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A block of wood

Words fail me.

see, if it were on here or something i'd think that this

It's not the wood - it's raising the pedal off the floor and at a specific angle which lowers the internal transformers 'splash' & susceptibility to hum... it's essential for that '100lb violin tone' but can be noisy...

was completely tongue in cheek. on that website i just don't know.

i really really hope it is though.

I think that some people would really believe that wood would change your pedal's tone. There are people out there that are that stupid.

Like someone else said, given the fact it looks like plywood, it looks like a lol at EJ's expense.

If you needed proof of how much of a monumental dicksplash EJ is:

That really is anal.

what an OCD nutcase.

He gets a lot of awesome tones so I can't knock his process.

THE SCREWS IN HIS AMP HEAD, JOE.

THE SCREWS IN HIS AMP HEAD.

Like I said I might find individual things ridiculous but it's like a person who is superstitious, you might think "hey guy take off the socks you been wearing for a week, it has nothing to do with your ability". The process a talented individual uses to get to a state of performance is sometimes about psyching themselves out more than anything else.

I have strange habits, like I can't play unless I take my watch off and all the things out of my pockets, but claiming that the type of screws in your amp head make a noticeable difference to your sound is simply ridiculous.

When I bought my Carlsbro 50 Top the guy I bought it from told me not to touch anything inside, even the dead spiders and cobwebs, as he claimed it added to 'the tone' of the amp. However as I didn't want to kill myself playing it after it had been in this guys loft for the last 20 years I had it serviced, including having all the crap inside of it cleaned out. It of course made no noticeable difference to the tone whatsoever.

I'm not especially this-or that on the subject, as EJ's less orthodox practices have been discussed/criticized ad nauseum on various boards, but nonetheless kinda sit the jcyphe camp on this one.

I know so many people around me who simply have ears that I don't, among them being the obvious: a grammy-award winning mastering engineer, and a few very accomplished jazz pianists. I'll never hear the seemingly insignificant differences in la-la like they do, yet at the same time I'm not sure that their obsession for knowing how to distinguish the la-la from the la-la-la is really something I want to have myself, knowing the personality traits that make working with them a little unnerving. On the other side, one of my best friends graduated from SoCal's MI and met EJ numerous times, having nothing but praise for the "disarming humility that comes across when he goes into mentor mode" and openness about how to find one's own tone, and as someone who's never met him I honestly have trouble knocking that, as much trouble as I have imagining screw placement a factor in anything.

Then again, Moollon's Mr. Park is one of those guys, and I'm reminded of what a living amazement he is every time I step into the test studio with him and hear him talk about subtle nuances of guitars and amp configurations, with some of it being kinda scary, to be honest: He can actually hear the tonal differences and sustain of a Strat when the tremolo bar is on or off. All the while, I'm just thinking about going home and plugging in the Tonelab for some brainlessly easy modeling fun.

He's not trying to sell anything with this silly gear micro-management, I think it's quite endearing. It's not like they need an extra trailer to accommodate a flouncy chaise longue or anything either SO THE ENVIRONMENT'S OKAY.

johnnyseven wrote:I have strange habits, like I can't play unless I take my watch off and all the things out of my pockets

I can't play with anything in my pockets...and if I'm wearing a shirt over my t-shirt I have to take the shirt off... I just feel weird if I don't...

Doog wrote:THE SCREWS IN HIS AMP HEAD, JOE.

THE SCREWS IN HIS AMP HEAD.

Probably like 10 years ago I had a mag that detailed his rig and he had a fuzz face held together with a rubber band, because he claimed the screw that holds the bottom plate on also bring teh suck. He then balanced that fuzzface on top of two boss pedals, claiming it sounds better than if it were physically placed elsewhere on the pedalboard.

He also claims to have severe tinnitus. Amazing he's never put 2 and 2 together...

"A weird buzzing in my ear? WE MEET AGAIN, PHILLIPSHEAD..."

paul_ wrote:"A weird buzzing in my ear? WE MEET AGAIN, PHILLIPSHEAD..."

pahahaha

You're on fire these last 24 hours.

ohyeahfuzzbear wrote:

johnnyseven wrote:I have strange habits, like I can't play unless I take my watch off and all the things out of my pockets

I can't play with anything in my pockets...and if I'm wearing a shirt over my t-shirt I have to take the shirt off... I just feel weird if I don't...

I can't either. Except I have to have my phone in my front left pocket and then I have to either roll my sleeves up or have a short sleeved shirt/ t-shirt on.

I'm a little OCD about that kinda thing, all my cables have to be straight and untangled as well, or I just keep getting distracted and I don't play as well.

Damn habits!

paul_ wrote:

Doog wrote:THE SCREWS IN HIS AMP HEAD, JOE.

THE SCREWS IN HIS AMP HEAD.

"A weird buzzing in my ear? WE MEET AGAIN, PHILLIPSHEAD..."