I'm always in awe of how awesome your pedals look and I've only heard good things about them. One day I hope to get one in my hands and on my pedalboard.
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The Pedals Photogenic
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I'm always in awe of how awesome your pedals look and I've only heard good things about them. One day I hope to get one in my hands and on my pedalboard.
Empress pedals tend to be lookers. Simple enough, but damn pretty.
Leqtique 10/10 (2017)
Higher gain than the 9/9 and voiced differently (overall more open, and with no midrange adjustment). Rich harmonics. Spitting, clanging treble if you want it. This photo doesn't show how tall the pedal is. It's an interesting shape.
Don't be fooled by its petite, elegant looks: 10/10 is a hard and mean metal machine.
Higher gain than the 9/9 and voiced differently (overall more open, and with no midrange adjustment). Rich harmonics. Spitting, clanging treble if you want it. This photo doesn't show how tall the pedal is. It's an interesting shape.
Don't be fooled by its petite, elegant looks: 10/10 is a hard and mean metal machine.
my first pedal ever.
Oh, and I still have the box.
Paul Trombetta Designs Mini-Bone V2
With its simple finish, this example isn't much to see (at least as I captured it). In this image I added the LED luminescence. I thought this was worth posting here since these PTD pedals are excellent and pretty rare.
It might not be much to see, but it is something to hear. What a range. At one corner of that range are the "bone" sounds (like trombone). Trombetta took this fuzz circuit behavior, found in some of the earliest fuzz pedals, and perfected it in his Bone pedal models. The Mini-Bone is the smallest of those.
The knobs are Volume, Gain, Bore, and Mode. The toggle switches are 3-way EQ center frequency and 2-way voltage range. All the controls tend to be interactive, yielding a wide range among fuzzes, various dirt and slight saturation, and the bone sounds. That last part includes selectable and semi-stable octave down, fourth down, and two octaves down.
With its simple finish, this example isn't much to see (at least as I captured it). In this image I added the LED luminescence. I thought this was worth posting here since these PTD pedals are excellent and pretty rare.
It might not be much to see, but it is something to hear. What a range. At one corner of that range are the "bone" sounds (like trombone). Trombetta took this fuzz circuit behavior, found in some of the earliest fuzz pedals, and perfected it in his Bone pedal models. The Mini-Bone is the smallest of those.
The knobs are Volume, Gain, Bore, and Mode. The toggle switches are 3-way EQ center frequency and 2-way voltage range. All the controls tend to be interactive, yielding a wide range among fuzzes, various dirt and slight saturation, and the bone sounds. That last part includes selectable and semi-stable octave down, fourth down, and two octaves down.
Leqtique Beryl
This one is a guitar pedal for sure. Beautiful saturation and compression, but too much low end loss for all-purpose use with bass guitar. In the first image I added the LED luminescence.
Apparently inspired by such pedals as Timmy, nonetheless Beryl ranges from so-called transparent overdrive to somewhat raucous distortion.
This one is a guitar pedal for sure. Beautiful saturation and compression, but too much low end loss for all-purpose use with bass guitar. In the first image I added the LED luminescence.
Apparently inspired by such pedals as Timmy, nonetheless Beryl ranges from so-called transparent overdrive to somewhat raucous distortion.
Lovepedal Mk12 Chrome Bender and Les Lius
Silver and gold...
The Mk12 Chrome Bender I traded away several years ago.
I recall Les Lius in particular (and Lovepedal generally) being a favorite object of derision of self-appointed guitar pedal cognoscenti cliques online in years past.
But recently when I met a New York/L.A. session guitarist at my friend's music store, and we talked extensively (and ended up doing a long 'amp and pedal sound design' session in the store, with a modern AC30 and pedals including my Mini-Bone V2), he mentioned that his collection of Lovepedal COT 50 were among his go-to session tools.
There is something special about the best of Lovepedal. I own two Les Lius, since I like it so well with bass guitar and it is a rare pedal. What is it, really? A simple PCB interpretation of an existing circuit. But it sounds great; and in use it has a specialness that makes it distinctive in the pedal universe.
Silver and gold...
The Mk12 Chrome Bender I traded away several years ago.
I recall Les Lius in particular (and Lovepedal generally) being a favorite object of derision of self-appointed guitar pedal cognoscenti cliques online in years past.
But recently when I met a New York/L.A. session guitarist at my friend's music store, and we talked extensively (and ended up doing a long 'amp and pedal sound design' session in the store, with a modern AC30 and pedals including my Mini-Bone V2), he mentioned that his collection of Lovepedal COT 50 were among his go-to session tools.
There is something special about the best of Lovepedal. I own two Les Lius, since I like it so well with bass guitar and it is a rare pedal. What is it, really? A simple PCB interpretation of an existing circuit. But it sounds great; and in use it has a specialness that makes it distinctive in the pedal universe.
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Aguilar TLC Compressor 25th Anniversary Edition
Yeah, yeah... special editions. It's not my thing either. And I don't have a nostalgia gene.
However, ten years ago I owned a TLC Compressor and liked its sound and feel. To my hearing it did have a sweet sound. (Though some say it is simply transparent, maybe that is its sound.) I was among those who experienced their TLC Compressor distorting when played with an active bass sometimes, so I sold it back then.
Fast forward to recent events, and I became interested in owning a pre-acquisition example of this pedal. That plus my preference for the Aguilar silver and black graphics, then discovery that the anniversary edition pedals were a limited run, led me to nab one of the last unsold ones.
Yeah, yeah... special editions. It's not my thing either. And I don't have a nostalgia gene.
However, ten years ago I owned a TLC Compressor and liked its sound and feel. To my hearing it did have a sweet sound. (Though some say it is simply transparent, maybe that is its sound.) I was among those who experienced their TLC Compressor distorting when played with an active bass sometimes, so I sold it back then.
Fast forward to recent events, and I became interested in owning a pre-acquisition example of this pedal. That plus my preference for the Aguilar silver and black graphics, then discovery that the anniversary edition pedals were a limited run, led me to nab one of the last unsold ones.
