a very robust home studio setup, and for years recorded all my demos into a laptop microphone with GarageBand. I am, at heart, a drummer and had a lot of nice drum gear from having GAS and working at a drum store many years ago, a lot of which I was willing to part with, so I swapped it out to beef up my effects, mics, interface, etc. So even though I was mostly new to the pedal and home recording game, I was able to do a lot relatively quickly — this is the product of about two years of scraping up funds and swapping out gear. Here's an example of what the music sounds like coming out of this thing (Google Drive link).

What's Next?/Other Pedals On My Radar: My instinct for now is mostly to stand pat and enjoy this stuff. Obviously, I need a pedalboard lol. I'm sorry this is such a mess. I am also looking to swap out the Gen Loss, because I am mostly treating it as a very expensive chorus pedal right now and not making the most of it — that $350-400 could go a long way. But also, very open to suggestions on whatever weird noisemaking pedals you might suggest, or any basics you think I'm missing.

• OBNE Dark Star Stereo. My brother lent me the Nightsky and he's going to take it back soon, so I might be in the market for a replacement on that — Dark Star looks like more my thing.
• Basics: A noise suppressor, cheap compressor could be cool, or an EQ, but mostly I think I'm happy getting that stuff in the box — I track a lot with Apollo Unison.
• Iridium or comparable: I would love to track more usable stuff in the bedroom, but I have never heard an amp sim I like. Could be in the market for an Iridium or something like that to make it more feasible to get usable stuff in my bedroom instead of having to pull out the Twin.
• Big Muff: I probably should have one more flavor of dirt. The Fuzz Factory is very cool but I'm still learning how to make it do what I want to do and it mostly lives off the board unless I need its very specific character (def going to hang onto it though). The Rat is cool on low gain, but a lot of times I have trouble dialing in what I want — sometimes it's too scratchy, sometimes it's too muddy. The Plumes has been nice for most of my purposes. I'd say I don't use dirt very often, but I'd like to improve my options/tone when I do use dirt.
• Thermae is very intriguing to me, but I'm sticking with the Volante for now. If I do end up wanting a Thermae instead, I'll swap it for the Volante — can't afford to keep both.
• Obviously I really like CBA, but will be a while before I have the capital to explore new stuff. Onward and Habit both seem great for my purposes, but probably a little redundant with what I have.

Anyway, that's where I'm at so far, two years in earnest into trying to make a wacky board for composition purposes. I think in sum it's rare I feel like I need very classic effects, though I have a feeling that the better I get at guitar (I am terrible, but noodle a lot!) I will probably drop back to a more basic board and start working on a really good tone.

Does anyone know where I can get a 12v pedal power cable that will connect by either IEC male, Cloverleaf or figure 8?

I want to use the courtesy outlet on the PP2 so have just bought the X4 but when it arrived learnt the power cable isn't included.

I know I need a female IEC from the Pedal Power 2 but for the life of me can't find a 12v power supply that isnt a undetachable wall plug or absurdly expensive.

It all has to fit under the board so I want to avoid: PP2 courtesy outlet -> IEC to wall plug Adapter -> bulky 12v wall plug to barrel -> X4

I want PP2 -> IEC female to IEC male/Cloverleaf/figure 8 -> 12v to barrel-> X4