"Crossed Wires" with Pat Benson

This week Pat demonstrates the Boss Enhancer, a mysterious guitar pedal from Parts Unknown that you will hardly notice until it's turned off. But what does it do exactly? Can it dynamically modify high frequency harmonics and restore clarity to your tone like the ads would presume back in the 90's? Well hit play already and find out for yourself, if you're lucky you might even hear some 80's Chorus and Reverb!

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This week Pat demos the Dream Reaper, an oscillating, modulating, Fuzz Feedback Machine by Adventure Audio.   This pedal is something out of the ordinary and loaded with weird features guaranteed to turn your tone into something unexpected. But don't be fooled, expect high gain saturated overdrive to glitchy feedback, and more!

A J Mascis Jazzmaster, Benson Vinny, Boss RV-5, PS-3, and Electro Harmonix Freeze were all used during this recording. If you stick around long enough you might even hear some Gary Wright tossed into the mix.

**Warning:** this episode contains feedback, and LOTS of it.

This week Pat runs down the Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay. Released between 1994-1999; this was before the days of Rainbow Machines and Timeline delays and well ahead of its time. This wasn't the only unusual sounding pedal as the 90's produced a lot of crazed and chaotic effects, most designed in part by human-like beings from parts unknown. However, the PS-3 was the first in the Boss line to deliver dual pitch shifting sounds as its predeccesor (the PS-2) had only a single pitch shifting delay. This is a very fun pedal once you master the controls, and 11 modes but will turn some heads as soon as you plug it in to your fancy little rig. 

This demo was recorded using a 1978 Gibson Les Paul custom and Vinny 1-Watt amplifier by Benson Amps. A dirty Rat might have made its way down the Hall and onto this recording but you'll have to tune in to find out!

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This week Pat demonstrates the signature Ryan Adams "VCR" by JHS pedals into a Benson Vinny amplifier while playing a Nash JG63, a 1978 Les Paul Custom, and a modified Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster. No tone was harmed durning the process of this demonstration.

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This week Pat talks with Will Levy of the band The Story So Far about gear acquisitions, working at Billy Joe's guitar shop in Oakland California, Evertune bridges, Marshall clones, and visiting the Gibson showroom in NYC.

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This week Pat talks with Brooklyn based pedal builder Tom Kogut of TOMKAT pedals about breakfast smoothies, the bachelor, participating in his first NAMM show, how he got started making pedals, designing unique and artistic circuit boards, builder inspiration, and what frequencies we're not hearing.

The song "Crossed Wires" was written and performed by the band Superchunk off of the 2010 album "Majesty Shredding".

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This week Pat answers listener questions and demos a TOMKAT Violet Muffer fuzz pedal during the second half of this show. A Gibson Les Paul Standard (not a studio as he mentioned on the show), Partscaster, and Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster were all plugged straight into a '68 Fender Princeton Reissue. No gear was harmed during the process of this recording.

-> The song "Crossed Wires" was written and performed by the band Superchunk off of the 2010 album "Majesty Shredding".

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This week Pat talks with Ryan Hunter and Brian Byrne of the band Envy On The Coast about when they first noticed guitar tone, their gear over the years, getting thrown into doing big tours at the beginning of their career, and working on their own individual side projects.

-> Opening tracks “Death March On Two, Ready?” and “Laugh Ourselves To Death” are by Envy On The Coast off of the record “Low country” released in 2010 on Photo Finish Records. Intermission and closing tracks are “O.O.A.” by 1st Vows, and “Blind Or Shade” by The Hand That Wields It. Both self released via Bandcamp.

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This week Pat talks with Ben Walsh of Tigers Jaw while on tour in Europe about his introduction to music, growing up in Scranton Pennsyvania and the influence of local bands such as the Swims and Okay Paddy, Les Pauls, and delicious Belgium waffles.

-> All music on this episode by Tigers Jaw from the record "Charmer" released in 2014 on Run For Cover Records.

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