The demos are pretty great. The only real downsides are they are always trying to sell you the pedal, so are reluctant to criticise and it's a fairly 'boutique only' range. It is stuff that can be hard to hear elsewhere, and it's nice they seem to use the same amp on everything so even if the riffs arent the same you can compare a fair bit between pedals.
Post your favourite ones here. The main potential disaster for this thread is the fact it will contain a lot of videos with that god awful intro.
These three impressed me a lot...
Catalinbread Semaphore (tremolo)
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Subdecay Quasar (phaser)
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Subdecay Echbox (delay with modulation, sort of like the carbon copy)
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ProGuitarShop demos
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ProGuitarShop demos
Shabba.
Reading between the lines through some of the sales hype can be quite funny. I'm not sure why but this one company offer 4 very similar delay pedals. One that does 300ms, one that does 600ms and then 'dark' and 'bright' versions of each (I'm sure they could have had a short/long dark/bright switch and made one pedal but I guess they might sell more this way).
Here's the sales pitch (copied from the youtube descriptin which is usually copied from the manufactuers description)
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Here's the sales pitch (copied from the youtube descriptin which is usually copied from the manufactuers description)
The Malekko Echo 600 Bright gives you crisp, spacious analog delay tones, with snappy top end that quickly decays into analog lo-fi yumminess. The delay sounds bright and crisp making a perfect country slapback or a great vintage psychedelic decay delay.
It's almost like they're saying the other version is shit in each one. I do quite like them but I've been too scared to look at the price so far...The Malekko Echo 600 Dark gives you warm, spacious analog delay tones, with no high end fizz. The delay sounds real and natural, not muffled or tinny.
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LED location = more than awesome
Shabba.
As far as prices go, one delear has the 600 versions at £170, and the 300s at £130. The other delear only stock the 600s and want £175. Pricey.heavium wrote:about the malekko delays, i like the bright one a lot but i agree one pedal could've done it all, it's like pokemon catch em all now haha
Shabba.
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They do some from MXR. The carbon copy, the reissue phase 90 and the eddie van halen version of the same phaser, the zakk wylde overdrive, some green overdrive pedal and maybe a few more.Mike wrote:The dirty amp thing annoys the piss out of me. Of course the Overdrive pedals sound great then. Half of it is the fucking 20 Watt Tube Amp breaking up sympathetically.
Plus their range is very boutique only. Not ONE Boss, MXRor Behringer pedal and only a couple of Electro Harmonix.
I guess being a shop they'll only demo what they sell.
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That's like all the expensive stuff MXR do. The Phase 90 script reissue is mental. One knob Phaser? £100 odd.
I still don't like their bias towards selling up and the "Pro" crap in their name - it irks me because I'm all about
a) Value
b) Displaying the good and bad features
c) Slackness
I completely concede they make pedals sound great and that they're EXTREMELY popular, but it's not for me. Besides, most of the boutique overdrive stuff they demo doesn't sound that great to me, or I've seen teh schematic and it annoys me that people would pay $300 for a tubescreamer with a bass cut control.
I still don't like their bias towards selling up and the "Pro" crap in their name - it irks me because I'm all about
a) Value
b) Displaying the good and bad features
c) Slackness
I completely concede they make pedals sound great and that they're EXTREMELY popular, but it's not for me. Besides, most of the boutique overdrive stuff they demo doesn't sound that great to me, or I've seen teh schematic and it annoys me that people would pay $300 for a tubescreamer with a bass cut control.
None of the expensive dirt pedals have impressed me yet. I'm getting pretty board with them after listening to quite a few.
I don't like how they ignore any bad points, but you can work them out by watching other demos of similar pedals and by taking note of what they don't say (ie when talking about some trems they'll just call it vintage style and ignore the fact the range is shit for a modern pedal).
I don't like how they ignore any bad points, but you can work them out by watching other demos of similar pedals and by taking note of what they don't say (ie when talking about some trems they'll just call it vintage style and ignore the fact the range is shit for a modern pedal).
Shabba.
that is my big problem with these videos... i was unpleasantly surprised when i bought an od pedal based on the sound from one of these videos and it didn't get quite to that perfect tone that came from the second stage distortions introduced by the amp. i'm still happy with the pedal because i work around that, but as someone who is kind of fussy about drive levels, that subtle difference was important to me. i tried to post a comment about it on their video and they wouldn't let it be published (they go through all their comments first).Mike wrote:The dirty amp thing annoys the piss out of me. Of course the Overdrive pedals sound great then. Half of it is the fucking 20 Watt Tube Amp breaking up sympathetically.