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The King of Shreds and Patches
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by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/13/2026, 4:11pm PDT |
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FoK reminded me, I did grab some pedals. Here are some thoughts.
Generation Loss II is great, it is as advertised, I'll probably keep it forever.
I have owned a Empress Reverb for a while now. There was a stretch of the pandemic where corporations hadn't jacked all their prices yet, but I was working from home and had gotten a raise and I bought some toys. I bought this one before I really needed it or knew what it was for. It's a staple of my recording area now though; everything goes through it.
So then, no pedals for a while, but I bought a very cheap noise reduction pedal from a local place in Rochester when I was back home in May, a "Donner Noise Killer." I had asked various AI tools if there was something that could kill noise and they all said nope, can't be done, stop asking, you're dumb. And it was sitting there and worked correctly. I was going to make it part of my chain because my Deckard's Dream has a lot of noise. Well, in moving stuff around I have a different cable coming out of it and going to my mixer.... and it doesn't produce noise any more. This is the second or third time I have been fucked by a shitty 1/4" cable. I am going to be particular about these from now on. I haven't seen any difference in MIDI cables or eurorack patch cables, but the 1/4 line out ones suck if they are cheap.
Next up was a "Mini RAT Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal LM308 chip based on ProCo RAT" pedal. It says "Black Rat" on it. This has the nicest distortion of what I have so far, but it was $29 maybe? On eBay? I get that there are sweeter sounds to be had, but I wanted to get some cheap pedals to try them out and this started it. I don't really have a guitar sound I love through synthesizers, the best one is probably just a sample played with MIDI that was built-in through Ableton, so if I do want to have that sound, I can get something close on a synth, put it through this pedal and be done.
There was a AZOR Pedal AP-308 on eBay for $19 or so. When getting food at a restaurant is $65, a $19 pedal might as well be couch change. This one is also a distortion pedal. It is fine, I will do a song with it.
And lastly, I just grabbed a "ISET Digital Reverb Guitar Pedal with 9 Modes" called Reverb Baby off reverb.com. I made an offer and got it for $17 shipped. So I am not that angry that it does not appear to have a dramatic effect on what I put through it. I wonder if has to do with how these are made for guitars and I do not have a guitar. But I liked that it has a setting for flange, I want to try "flange" and flangers out.
I don't recall seeing a ton of other sub $30 pedals out there so this might be the end of it. |
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Eurorack by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/17/2026, 8:48pm PDT 
I got the Moog semimodulars during Covid but then got more into pedals. NT by Fullofkittens 03/18/2026, 7:27am PDT
Re: I got the Moog semimodulars during Covid but then got more into pedals. by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/18/2026, 12:35pm PDT
Pedals in 2026 are, in a way, modules that are more modular than eurorack(?) by Fullofkittens 03/19/2026, 8:26am PDT
Incredible. Damn. by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/19/2026, 3:33pm PDT
pedals are just eurorack with a foot fetish NT by Entropy Stew 03/19/2026, 8:05pm PDT
What are ya into lately, Stew? Music-wise NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/19/2026, 9:02pm PDT
Polish Moonman. See No Stairway. Everyone needs to Polish Moonman by Entropy Stew 03/21/2026, 2:23am PDT
although they now all have 6 knobs w 4 pages and cannot be controlled w feet NT by Fullofkittens 03/20/2026, 6:07am PDT
The Angine de Poitrine guy is doing his best with his monkey feet. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2026, 8:21am PDT
I cannot with the bare feet and that band NT by Fullofkittens 03/20/2026, 9:56am PDT
Re: I cannot with the bare feet and that band by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/21/2026, 8:00am PDT
America does have our version of this already for what it's worth by Fullofkittens 03/21/2026, 1:00pm PDT
Ah, Jonesy, this is the other thing I am into lately by Entropy Stew 03/21/2026, 1:14pm PDT
Do you have any music you're working on that we could hear, FoK? NT by Gaige Grosskreutz 03/29/2026, 11:49am PDT
All my musical output for the past few years has been for live theater. by Fullofkittens 03/30/2026, 11:08am PDT
New album just DROPPED! Can you listen to it without thinking about NT by bare feet? 04/03/2026, 8:24am PDT
I'll make a new thread for it. NT by Gaige Grosskreutz 04/03/2026, 9:07am PDT
Re: Pedals in 2026 are, in a way, modules that are more modular than eurorack(?) by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/02/2026, 2:15pm PDT
The SATURATE on Gen Loss mkii is really special, you're going to love it NT by Fullofkittens 04/03/2026, 8:47am PDT
More GHOSTS in October by Dan Driedelberg 09/18/2026, 10:34am PDT
Awesome, used ones were going for $650+ on Reverb, thanks Dan NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/18/2026, 10:50am PDT
Re: Awesome, used ones were going for $650+ on Reverb, thanks Dan by Dan Driedelberg 10/15/2026, 10:48pm PDT
P.S. I love JUNKER NT by Fullofkittens 04/03/2026, 8:49am PDT
This made my week - thank you :) NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/03/2026, 12:51pm PDT
PEDALS (cheap pedals) by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/13/2026, 4:11pm PDT
Re: PEDALS (cheap pedals) by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/27/2026, 12:31pm PDT
I do not understand how cases are so expensive. NT by Lars 08/11/2026, 9:28pm PDT
Re: I do not understand how cases are so expensive. by Niles 08/12/2026, 10:49am PDT
You can buy just the electric rails and build the racks yourself if you're handy by Fullofkittens 08/13/2026, 11:58am PDT
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