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Post Your Pedalboard - Part I

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conical johnson said:
Both. The 2880 is very cool. What it has over the Echoplex is the ability to pitch up or down the loop, oversomething like 4 octaves, in semitone steps; and the multiple layer thing, which is more useful to me than being able to have 16 separate loops that can be played simultaneously, as on the EDP. You can record, for instance, some chords on one track, a bass line on the next, a melody on the next, and some atmosphere on the last. Each of these can be infinitely overdubbed like an echoplex, so you aren't just limited to four sounds at once. Each track has a volume/feedback control (depending on whether you're overdubbing or not) and a pan control. You can mixdown these four tracks to the stereo master track. The thing that got me to buy the 2880 is its ability to do stereo loops (which you would need 2 Echoplexes to accomplish), so I can loop my stereo effects.

What it can't do is the stuttering, glitchy stuff that you can do on an Echoplex (Andre LaFosse exemplifies this). I mean, you can technically, but it's harder because the overdub and punch-in stomps can't be set for momentary, so you have stomp twice for every little grain of sound you want in there. I used to enjoy doing this because it's weird, but I came to the conclusion that it doesn't really produce good music, IMO. It's much simpler to operate than the EDP (no menus), but it has more useful options for me. I would recommend going to the ehx.com website and downloading the manual to get a feel for how it works and whether it can do what you need it to do. If you want a really simple looper, just so you can solo over a bassline or something, there are cheaper loopers out there. But for me, it's great. Plus, if you get a 2gig flash card for it, you could record an entire 6-track album on the thing (with infinite overdubs!). How many loopers can do that?
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thank you!

i think i'll get one.
 
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DarkHarted said:
Looks cool (and colorful!)

Just wondering, but you have 12AX7s in that EM don't ya???
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I figured you'd jump all over the pic of a English Muff'n, DarkHarted ;) Yes, I have 12AX7s in it. I like the tone better with the higher gain tubes and a lower gain setting on the pedal for a nice thick overdrive.

The pedalboard was built by a cabinet-maker friend of mine to my design. It's a 1" deep box with a screw-down, velcro-covered top panel. All the cables and power wires run inside the box and come up through holes (there's a few extra holes from other pedal configurations I've had). I recently added the duplex outlet and power cord which has been a big help for quick set-up and tear-down. The whole thing fits very nicely in a soft case that I got through zZounds.
 
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MEGA RIG OF DOOM: (not that I have an ego or anything... ;) )
Panarama:
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Main Board Closeup:
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NS-2 Loop Board Closeup:
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Looking back, it's been sugessted a couple of times that I just combine all my FX into 1 big board!
 
#2,198
chips said:
any comments on what the red witch phaser is like?

im looking at upgrading my small stone for one.

peace
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Sorry for the delay in responding, gig packed weekend, just looked at this thread after the weekend hiatus.

Very tweakable, as are most of Ben's pedals, very full and lush sounding as well. There are actually six presets under the "Cosmology" knob, the first setting is useless on bass as it, by design, thins out the sound but the rest of them all work great with bass.
The feature that many will find odd is it is actually a tremo-phase pedal and utilizes either or, and both combinations in the cosmology control.
I would have to go find my users sheet to remember what each stting is identified as but it goes someting like this: Controls:
Three rotary controls allow the user to dial up infinite phase possibilities.
The three controls are labelled:
Velocity - determines the rate of the phase/ tremolo sweep - from an incredibly slow rise and fall to a super fast pulse.
Trajectory - A unique control which adjusts the shape of the phased wave.
Cosmology - a six position rotary switch which selects the phase, tremolo or tremo- phase stage.

All in all just a unique sound with enough variations to constantly keep the sound fresh when trying new ideas.
 
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