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Guitar Center has blown my mind twice this week-
First I go into my regular store and go to the used section without even looking at the new stuff because it’s never worth it, the highest quality guitar is generally a PRS SE. After 5-10 mins of playing some used stuff I look up and my jaw drops as the entire wall of new guitars is 90% ‘the good shit’ and none of it is locked with those tabs. I was there to maybe grab a Boss SD-1, I ended up staying over an hour playing guitars.
I saw the Hallandale GC had a SD-1 for $50 used so I decided to hold off on buying a new one then figured I’d bring down a couple pedals that I’ve had listed for months with no biters, namely the Fortin 33 that I got used at GC for $180 last year and hated. They gave me $130 for it!!! I just wanted the thing gone and would probably have taken $90 for it.
I also brought my Fulltone ‘70 and it’s not just an internet rumor, GC will not take in any Fulltone products. They can’t even look them up in their system. (This is not permission to discuss why they don’t. Do not test me on this)
And the 3 new pedals-
Not sure why the compressor bug bit me this morning, but I figured it’d be good to start working with one before I start going after dirt pedals for sustain reasons. I need to spend more time with it, but I dig it so far. The SD-1 I knew I wanted to get after using the FM9’s SD-1 in front of the Certiatone the other day, that thing just went right into 80’s hard rock/metal world with that thing. The Foxy Tone was a bit of a surprise, but I’ve always loved that octave fuzz and not gonna lie, the packaging got me-
That thing is cool as fuck. Seems to work how I was hoping it would; I’m not the biggest fan of it’s fuzz tone by itself, I really just want that upper octave thing, but dialing the fuzz back a bit and just engaging it when you’ve got other dirt running does the trick just fine. And it looks like I borrowed it from Lady Gaga.
Decided to have a Straturday in the living room and ran the Ceriatone into the load box then into the Duncan Powerstage to power the 2x12, I can live with this for living room volume! Started fucking around with pedal order and stacking dirts-
That’s the one thing that I really do miss//love about pedals/analog gear; the interaction between them when stacking them up. You tend to forget the unexpected stuff that happens in that world when you’ve been doing everything via modeler for a while. Almost all of these sounds great stacked together, but the Vintage Modern after either the SD-1 or Tchula is such a killer fucking lead tone.
Really anxious to write some music utilizing this stuff. It’s pretty hard to beat a Strat and a Marshall.
First I go into my regular store and go to the used section without even looking at the new stuff because it’s never worth it, the highest quality guitar is generally a PRS SE. After 5-10 mins of playing some used stuff I look up and my jaw drops as the entire wall of new guitars is 90% ‘the good shit’ and none of it is locked with those tabs. I was there to maybe grab a Boss SD-1, I ended up staying over an hour playing guitars.
I saw the Hallandale GC had a SD-1 for $50 used so I decided to hold off on buying a new one then figured I’d bring down a couple pedals that I’ve had listed for months with no biters, namely the Fortin 33 that I got used at GC for $180 last year and hated. They gave me $130 for it!!! I just wanted the thing gone and would probably have taken $90 for it.
I also brought my Fulltone ‘70 and it’s not just an internet rumor, GC will not take in any Fulltone products. They can’t even look them up in their system. (This is not permission to discuss why they don’t. Do not test me on this)
And the 3 new pedals-
Not sure why the compressor bug bit me this morning, but I figured it’d be good to start working with one before I start going after dirt pedals for sustain reasons. I need to spend more time with it, but I dig it so far. The SD-1 I knew I wanted to get after using the FM9’s SD-1 in front of the Certiatone the other day, that thing just went right into 80’s hard rock/metal world with that thing. The Foxy Tone was a bit of a surprise, but I’ve always loved that octave fuzz and not gonna lie, the packaging got me-
That thing is cool as fuck. Seems to work how I was hoping it would; I’m not the biggest fan of it’s fuzz tone by itself, I really just want that upper octave thing, but dialing the fuzz back a bit and just engaging it when you’ve got other dirt running does the trick just fine. And it looks like I borrowed it from Lady Gaga.
Decided to have a Straturday in the living room and ran the Ceriatone into the load box then into the Duncan Powerstage to power the 2x12, I can live with this for living room volume! Started fucking around with pedal order and stacking dirts-
That’s the one thing that I really do miss//love about pedals/analog gear; the interaction between them when stacking them up. You tend to forget the unexpected stuff that happens in that world when you’ve been doing everything via modeler for a while. Almost all of these sounds great stacked together, but the Vintage Modern after either the SD-1 or Tchula is such a killer fucking lead tone.
Really anxious to write some music utilizing this stuff. It’s pretty hard to beat a Strat and a Marshall.
