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This morning I saw EHX mention a demo video of their Electro-Harmonix Micro POG by JJ. This is the second video I’ve seen by JJ demo’ing pedals, and I have to say he does a great job of both demonstrating what the pedal can do as well as explaining the controls and techniques in a very simple way. The POG is a great pedal, I actually own a POG2, and one can totally get lost creating some interesting sounds with it. The Micro POG is the POG2 but scaled down. Having only 3 knobs makes options quicker and easier to get to. JJ also uses some EHX Cathedral Stereo Reverb which works well with the POG.

Here is the demo video by JJ (janjaaptanis):

If you’re interested in the Electro-Harmonix Micro POG, I found a nice deal at Amazon. Currently, you can pick up the EHX Micro POG for $212.74 at Amazon, but it comes with a few bonus items (I’m a fan of the bundle). With this purchases you get 2 6″ Patch Cables, 2 10′ Instrument Cables and 2 18.6′ Instrument Cables. So a total of 6 cables!

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I love my state of Montana, and I love it when guys from this state make some noise. Reggie Watts is one of those artists that is doing some great things and as a fellow Montanan, I’m super proud of his accomplishments! If you have not heard of Reggie Watts… um, you need to check him out, like now.

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Reggie is known for using various loops to create some amazing performances. I remember seeing him use Line 6 DL4s for a while, then he moved on to a EHX 2880 looper, but this morning I saw a fantastic demo by him on the new Electro-Harmonix 45000 Multi-Track. This really shows what the unit is all about, and obviously, some outrageous things could be achieved with guitar/bass/keys as well.

Here is the official description of the EHX 45000 Multi-Track Looper:

Building on EHX’s looper legacy, the 45000 combines the familiar controls of a multi-track digital recorder with state-of-the-art features making it possible to create complex multi-track loops quickly and easily. Each loop has four mono tracks and one stereo mixdown track. The 45000 records non-compressed, 44.1kHz/16-bit CD quality audio direct to a removable SDHC card (4 to 32GB). Each card holds up to 100 individual loops accessed with the optional 45000 Foot Controller (sold separately). Loop speed is adjustable over a two octave range, and reverse recording and playback are also possible. For extra convenience, a built-in metronome to a separate Monitor Out and a Headphone Out are also included.

The EHX 45000 Multi-Track Looper is available for $476.21 at Amazon.com

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Today’s pedal line is from Panos Sakkos. If you have a pedal line (doesn’t have to be in a board) for your rig, please email me a photo, bio, description of pedals and routing to pedallineeffectsbaycom. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

Hi!

My name is Panos Sakkos, I am 23 years old and composing mostly blues rock stuff

This is my current line up, which consists of

tc electronic polytune -> mxr amp (for boost whenever I need it) -> mxr 10 band eq (with mid boost always on) -> Big Muff Pi (12 o’clock settings) -> ehx nano holy grail (at 12-ish) -> whammy 5 (2 octaves up or 1 down), all powered by the mxr dc brick.
The Whammy 5 is controlled with the one trick pony cycle path 05 and my Fender Super Champ x2 controlled with its footswitch. The effect that I use on the SCx2 is the slapback delay

Cheers!
Panos

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This last weekend, flipping through channels, I hit Austin City Limits. ACL is great. Sometimes hit and miss based on musicians I like, etc. But this Saturday, I changed to it and immediately recognized the band… or specifically the individual. We’re talking Bob Mould!

I remember being a Junior in High School listening to Husker Du. Can’t remember which album (doesn’t matter.. they’re all great). I remember it was on vinyl and one of my older friends ‘educating’ me on some music. Great education. But it was years later, when Bob blew my mind. It was the early 90s and I was super into his solo stuff. Black Sheets of Rain and Workbook on cassette. I remember Workbook was completely worn. You couldn’t read any writing on the tape. Was constantly rolling in my car in those days. His lyrics and capture of ‘mood’ was stellar and really hit the spot for me. Not too long after Sugar came out. Going back to some heavier, louder stuff again hit the spot for me. Sadly, I stopped listening to Mould after Copper Blue. I have no idea why.

Occasionally, I would hear a song or two on the radio or at friends, and every time, it made me think of good times. I really enjoy his music, and damn it, it’s time to re-explore. I was super stoked to see him on ACL.

Just like when Arcade Fire played on ACL, their blog showed their gear, and I was very stoked to see the pedals that Bob was using for that performance! Please check out Austin City Limit’s blog (I personally love following this blog).

photo taken by Kevin Chochran

So we’re talking the following for pedals:

Aphex Punch Factory (older style)
Electro-Harmonix Freeze
TC Electronic Flashback Delay
MXR M104 Distortion+
Boss TU-2 Tuner (Possible TU-3)
Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
Voodoo Lab ISO5 Power

Here is the Bob Mould performance. Give it a watch!

Watch Bob Mould / Delta Spirit on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.

So what do you think of Bob Mould? Husker Du? Solo stuff? Sugar? Comment below!

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This morning I’m in a music haze. Spent all weekend recording 3 songs for an upcoming 7″ vinyl. It’s always been a dream of mine to have something on vinyl, and my head is still in the clouds thinking about it. The weekend’s tracking is what I like as well – live style. The whole band in the same room (amps faced away and everything close mic’d). Amps facing away. No scratch tracks and vocals were the only thing record after the fact. Stuff sounded real – mistakes, bleed, tempo changes. Love it. When I listen to it, I feel like it’s alive and not sterile. Granted, having a kick-ass studio recording as perfect as one can get is important as well, but capturing like has it’s charm as well!

Anyway, this morning I was searching about things to talk about. Of course there is epic NAMM discussions, but for whatever reason, this video caught my attention. I’ll talk about NAMM stuff when I’m little more focused. So, I wanted to talk about Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi. I’ve had several discussions with bass players recently about dirt on their bass tone. I’m a huge fan of the Russian Big Muff Pi on bass. I’ve also very interested in the ZVex Basstortion as well, but this guy seems like a strong contender.

Here is the video by EHX:

Here is the official description on the Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi:

The new Deluxe Bass Big Muff is the latest in the line of EHX bass specific effects. It delivers enhancements to the classic Bass Big Muff Pi that are specifically tailored to the needs of the modern bass player and gives you more tone shaping options than ever before.

As you can hear, there is some great control and options here. You can pick up the Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi for $118.46 at Amazon.

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Today’s pedal line is from Alvaro Martín Gómez Acevedo. If you have a pedal line (doesn’t have to be in a board) for your rig, please email me a photo, bio, description of pedals and routing to pedallineeffectsbaycom. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

Hi. I’m a veteran bass player (26-year experience so far) from Bucaramanga, Colombia, South America, who just recently got bitten by the effects bug. Although several years ago I bought a Zoom multi-effects unit, I stopped using it just because most of its effect sounds were too “toyish” for me.

But around one year ago, I started reading so many rave reviews about the Microtubes B3K bass distortion/overdrive pedal from Darkglass electronics and, since I’ve always liked distortion, I decided to give it a try. So I ordered mine and when I received it, I simply couldn’t believe my ears. I mean, what a big difference compared to the Zoom distortions! The B3K is a REAL pedal.

After that experience, the “problem” was, I WANTED MORE PEDALS! So I started my research taking my favorite effects (not brands, just effect types) as an starting point. After LOTS of reading and deciding what I wanted, the final result is the one in the attached pictures. My friends at the TalkBass forums dubbed it “the USS Bad Muther F%$&er”. At least from the current offer in the market, I don’t want anything else regarding pedals.

So, here’s what I got:

- Loooper ABCD

- TC Electronic PolyTune

- Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro Synth
Love this one. A very versatile and great-sounding analog unit. The bass part from Van Halen’s “1984″ (yes, the synth prelude to “Jump”) sounds very convincing.

- MXR M82 Bass Envelope Filter

- Wilson 12-position vintage spec bass Q-wah

- MXR M87 Bass Compressor
One of the very few ones that has a detailed LED metering, which is a great visual aid for those of us not so experienced with compressors.

- Darkglass Microtubes B3K Bass distortion/overdrive
The one that started the fever. A great distortion/overdrive pedal for bass guitar.

- HardWire SP-7 Stereo Phaser

- DigiTech Whammy DT

- Copilot FX Planetoid Ring Modulator
Just for funny noises, actually. I must admit that I liked the Ringtone from ZVex demos more, but it’s way overpriced! The Planetoid is also great, anyway.

- Strymon TimeLine delay unit
This is a truly awesome delay/looper unit. Perhaps overkill for my needs, but its endless possibilities make it a worthwhile addition to any pedalboard.

- BSS Audio AR-133 Active DI Box

- Buzz Electronics Programmable Octo Looper
Everybody talks about Carl Martin’s Octa-Switch, which is undoubtedly a great unit, but this one is another terrific (and cheaper) product.

- PedalTrain Pro pedalboard

All of the above powered by three adapters: One Visual Sound 1-spot, the adapter that came with the DigiTech Whammy DT and the adapter from the EHX Bass Micro Synth. All of them plugged to a power strip tied to the bottom of the pedalboard (picture included). Neutrik plugs and Belden cable were used for connections.

And here’s an explanation of the effects path:

The Buzz Electronics Programmable 8 Looper is the “layout headquarters”. It has eight effect loops, an independent tuner out, a switchable internal buffer and two channels. Channel one covers loops 1 to 3 and channel 2 covers loops 4 to 8. Of course, each channel has its own In/Out jacks. The PolyTune is hooked to the independent tuner out.

The signal path starts on the Loooper ABCD, which is actually a box that can send one signal to several amplifiers, but it also can be used in reverse, as in my case: I use it to keep up to four basses plugged using the 1- 2 – 3 – 4 jacks and switch between them. So, the “In” jack actually works as “Out” in my setup. That signal from the ABCD box goes to the 8-Loop’s channel 1 in. The layout on channel 1 loops (1 to 3) is like this:

- No effect plugged to loop 1. I use it for different effects combinations.
- EHX Bass Micro Synth plugged to loop 2.
- MXR Bass Envelope Filter plugged to loop 3.

Then, channel 1 out goes to the Wilson Q-wah in, which means it isn’t included among the possible loop combinations. The wah’s out jack goes to the MXR compressor in, which is also out of the loop combinations, and is always on. Compressor’s output goes to the 8-Loop’s channel 2 in. Here’s the layout for channel 2 loops (4 to 8):

- Darkglass B3K assigned to loop 4.
- HardWire phaser assigned to loop 5.
- DigiTech whammy DT assigned to loop 6.
- Copilot Planetoid assigned to loop 7.
- Strymon TimeLine assigned to loop 8.

Next step in chain is the 8-Loop’s channel 2 out, which goes to the AR-133 DI Box input jack. From there, the signal goes to the FOH console through the balanced 3-pin XLR output and to the bass amp through the “Link” 1/4″ jack.

With the 8-Loop it’s pretty easy to combine the effect loops in any imaginable way. Most of the times I have each effect assigned to its own loop switch and use loop 1 to create combinations, but I can use all the eight switches to combine effects if I want to.

This is my YouTube channel, in which you can hear some of my effects in action:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Alvabass

Direct links to effect-related videos from my channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSB_-ZxTDXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7r8jGLgzS8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbrVEp09ZZo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek24AnCexYc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbsk0NXnffE

Thanks for reading!
Regards,

Álvaro Martín Gómez Acevedo
Bucaramanga, Colombia, South America.

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My favorite channel on YouTube to follow is Premier Guitar. They’re down at NAMM ’13 and hit the Roland/Boss booth to talk about a couple of new pedals that Boss is releasing this year. These pedals are the Boss TE-2 (Tera Echo), Boss MO-2 (Multi Overtone) and Boss DA-2 (Adapative Distortion). These new pedals use MDP, which is Multi Dimensional Processing. Basically, they’re using high powered DSP (Digital Signal Processors) to analyze and effect the signal. These pedals are responsive and touch sensitive, etc.

The evolution of pedals over the last years have been really interesting. From true analog circuits, to rack mount digital processors, to on-the-floor multi-digital processors, a resurgence of analog effects, but recently, I’ve been really liking some of the single pedals that have a feel of analog (stompbox) but use high end DSP. Strymon immediately comes to mind. So it’s not surprising to see that Boss is getting into this level of pedal design as well.

Boss TE-2 Tera Echo is a atmospheric pedal providing layers of modulation, delay and reverb. You can get some nice shimmer tones. I’m sure this would be great for picking single notes as well as volume swells,

Boss MO-2 Multi Overtone – when I hear/see this, it definitely is the Boss version of the Electro-Harmonix POG or Micro POG. It provides multi harmonic features giving you the ability to have organ/synth tones with high and low octave ranges.

Boss DA-2 Adaptive Distortion is an interesting pedal where it adjusts the distortion based on the incoming signal. Giving you fat clear riffage, but also adapting for if you play up on the neck, etc. I wanted to hear more distortion options. It’s a distortion that definitely sounds like a ‘pedal’ if you know what I mean, but that was at first glance/listen.

Here is a the video by Premier Guitar at NAMM 2013:

Let me know what you think about these pedals!

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A few days ago I got a Facebook message from one of the members of Preacherz of the Savage Truth showing me a photo of their bassists board. The board is for Matth Mullet who plays some pretty mean bass, and I thought it would be cool to if I could break down this board. Preacherz of the Savage Truth is a band out of Toulouse, France. For those of you that don’t know me, I am/was/will be a pretty big Cure fan, and these guys sucked me in a with a cover of ‘Cold’. I’ll present the video further down in the post.

Matth definitely has crafted a great board with a lot of tonal ranges for his bass. This is the breakdown of pedals. Like always, if you see anything incorrect, missing, or just want to comment, please do so by commenting below!

Dunlop Bass Wah 105Q
Source Audio Bass Envelope Filter
Source Audio Expression Pedal SA161
Digitech Bass Whammy
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Xotic Bass BB Preamp  
Devi Ever The Wolf Fuzz
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Alien Hate Fuzz
Homebrew Electronics Hematoma Bass Overdrive
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TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb
Line 6 DL 4 Delay
Rothwell Love Squeeze Compressor
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As I mentioned above, here is the video by Preacherz of the Savage Truth covering Cure’s Cold:

To learn more about Preacherz of the Savage Truth, please check out their Facebook page!

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I want to start off today by saying – I’m exhausted. My son turned 12 years old on Thursday, and yesterday he had his party. We’re talking lazertag, cake and arcade games for a few hours with a bunch of other 12 year old boys. That’s usually enough to pretty much wear me down to dust, but after the party, that was followed up with a slumber party with a few of his close friends. Everyone with their iPods and laptops playing Minecraft and watching movies. I have to say, if I was 12, this would have been my jam for sure. But, these kids love to play the game of – NOT SLEEPING. So last night when they were bouncing off the walls in the late night hours, I went into my office and played guitar for hours. Just dry, sitting in my chair. Practicing some songs for an upcoming shows and learning a few songs for an upcoming tribute show with another band.

I like to play with effects (obviously), but sometimes playing dry and non-amplified, while hearing the strings buzz, is a good feeling. For some reason.. that really feels like practice. If you get the guitar and fingers sounding good at that stage, it should sound good all plugged in.

So this morning, I woke up in a haze to say the least. What better thing to do than start the morning with a little YouTube surfing. I came across this interesting video of some ambient guitar. I’m a fan of this. An amp, a guitar and some pedals. Solo. Making something. A little while back I was exploring some solo ambient stuff for myself, and it was incredibly satisfying, and I hope I can get back to it after things settle down on the guitar front for me.

So without further ado, here is a video by Alex Moore working a nice ambient piece. I thought some of you might like this:

He’s using some tasty gear to pull this off, and he was nice enough to let us know:

Walrus Audio Deep Six Compressor
Electro-Harmonix Micro POG
Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive
Cusack Tap a Whirl
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man w/Tap Tempo
Digitech Hardwire RV7 Stereo Reverb
Boss DM-2 Delay
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This is all going into a Dr Z. Maz18 combo.

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Today’s pedal line is from Brandon Highfill (First Pedal Line Friday of 2013 -> Woot!). If you have a pedal line (doesn’t have to be in a board) for your rig, please email me a photo, bio, description of pedals and routing to pedallineeffectsbaycom. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

After many versions, I am finally satisfied with the amount of options and quality of effects on my board. I play Experimental, Shoegaze, Spacey type sounds with lots of driving grooves along the way that require many forms of delay to keep everything moving and evolving. My signal chain is as follows :
guitar (Rickenbacker 330 / AXL Jazzmaster knockoff) —> Boss TU-2 –> Boss CS-2 —> EHX Big Muff —> ZVEX Fuzz Factory —> Moog Ring Modulator (using 2 expression pedals One for Rate and One for Freq control)—>  Pigtronix Tremvelope—-> Digitech Whammy —> MXR Phase 100 —> Carson Lane FX Fat Boost Clone —> Dunlop High Gain Volume Pedal —> MXR Carbon Copy — > Eventide Timefactor —> Eventide SPACE w/ AUX Switch—> Line 6 DL4 — > Orange Rocker 30 (Black Tolex) with Celestion vintage 30

I am currently working on 2 projects that will be releasing music soon but you can check out some of the sounds I’ve made with this  board @ http://soundcloud.com/brandonblane & http://noimusic.bandcamp.com/

God bless
- Brandon Blane Highfill

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