Yeah me too. Those multi-band distortions look super cool but maybe a bit too complicated for my tastes.
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Iron Ether Subterranea
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See, I'll buy a really big pedal. I just don't like overly complicated ones. Too many knobs to twiddle is a bad thing.
Guess I have to thank Mosfed for not grabbing the oxide on Sunday. I feel your frustration as I've missed numerous times to purchase the Subt and oxide due to the time differences they were put on sale. If not mistaken, I waited about 3 months just to buy by first IE pedal (oxide).
Anyway, thanks to many fellow TBers here updating us newly listed IE pedal for sale. Keep it up guys!
I appreciate all the knobs WAY after I have gotten to know a pedal. Like for example, I wish the Darkglass Duality had a tone knob, or at least the ability to boost the mids a bit. But when I first start out, too many knobs and too much versatility just scares me.
Also bear in mind that as more and more are released into the wild, they will pop up in the classifieds and hopefully the used price will drop a bit.
that's my main gripe about my Swollen Pickle. Well, that there are knobs inside of it. I'll keep it based only on the fact that my platoon's motto was "I'm a pickle!" When I was in Afghanistan. I am a Pickle. I need to play my Pickle.
I'm fairly confident that IE pedals are going to become those crazy sought after vintage effects in like 20 years.
It went in and out of my cart twice before I bailed in an infantile strump....
I am happy it went to another Tb'er!
And now I feel like a sucker.
I don't know dude - I was thinking about this recently with respect to the Mu-Tron reissues. When you think about the crazy vintage effects that get just stupid stupid prices on the vintage market (ie the Mu-Tron III, the original Tonebenders or Fuzz Faces, the original Muffs, the original Vox wahs, the Klon, etc) it is usually because of rarity and because there were very little alternatives to the real thing. Until recently (say 10 years), if you wanted the Mu-Tron sound, you had to buy a Mu-Tron. Nowadays there seem to be so many alternatives that I don't think the same formula applies.
Other than the truly original vintage pedals that I have - like the Mu-Tron III or an original MXR script Distortion+ or an original MXR Script Phase 90, I don't think I will ever be offered more than I paid for any pedals I own.
["Somnambulance, post: 16514326, member: 264129"]See, I'll buy a really big pedal. I just don't like overly complicated ones. Too many knobs to twiddle is a bad thing.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes I look at my board and only see a whole bunch of knobs, switches, and toggles that are just waiting to screw up my sound.
Sometimes I look at my board and only see a whole bunch of knobs, switches, and toggles that are just waiting to screw up my sound.
My Frantabit cleared customs!!! Should have it in the next 1-2 days.
Just got my SUB-T (it took three weeks to get to me!), but i am loving this thing. i do feel like it does a pretty good OC-2 impersanation and i think i have figured out where to put it in my chain. lots of fun to be had a band practice. paired with my xero deluxe it almost makes my Markbass super synth redundant... almost.
Its kinda why i wish IE could produce a subT & Xero hybrid pedal with presets, it would make amazing synth pedal.
Yeah that is definetly the major plus with the MB super synth is saving presets. But the more i play the Sub-T the more i love the sound of it, and all the different tones and combinations that are available. here is a pic of the Sub-T on my board at the moment. im still figuring out wiring but you get the idea.
Almost blew up my amp going Density hulk into Subt lmao. At first play I didn't like it but ten minutes later it's growing on me since I've found a few sweet spots in the filter knob.
