so the Riddle pedal has an extra output for dry signal only that is active at all times, ie it has two outputs... ooh, try the flexi and univalve at the same time!
the flexi is leftish, uni rightish... sm (T75) and ksm (G12H30) on the flexi - e609 (T75) on the uni. three mics, two amps... no reason for the third mic other than it was already hooked up. light delay/reverb added after.
winds up sounding better (imo) than either amp on it's own. flexi's bottom + uni's top and definition... some noodles:
Can't properly judge the tone because I'm at work but it sounds great. The playing is really nice too. Really nice!
OMG, I listened to this days ago and tried to do a quick reply from my iPad. Swing and a miss.... anyway, I like it. Definitely more meat to it than the uni on it's own.
Yeah that is awesome :) More!
thanks for the listens - I'll see how it works with some fuzz and shizzle next time (more!)
unfortunately, this experiment has given rise to the "need" for a better stereo delay pedal (timeline or memory man... I guess). the old DL4 works ok but there's some noticeable detail loss and smear in the highs - not so cool.
anyways, here's some (mostly) chord noodling with stereo delay (and chorus) from the DL4 out in front of the amps.
(I tried some fuzz but it gets really stacked up in the lower mids... it sounds like it's an inch from my nose no matter how low I mix it. lol, still working on that)
http://www.ironsheep.com/mp3/ironsheep/Media/stereodelay.mp3
(6KB too large for the cave! heh)
The DL4 is the old workhorse, but there are some challengers out there. One is the TC Flashback delay, I have this, and it sounds incredible. The only downside to it is the tapping... it uses audio tapping, you hold down the switch and strum your taps, and the bummer is it has to mute to pick them up. But this is fixed in the TC Flashback X4, which has a dedicated tap switch, which I just bought on ebay, made an offer of $190... And then there's the new Vox DelayLab, which is aimed right at the DL4 and essentially does everything it does... although some people have noted you can't tap temp while it's bypassed, which is just stupid. Anyway, I think the TC pedal sounds pretty darned amazing...
had not had the tc on the radar... will add it.
was deciding between strymon timeline (expensive, but has everything I could ever want and then some) and eh mm with hazarai (some limitations but covers what I do with the DL4).
saw a video of the timeline with mobius in the loop that almost seemed worth the $900... well, maybe not, but it was cool as hell.
I've got the EH MM with Hazarai and would not recommend it. It does some very weird cool things, but it has some issues. One is that it drops volume... not significantly, but noticeably. My EH memory boy deluxe has the fix for this, which is a separate overall gain control... but it's analog, and expensive, and doesn't do some of the weird stuff that the hazarai does. And there's the looper. The EH looper (on the Haz box) just sucks. The cool parts about it, and there are several, are almost all negated by the fact that it's next to impossible to make a loop that works in time. I thought it was just my sucky skillz with this thing, until I realized that the cheaper TC delay makes my loop flawlessly, in time, every freaking time... it's just smart enough to interpolate some rhythm from what I'm playing and then quantize appropriately. The third thing is no subdivisions. You can tap tempo, but man, I want to tap quarter notes and have my delays be dotted eights... cuz really, I just want to be the Edge. The TC pedal does this. The Memory Boy Deluxe does this. The friggin simple Vox stach delay thing does it. The MM Hazarai doesn't. In short, it's got nice audio quality, lots of very weird fx, and some trippiness, but it's not loud enough and it doesn't do some essential things.
The Memory Boy Deluxe, however, is a thing of beauty... and if you want analog dirty ugliness in your repeats I'd recommend that, it's got every feature I want in a delay, subdivisions, frigging insane analog feedback, expression control of any parameter (I use it for feedback and can drive it into self modulation with a flick of my foot). But if you want clean and prstine, the Strymon is definitely king... pricey... as is their blue sky reverb, which is a thing to behold... but I'd at least try the Flashback X4 and the Vox DelayLab... they are both serious contenders...
excellent, thanks very much for the info! those would be big problems for me with the Haz - "rhythmic delay" is one of my all-time favorites on the DL4! I'll check some youtubes on the memory boy, that might do the trick. I used the DL4's looper this week but hadn't touched it in... 6 years? I probably don't really need a looper.
hrm, looks like I prefer the sound of the deluxe memory man w/ tap tempo (550) to the dlx memory boy (DMB seems a little dark)... and it only costs $50 less than a timeline, which can probably cover that ground and all the rest it does. DMB easily makes the most sense from my wallet's pov so far... TC youtubes next up.
the "hold down the divide button to cycle through" thing almost sold me right away though! lol, that's bizarre in a great way.
TC sounds pretty good - but seems like there's some limit to tweakability and weirdness? or is it hidden in some editing program? hrm, digital stomps are kinda not doing it for me the more I think about it... the whole idea of memory banks and stuff... bleh. dlx memory boy looks like the answer. thanks charger!