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Paul Wesley

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  1. You mean condition? It's like a brand new pedal. Tone? Hell, I don't know about Neil Young... his tone seems like a moving target of amp/pedal combos. I think the pedal does what it claims. Plenty of youtube demos for it (my least favorite demo might be Brian Wampler's, fwiw).
  2. Getting ready to list a bunch of pedals for auction. If you're interested in any of these things, find comparable pedals on Reverb or eBay, and I'll probably take 15-20% less than the going rate. Everything works fine as far as I know, but some of them I haven't played in a while, so I'll plug 'em in and make sure all is well before shipping. Most have easily-removed velcro on bottom. Almost all are in very good to excellent shape (I'm pretty gentle on guitars and gear). Durham Electronics Mucho Busto - This is one of the older pedals (big footprint), likely very early in the production run. Wampler Tumnus (small footprint) Wampler Tweed '57 - like new in original box TC Electronics Viscous Vibe - like new in box TC Electronics Corona Chorus - think I can also dig up this box MXR phase 100 Cusack Effects Tap-a-Whirl Tremolo - this one is a little older, but it's a great tremolo pedal. Electro Harmonix Talking Machine - like new in box Zvex fuzz factory Teletronix Mulholland Drive - bought this on recommendation from Brick at the old website. Most people rave about this boost pedal, but I just never bonded with it. Like new in box.
  3. I'm going to cross-post this to the pedalphile thread, but I'm getting ready to take a haul to the auction sites. Will be more details on that thread, but hit me up if you're interested in saving a little $ on one of these: Wampler Tumnus (small footprint) Wampler Tweed '57 TC Electronics Viscous Vibe TC Electronics Corona Chorus MXR phase 100 Durham Electronics Mucho Busto Cusack Effects Tap-a-Whirl Tremolo Electro Harmonix Talking Machine
  4. That's amazing. Seems like a shoo-in to make it onto this list: https://www.gak.co.uk/blog/expensive-guitars/
  5. Good read. Thanks for posting. Glad you bumped this thread back to the top, so I can add this: Audley Freed is a bad ass.
  6. The fouls that Draymond loses his shit over... 95% of the time, it was a blatant, obvious foul. And then he loses his mind and shows up the refs for the next 2 minutes. And refs let him do it... Every Fucking Time
  7. https://www.custompedalboards.co.uk/gigrig-g2-board/?v=7516fd43adaa
  8. http://shop.westcoastpedalboard.com/Pedalboard-Building-Essentials-s/2681.htm I have a weird mix too, but this was my last purchase.
  9. Maybe the record that had the biggest influence on me as a little kid was The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Sting, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, etc.... mostly doing stripped-down versions of their songs. As a kid, listening to album rock on FM radio, there just wasn't any forum where I heard rock songs presented that way. It made a huge impression on me. I think I wore our two or three cassettes before buying it on CD as an adult.
  10. I should probably revisit that record. Also... Jackson Browne. Hell, yes. Such a musical masterpiece and a snapshot in time.
  11. Thanks. I'm having a lot of fun with it. Probably would have been better to space out my purchases so I can spend a few hours with each pedal.... but it's also took me pretty much a full day to make a bunch of new cables and figure out the layout and power distribution. I'm a huge fan of analogman... I think everything they do is first class. That said, the Thorpy fallout cloud just smokes the sunface, IMO. It has all the aggression, all the growl, all the power of the sunface, yet it has vastly more tone-shaping (EQ) possibilities and somehow it only has a fraction of the hairy and hard-to-control single-coil buzz and hum and noise. It's freaking fantastic. We live in a golden age of pedals. You could make a mind-blowing, all-world pedal board using only Analogman. Or only Strymon. Or Empress. Etc.
  12. Todd Snider's "Near Truths and Hotel Rooms" is a great record. Way better than any single studio record he's made, IMO. His personality comes out a lot more, and the in-between-song stories are entertaining as hell.
  13. I wonder why Steve Smith gets love for being a great drummer. With all their hits that got millions of hours of airplay, I can't think of one memorable drum part, or even one interesting fill (it was all 4-tom 16th notes).
  14. A little over two years ago, I decided to get my pedals organized on a real, live board. Without the pedalboard, I was always looking for a fresh 9V, fumbling with patch cords, wishing I had brought such-and-such with me. Here's where that landed, and I have hardly swapped anything on/off it since I built it: G2 pedal switcher (my board is made with the perfect dimensions to fit the G2 on bottom row) Cali76 compressor SickAs clean boost (Klon clone) Analogman Sun Lion (beano boost + fuzz) Analogman KOT TC electronics chorus MXR phaser Strymon Mobius Strymon Timeline TC electronics reverb My board leaned more to low-gain pedals and modulation. Only high-gain pedal is the analogman. What I didn't love about the board: Having a Mobius makes the TC electronics chorus and MXR phaser mostly redundant. And my board also had two delays. I would use that little micro pedal to do the slap-back thing, and use the Timeline for everything else. Also some redundancy there, since I could easily do those short delays with the timeline, and since I'm never using both delays at once. I wanted to experiment with some new sounds, so I just spent half a day with a soldering iron, zip ties, and all that crap. Biggest constraint is power distribution. I have Walrus Audio Phoenix, which has plenty of 9V slots, but only four of those can be over 100 mA... which limits number of digital pedals. Here's where I landed: Sex Drive made it back on the board. Tough call between that and the SickAs for a clean boost. I'd never sell either one. On the top right is Walrus Audio Luminary, which is a multi-octave POG thing. Does a great B3, which I can then run through a leslie sound on the Mobius + reverb. I can also use it in front of a fuzz as a low-octave thing whenever I'm feeling anti-social. Very fun pedal. Love it. Does everything a POG does... and more.... for a fraction of the footprint. Also lets you save three presets, which is a nice feature for a pedal that has a shit ton of knobs. Bottom left is a ThorpyFX fallout cloud, which is Big Muff-inspired. Sounds fantastic. I think I like it more than the Analogman fuzz, though the Thorpy doesn't do the same clean tone when you roll the guitar volume way back. Also a ThorpyFX Deep Oggin, which is basically a chorus with a few extra controls (blend, vibrato, treble). Still getting my head around what it does. Empress phaser. Empress makes cool shit. I've got their tape delay, and it's amazing. Anyway, this phaser does so many different modes and sounds. The basic phaser sounds are killer, and you can also use it as a filter that works/sounds like an auto-wah. Like the Luminary, the empress phaser lets you save a few presets. Really wanted to take the Timeline off the board and use either the Empress tape delay or my old Novadelay, but I couldn't make the power supplies work out (nova delay uses a 12V high-currency input that my power supply won't do). Hopefully these new sounds will inspire new songs.
  15. The scenes with Alan Arkin are so brilliant.
  16. "Starfish" by The Church. Not necessarily overlooked, as it did have a couple radio tracks ("Under the Milky Way," and "Reptile"), but a band that never made it to the mainstream. Produced by Waddy Wachtel, and it has a bunch of great songs. Dreamy garage rock. Their album-in-entirety tour goes through Texas this week: https://www.thechurchband.net
  17. Yeah, hard to defend the last few minutes of officiating. Draymond drags his nuts across the ref’s face with no consequences, then the officials call a bunch of off-the-ball touch fouls on LA. Absurd.
  18. I am shocked at the histrionics he’s allowed to get away with. Yapping, clapping, screaming, kneeing Beverly several times. Should have been tossed. And the foul that sent him into a tizzy? It was the right call. It wasn’t even close.
  19. Desert island top 10. Easily. Full of brilliant moments. I feel lucky to have seen the anniversary tour for this record in Austin.
  20. I dig the clips, HG. I've had the same pedal board setup for over a year, but I'm about to completely rework it. Putting a couple of old favorites back on, and taking several new ones for a test drive. I've been disproportionately excited about this. I've spent last couple weeks ordering pedals, 1/4" jacks, more instrument cable, velcro, etc., etc. I have the soldering iron ready to fire up when I get home tonight. Should have photos in a few days.
  21. I think I embraced the Del Amitri nods after I started getting Neil Diamond comparisons.
  22. What a fucking great record. Great writing, great songs, fantastic engineering. Reminds me a lot of the Rave Ups -- really smart writing with a wry sense of humor, and another band that wrote great alt country before there was such a thing as alt country.
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