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I've only recently gone to a guitar -> pedal board -> amp type setup and I'm kinda new to the pedal game. I started out with this taste for expensive boutique pedals, you know stuff like T-Rex and Z-Vex and all that jazz... now I've developed an obsession with Electro Harmonix stuff! Its so fun! All there pedals are so warm and analoggy and beautiful... and they can sound normal, or every one of them can be tweaked out to make all kinds of fun crazy sounds! I'm now using a Small Stone, Small Clone, Doctor Q, Holy Grail, and Big Muff... where will it go next? When will the insanity end? who knows! I love this stuff
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Memory Man Dlx! And a Pulsar, of course.
Electro-Harmonix is one of my favorite pedal manufacturers ever.
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i had big muff pi back in the early 80s - wish i'd never sold it. I have a small stone on my board - i love it's simplicity and it makes the phasing sound i hear in my head.
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Yup, I loved my Small Stone. Great pedals. My only wish is that they were smaller and had sturdier cases.
edit: Wait, I just remembered that I saw an article in my last Guitar Player magazine about now EH just released all their pedals in a new smaller case...EH rules.
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Electro-Harmonix and Voodoo Labs are my personal favorites when it comes to getting boutique sounds for non-boutique prices. High quality parts, construction, and tone.
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My very, very first guitar effect was the Electro Harmonix Muff Fuzz. The little one switch box. I wish I still had it just to say I had it.
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Originally Posted by Benny Hicks Electro-Harmonix and Voodoo Labs are my personal favorites when it comes to getting boutique sounds for non-boutique prices. High quality parts, construction, and tone.
I have heard a lot of complaints about their construction...
On the worship teams I have been on, someone always has an EH pedal with bad soldering that acts up. Is that weird? Right now its my worship leaders holy grail that cuts out sometimes.
Some of my teamates buy them and resolder the whole thing. (Electrical engineers though, got a pair of those on the team)
I have always been hesitant to touch them because of that. Do I just rove around in the obscurities of the 5 bad pedals they ever made?
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I like EHX....in fact, I have the same obsession... They make great, experimental effects for pretty affordable prices. I have the Big Muff, Bass Balls (heavily, heavily modified), Pulsar and a vintage Clone Theory. They have their duds...but they're pretty few and far in between.
Their build quality is...hit or miss, and it depends on how hard you stomp them. The US Big Muff has always felt very flimsy to me though. Their new Nano and Micro lines look very sturdy though....and their size and price makes me want to buy them all...
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Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq I have heard a lot of complaints about their construction...
On the worship teams I have been on, someone always has an EH pedal with bad soldering that acts up. Is that weird? Right now its my worship leaders holy grail that cuts out sometimes.
Some of my teamates buy them and resolder the whole thing. (Electrical engineers though, got a pair of those on the team)
I have always been hesitant to touch them because of that. Do I just rove around in the obscurities of the 5 bad pedals they ever made?
The quality of their pedals has gone up trmendously in more recent years. They are now all true bypass, and they are much more consistent (the older pedals were built with whatever scrap parts were available so sometimes they can be hit or miss).
Some of the pedals can be a little temperamental. The Holy Grail being the first that comes to mind. That pedal is extremely sensitive to power sources. It draws 500 Ma so it won't operate correctly under a lot of typical power sources. It also seems to be extremely sensitive to noise and hum through the power source.
I now own 5 of their pedals all of which are on my pedal board together right now and I've never had a problem with any of them.
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When I have the money, I want to pick up a Nano Clone, a Nano Small Stone, and the smaller Muff Fuzz.
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Is there any difference between the full size and the new nano? Or is it just a smaller/tighter casing? I'm intrigued by their small size and stature but I just picked up a small clone and I wouldn't sacrifice that tone even if the thing was 3 feet long and made out of glass.
-shane
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Originally Posted by snizzle Is there any difference between the full size and the new nano? Or is it just a smaller/tighter casing? I'm intrigued by their small size and stature but I just picked up a small clone and I wouldn't sacrifice that tone even if the thing was 3 feet long and made out of glass.
-shane
I think it depends on the pedal. The Nano Clone doesn't appear to have a switch, like the Small Clone, but the Small Stone Nano does. The Nano Muff only has one knob, while the big one has 3. I think it's supposed to sound the same. The easiest way to tell would be to A/B them, though.
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Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq Some of my teamates buy them and resolder the whole thing. (Electrical engineers though, got a pair of those on the team) Wow, I would love to have a couple guys play with me that are electrical engineers. I'm jealous
I have always been hesitant to touch them because of that. Do I just rove around in the obscurities of the 5 bad pedals they ever made? Like metropolis said earlier, the quality has gone up a lot recently. Not many major companies make pedals with true bypass.
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Originally Posted by ieatdirt I think it depends on the pedal. The Nano Clone doesn't appear to have a switch, like the Small Clone, but the Small Stone Nano does. The Nano Muff only has one knob, while the big one has 3. I think it's supposed to sound the same. The easiest way to tell would be to A/B them, though.
The nano muff I believe is a copy of the muff fuzz, and not the biog muff pi. Hence the one knob.