THE UPDATER
March 2025
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Separate those pedals that are a steal fromthose that are stealing from you ay any price!IF IT IS WORTH KNOWING IT WILL BE HEAR FIRST.
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MY MONTHLY RANT
Apparently some guy who got put in charge of everything thinks if someone with about 30 friends breaks into your house and steals all your gear and kills your wife and kids has a right to keep your house. Add to that it was your fault it even happened ???
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THE GOOD NEWSWe got 4 cool MIAB pedals from Marshall and at only $150.00 USD each.
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The NUX Amp Core Studio has a budget price single pedal modeler with modest features but your audience won't know with its 20 Amps kicking out high end spec sounds.
Best of all, JHS brought out 3 new pedals in their 3 Series. The Rotary Chorus is their take on the old Leslie organ cab. It can make clean sounds sound fuller than the fattest dirt sound. best of all it is $100.00 USD
CANADIAN READERS LISTEN UPAfter 57 years the COSMO MUSIC chain has tanked. Long and Mcquade will betaking over some locations. So except for very small chains like Steve's Musicand a few independents you will be royally shrewd!!! As you likely know L&Mhave high prices, poor service the worst site on the planet and zero inventory.
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TOYS FOR THEOLDER BOYS
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TONE CITY MANDRAGORA
This pedal is loosely based on an early 50's Chicago Musical Instruments guitar amp. They ended up leasing space at the Gibson Guitars Kalamazoo factory where some were shipped to Gibson dealers as a Gibson amp. They were known for their clean but warm tone. Luv Pedals made the Kalamazoo OD to clone the sound and Tone City did a take on it. The Tone city is tighter and cleaner. In fact is more in the Bluesbreaker camp. The Luv Pedal is flat out muddy in comparison. $60.00 USD
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BOSS OD 3 OVERDRIVE
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This pedal came out in 1995 to make a sound voiced to sound like a Marshall single channel amp when it was used on the bright input. It was the Hardrock sound used on the Pop hits of the day. Today if you have one you can kill a few highs and you get a modern day Blues sound. Pull back the gain and you get a cleaner tighter Nobels ODR-1. Or use it to relace a Tube Screamer that can cut without a mid boost, loss of lows and without any mud making mush of your chords. Boss cut the price so it now it's $95.00 USD. It is a lot cheaper and is a better choice than there own, Boss SD-1, Blues Driver and the Ibanez Tube Screamer 808 and TS9.
UPDATED MARCH 21
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........sh@tloads of the NEW asap! |
Is the buffer of the Boss OD-3 as good as the buffers of the waza craft series ?
ReplyDeleteAccording to Brian Wampler Boss have never used a crap buffer in any pedal. Keep in mind that a Klon cost the price of a small house and uses a buffer not any better. I have a $55.00 USD Tone CIty Tiny Spring v.2 Reverb with a buffer. If I turn it off it sounds like someone just through a heavy wool blanket over my speakers. Add to that I very much doubt that Boss pedals needing thousands of the same parts every day use the same buffers or indeed have the same one available every year. There has only been one rule with gear for rock since day one. If it sounds good it is good. If that was not true we would never have a Fender guitar. It is solid wood with the neck held on by 4 screws, lol :-)
ReplyDeleteI have an old Big Muff I wouldn't part with. It has a cheap sh@t buffer, lol.
ReplyDeleteWaza Buffers should be better, but not hearable.
ReplyDeleteBoss buffers are great!
OD-3: There're more Boss price decreasings, how to find out. Recogniozed some better prices now in Europe.
No one has a OD-3, heard it should more nasal as a SD-1 ...
Oh, in another posting see it's going down from 110 to 95 $.
ReplyDeleteAnd I also thought for weeks that the hard selling OD-3 could be sorted out by Roland and have to buy one. Never bought and directly heard an SD-1.
Did you see the pic of the small PCB of the OD-3, it's so tiny as the SD-1 one's. Doesn't cost much to produce and that's the point they still want to sell it. Maybe production has already ended.