this is flat out drum loop wankery! and not even all good!! ;D
testing out tones for whatever is next - first part is BB, second is obviously Machine... but it's Machine -> Riddle with the Riddle doing low pass and distortion. I'm mostly posting this because the fricken machine threw out some cool things here and there, heh. note: there is no ring mod. pretty happy with these two tones... maybe a little dark on the BB, though.
if anyone should venture into Machine land, I would recommend running the guitar like this: 1) neck pickup 2) tone rolled completely OFF 3) volume knob lives mostly around 50% but that's the key to the whole thing... must ride that to find sounds. Machine has In all the way up, Out at about 1 o'clock and Comp at 9 o'clock. run it into a dark distortion and it's just such a badass. lol, love it.
http://www.ironsheep.com/mp3/ironsheep/Media/06242014pedaltones.mp3
I love drum loop wankery :) Sometimes good stuff happens and sometimes it doesn't but at the end of the day it's all good.
Just going to bed now so will listen to this in the morning after gym !
Some nice crazy juicy sounds in there, pure nasty goodness....might look into the machine myself.
By the way, one thing that I've been getting into for some noodle wankery is don't play along to a drum beat, just play along to a click track and then add the drums to fit your playing later. I find that playing along to a repetitive drum loops affects the directions that I take the noodle, but just playing to the click track gives lots of freedom. I used to hate click tracks but I'm starting to see the benefits and getting used to them.
It's all good :)
good idea there - I definitely get rhythmically locked to the loop most of the time. in the past, I've had a lot of trouble hearing the click (since it's an obnoxious sound anyway, it's hard to crank it up...) but now that I'm thinking about it... could use a simple click-esque kick drum and hat pattern instead. that's midi even I can program and I'd still be able to feel the beat instead of relying on hearing it over the guitar. anything non-guitar between 100-4kHz and I'm mostly oblivious to it's existence while tracking. so, kick and hat should work... hmm, yeah, that sounds like a plan!
Pretty cool wankery. You certainly give the Machine pedal some character. Great sounds.
I have just listened to this a couple times on repeat, and love it.
Incidentally, the Tone Report weekly has been running a series on pedals... this week's issue is on the worst distortion pedals of all time, and they include the Zvex Machine in that list. Of course, part of their argument is that it's expensive--yes, I wouldn't buy one for $319... but since I can build one and sell it for $100 or less, that's kind of a moot point.
http://www.tonereport.com/issue28/files/9.html
Clearly they haven't heard it played by sheep. I think it's amazing personally and I'd build one for myself, if I thought I could achieve any degree of mastery over it.
thanks DM and charger!
that's a pretty humorous review of the Machine since... I think it's easily one of the best distortion pedals of all time. lol! it's got so much of the spirit of Hendrix going on, it's ridiculous. it's Jimi's pedals but on... eleven.
Looks like that review has been pulled. I saw it the other day but just clicked on the link again today and that review is missing !
Hilarious- it's still listed in the table of contents, but they pulled the entire article. I guess they picked on a bunch of pedals people liked, and probably got a lot of mail.