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If there's noise making, i'm in!

One of your cheap stagg or whatever types though, can't afford the real thing! Anyone play one? How's the weight and balance? I like to play standing, guitar down by my knees, so the 'no sitting' shape isn't an issue...

It depends what they're made of too - i hate the tortex ones, they feel weird! Some are bendier than others, so yep, if you can get to a shop and mix and match. Just cos everyone else is: i like ebe glow in the dark alien, thick.

Fuzz, (cheapie joyo octofuzz ripoff) into splitter (Behringer DI box) into guitar amp from one channel. Second channel out of splitter (already fuzzed) into wah cocked at a low mid (sort of so it makes 'WOOORRRRBBBBBB' sound, into Zoom 505 with zoom lead distortion and flange. Practicing for a spoof about a particularly pretentious devon town...

I thought i might be agnostic but i wasn't sure... Sorry. I'm here all week. Fortunately its friday! Ooh, and there is also a video!! Featuring jumping about, and a horrendous cardigan! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPThi0nRVPw

Its a legal disclaimer... and it flows...

Its out! Premiered today at our work xmas talent show (we didn't win) and we still have jobs! Today. PLEASE don't listen if you think you might be offended- we mean no harm but we are aware it may affront some people... Meanwhile.... http://www.intermittentexplosivedisorder.co.uk/2013/12/merry-christmas-god-is-imaginary/ Have fun, enjoy!

Mine's grown... Still pretty lo-fi though! [attachment=150499:IMG_00000281.jpg]

Mine's bred..

Additional n this - my 'bigger' amp gives a very 'stranglers' type tone with the DI box in front (basically does the same job as that thumpinator thingie people talk about on here sometimes). It sounds bloimin great and shakes my kitchen happily. Speaker looks fine so far...

I LOVE this kind of stuff... ;D

http://www.intermittentexplosivedisorder.co.uk/2013/11/song-for-nic-the-video/ We did a video for our song about our whovian work friend who unexpectedly died... Its not entirely serious!

Heehee! Thanks, we had a lot of fun with that one...

Downloaded L7, bricks are heavy the other day... Bit depressing that i work with people who weren't born when it came out!!

http://www.intermittentexplosivedisorder.co.uk/2013/10/farmergeddon/ More silliness from IED...

Probably a lot depends on what sort of sounds you enjoy too! I like quite lo-fi rough gritty noises, pretty much I started playing in the first place to make that painful 'screeee-uuuuurrrrnch' jamc grunge,so i kind of find pristine clean and clear a bit boring...

In its intended use, it will play a 'fiddly diddly' line which then goes onto fuzz bass. I may need a double neck!

Our latest silliness on what we think about 50 shades of grey... With both of us doing very silly voices... http://www.intermittentexplosivedisorder.co.uk/2013/09/seven-shades/

I think the 505/506 series were the first with any kind of 'modern' processing. Still not 'amp modelling' yet, but enough oomph in the chip to not sound too casio! Its all good, i think it's got its own character - i'd agree that most of the drives are worse than useless, i always found myself using 'blues' or 'overdrive' exclusively as a guitar player. It's also clearly voiced to get the best out of rubbish output equipment, so as a play-along tool/toy into a mixer with my computer and out to PC speakers, it sounds good enough compared to mp3s! Its also a human issue - i have no idea really how to set up a proper compressor or reverbs, so having options of 'C1-C9' etc, means i can just get on with it! For recording we use my musical colleaques POD - it works well, the models do a good job of giving us way more of a 'proper amp mic'ed in the next room' feel than we could get otherwise!

Given the choice between a toy and a tool, i know which i'll usually pick! ;

Interestingly i find my zoomlet sounds great thorugh a mixer via my desktop speakers when used with my PC and frooty loops, and not so good through an actual amp! Its basically a proto-POD...

Funnily enough, i watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofS3bfyFeU and got a pretty similar sound out of my 505 and dinky guitar amps!

Most of the pre-sets on any digital stuff are horrific! I guess it depends what you plug it into too..!

Its not so much they don't stand up, if anything they do too much! Also, do i detect a note of elitest snobbery? The compressor's good, so is the noise gate, and the reverbs do enough to give it some space. Bit of bass boost and some overdrive if you're in a dirty mood and that's pretty much all that seems to be needed, especially when the guitars and sequencers are going 'bwarm badderr' excitedly! It's almost liberating to be the one solid non-hyper-effected sound in the mix!

...you spend out on 'proper' pedals and then find that actually the most happy-making noise comes from the thing you had all the time already? I've mucked about and fiddled with a proper wah, fuzz, chorus and overdrive, and now find that actually, for proper use, my trusty ancient zoom 505 can do anything i need to do! Oh well, it'll be less to carry! And i still like splitting my analogue pedals off so that one amp has wah and fuzz and can be the JAMC when i'm playing on my own. But anyway.