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2019 Trends in the pedal world
- Thread starter Laurent
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My pedalboard has never been more simple. Noble DI, compressor and tuner. I also have a HX Stomp, but it’s really overkill and gives me cool sounds that I’ll never, ever use outside of my home. Royal Blood patch? Sure. That’s fun, but hardly useful.
Gotta go with the LPF/HPF trend. I’ve had mine for years and love it. Besides that, I just see saturation and options. Too much for me to keep track of, that’s for sure. LOTS of clones of all sorts of pedals, but that’s nothing new.
To the extent I have any tendencies of a hoarder, they go toward music gear (and CD's and DVD's).
I "hoard" pedals because I buy sompin' I like, get a cuppla variations away, and then miss the first.
Do I need counseling?
I "hoard" pedals because I buy sompin' I like, get a cuppla variations away, and then miss the first.
Do I need counseling?
That's probably the biggest one. It didn't start this year but it really picked up steam this year.
They've been doing that off and on forever, but with their own twists, usually.
The field definitely got super crowded this year and last, but when you want something and find out that only a boutique maker can do it, it gets quite special as far as I'm concerned.
More high quality pedals to choose from than ever before. But it seems boards are getting smaller and more targeted. Just don’t see many cats, especially bassists, rocking the PT Pro any more.
... And Zod said, Let there be HPFs and LPFs. And there was HPFs and LPFs...
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After using the HPF on my LiveTrak L-20 board at home and then last night playing through someone else's PA through an antiquated board with no HPF and going ampless / cab-less with some "farting" issues through their speakers, yeah an HPF pedal is a must for certain situations.
After cutting out all of my presence, drive, and some of the gain, and then some of the bass on my Sansamp Bass Driver DI I finally got the "farting" to quit but at the expense of volume across the whole frequency spectrum of my bass. An HPF probably would have helped me to keep the volume up some on the mid range and high freqs by dropping the db levels on on the lower freqs.
Had I been playing through my board(L-20), or my GK gear, this would have never been an issue. But I'm starting to play out more without dragging out my GK gear and my L-20 board is for my home studio recording use and my band. I'm not dragging out a $1000 board to someone else's event just to have an HPF in my signal chain, so I just ordered a Broughton HPF, problem solved.
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Would love some concrete examples of that. Not arguing with you, I just would like a sense of what I am missing, as I have been on a pedal light diet for the last few years.
Oh, it makes awesome coffee! But I’ve been trying to teach mine to mow the lawn but it says I need a midi controller for that.
i am agree about point 3,..and yes darkglass has higher price,...and dont forget ebs is their competitor,..and by the way ,....people nowaday finding the tone they want,...between darkglass and ampeg,..i still pick ampeg...not because cheaper or quality.,...but the tone is basically different
Well, here in Brazil there's no pedal trend of any kind. Everything cost an arm and a leg (it's depressing to compare the brazilian prices with the original ones) and a lot of pedals never appear here anyway. In other words, you just buy what you can find. That's life.
Not OP, but I think a “classic” example of this would be something like the Count to 5. The fact that it’s a boutique pedal isn’t particularly special since a lot of companies exist in that model at this point, but definitely informs why it’s a pedal that people talk about and have interest in.
-made mostly in small batches, so limited availability (great for hype)
-does relatively unique effects, especially for when it first came out (time-stretching/reverse, pitch-shifting, unique looper modes)
-and since the pedal is made by a small company, it can afford to be a little inaccessible and kind of tough to control. For a big company banking on larger numbers, that could be a problem. And plenty of people don’t like that about the Ct5, but also a large number (one big enough to sustain interest in the pedal over the course of years at this point) find its idiosyncrasies appealing
So I see “boutique” as having become less interesting since there are so many people doing it (which is cool and I’m into it, but all the cult dirt pedals can blur together)
But it’s also more interesting because it’s shown that it can potentially work out as a business model, so people like the folks behind Chase Bliss, Meris, Mantic, Red Panda, etc. use the low quantity/high price model to do unique and interesting things
If the PA was "farting" the FOH tech was sleeping on the job. It's standard procedure to put a low cut on just about everything as a "default" setting during soundcheck to prevent such situations.
Not saying the hpf and lpf filters are not useful tools, they clearly are. It's just new that they are now on our pedal boards.
And there was much rejoicing.... And Zod said, Let there be HPFs and LPFs. And there was HPFs and LPFs...
