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44 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

I have had power supplies not deliver enough milliamps to run certain pedals before.

+1 on Cioks. Those are good units.

You can run analog pedals off a One-Spot daisy chain all day long.  But digital pedals are thirsty and picky.  

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You can run analog pedals off a One-Spot daisy chain all day long.  But digital pedals are thirsty and picky.  

True. But interestingly to me anyway the one spot delivers better milliamps than some cheap power supplies I’ve had in the past (Donner).
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18 hours ago, tbone_ said:


True. But interestingly to me anyway the one spot delivers better milliamps than some cheap power supplies I’ve had in the past (Donner).

I sold my PedalPower 2 and went with a $30 OneSpot since I was going with Nano boards.  It's been great except when I've tried to run the Topanga Reverb off of it.  It will power it, but I get a pop from the switch unless I run it on its own power supply.  

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I added one of these Jackson Audio Bloom compressors about a week ago, and I really, really, really dig it.  Its kind of a combination compressor. booster/sustainer and 3 band EQ.  You can activate any combination of the 3 with the 2 footswitches.  The compressor has different modes for different styles like chickin pickin, funk, slide, etc... This defines some unadjustable compression settings like attack and decay, then you have knobs to control the amount of compression and the blend of your dry signal.  The bloom knob & switch is the booster/sustainer and you can change how it fades in to your signal.  I haven't used the EQ yet, but I could see using it to offset differences between guitars while keeping an amp dialed in.  Finally, its quiet as fuck and so usable in a recording context.  I have a strong feeling this is going to be one of those always on pedals.

 

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Look at LR Baggs. I have the Venue and love it but it’s not small. I’ve heard good things about the Para and the Session as well and they are smaller.

All the dudes on Acoustic Guitar Forums swear by the Alix by Grace Designs as the holy grail. It’s a pedal though not really small and it’s $800. But apparently it’s the shizzle.

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46 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Look at LR Baggs. I have the Venue and love it but it’s not small. I’ve heard good things about the Para and the Session as well and they are smaller.

All the dudes on Acoustic Guitar Forums swear by the Alix by Grace Designs as the holy grail. It’s a pedal though not really small and it’s $800. But apparently it’s the shizzle.

Thanks, a used Para might work at my price point.  I've got an acoustic gig set up for Friday's Memorial Day through Labor Day, so putting together a minimal pedalboard for it, with Pigtronix Infinity 3 looper, a TC Helicon Mic Mechanic and some pre-amp pedal.  Not much room for additional stuff, so ideally the preamp would have a reverb knob but I could perhaps add a mini reverb pedal if the preamp were small enough.

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The Nux Optima Air has the perfect feature set for me at a pretty cheap price, but I am not sure its worth a shit.

 

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18 hours ago, hullabelew said:

Suggestions on loopers. I have a ditto. Need more but don't want to spend a ton of time learning.

I've heard a lot of good things about the loop station.

I'm looking to buy a DigiTech Trio+ in the near future. It's a looper and more. 

You play a chord progression into it for four or eight bars, it learns your rhythm and your chord progression and gives you a backing bass and drum track.

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21 hours ago, hullabelew said:

Suggestions on loopers. I have a ditto. Need more but don't want to spend a ton of time learning.

This is what I use in my solo performances.  It's definitely a step up in price and complexity/learning curve, but its great if you want something to make more complex music solo with a guitar.  You might could get one used for $225 or so.  Its got everything I want and nothing I don't in about as small a form factor as I can imagine for its feature set.  The things it does that I really like:

  • 2 separate loops/tracks
  • operate the loops/tracks in parallel -- they can be layered on top of each other and made to fade in and out which is great for ambient type stuff
  • operate the loops/tracks in serial -- you can record a verse progression on loop 1 and a chorus progression on loop 2 and switch back and forth in a live performance
  • fade out your loops which I use a lot live
  • stereo or mono
  • extremely low latency
  • studio quality sound
  • midi clock sync
  • clipping indicator to know when you are pushing it too much

I like this better than the Boomerang3 (too big, no real midi sync) and the aeros loop studio (too expensive and complex with features I couldn't work into a live performance).  If it seems too complicated from the video above, I might look at the Infinity 2, which is scaled down, cheaper and has a few less features and also less complexity.  Its about half the price of the 3.

 

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