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- Ep. 197 - Get Off My Back, I Went To College
For episode 200 we’re opening up recording night to ALL members of TTC Discord! No Patreon subscription is needed. Please update your pledge with your mailing address if you haven’t already!
- Derek went to see Ariel Posen and it was killer. Sting: Deepspace Devices Golem 00:18:45
Some new stuff from Coppersound! Sting: Strymon Deco 00:28:08
- Active ABY box $99
- Turns one input into two separate outputs OR two separate inputs to a single output.
- Great for stereo setups, multiple instruments, or even can use as a mute switch.
- Features two independent JFET buffers
- Footswitch washers are color coordinated with their respective output jacks
- Passive ABY Box $55
- Same as above but doesn’t have the buffers
- Dual Tap is back in stock $49
- Tap tempo switch with two outputs to sync up multiple tap tempo equipped devices. No power required!
- Has internal dip switches for “normally closed” and “normally open” so it works with a ton of things.
- Buffer! $69
- Helps with long cable runs and such.
- Has a 9V courtesy power output so it doesn’t cannibalize an output on your power supply. Great!
- Also some flashlights, telegraph stutters, and other ABY boxes available in the small batch and one-offs section. Get on it!
Pedal Genie 00:34:46
- Trying to get live streams going again. Walrus Audio Bellwether is up on youtube now!
- JHS Bonsai
Boss IR-200 Sting: Bondi Sick As 00:55:54
- Boss has entered the fray!
- Seems to be a direct competitor to things like the Strymon Iridium or the Walrus Audio ACS-1
- 128 user IR slots with support for mono or stereo
- 144 Boss IRs with 10 Celestion IRs
- 8 guitar amps, 3 bass amps
- Can run 2 IRs at once in mono or stereo!
- Built in “Ambience” types, which seem to be reverbs
- Effects loop with mono send and stereo return with selectable pre-cab or post-EQ positioning…!
- $399
Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Now “THE ROYAL WE” in Discord :D
- Carson Ricketts
- Nick Greenwood
- Timmy S.
- Matthew Fenselau (pronounced fence-law)
- Riesenwolf!
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- Andrew Walsh from Andrew’s Alcove
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 20 min - Ep. 196 - Radium Nightcap Is My New Band Name
For episode 200 we’re opening up recording night to ALL members of TTC Discord! No Patreon subscription is needed.
- Fractal Audio FM9 (Stinger: Strymon Volante) 00:17:24
- Double the processing power of the FM3, but still not as strong as the rack mount Axe FX3
- The FM3 came out last year and has 3 footswitches so it was often compared to the HX Stomp. The FM9 has 9 switches and looks like the one to get if you don’t want/can’t afford the Axe FX3
- So it’s got all the stuff, we don’t need to tell you how great Fractal gear is.
- No built in expression of any kind but of course can receive expression pedals.
- Personally, I think the FM9 is the one you want. It does all the stuff most people need and includes footswitches so you don’t need the rack unit plus a controller to gig with it.
- I think Fractal was losing ground to Helix/Kemper/Headrush when it came to pedalboard designed modelers that could be used in all settings.
- FM3 is $1100, FM9 is $1600, and Axe FX3 MKII is $2300.
- Pedal Genie 00:35:13
- Orange Omec Teleport $139
- Review Reviews (Stinger: Empress Nebulus) 00:58:31
- “Been looking for a guitar like this for 8 years!!!”
- Listener questions/topics: Stinger: Earth Quaker Data Corruptor 01:07:45
- When does a pedalboard get so big or complicated that it ceases to be useful anymore?
- Collective stress around gigs/concerts with Delta variant growing concerning. Venues requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test.
- Suggestion of the Week (Stinger: Lone Wolf Audio Plague Rat) 01:31:12
- Get a leatherman
- Project Hail Mary
- FOREVER THANKFUL TO OUR BEAUTIFUL PATRONS!
- Carson Ricketts
- Nick Greenwood
- Timmy S.
- Matthew Fenselau (pronounced fence-law)
- Riesenwolf!
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- Andrew Walsh from Andrew’s Alcove
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 40 min - Ep. 195 - On The Fourteenth Day They Tone Controlled
- For episode 200 we’re opening up recording night to ALL members of TTC Discord! No patreon subscription needed. Stab: Ampeg SCR-DI 00:14:29
- Derek’s first show since October 2019 is this weekend! Stab: EQ Hoof Reaper 00:19:53
- Mythos Oracle Analog Delay $259 Stab: Montreal Assembly Count to Five 00:27:20
- I got one!
- Inspired by Japanese echo pedals but isn’t a direct clone of anything
- Super simple layout, time, feedback, mix.
- 600ms, but tap tempo lets you go longer!
- External tap jack
- Fender Cory Wong Stratocaster Stab: Boss DC-2w 00:37:14
- If you don’t know Cory Wong, you’re blowing it.
- Slightly redesigned body and headstock! I can’t believe Fender let him do that.
- Seymour Duncan Cory Wong “Clean Machine” pickups. Two single coils and a stacked bridge pickup.
- Modern D shape neck with a compound radius fingerboard 10-14”
- Satin Sapphire Blue lacquer finish
- Locking tuners
- Standard 5 way blade switch but the second tone pot is push/push to go immediately to 4th position (neck/middle)
- $2000
- Pedal Genie 00:49:24
- Walrus Audio Bellweather reverb link because I think it’s discontinued!
- Electro-Harmonix Bass Soul Food - what the fuck?... $108.90
- Suggestions of the week: Stab: Beetronix OctaHive 01:15:48
- Shut Up and Sit Down youtube channel
- Patreon
- Carson Ricketts
- Nick Greenwood
- Timmy S.
- Matthew Fenselau (pronounced fence-law)
- Riesenwolf!
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- Andrew Walsh from Andrew’s Alcove
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 29 min - Ep. 194 - It's an S-Hole, Which Is New!
this person straight up peed on your couch.
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thank you to our Patreon supporters!
- Carson Ricketts
- Nick Greenwood
- Timmy S.
- Matthew Fenselau
- Riesenwolf!
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi (currently Enrico Girabilbo)
- Andrew Walsh from Andrew’s Alcove
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 21 min - Ep. 193 - I Punch My Mind In The Face
- Kevin Suhr got back to us on the Discovery Delay (DG Alpha Omicron)
- EVH 5150 Iconic (Jackson Prism) 00:24:42
- New affordable version of the classic 5150 circuit.
- Saving money by using MDF + plywood instead of baltic birch
- 1x12 40W combo and an 80W head + 4x12 cab
- Combo uses 2 JJ 6L6s and 2 12AX7s, head uses 4 6L6s
- Two channels, built in noise gate, footswitchable 10db boost
- Head is $900, combo is $800, cab is $500.
- Pedal Genie 00:37:09
- Agular DB 599 $169
- Thirty7 FX Tombstone Treble Boost (OE Revival Drive) 00:47:46
- Classic treble boost with some added functionality that makes it more than a one trick pony
- Boost level with toggle switch for 3 modes:
- Daisy if ya do: classic treble boost mode
- Smoke wagon: Fat mode 1
- Street Howitzer: Fat mode 2
- Both fat modes add low end back into the signal while still boosting the highs.
- $135, new batch coming soon!
- Cab AB experiment 00:58:31
- Suggestion of the week (JHS Unicorn) 01:11:48
- The Pomodoro technique
- Non-Euclidean Geometry
Shout out to our Patreon supporters who make our world go 'round:
- Carson Ricketts
- Nick Greenwood
- Timmy S.
- Matthew Fenselau
- Riesenwolf!
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- Andrew Walsh from Andrew’s Alcove
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 34 min - Ep. 192 - I Don't Think It's a Bad Pedal, but it Sounds Bad
- Derek’s Helix band rig with IEMs (stab: 1981 DRV)
- Using the sends and returns as inputs and outputs, I’m able to get click track, backing tracks, and a monitor mix in IEMs.
- This allows to send Helix to the PA and lets the sound guy manage levels for monitoring just like with a floor wedge
- Also can apply any blocks on my monitor feed if I want, like EQ, compression, etc.
- DI box recommendations?
- Gamechanger Audio Bigsby Pedal (Coppersound Tribblegraph)
- Partnered with Fender and Bigsby
- Bigsby vibrato pitch bending pedal with Bigsby hardware on the top.
- Can do the subtle bigsby thing, but the DSP allows for more extreme Whammy style sounds too
- Spring loaded hardware can be pitched down or up by pressing on the either side of the spring.
- Pedal Genie
- Fairfield Circuitry Randy’s Revenge Ring Modulator $389 CAD ~310 US
- Becos CompIQ TWAIN Dual Band/Stacked Compressor $359
- Suhr Discovery Analog Delay (Caroline Parabola)
- Built with 4 reissue MN3005 bucket brigade chips = lots of customization
- 127 preset banks!
- Tap tempo control averages your last 4 taps
- Subdivision control for all the good ones
- Screen shows preset bank, BPM, or MS in delay time, 40-1100ms delay time
- High and low cut controls as well as modulation with three waves to choose from
- Every parameter can be controlled by midi and/or expression pedal
- Switchable true or buffered bypass
- 18V power supply included
- $550!!!!
- $100 more than Strymon TImeline
- $150 more than Bondi Art Van Delay
- $250 more than Source Audio Nemesis Delay
- Suggestion of the week:
- Under desk foot rest!
- Take care of yourselves
- BIG SHOUT OUT TO OUR PATRONS!
- Matthew Fenselau (pronounced fence-law)
- Riesenwolf!
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi (currently Enrico Girabilbo)
- Andrew Walsh from Andrew’s Alcove
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!1 hr 34 min - Ep. 191 - I've Done Shrek Like Eighteen Times
Eric Giribaldi joins Derek as a guest host this week! We talk about gigs and Shrek mostly.
Suggestions of the week:
- Mike Boyd on YouTube
- Lore Podcast
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
The Tone Control is sponsored by Pedal Genie. Head to PedalGenie.com to start your wishlist today and tell them you heard about it on The Tone Control!
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1 hr 28 min - Mike Boyd on YouTube
- Ep. 190 - So It's An Ear Pearl
- Justin’s first proper recording session in over a year
- Derek’s new pedalboard (Catalinbread Adineko)
- Should we talk about the new John Mayer single? (Janus Fuzz)
- Apple Music with Dolby Atmos (MS Tree of Life)
- Some sound incredible, some sound incredibly bad. Sup with that?
- Thorpy Pulse Doppler ~$375 (CM Bass Drive)
- This is a weird one, but it’s the most exciting thing I’ve seen with regard to Phasers in a while.
- 4 stage phaser/vibrato sounds on board but you can get harmonic trem sounds from it too
- Has a manual control like a flanger, so when the depth is increased, manual sets the frequency range of the sweep
- Essentially two notch filters, but the Dual switch allows you to sync them or arrange them in figure 8 pattern
- You can also invert the phase effect which results in more hollow tones, or switch it to Pulse mode for more trem based things.
- Features a dry blend
- PRS Archon 50 (TC Viscous Vibe)
- Relaunched combo and amp head, this is the high gain offering from PRS
- Combo comes with a Celestion V-Type
- 6CA7 power tubes, ECC83 preamp tubes
- Basically EL34 power stage
- Ships with JJ’s
- Gain structure and EQ have been redesigned, generally more usable and not as gained out all the time.
- Now more affordable, built in Indonesia
- Head: $1000, Combo: $1200
We ran into an issue with the PS-5 Demo playback! If you want to hear it, check out the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWEAwrWa6h0
- Suggestions of the week (DBA Interstellar Overdriver)
- Audible original podcast Hit Job\
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- BIG SHOUT OUT TO OUR PATRONS!
- Matthew Fenselau (pronounced fence-law)
- Riesenwolf!
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- Andrew Walsh from Andrew’s Alcove
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
1 hr 7 min - Ep. 189 - What If We Painted It Black?
- Patron and friend of the show Doug Gann is releasing music under the name Ghost Stories in August 2021. Will be available on all streaming services and such!
- Derek bought a 1981 DRV. “Stranger” edition! (stab: Keeley Eccos)
- Gibson “Exclusives” collection (stab: Korg MKS)
- There’s nothing that different about these except the “exclusive” colors
- I don’t think that word means what they think it means
- Why are they still making olive drab? It’s ugly.
- Only cool thing is a new P90 loaded ES-335.
- It’s literally two green guitars and five black guitars and they expect us to get excited about this?
- I guess they’ll be adding different colors to this “exclusives” line later on.
- Do they mean limited?
- Pedal Genie
- Boss PS-5 Super Shifter.
- Discontinued! If you want something like this, the PS-6 Harmonist is your best bet.
- Eventide Black Hole Reverb
- BIG SHOUT OUT TO OUR PATRONS!
- Matthew Fenselau (pronounced fence-law)
- Riesenwolf!
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- Andrew Walsh from Andrew’s Alcove
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every-other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
1 hr 8 min - Patron and friend of the show Doug Gann is releasing music under the name Ghost Stories in August 2021. Will be available on all streaming services and such!
- Ep. 188 - This May Come as a Shock to You, I’ve never played a Dumble
- Episodes 1 through 29 have been added to the podcast feed! They are backdated so scroll down. Some episodes starting around 129 don’t want to play in certain podcast players but they do work on Spotify, so if you really want them, listen there. No paid account needed. (Adventure Audio Glacial Zenith)
- First band practice in a LONG time. Used the Helix and FRFR cab. Discuss!
- Old Blood Noise Endeavors Expression Ramper $60 (CMAT Butah)
- This is the better version of the EHX expression stomp from Ep. 186
- Sets two expression settings and lets you move between them, either in one motion, A then B then A, or as a continuous LFO sweep.
- Triangle mode is an up then down smooth ramp between A and B sounds
- Square mode is a binary change between A and B sounds
- A to B mode goes from one to the other and does not return (like the EHX one)
- This is 100% worth the extra $20 over the EHX one.
- Long, very hipster, but very informative video demo from OBNE
- Pedal Genie
- 1981 DRV $250
- Rockett Audio Dude v2 $200
- Testing out new speakers/headphones: how? What do you listen to?
- (Lovepedal Dover Drive)
- BIG SHOUT OUT TO OUR PATRONS!
- Matthew Fenselau (pronounced fence-law)
- Riesenwolf!
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- Andrew Walsh from Andrew’s Alcove
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 24 min - Episodes 1 through 29 have been added to the podcast feed! They are backdated so scroll down. Some episodes starting around 129 don’t want to play in certain podcast players but they do work on Spotify, so if you really want them, listen there. No paid account needed. (Adventure Audio Glacial Zenith)
About The Tone Control
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The Tone Control is a sometimes side-eyed look at the guitar world and making music! We talk about everything good, bad, smart, stupid, and weird about guitar gear and bring it to you every other Monday.
You can join our Discord to talk with us and other gear heads at https://discord.gg/H2xTfm6