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I am a Dinosaur

#161
Hey Bill -

Putting in my $.02 if you do ever decide to add a pedalboard.

This is my simple setup I use for The Fab 8. Just 3 pedals, including a tuner mounted on a Pedaltrain Nano (which includes a carrying case) and a simple power supply:
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There are a ton of KILLER overdrive, fuzz & distortion pedals out there if you ever choose to add a bit of grit to fatten things up. I chose the Soundblox 2 OFD Micromodeler (after testing multiple pedals,) for a few reasons that you may appreciate:
- It has multiple presets based upon classic pedals (including the 60's Tone Bender, which I use for "Think For Yourself.")
- Easy to use
- You can preset 2 of your favorites to kick in when necessary
- It has a built in noise gate, so it's quiet (this was a MUST for my use)
- It's affordable
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Chris
 
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#163
lfmn16 said:
There already are things people can’t express their opinions about - for good reason. A troll thread is a troll thread regardless of what forum it’s on or the OP’s actual intent.
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Feel free to express this sentiment at the help desk. For now, the moderator consensus is that the rule against stating a preference for playing without effects is in place in the effects forum, but not something that we should try to enforce site wide. In the mean time, if you or any user knows that the subject matter of a thread annoys you, I would suggest not clicking on the thread.
 
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nixdad said:
Hey Bill -

Putting in my $.02 if you do ever decide to add a pedalboard.

This is my simple setup I use for The Fab 8. Just 3 pedals, including a tuner mounted on a Pedaltrain Nano (which includes a carrying case) and a simple power supply:
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There are a ton of KILLER overdrive, fuzz & distortion pedals out there if you ever choose to add a bit of grit to fatten things up. I chose the Soundblox 2 OFD Micromodeler (after testing multiple pedals,) for a few reasons that you may appreciate:
- It has multiple presets based upon classic pedals (including the 60's Tone Bender, which I use for "Think For Yourself.")
- Easy to use
- You can preset 2 of your favorites to kick in when necessary
- It has a built in noise gate, so it's quiet (this was a MUST for my use)
- It's affordable
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Thanks Chris.. You missed all the fun this morning being 3 hrs difference in So Cal. I know you need those boxes your Fab 8 Beatles tunes... One that immediately comes to mind would be "Run for your Life Little Girl". I think that's the name, Do you do that one? I received quite an education this morning with everyone chiming in with their stomp boxes, might make a user out of me. ;)
 
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ficelles said:
That’s an odd phrase... it’s like signing a troll agreement for a minimum term with penalty clauses.

Anyway Freddy isn’t a troll, he’s a kat.
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A Kool Kat if you don't mind :rolleyes::whistle:.....

Thanks to all for the support and declarations of my non trollyness....

Think thats enough now though....I'm starting to get a little embarrassed....

(Where's the blushing emoji when you need it?).....:)
 
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dbase said:
Thanks Chris.. You missed all the fun this morning being 3 hrs difference in So Cal. I know you need those boxes your Fab 8 Beatles tunes... One that immediately comes to mind would be "Run for your Life Little Girl". I think that's the name, Do you do that one? I received quite an education this morning with everyone chiming in with their stomp boxes, might make a user out of me. ;)
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Hey Bill -
I'm all for keeping it simple, and only use pedals sparingly.
"Run For Your Life" is not currently on the setlist, but who knows in the future. "Think For Yourself" definitely requires a fuzz, and I use the Mooer Tender Octaver (an octave up, mixed with lots of dry bass signal) for the chorus of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" to mimic the guitar doubling of the bass part. Everything else I play dry at this time.

My son Nick, is a different beast altogether. He's a pedal junkie, and knows how to use them well.
 
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BC Blackmur said:
Or I could go the other route and just do this
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I could step on any six at a time and really get creative:bassist:
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Nooooo - you have to organize them by color! what are you, one of those people that puts the crayons just anywhere in the box???

If two or more are the same color, first, why? & second, start organizing by number of knobs.
 
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#172
I use three,

Clutch, brake, & gas. Without them it's hard to play the Lidl more than 1/4 mile from the house. The bass won't fit inside the automatic with only two and I don't like tossing it in the back bed. So far the Yamaha/Peavey has been purely for my own amusement, but it eventually lead me to the Lidl and playing with other folks, so it's all good. I tune with an app on a phone, because the phone is cheap and I already own it, and I'm cheap, but I've been known to look at the fancy-pants clip on tuners with desire. They'd be less likely to fall off the bridge If I forgot about them.
 
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Huh - nobody seems to put their vast array of pedals into a circle to make them more accessible and define your space - think Rick Wakeman keyboard setups, but at foot level. Color coordinated, of course, perhaps with color coordinated LED lighting to boot - or Bootsy. Of course, it might also impede your escape, if escape be needed.

Bootsy's would be in a star, I suppose, not a circle.
 
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#178
: I'm oooooold! And I'm not happy! And I don't like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress -- phooey! In my day, we didn't have these cash machines that would give you money when you needed it. There was only one bank in each state -- it was open only one hour a year. And you'd get in line, seventeen miles long, and the line became an angry mob of people -- fornicators and thieves, mutant children and circus freaks -- and you waited for years and by the time you got to the teller, you were senile and arthritic and you couldn't remember your own name. You were born, got in line, and ya died! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Life was simpler then. There wasn't all this concern about hy-giene! It my days, we didn't have Kleenex. When you turned seventeen, you were given the family handkerchief. ... It hadn't been washed in generations and it stood on its own ... filled with diseases and swarmin' with flies. ... If you tried to blow your nose, you'd get an infection and your head would swell up and turn green and children would burst into tears at the sight o' ya! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Life was a carnival! We entertained ourselves! We didn't need moooovin' pitchurrrres. In my day, there was only one show in town -- it was called "Stare at the sun!" ... That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun till your eyeballs burst into flames! And you thought, "Oh, no! Maybe I shouldn't've stared directly into the burning sun with my eyes wide open." But it was too late! Your head was on fire and people were roastin' chickens over it. ... And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Progress?! Flobble-de-flee! In my day, when we were angry and frustrated, we just said, "Flobble-de-flee!" 'cause we were idiots and we didn't know what else to say! Just a bunch o' illiterate Cro-Magnons, blowin' on crusty handkerchiefs, waitin' in lines for our head to burst into flame and that's the way it was and we liked it!
 
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mellowinman said:
: I'm oooooold! And I'm not happy! And I don't like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress -- phooey! In my day, we didn't have these cash machines that would give you money when you needed it. There was only one bank in each state -- it was open only one hour a year. And you'd get in line, seventeen miles long, and the line became an angry mob of people -- fornicators and thieves, mutant children and circus freaks -- and you waited for years and by the time you got to the teller, you were senile and arthritic and you couldn't remember your own name. You were born, got in line, and ya died! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Life was simpler then. There wasn't all this concern about hy-giene! It my days, we didn't have Kleenex. When you turned seventeen, you were given the family handkerchief. ... It hadn't been washed in generations and it stood on its own ... filled with diseases and swarmin' with flies. ... If you tried to blow your nose, you'd get an infection and your head would swell up and turn green and children would burst into tears at the sight o' ya! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Life was a carnival! We entertained ourselves! We didn't need moooovin' pitchurrrres. In my day, there was only one show in town -- it was called "Stare at the sun!" ... That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun till your eyeballs burst into flames! And you thought, "Oh, no! Maybe I shouldn't've stared directly into the burning sun with my eyes wide open." But it was too late! Your head was on fire and people were roastin' chickens over it. ... And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Progress?! Flobble-de-flee! In my day, when we were angry and frustrated, we just said, "Flobble-de-flee!" 'cause we were idiots and we didn't know what else to say! Just a bunch o' illiterate Cro-Magnons, blowin' on crusty handkerchiefs, waitin' in lines for our head to burst into flame and that's the way it was and we liked it!
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Take a deeeep breath man.....You'll be fine...:D
 
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mellowinman said:
: I'm oooooold! And I'm not happy! And I don't like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress -- phooey! In my day, we didn't have these cash machines that would give you money when you needed it. There was only one bank in each state -- it was open only one hour a year. And you'd get in line, seventeen miles long, and the line became an angry mob of people -- fornicators and thieves, mutant children and circus freaks -- and you waited for years and by the time you got to the teller, you were senile and arthritic and you couldn't remember your own name. You were born, got in line, and ya died! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Life was simpler then. There wasn't all this concern about hy-giene! It my days, we didn't have Kleenex. When you turned seventeen, you were given the family handkerchief. ... It hadn't been washed in generations and it stood on its own ... filled with diseases and swarmin' with flies. ... If you tried to blow your nose, you'd get an infection and your head would swell up and turn green and children would burst into tears at the sight o' ya! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Life was a carnival! We entertained ourselves! We didn't need moooovin' pitchurrrres. In my day, there was only one show in town -- it was called "Stare at the sun!" ... That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun till your eyeballs burst into flames! And you thought, "Oh, no! Maybe I shouldn't've stared directly into the burning sun with my eyes wide open." But it was too late! Your head was on fire and people were roastin' chickens over it. ... And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Progress?! Flobble-de-flee! In my day, when we were angry and frustrated, we just said, "Flobble-de-flee!" 'cause we were idiots and we didn't know what else to say! Just a bunch o' illiterate Cro-Magnons, blowin' on crusty handkerchiefs, waitin' in lines for our head to burst into flame and that's the way it was and we liked it!
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